You should also still think twice about calling the emergency number on a suicidal friend if you live in a country with universal health care and unarmed cops.
You could be subjecting them to forced institutionalisation, forced medication, an isolation cell. And even if none of those things happen, police ‘first responders’ can often behave violently and cause intense new traumas and often if someone is too ‘weird’ first responders will – not – help.
Some examples of experiences from me and people close to me:
Police ‘first response’ to a suicidal transgender person: They spend hours in a police cell, being interrogated by cops who were consistently using the wrong pronouns and asking them to confirm if they were really ‘Ms. BirthName’ and why they would ‘lie about their identity’.
Ambulance workers respond to a person living in a neglected household: they refused to enter the house and send in a security employee instead who hours asking him whether he was ‘drunk’ or ‘on drugs’ and why he ‘lived like this’.
These things only pile a new trauma on what was already there. This does not make people feel better. This does not save lives in any meaningful way.
This is also why you will never see me reblogging suicide help lines or ‘report suicide to Tumblr’ posts if the post does not specify whether the people you are contacting might at some point involve the cops and those that work with them.
And don’t EVER call the police on a Deaf/deaf/Hard of Hearing person unless they are actually an active danger to other people. Remember: we can’t hear what the police are saying, they shine bright lights in our faces so that we can’t lipread, and fucking none of them sign. Police kill a lot of DdHoH people because we “fail to comply” (because we don’t know what the instructions fucking are) or because we “resist arrest” (we can’t sign if our hands are cuffed behind our backs, so OF COURSE we’re going to resist). Don’t call the police on a DdHoH person unless they’re attacking someone/breaking in somewhere, actually committing a fucking crime that is hurting someone. Because whatever we’re doing, if it’s anything other than directly harmful to other people, the punishments the police will give us for being DdHoH will be highly traumatic at best and most likely fatal. Calling the police on a DdHoH person except when necessary to keep other people safe (if we’re a danger to ourselves then don’t call the police. Consider instead an ambulance, but only as a last resort) is not a gamble. It is far more certain than that. Call the police on us and you’re as good as shooting us/bludgeoning us to death. Don’t fucking do it.
SERIOUSLY THOUGH SHE WAS MY FAVORITE BATMAN VILLAIN
Her physical condition didn’t allow her to age
No one took her seriously as an actress
And even when she was trying to get into a happy romantic relationship (albeit with another villain) he still couldn’t take her seriously as a consenting, sexually active and romantically interested adult
That’s a lot of blows to someone’s psyche
and Babydoll is both a sympathetic villain and a formidable one
I remember this episode fucked me up a a kid.
And man, do I wish we could see this Batman again: the Batman that consoles his villains, because the majority (if not all) of them are mentally ill people. And Batman knows this and wants them healthy again, not punished and GOD definitely not dead.
Baby Doll is so underrated as a Batman villain
but her episode was perfect
Batman: The Animated Series
The story of one fucked up, traumatized little boy, doing his best to help other fucked up traumatized people.
The Batman that cares about the inmates is my favorite. He doesn’t put up with their shit, but he does try to reach out here and there and he’s as human as he can be to them.
When Harley was re-institutionalized, he got her that dress she wanted.
In the comics based on B:tAS, there was a time during Christmas that there was snow and it was Mr. Freeze’s fault, and he was making it snow because Christmas was his anniversary with Nora and she LOVED it when it snowed on Christmas, so Batman let him finish mourning before calmly taking him back to Arkham.
He never, ever gives up on Harvey possibly recovering.
Sure, Batman is going to throw punches and do what it takes to take these guys down when they’re hurting or threatening people. And he’s not going be a complete bleeding heart; he has to protect the innocent. He’s going to take them down and take them back to Arkham, but it doesn’t mean he’s incapable of being a bit human to the ones who deserve it.
Batman needs become human again
Because it needs to be here:
Remember that time a young girl with near god-like psychic powers threatened to destroy reality and the only one that could stop her was Batman because he had a previous encounter with her and was tasked with killing her to restore reality.
But instead, Batman sat with her on a swing and kept her company as the girl’s psychic powers slowly killed her.
No?
Fuck you people making me emotional
The. Batman.
This is MY Batman, not the murderous fascist they’ve made him into.
tumblr gives y’all the amazing feature to write shit in the tags when you have a reaction to a post which is unique and allows for less clutter but some of y’all still insist on commenting on posts with ur dumb ass shit so i have to go back to the source which sometimes isn’t there anymore bc y’all can’t stop being demons for like one (1) second
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