#not to be ageist or anything

[vasfasan]

fuck it, i'm in my season 5 era *stops going to the barber*

[radfem-polls]

because of the poll that's going around about if someone is more likely to have blocked JKR on Tumblr vs. if she blocked them... I had this idea:

Is JKR on Tumblr?

Option a: No (boo....)

Option b: Yes, and she runs a JKR fan blog

Option c: Yes, and she's one of the really big radblr blogs

Option d: Yes, but it's a blank blog (lurker)

Option e: Yes, but it's literary criticism

Option f: Yes, and she's trolling

- 🐈

[lokiiied]

number one reason i need lokius canon:

• THEY’RE IN LOVE

number two reason i need lokius canon:

• piss off the straights

[girlvinland]

Oh my goddddd I just had the stupidest interaction at the gym I’m gonna lose my mind.

[stardustedknuckles]

The problem with being so on board with tlou as a lesbian is that my for you page has assumed I'm here to desire Pedro pascal carnally and I just. He's a very nice looking man but I do not relate to the absolutely unhinged comments on every single post about him, and most are about him, and it's Peter Capaldi all over again. Sexualize that old man all you like, I guess? I would just rather opt out or at least into a more equal balance of his dynamic with Bella or Joel's with ellie. I don't - the body is fine but I don't get it.

[septembersghost]

[Something that was] said to me early on was, 'Teenagers don't listen to country music. That's not the audience. The audience is a 35-year-old housewife. ... How are you going to relate to those women when you're 16 years old? You should come back when you're in your 20s.' And I kept thinking, 'But I love country music, and I'm a teenager! There have to be more kids out there like me.' (n.)pr/3W3AWZ4

(the inherent misogyny in that "35 year-old housewife" comment she was told. ugh)

she had a VISION for this and she knew intrinsically that there was an audience there that would love and embrace having someone who spoke directly to them and their experiences, and she fought for it! this is why it makes me emotional when she still gets country recognition to this day, she reached across divides and generations in the genre! <333

[bamboo-muse]

I made the mistake of trying to offer advice to a GenZ government office girlie-pop about how her staunch belief of 100% honesty about every waking thing about her was never going to get her a job because office politics will eat her alive for it no matter where she goes and she just refuses to listen and thinks everyone else is wrong.

I hope she gets what she wants at some point, but I have my doubts and think she is going to be one of many of the most psychologically abused individuals in the workforce.

[psilactis]

Just saw a post talking about how to properly Talk To Doctors so they will listen to you and your complaints and needs

I understand that this isn't for everyone, but I just. Change doctors.

Since 2020 my health has declined absurdly (incredibly enough, this isn't covid related). I've gone from a relatively healthy although sedentary person, to a Has At Least Two Doctors Appointments Per Month person. One of these appointments is for a chronic disease that needs me to go to the doctor that is treating me at least once every two months. And finding the right professional made so much difference.

The doctor currently treating me is my fourth doctor. I had to attend three other doctors who treated me like shit the whole time I was with them, until I found one that would actually listen to my concerns, answer my questions, and, you know, treat me like a human being.

I know this isn't an option for everyone. But that's my advice. Not speaking in Code That Entitled Doctors Will Understand, but rather finding actual human doctors. You don't have to keep going to the same doctor over and over if they treat you badly!! Ask around, ask for recommendations, look online for what people think.

All of my current doctors were recommended. Either by other doctors or by other medical staff (like receptionists at hospitals. They know their stuff.)

I don't think this is a valid rule everywhere, but in my experience, younger doctors are so much more tactful than older. They're still young and inspired in their practice, so they are willing to put more effort in and treat you better. Older people.... Not so much. All of my current doctors are under 40.

[probablyaseamonster]

My paranoid ass, thinking I'm gonna get murdered at any time any time I go outside but even sometimes within the house, getting back into TMA because "nooo, it won't affect me" *pointedly doesn't listen to s1 episode 3 on rebinges*

Goes to the bathroom at 1 AM (the night is the only time I'm actively safe that's my excuse), housemate left the window open (not such an issue now that it's spring), *fucking distorted noise that seems logically to be emanating from a car but is NOT A FUCKING CAR SOUND IN ANY SETTING and also sounds stupidly fictional like a common SFX to boot*

"Ah, so this is when I get killed. They gonna frame this as a suicide aren't they. And goddamnit my hair is doing the anime mom thing I explicitly do Not want to be the fridged trope but I guess my protests were always ignored. I wonder if I have time to write up a will or if they're coming any second"

And being CHILL about that shit-?

[autumnoakes]

20 seconds is not enough time for my AuDHD brain to ramble!!!! aaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

[s0litaire-y]

ngl guys i don’t think that jamie’s “ageism” towards roy was really that deep… he’s done a lot worse

[recomvery]

Life is not over when you turn 30. If anything, life is more stable and enjoyable and you're more mature. Everyone who's over 30 tells me how much safer they feel in life and that their 20's really was for trauma, pain, mental illness and that their 30's are a safer space and a happier space. Being scared to get older is such a brainwashing, ageist thing. Good things are coming.

[devouringbodies]

Nothing fuels me with more rage than the fact that literally the only affordable housing is restricted to 55+ senior communities. Grandpa I am coming for your knee caps there won't be any communities for seniors if I kill them all.

[neil-gaiman]

These are impressive, by author Steve Erickson. A small sample, but please go and read the whole:

WE DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY OF CONFUSING AN IMPERFECT CHOICE FOR AN UNCLEAR ONE Any dispassionate observer can reasonably conclude Biden should drop out of the campaign. It’s not ageist to suggest that though he’s not too old for the job at the moment, he will be sometime in the next four years, and from a political standpoint his age now so permeates the collective perception of him that nobody can see him straight; his poll numbers are almost perversely at odds with everything about his job performance. But presently every indication is that Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, and sometime soon it will be time for the rest of us to just shut up about it. Whatever one thinks of his age or Israel policy or Afghanistan withdrawal or anything else, he’s still the only one of the two prospective nominees who will defend your right to call him unfit for the job. Now and then a choice can be at once profoundly imperfect and manifestly clear anyway. WE DO NOT HAVE THE LUXURY OF DEUS EX MACHINA While wishing Trump to be accountable before the law, we must accept that any trial or decision by a higher court is unlikely to spare the country what it karmically doesn’t deserve to be spared: a national political referendum on who we are as a people. Otherwise Trump will evermore in the eyes of history — not to mention his supporters, who will find a way to believe it in any case — be martyr to a systemic technicality. Trump needs to be rejected electorally by every single patriot who can drag her- or himself to the polls to do so. Which brings us to the final resolution....

[secularprolifeconspectus]

Quick Pro-Life Responses

Keep in mind: the fundamental disagreement between pro-life and pro-choice is on whether a fetus is being formed into a person, or if the fetus is already a person and is simply developing.

Confidently assert, “you say that because you think a fetus is not a person yet.”

They may concede fetuses are people in word, but still not conceptualize them as full people worthy of equal consideration.

“I have the right to bodily autonomy.”

Abortion is literally suffocation, poisoning, or dismemberment of a living human organism.

Abortion induces fetal demise by depriving a human of oxygen, blood, or vital function.

Bodily autonomy does not justify abuse of power and excessive force over a helpless person.

Abortion, a disproportionately brutal response to a passive threat, is aggressive violence.

“No one has the right to use my body.”

Correct. But, a prenatal person does not use a pregnant person’s body. They have no agency.

A pregnant person’s body takes care of the prenate. This care is ordinary and healthy.

Abortion is not like refusing care to a dying person, it is like murdering a healthy captive.

No one has the right to murder someone who they caused to be dependent on them.

“I have the right to revoke my consent.”

When you give consent, you agree to accept the foreseeable outcomes and risks of an action.

The creation of a bodily dependent is a foreseeable outcome of consensual intercourse.

You cannot revoke consent to outcomes. You can revoke consent to actions.

You may not violently sacrifice a helpless person to “mitigate” a risk of a consensual action.

“Anything dependent on my body is a parasite.”

If you make parasites, then you’re a parasite; it’s misogynist to suggest women are parasites.

The female body would not actively try to make pregnancy happen if it were parasitic.

Prenates never directly cause pregnant people harm; they are not aggressors or parasites.

Using developmental dependency to justify murder is simultaneously ageist and ableist.

“An embryo is just a clump of cells.”

Human embryos meet NASA’s criteria for the characteristics of distinct living organisms.

Human embryos are self-directed and their development follows a body plan.

Human embryos are organized and individual. They already have inherited capacities.

Tumors and gametes do not follow an organized body plan.

“Early humans have no cognitive capacities.”

By week 3, the embryo has a spine and is developing a nervous system.

By week 5, the embryo has a rudimentary brain that controls their pulse.

By week 8, the embryo has pain reflexes and can move their limbs.

It’s incredibly ableist to use the cognitive inabilities of a human being to justify their murder.

“If a fetus is a person, so is a brain-dead human.”

A brain-dead human is, obviously, dead. It’s an oxygenated corpse, the remains of a person.

Death occurs when human organisms stop resisting entropy and lose organic integration.

Preborn people actively resist entropy (decay) and have organic integration (unity).

An early human organism isn’t dependent on a mature brain to organize her vital functioning.

“Later abortions only happen for medical reasons.”

According to two studies by pro-abortion researcher at UCSF Katrina Kimport, this is untrue.

Kimport’s studies found that the reasons for later abortions are similar to early abortions.

Later abortions aren’t euthanasia; infants are stabbed with lethal injections and dismembered.

Perinatal hospice and palliative care relieve suffering. Dying babies deserve love, not murder.

“What about rape and incest?”

Abortion is not evidence-based treatment for sexual trauma. Abortion is traumatic as well.

A preborn child should not be condemned to the death penalty for their father’s crime.

It is safe for most menstruating children to carry pregnancies to viability with sufficient prenatal care.

Children conceived in incest are likely to have disabilities; that’s not reason to murder them.

“What about health of the mother?”

Every abortion ban in the US has exceptions for if the mother’s life or body is in grave danger.

We are not against tragic cases of triage. We are against elective induced abortion.

Some procedures coded medically as abortions aren’t legally or ethically defined as abortions.

Pro-life doctors report that the bans have not impeded their ability to treat their patients.

Your Core Arguments

There is no sound evidence or consistent logic that proves the preborn are the only class of human beings exceptional to the rule that humans are people with equal rights.

If a being is in the dynamic process of bonding with us as kin, then that being is a whole actual person by the manner of actively and inherently relating to our collective humanity.

Embryonic humans are full and equal people like us because they latently embody our same capacities and are manifesting them as we are, on account of sharing our nature.

[genderkoolaid]

transmasc youth: you can do whatever you want forever. also god gave you a set of teeth to bite people who call anything they associate with transmasc youth "cringe." free yourself of ageist misogynistic anti-transmasculinity & get weird with it