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koiotchka:

chronicillnessmemes:

I think I just isolated why “positivity” posts piss me off so damn much.  They generally say “you” instead of “I.” 

“I am not defined by my illness” is a personal, empowering statement.“You are not defined by your illness” is a judgement on those of us who are or choose to be. 

And you can fuck right off if you presume your experience is universal and you have the right to tell me how I should feel.

Admin J

Important, and probably something I need to be reminded of occasionally.

batmanisagatewaydrug:

you know what’s really genuinely unsettling? the degree to which men fucking do not want to sympathize with/be interested in women.

male audiences will happily watch a dozen superhero shows, but then something like Agent Carter or Supergirl turn up and they’re panned from the first trailer and have to struggle for ratings. male audiences will watch countless installments of a franchise as long as it’s about men doing man things but the second a character like Rey or Furiosa or god forbid four entire female Ghostbusters steps up and takes a position of prominence it’s “pandering sjw bullshit”.

it’s not pandering. men just aggressively don’t want to have to be invested in a woman’s narrative and it’s really gross.

zinge:

prochoice-or-gtfo:

refinery29:

Watch: This powerful new series highlights the ways abortion providers save and improve women’s lives

Gifs: Planned Parenthood

Abortion providers are trained to recognize patients who are not entirely sure about their decision so that they can encourage them to think more on it before performing the procedure. They also look out for people who are being forced into abortions. Do they catch every single one? No, but they catch as many as they can so that those patients don’t make the wrong choice for themselves. I’m so glad that the woman in this video was able to talk with a doctor who understood that abortion wasn’t what she really wanted.

I get really tired of hearing about how abortion is just a money maker for doctors, when there are so many stories like these about doctors who look out for people like this woman. Doctors only want to perform abortions on patients who are absolutely 100% sure that it’s for them.
-V

Choice.

aviculor:

prokopetz:

If you think about it, all these thinkpieces about how Millenials are “killing” various industries reveal a pretty colossal sense of entitlement.

Under normal circumstances, if a given industry finds itself unable to sell products to a given market demographic, we’d say it’s that industry’s fault for failing to offer products that that demographic is interested in buying.

It only makes sense to blame the target demographic itself is if we’re assuming that the established industries have some intrinsic right to that demographic’s disposable income that’s being denied – which is clearly nonsense.

And I thought Millennials were supposed to be the entitled ones?

“Hark, yonder youth doth be defenestrating mine guild of manure! Donst they knoweth the greatness of mine shit?”

dirkar:

I know discourse is the word of choice in fandom nowadays but I kind of wish we would have stuck with “fandom wank” because it carries the implication that the anger involved culminated into effectively nothing and that the act was wholeheartedly masturbatory in nature rather than for any greater cause.

When you say I hate men, it reminds me of a line from Men in Black: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. A man is not judgmental, oppressive, sexist, homophobic or misogynistic. Men are. You do not hate an individual, random man for the sake of hating them, unless of course that man turns out to be a dickhead. You hate MEN as a social group. Because let’s face it, the MEN social group are a bunch of assholes. And just to shut people up, I am a man.

batmanisagatewaydrug:

you.

you get me.

theshriekingsisterhood:

Things I’d like to see more of in media

characters wearing medical alert bracelets

characters taking medication with their meals

characters mentioning that they have a therapy appointment

characters with reminders to eat in their phones/calendars/planners

characters using stim toys

characters asking if an event is accessible

characters using noise cancelling headphones

characters who are disabled all the time, not just when the plot “calls for it”

characters who are disabled all the time, not just when the plot “calls for it”