i’ll say again that the reason i have a veritable obsession w fatphobia is that people with eating disorders (the deadliest mental illnesses) cannot recover within a fatphobic framework. it doesn’t work. we must relinquish our attempts to control our weight entirely if we want to be free of the disorder.
the clinicians, researchers, and health officials who fear fat and attempt to keep eating disorder sufferers weight suppressed – recovered, but not too much! – are killing us. if i hear about another friend who’s relapsed bc her team told her she was heavy enough now, i’m gonna lose my mind.
the fear of body fat has no place in this world and especially not in the treatment of people who already have a deadly fear of food and weight gain. clinicians cannot fear the same things as the eating disorder they’re supposed to be treating. if they do, and they shape their “treatment” around that, they should lose their licenses for so egregiously violating their professional commitment to first do no harm.
if you would rather see a client anorexic than fat, get the hell out of the field.
Rich people don’t give money unless PR says they should.
Middle class people don’t give money because we live in constant terror of something happening to make us poor.
Poor people give money, but they don’t really have it to give.
And that’s why charity doesn’t do what it should for society.
Actually, rich people are very generous—to each other.
The second-richest nonprofit in the world is Harvard University, with an endowment of $36.4 BILLION. This year they got a donation of $400 million dollars, because rich people will throw gobs of money at organizations that cater to them.
So next time you hear a libertarian say that without welfare, charity will take care of people, punch them in the face.
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This holds evidence, I think, that the lack of wealth distribution to those in need is driven more by a prevailing contempt for poor people rather than anything else.
More people need to look in to the history of charity and welfare and realize that the reason we have welfare is because private and religious charity was both not enough and severely abusive to those in the system.
I studied family law of North America and I am genuinely appalled that we are slwly going back to how things had been. It’s gross, our past is shrouded and few people seek it out and so injustices repeat.
Definitely. I want to copy some woodcuts/pictures of old Victorian workhouses and hand them out to these people.
speaking of fury, why the fuck are we all sitting around making life shitty for everyone by playing stupid evil games about who is or isn’t Disabled Enough in any particular way for any particular accommodation or assistive tech when we could be….
…. using our unfathomable skills and technology to unlock everyone’s untapped human potential? to let us live the fullest lives we can, and achieve things our bodies and minds can’t do on their own, like we’ve been doing ever since somebody thought about giving this whole “tools” malarky a try.
even people who aren’t disabled, if they can remember the rest of us are also people.
we’ve created this mindset where there is some imaginary “normal” set of abilities against which some, like scientists or athletes, are seen to excel and others, like disabled people, fall short.
but i mean, what’s a normal amount of any skill? im better at Spanish than some people, who are better than me at math. which of us has the normal amount of ability in either field? next to a beginner, i might be excellent at Spanish but i often can’t say what i need to say. am i Spanish able, then, or Spanish disabled?
the question doesn’t make any fucking sense, right?
of course disabilities exist. you will not catch me flying the “differently abled” flag or any euphemism for it. the social model accounts for most of my misery but my illness still fucking sucks and would suck in an otherwise perfect world.
but it’s a matter of degree. there isn’t a magical line where Now You’re Disabled. you can start disabled or become clearly disabled suddenly, but not everyone does.
it took me years to claim that word. because of that, i spent years without even considering i could get a power wheelchair that would allow me to……… leave the house. i mean, im too sick to walk far enough to go out, but im not disabled.
i wasted years. i got dramatically sicker. i might have recovered if i hadn’t been too concerned with Not Being Disabled or appropriating anyone’s experiences to take the measures i needed. and every sick person i know has much the same story.
if we had lived in a culture that accepts everyone as they are but understands everyone, disabled or not, need tools to enhance certain abilities, we would have been able to think, “oh, i can’t walk as much as i need to. better find a solution to that.”
and abled people can make themselves laser eyes or whatever. and let me know when they’re ready.
I think @withasmoothroundstone had a post about hir father? At one point and how he had gotten his job when they didn’t require degrees and was very very good at it but if he had to get the job now he couldn’t because there was no way he could manage the degree.
I think that is the thing that fucks over disabled people the most in a lot of cases honestly.
Like I am aware I am not ACTUALLY useless. I have a handful of things I am like, way abnormally good at. But they are all stuff that is assigned minimal value in society I am considered useless.
The thing that kills me the most is that I will have Good Idea but most of the time it doesn’t matter because I am missing a skill to diy it and cannot get assistance for that. And SO MANY of the gaps did not exist until I was forced to try and be good at things I could never be good at. I lost skills from trying to get new ones. Big Regret man.
Professor: “Why was Elvis considered problematic?” Class: *long awkward silence* Me: “He became famous off of black music.”
Professor: “What state is Selma in?” Class: *long awkward silence* Me: “Alabama.”
Professor: “What state did the Montgomery Bus Boycotts take place in?” Class: *long awkward silence* Me: “Alabama.”
Professor: “What was one of the goals of the Civil Rights Movement?” White Girl: “Uhhhhh…the blacks wanting…respect??” Me:
The white kids thought it was gonna be about poodle skirts and milkshakes
Those questions are very basic. Why wouldn’t people know those? In college?
Hi! So! Fun fact!
Prior to the implementation of the Common Core State Standards in 2013, there was no unified standard for what topics and rigor of method must be taught in American schools.
Also, afaik, the CCSS still only apply to Language Arts and Mathematics, meaning we still don’t have a nationwide standard for what is taught in history classes across the United States.
The implementation of CCSS is actually something conservatives and school choice advocates rage against and want repealed. They want to return to the days of hyperlocalization, when method and content were determined not just by state but by county. Meaning every individual county in a state could teach whatever version of localized and agenda-driven history they wanted, and thanks to their indoctrination-minded parents, most kids don’t care enough about learning to seek alternative information sources.
When I was in school in the 90s, New Hanover County schools had one of the best sex ed programs in the state of North Carolina, and I benefitted from that. You know what I didn’t learn about? The Wilmington race riots. I’m from fucking Wilmington. I didn’t learn about those until I was talking to friends who grew up in Mecklenburg County (4.5 hours across the state) as a goddamn adult. They taught it here, because they didn’t necessarily feel the need to hide that less-hyperlocal history from their children.
American revisionist history and selective memory are baked into the cake. You cannot understand the depths of injustice if you can’t see how deep the fucking roots go.
Keep digging, kids. Sunlight is the only disinfectant. Exhume the fucking bodies.
It is really weird to see the effects of history education in the US. It’s really scary sometimes. Not just the gaps in knowledge, but also the mythologization of certain aspects of american history. From the way the Pilgrims are viewed, to the general “pioneer” mythology and glossing over of the atrocities done to Native Americans. The totally apocryphal story of George Washington cutting down a tree as a child. The way the Founding Fathers are just about held to be infallible, and the US Constitution treated like a holy text.
Most countries do a bit of euphemizing their history, but the US is really notorious about it. Hey, only two years ago, there was a huge thing in Oklahoma about AP history classes, because the Republicans felt that they emphasized “what is bad about America”. Because they teach kids to look at history critically.
It shouldn’t be just AP history that does that, though. Teaching kids to look at the sources, and actually learn from the past is the bare minimum that needs to be taught in history class. It’s way more important to learn about mistakes that were done and how they’re still affecting us today than names of rulers and dates of wars, etc.
So I just got off the phone with a few different veterinarians and they’ve all recommended that I get blood work and x-rays done for Minion. However, because of an incident that happened back in December I will not have the money to pay $250 right now so I’m asking for help if anyone can donate I’d greatly appreciate it. I hate coming on tumblr and asking for help again but Minion is important to me and I’m not above putting her safety against my pride or ego.
My PayPal is supernaturalpokemon@gmail.com
I don’t care if this seems or sounds desperate. I care about my dog a lot and just want her to be okay.
Thank you to everyone who has been sending me their thoughts and prayers.
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