the other day a doctor and a nurse at work were having a discussion about 'foreigners' and said they wish they could report them to the authorities instead of treat them. the conversation started because the nurse didnt know one of our patients was a 'foreigner'. this patient is a TWO YEAR OLD CHILD with a CARDIAC CONDITION but is undocumented. the doctor said 'why should we treat them just so they can die in this country? they should just die in their own country'. they feel more comfortable about a child dying in their own country than to treat an undocumented 'foreigner'. i couldn't help myself from telling them they were fucked up. they said i was young and this isn't an ideal world. and while this rhetoric isn't new among people in this country and definitely not new among healthcare workers, it never shocks me despite the many times ive heard it.
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I’ve made this post before but I can’t be bothered to find it. In what we commonly consider a ‘traditional’/patriarchal European society, the paths in life are: marriage with children (acceptable), bachelorhood (frowned upon, locked out of certain professions/roles), spinsterhood in servitude to parents (probably suffering), religious servitude. An unmarried person is a servant either of the local lord, the Lord, or the parents. The parental relationship has a built-in hierarchy of the senior parents and the underling child. All pressures push down and toward marriage as a form of (highly limited for women) freedom.
One of the few ways around this system is the sibling relationship. Sticking with a sibling can provide an avenue to independence from hierarchy via a peer relationship, a person who moves in with a married sibling is protected under the auspices of that marriage (though somewhat dependent on the sibling) and is not automatically subordinate as with aristocracy/religious orders/parents. I’m interested in the sibling relationship as a kind of lifeline or shield against the buffets of social expectation specially in a world where there is some kind of censure against unmarriage and in which marriage is seen as the final step in growing up. Siblings are the playmates of childhood, they are biological family, to remain part of s biological family unit is acceptable, to remain unmarried is not, the sibling is the last line of defense against a spouse without submitting to hierarchy and/or could be read as the last line of defense against growing up.
This isn’t coherent. I like the idea of two siblings choosing to remain close into adulthood not because they necessarily like each other that much, but because they understand the consequences of abandoning someone to social forces. Siblings as a kind of delayed maturation, a sign that something is wrong, a failed evolution, a vestigial relationship, you’re supposed to be close growing up and then split into different clans, but they have failed to do so and have closed the loop to return to childhood.
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is there still an inside no 9 fandom on tumblr. I know it used to be really active but recent seasons kinda killed it. Can anyone hear me. Please god the new season is fucking incredible. I genuinely think it’s some of their best work. I need to cry about this.
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was anyone gonna tell me the very first door lin qiushi walks through in the middle of the road is the "illusion of life" door or was i just going to have to figure that out myself
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Dude something that takes me out whenever i read romance isekai stories is when the protagonist chooses the fantasy world to stay with their "soulmate" literally leaving all of their family, friends, career and life.
Like. What the fuck is that.
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that post about horror and social themes pisses me off so bad because its said with such a tone of derision for horror like wow did you know even STUPID HORROR can tell us about societal themes?? no shit genius its art. your analysis is base level at best and innacurate at worst and your disrespect for the horror genre has not gone unnoticed
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