i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

I really need to see their stats on trans mens wages, deadass.

i hate straight people i hate them i hate them

Babs, Ianthe, Corona.

I'd like to add to this. I'm a detrans woman. I was a trans man. I experienced oppressions during my time as a trans man and I'll tell you now they weren't anything at all separate from the fact I'm both a female (natal woman) and a homosexual. I believe all oppressions experienced by transgender people come down to sexism and homophobia. I would also argue that homophobia itself is marinated in sexism and it goes hand in hand with it. I'm a person that doesn't believe in being unkind to trans people, and I think we should extend them grace, though.

Would you talk about the ways you’ve conceptualized the trans experience? If your views have changed over the years, can you talk about that?

Being Transgender..is a lived experience. As someone who isn't Transgender. I'm not going to effectively answer this question where is would need absolute justice..

But what I can say is the following: I have always seen the discrimination against trans people as a form of sex-based discrimination. 

I was at the coffeeshop in the village and someone asked me how my llamas are doing, and a woman overheard and told me that when she was a kid, her parents used to have a couple of llamas in their sheep farm, and every single sheep in their flock imprinted on one of the two llamas. Each sheep chose the best most charismatic llama according to mysterious sheep criteria, and never wavered in their ovine loyalty. Each of the two llamas was worshiped by a small sub-flock of devoted sheep who followed him everywhere like Jesus’s apostles and only left their field for transhumance when led by “their” llama. The funniest thing is the way this woman overheard the word “llama” and immediately came to sit next to me to tell me this, like she had waited since childhood to share her bewilderment about the two religious congregations of sheep led by rival llama prophets in her family farm.

Is it just me or is this comment insanely funny

i cannot fucking do this

"Shadows crawled across the living room's length, I held on to you with a desperate strength" (Game Shows Touch Our Lives) "The lyctor took her silently in his arms. They held each other like children who’d had a nightmare, and had woken in a fright. " (Harrow the Ninth). Also consider "People say friends don't destroy one another, what do they know about friends?". I am NOT letting go of my conviction that the Alpha Couple are lyctors. Artist Credit @emeeedee

“i do not dream of labor” yes u do. labor is fulfilling. u dream of a world where ur labor isnt exploited and its that or starvation. i guarantee u dream of labor. labor is a necessity and in and of itself is a good thing.

Ahhh, so "Transphobic genital preferences" are acceptable when it comes to their sexuality, but not ours.

Their "discomfort" is beyond reproach. Our discomfort is bigotry.

In World War II, Nazi Germany established brothels in the concentration camps (Lagerbordell, Sonderbauten or Freudenabteilungen "Joy Divisions") to increase productivity among male inmates.

In the end, the camp brothels did not produce any noticeable increase in the prisoners' productivity levels, but instead, created a market for coupons among the camp VIPs.

Here's a few of the locations where this happened:

Mauthausen/Gusen, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Dachau, Dora-Mittelbau, Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg and others

The women forced into these brothels came mainly from the women-only Ravensbrück concentration camp, except for Auschwitz, which "employed" its own prisoners.

In combination with the German military brothels in World War II, it is estimated that at least 34,140 female inmates were forced into sexual slavery during the Third Reich.

The brothels form the subject of "Das KZ Bordell" (The Concentration Camp Brothel) by Robert Sommer, a book that has been hailed as the first comprehensive account of a little known chapter of Nazi oppression in World War Two.

It explores the origins, structure and impact of the "Sonderbauten" (special buildings) run by Heinrich Himmler's SS in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe.

"In the collective memory and written history of World War Two, the camp brothels were for a long time taboo," the 35-year-old Berliner told Reuters. "The former prisoners didn't want to talk about it: it was a difficult subject to handle."

"It didn't fit so easily into the postwar image of the concentration camps as monuments to suffering."

According to concentration camp survivors the women in those brothels were replaced every 6 months and the women who got replaced were killed in gas chambers.

It is important to note that we distinctively speak of sexual slavery here and of rape.

I wanted to point this out especially because I have been seeing liberal feminists talking about this topic, calling it "forced sex-work", "forced sex-labour" etc.

It is beyond disrespectful to call these female victims "sex-workers" or "employees" when their sexuality was brutally exploited, their diginities taken, their health was sacrificed, they were raped repeatedly and then executed after 6 months, even though they were promised to be released after those months. But those promises of course were never honored.

Liberal feminism and radical feminism differ a lot when it comes to views on the topic of prostitution but this does NOT excuse labeling victims of abuse and rape as "sex-workers" or calling their suffering "forced sex-labour."

In France a woman has been sentenced to 2 years and 9 months in prison for taking away her daughter after she revealed her father was raping her.

Alain Chauvet, already a father of four, married Priscilla Majani when she was only 18 and he was 45. They had a daughter and a few years later they were divorcing. Upon learning that the father might get shared custody, Priscilla reported him to the police for violence and rape on her daughter. The 5 years old was interviewed by the police three times, said her father was violent and had raped her. The policemen chose to believe the girl had been coached by her manipulative mother into saying that. The case was dismissed and the father got shared custody. The day the mother was supposed to drop the girl at the father's place, she refused and was arrested. After that she took her daughter to the hospital. The medical reports written after examining the girl said it was very probable she had been raped and they even filed a report themselves... and were ignored. So the mother took her child and ran. They hid under a fake identity for 11 years. The woman was on an Interpol list. She was caught in March 2022 in Switzerland and sentenced in January 2023 not only to prison but to pay the father 30 000€ for "moral prejudice". Her daughter (now 17) has filed a complaint against her father for sexual assault and uploaded a video praising her mother. She also said her father would lock her in a dark room, punch her in the face and burn her with hot water as punishment when she was a child. She said she was relieved when they left and that she wished more people would have believed her, instead of just her mother. She said that during her interview with the police as a kid, the policeman kept laughing as she described what her father had done. The court had no compassion for the mother however, blaming her for thinking she was "all powerful and above the law" and having no consideration for "father's rights", even saying that she's the one who caused trauma to her kid by taking her away. The court said that making the daughter grow up without a father must have created "defiencies" in the girl. The mother maintained that she did it to protect her daughter and that it remained the most beautiful thing she'd ever done. The court took it as further proof that she wasn't repentant and that she didn't care about the law. The daughter is still refusing to see her father. On french twitter the hashtag #Iwouldhavedonethesame is trending, in support of the mother.

Wonderfully put

average malcolm in the middle episode. malcolm wants to impress a cute girl but gets too in his own head and self-sabotages. dewey does something zany and adorable, which no one appreciates. reese kills a blind old lady with hammers. halfway across the country, francis is put in a genuinely terrifying situation (played for laughs). lois has a conniption because someone mixed the spoons with the knives in the cutlery drawer and also poured biohazardous waste into her bed. hal experiences psychosis.

why did cytherea spare gideon when she killed jeannemary?