I’m Erin, my family needs at least $10 to eat this week and $15 for a cab. I need money for groceries as we had to use our food money to help pay the power bill. We have no food to eat. Thanks to y’all we have done so much and I’m sorry to ask for this but we need help. I got turned down for disability and my caseworker helped me apply for SSI which I am likely to get. I am just waiting to hear back on it and that takes some time. If you want to donate, be it 1 cent or 5 cent, no amount is too small, it would be greatly appreciatedand go towards food, necessities, or bills. I will repay anyone who donates in any way. We are in bad debt which is where most of our money goes currently and to basic bills. Reblogs are as helpful as donations. Nobody has to donate if they don’t want to or can’t, times are hard on everyone. No one should feel guilty.I love y’all. Please don’t send hate, I will block you.
here’s my paypal currently. we still need help. i’m sorry to be asking so much but times are getting more difficult for us and we really need groceries as we nothing to eat right now. if anyone can spare 1 dollar or 1 cent it would be of a major help to us as would reblogs or just positive vibes, i’d be eternally grateful, as usual, no one has to donate if they don’t want to or can’t. i love y’all and am forever thankful for y’all, as we have no help irl.
it’s kinda scary how often we have been telling each other “at least we’re not in America” as a way of inducing optimism
worried about job prospects after college? “at least we’re not in America or we’d have like 100k worth of debt over our heads rn”
bitching about how we have to jump through hoops to get free healthcare after our student statuses go poof? “at least we’re not in America, jesus fuck, we register for unemployment and then it’s like 20 euros a month for complete coverage”
our government is being naughty again? “yeah well at least we’re not in America or we’d have Donito Carrottini and his henchmen to deal with”
my point is, America has become “the land of perpetual horror” in everyday parlance and I am seriously worried about you guys
I was just thinking this while scrolling tumblr at the very moment I saw this post… I think ‘at least we’re not in America’ is the go-to comfort thought for a lot of Britons contemplating Brexit. At least no one has yet suggested we build a wall across the Channel.
And then the next thought is always ‘and what about American friend X who may or may not be able to afford to treatment so they don’t die’, or ‘that American I saw the other day appealing for paypal donations so they could buy their sick mother a sandwich.’
If an ~anti kidnapping PSA~ is based on the idea that sex traffickers all want to go snatching up random middle class women, it’s almost guaranteed to be bullshit clickbait
Traffickers (and also serial killers) almost never go snatching Suzy Q. Whitegirl, suburban wife and mother of two, from the whole foods parking lot, because Suzy is guaranteed to have family and friends who would very notice something was wrong, and report her as missing. Additionally, and most importantly, Suzy is going to be seen as a sympathetic victim by police and the wider community, so grabbing her is going to get the entire damn police department, local news, and possibly national news hot on your ass. Kidnappings like this are incredibly rare for this reason, but they’re the ones you hear about because they’re the once where we’ve collectively agreed the victims are actually worth giving a fuck about.
Traffickers know this, so they prey on women who are already isolated, and won’t be seen as important and sympathetic victims even if someone does notice their absence–and playing on social prejudices is how this is usually done. Snatching Suzy Q. Whitegirl means you’ll get all kinds of hell and investigation, but manipulating and then kidnapping someone like an undocumented woman who’s afraid that trying to get help will get her deported, or a Black trans teenager who got kicked out by her parents, or a homeless indigenous woman struggling with diagnosed but untreated bipolar disorder + a criminal record related to sex work and self-medication with drugs/alcohol; that gets maybe a few fading “missing person” signs hung around the rough part of town, and cops making “lol dead hooker” jokes down at the station.
I’m not trying to guilt or yell at people who share those posts, but supposed “advice” that ignores one of the main ways predators operate and pick their victims isn’t actually advice, it’s just clickbait advertising that preys on women’s fears, while continuing to ignore the women who are most at risk.
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