this is gonna be an extremely unpopular opinion so bare with me, but i don’t think children should be vaccinated unless they really absolutely want to be and if they grow up into adults who still don’t want to be vaccinated then so be it.
kids are too young to fully grasp what vaccination does to you, and i don’t mean that in a “they’ll make you autistic and die” way. i mean they don’t understand what they’re setting themselves up for in the future. (shots are pretty traumatic for children too, but that’s for another day.) if a child is too young to consent to sex or medical transition if they’re trans, they’re definitely too young to consent to a vax.
i haven’t had any contact with my family for quite some time now, so i have a hard time knowing my medical history, especially with my lack of health insurance and a move to a different country.
because of that, i live with the constant fear that i might have been vaccinated against rabies. my family was extremely poor and had spotty health insurance but its hard to say. but its fucking heartbreaking to know i might never be fully rabid because my parent might have vaccinated me as a child, when i was too young to know, too young to have a say in it.
how many other kids are there, just like me? how many adults have grown up miserable because they’ve been vaccinated against their genetic disposition for a certain disease? its practically eugenics and it makes me fuckin sick to my stomach. there are babies RIGHT NOW getting vaxxed bc “thats what’s healthy for them” and their parents have no idea how much grief they’re causing right now.
so yea, maybe stop vaxxing your kids??
at first i was like “yeah okay this a dumb but manageable take” and then op went for the rabies thing and my soul left my body
we went on a trip to an adventure play thing and the entire group put in a formal complaint because one person got accidentally misgendered and another person got scared when they climbed too far up a ladder
one of the leaders of the group was an androgynous woman who was about 40 years old and identified as nonbinary genderflux and queer
they refused to say lgbt and said ‘variations’ instead because “lgbt is too exclusionary”
they unashamedly included intersex people in the lgbt community
my mum’s partner did a presentation about smoking there and explicitly warned them beforehand that there was a photo of a smoker’s lung in the presentation but when it came to the slide with the lung everyone started screaming and yelling that they were going to have a panic attack and he’d purposefully triggered them
satanist furries. s a t a n i s t f u r r i e s.
“we’re all so QUEER! god don’t you love being QUEER?? i sure love being QUEER, don’t you??” like fuck off man you might be queer but i’m not
we once had to get a big sheet of paper and write down all the identities we could think of including shit like ‘stargender’
i was the only cis lesbian in the entire group (there were about 25 kids there) and it honestly just felt so lonely
one time i was wearing shorts and i’d forgotten to shave my legs and honestly for a group that claims to be accepting i got so many judgemental stares and it just felt so awful
one of the group leaders told me maybe i’d decided on my sexuality too quickly and needed to reconsider
i’ll add more if i remember but it was honestly hellish
The LGBT community is doing more harm than good these days
I’ve just read an article containing studying advice from university professors and man, it is bizarre, borderline delusional. One of the advice there was ‘for every hour you spend in class you should spend two more hours studying at home’. And yes okay I don’t spend that much time in university, maybe 4-5 hours a day on average, but still… if I double that and add that to time spent in class I get to at least 12 hours which is more than most people work a day at paying jobs.
And some say you should study on your own three hours a week for every ECTS points you have and man… that is just physically impossible. My semester includes 30 ECTS points which, if you follow this advice, amounts to 13 hours of studying at home per day. 13 hours every single day including weekends and holidays. I’m sorry but what the fuck. Even a 100% healthy, abled, neurotypical student who does nothing but study (so no job, no housework, no everyday commutes to school, etc) would not be able to do that!
I mean, even if you add up all of the ECTS hours (which actually do include studying at home as well as lectures and classes) you get to around 8 hours of studying every day including weekends and holidays which is hard to balance with taking care of yourself and having some sort of life. To put that in perspective, 8 hours a day equals 56 hours a week, while a typical work week is considered to include 40 hours (with 38 hours a week average for US). See the contrast?
Hell knows if this is how it is supposed to be or how it has always been but tbh I’m starting to sympathize with our neurophysiology professor who allows and even encourages napping during his (or other) lectures. Like… we are people. We should be able to have a life.
Apple is an amazing case of falling from grace because they starting out priding themselves as rebels and marketing to the people that wanted to stand out.
Now they’ve become the sort of evil and oppressive corporation they used to attack in their advertising.
I just… wanna remind people that asexuality was classed as a mental disorder by the DSM all the way up until 2013…. Because I feel like people don’t know this or like to ignore it because it doesn’t fit into their “asexual people don’t face discrimination” rhetoric.
Asexuality was only removed from the DSM in 2013. Please, know this and remember it.
asexuality is STILL in the DSM they still have a disorder that’s literally the definition of asexuality called “hypoactive sexual desire disorder” which is what they’ve always classified asexuality as. they just added a clause that said “if the patient IDs as ace it’s fine” but it’s not like the general population knows what asexuality is and people want to complain about how visibility is such a high priority for us jesus christ
thats a very good point. i knew about that distinction, but it bears repeating for people that see this post and arent aware of it
And that’s why we need the queer community to be like ‘no really we exist and it isn’t hurtful it’s quite fine they belong here with us, the other queers, who were just de-pathologized.’
*bang gavel*
I was going to college and grad school when the fight over this diagnosis being included in the DSM-V was going on.
If I remember correctly, the big push to keep it in the DSM came from the pharmaceutical companies who need this diagnosis to exist so that they can market a drug they are currently working on to treat “female sexual interest/arousal disorder”.
This diagnosis is so fucked up. It not only pathologizes Asexuals, it also pathologizes non-asexual women for having less interest in sex than men. This disorder literally used to be called “Frigidity” and feminist psychologists had to fight like hell to get the DSM to clarify that simply having a lower sex drive than one’s husband was not sufficient for a diagnosis.
The APA throws in that little disclaimer about being a “self-identified asexual” and the diagnostic criteria of distress, but they did the same thing before they removed homosexuality from the DSM.
A lot of people think that psychologists stopped considering homosexuality a disorder in the 1970s, but that’s not entirely true. They kept it in the DSM with a slightly changed name and a criteria that the person experience distress about being gay. This was used to justify “reparative therapy” for decades.
This diagnosis is just one part of the APA’s long history of pathologizing human sexuality, especially women’s sexuality. Women who deviate even slightly from the prescribed amount of sexual interest will find themselves labeled as either borderline or frigid.
Straight woman with short hair explains how brave she is for coming out as “non-binary” to a woman who came out as a lesbian 20 years ago and lost her TV show as a result.
Couple more highlights:
She at least acknowledges that she’s a female
One of the ways she knew she was ‘nonbinary’ is because she wanted to play male roles when she was younger
Ellen: You have a boyfriend now? Her: I have a partner who is a self-identified man, yes Ellen: [chuckles] Okay.. sorry. [audience laughs]
Poor Ellen lol
I want to agree with you guys, but if I do, my past experience tells me GCFs will act like I just said the worst thing imaginable.
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