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she-is-ovarit · 7 months

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Identifying as.

This is Rachel Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Amare Diallo. Dolezal is a white woman who identifies as black and insists that she is transracial. Growing up, her religious white parents adopted four black babies, claiming that they "saved them from being aborted", and routinely delivered strict punishments to their kids including Dolezal. Dolezal does not seem to have a good relationship with her parents and, based on interviews, wanted to distance herself from them and distance herself from rural white culture.

"I've never questioned being a girl or woman, for example, but whiteness has always felt foreign to me, for as long as I can remember. I didn't choose to feel this way or be this way, I just am. What other choice is there than to be exactly who we are?"

She apparently "passed as black" for several years before her parents came out and said that she was white and is identifying as a black woman, and she was asked in a TV interview if she was African American and responded with "I don't understand the question". She taught Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University. She crafted a fake story in growing up as black and has argued that she experiences race-based related hate crimes. She darkens her skin and gets perms and started using hair products she observed her adopted black sibling to use. She lied about her father being black and lied that her black adopted brother was her son.

I hope that as details of Dolezal's story are read about, we are able to understand that tanning white skin does not make someone a black person, that blackface is wrong and racist. I hope we recognize that what makes someone black isn't a collection of racial stereotypes, isn't based on feeling a kinship with black people more than with white people, and that being black isn't based on not feeling a connection with white culture. I hope we understand that a black person cannot identify out of racial oppression, and that a white person cannot identify out of white privilege.

Jewel Shuping, age 38 now, was born healthy but dreamed of being blind since age 13. She stated her mother would tell stories about finding her walking down dark hallways at age 3, and mentioned that by age 6 the thought of being blind comforted her. When she was a teenager, Shuping bought a white cane and learned to read braille, becoming fluent in it by age 20.

She claims to have asked a psychologist to pour bleach in her eyes so she could fulfill her lifelong dream of being blind, and that the psychologist "understood her" and agreed to do so after giving her numbing eye drops to help with the pain (which was not ultimately helpful). She deliberately waited to seek medical attention so doctors were unable to save her eyesight. Gradually, over the course of six months, she became blind.

What Shuping has is considered a real mental health condition called Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), a rare condition in which people who are born without disabilities believe with conviction that the should be disabled. There is another name for this in political activist circles, termed "transableism".

"I went blind on purpose, but I don't feel it was a choice."

Several other people with BIID are pretending to be paralyzed to use wheelchairs, with many not being driven to the point of causing harm to themselves to become disabled but instead living full lives faking being disabled.

I hope that as details of the stories of people pretending to be disabled are read about, we are able to understand that feeling like oneself should be disabled is an incredibly serious mental health condition and does not really mean that a person is "disabled inside". I hope we recognize that identifying as disabled does not make someone disabled, and that feeling a kinship with disabled people or a comfort in the thought of being disabled does not mean a person truly is or should become disabled. I hope we understand how people with mental health disorders claiming to be disabled can place further strain on resources and accommodations provided to disabled people. I hope we understand that inflicting pain, disfigurement, or physical altercations on healthy people to "help them physically match how they feel" is an inhumane way to treat a mental health condition.

Paul Wolscht, who changed his name to Stefonknee Wolscht, was married to a woman for over 20 years and fathered 7 children before deciding to live life identifying as a six year old little girl. Living as a six year old little girl allows Wolscht to escape depression and suicidal thoughts because Wolscht gets to now play - even when in jail in solitary confinement for nine days for an undisclosed reason.

“If I’m six-years-old, I don’t have to think about adult stuff.”

Wolscht still drives and drinks coffee, but does so feeling and identifying as a six year old.

Emile Ratelband, age 69, petitioned the courts to allow him to change his age to 20 years younger because he "does not feel" 69 years old. Ratelband has argued that he did not feel comfortable with his date of birth, that age 69 did not accurately reflect his mental state, and that at age 69 he experiences limits.

“When I’m 69, I am limited. If I’m 49, then I can buy a new house, drive a different car,” he said. “I can take up more work. When I’m on Tinder and it says I’m 69, I don’t get an answer. When I’m 49, with the face I have, I will be in a luxurious position.”

Ratelband even asserted that doctors have told him he has the body of a man 20 years younger, and he said that he was willing to renounce his right to a pension. He argues that if people are able to legally change their sex on documents, there is no reason why he should not be able to change his age.

I hope that as we read these stories of people identifying as a different age, we are able to understand that feeling like you are 20 years younger or 40 years younger does not really make you that age. I hope that we understand that even though identifying as a different age might help avoid suicidal thoughts, being discriminated against on dating apps, or denied resources, it does not really change biologically what is. I hope we understand that there are also broader societal and legal consequences to being able to legally change one's age. That an adult might identify as a certain age to trick kids into trusting them so they can sexually abuse them, and/or that allowing an adult to legally consider themselves a different age would make it easier for adult predators to gain legal access to kids in environments in which they would normally be socially and legally discouraged from being in.

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sanguinifex · 6 months

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Today at work I was talking with someone (admin frontline, won’t be more specific than that) who’d been there nearly 30 years and we mentioned the wage/gap ratio we both face, and I said “There’s a potential solution, and it rhymes with onion,” and she burst out laughing, but in a positive way. So maybe things aren’t as hopeless as they look.

Some of y’all forget that working class Boomers are very much supportive of unions; they grew up and spent the first decade and change of their working lives in an era when the phrase “a good job” was usually considered incomplete without the word “union.” And they’ve seen firsthand how things have changed in the following 40 years; how rent and groceries keep going up while paychecks stay flat. How defined-benefit pensions turned into 401(k)s, aka “retirement by handgun.” And now they’re turning 65 or 75 and social security isn’t enough to retire on anymore; their bodies are starting to break down but they’d be homeless if they didn’t shove boxes or force themselves into an office chair.

When I worked temp jobs, warehouse jobs, older workers were kept on despite all kinds of violations, while young workers were kicked out for next to nothing, and we all shut up about it because we knew why: a young woman—and it usually was a woman; warehouse bosses want young men because they think they’re stronger and work harder, which is usually untrue, particularly the work harder part—could get a new job pretty easily; an old one would die if she lost work. Elder rights and disability rights and women’s rights are worker rights. It is the responsibility of workers’ unions to support and advocate for those rights, as well as those of working-age, physically able workers.

#unions #unionize #labor rights #labor unions #elder rights #feminism #disability rights

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shouting-epicenities-at-you · 11 months

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Nothing is worse for human solidarity than the insistence that every single human rights talking point has to be separated into micro-factions. It happens in every facet of human rights discourse.

They say that every minority group has to fight for their rights separately, but the thing is our struggles aren’t as separate as many people would have your think.

The only solution is to fight ageism, sexism, racism, and all those kyriarchal isms no matter who it’s against. Yes, that means abandoning the notion that minorities other than those in your own group are undermining your activism and perspective by attempting to apply it to their own situation. Separatism like that does not earn you points from the people who are oppressing you. You’re not helping them. you’re not helping yourself. But you are helping the bigoted elite keep you and others down.

#activism #human rights #ableism #disabled #ageism #racism #sexism #transphobia #transgender #queer #POC #youth #youth rights #elder #senior #senior rights #elder rights #classism #solidarity

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hannibal-against-guro · 6 months

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All jokes aside, Wikipedia and Drugs.com are my favorite non-blogging Webbed Sites. Endless information vs. my Orochimaru Complex. You could Solzhenitsyn me into a jail or psych ward cell and I wouldn’t ever notice so long as I had a toilet, a minifridge (preferably with minibar), and a hard line to at least one massively oversized reference website. Ideal elder care plan under a capitalist economy, tbh. I’d pay extra LTC premiums for a half decent embedded WiFi package!

#only partially satire #insurance law #contract law #internet access and other utilities #aphorisms #political humor #long term care LTC social insurance #original ip slash content do not kruppstahl #elder rights

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arnaerr · 9 days

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I'm still having troubles with my job, so I would appreciate you buying my prints/or coffee or supporting me on Patreon 🫣

#signal boost #the witcher #geralt of rivia #witcher #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bloodborne #dnd #dungeons and dragons #the elder scrolls #oblivion #my art #i fucking hate being in the situation i am right now #and that i can't do a thing about it #being a migrant really sucks sometimes

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grimbiliah · 1 year

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#Skyrim #reddit #the elder scrolls #orcs #tes #tes v #trans #trans rights #malacath

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clonerightsagenda · 11 months

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"what if you had a mutual aid network that occasionally told interdimensional monsters to fuck off": Discworld witches as a concept

#so much of the Tiffany books in particular are about day to day community support #doing the chores... checking in on the elders who don't have family.... sitting up with the dead #it takes the quiet often uncelebrated everyday work of living and dying #and sets it right up against slaying vampires or vanquishing monsters #and maybe that's another reason why they aren't as popular #beyond yknow. centering women #but man maybe we need more books celebrating the heroism of clipping a lonely 90 year old man's toenails for him #discworld #perpetual perpetual ladies night #why this

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falmerbrook · 2 months

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Peryite

#peryite #skeever #skyrim #tes #the elder scrolls #eso #mine #my art #i have a different take on what peryite should look like but for the sake of recognizability. dragon.#not liking how my art looks right now so yall get a bunch of shitposts instead

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wickedcriminal · 2 months

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The Endeavor 🗡

#you have no idea how right you are elder #half brothers au #httyd #httyd books #httyd au #how to train your dragon #my art

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artist-rat · 6 months

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little doodle of skyrim ocs 🍂

#elder scrolls #skyrim #khajiit #oc: malla #oc: karla @artharakka #they're sisters #malla is the oldest of ruis & reino's kids and karla the 2nd youngest #(ruis @artharakka)#lol the tags order... karla is the one on the left & malla on the right

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teehee-vibes · 7 days

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The Captains’ Loyalty

Meanwhile:

Context/part one/whatevah - here

#jrwi riptide spoilers #just roll with it spoilers #jay ferin #chip jrwi #chip nolastname #jay jrwi #gillion tidestrider #gillion jrwi #Gryffon jrwi #queen jrwi #igneous jrwi #finn tidestrider #drey ferin #old man earl #jrwi riptide #just roll with it riptide #chip and jay: Edyn’s got the right idea and you’re SO lucky thousands of people are in the crossfire I want you EATEN ALIVEEE…..#turn the elders into shrimp fried rice #boil em or something

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peony-plum · 6 months

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Dear diary, I was bullied 😔

#elder scrolls #cicero #dear dairy they monk me #skyrim #tes #the dark brotherhood #poor Cicero #skyrim memes #skyrim art #skyrim cicero #skyrim fanart #elder scrolls memes #they hate him but he was right #my art #elder scrolls fanart #dark brotherhood #jester

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shouting-epicenities-at-you · 6 months

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Activism on behalf of groups perceived as vulnerable should not be dependent on what can be gained from or done to them once injury, exploitation, and indignity to someone of the group is considered to be on par with the same done to everyone else.

It should not be a "gotcha, now that we're equal you can suffer too!"

It should not be a "I can do this to you now that we're equal!"

It should not be a "Now that we're equal you have no excuse not to do this for me!"

Violation of another person's innate rights is not something you should be eager to do, and equality based on the idea that anyone can do what they want no matter who it hurts isn't real equality.

#activism #feminism #racism #sexism #ableism #ageism #youth rights #elder rights #kyriarchy #anti-kyriarchy

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lgbtlunaverse · 8 months

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So since mxtx has said that in novel canon nie huaisang is eventually going to end up being chief cultivator we can presume the headshaker thing, while based on his existing personality, was in fact an act and he is way more competent at his job than he's let on. And with Jin Guangyao dead and gone he has no reason to put on that act anymore.

Imagine being an Nie cultivator. Your flopppy incompetent sect leader comes home from traumatic events after it turns out his older brother's sworn brother- who's been over to your sect basically every other week for years now- is the one that killed said brother and you're fully prepared for tears and dramatics. And while you definitley don't like lianfang-zun since it just came out he killed your last (way more competent) sect leader he was sorta the one holding the sect together so you're bracing yourself for the worst, and instead he's... stoic? Paperwork is suddenly getting done well and on time without help. He's not wailing during negotiations anymore and you're getting actual good trade deals for the first time in over a decade. He answers questions now? With something other than "I don't know i don't know i really don't know!"

And even if you had none of the revelations wei wuxian had in guanyin temple, slowly the realization creeps up on you that all his earlier embarassing antics that cost your family their comfortable livelihoods and your sect their good name was on purpose. And from there it's not that hard to put two and two together. The rest of the cultivation world assumes the shock of jin guangyao's betrayal has finally forced the headshaker to grow up a little but you have worked side by side with him for a decade, probably even watched him grow up under his brother's rule. You know better.

How do you feel at that point? What can you even do? He's your sect leader. And he's finally doing his job, things are looking up, shouldn't you feel relieved? It' not like his incompetence really caused any deaths among the nie, just wiped out generational wealth and reputation that will take years and years to build back up. Is it really reasonable to only start hating someone for something when they've stopped doing it? Thereby proving that they were capable of stopping all along?

#mdzs #nie huaisang #mdzs meta #sort of?#oh the urge to write a fic from the pov of a nie cultivator oc feeling INCREDIBLY conflicted about nie huaisang #the absolute generational culture shock between the nies that grew up under lao nie and nmj who watched the sect decline in adulthood #the nies that grew up under flop era nhs and have only ever heard of their better days until things start improving again #and the ones that will be growing up under chief cultivator nhs who kind of can't imagine that he was ever THAT bad.#the rumours must be exaggerrated right?#like 13 years postcanon a 15 year old disciple a 27 year old cultivator and a sect elder are all gonna have DRAMATICALLY different opinions

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uesp · 9 months

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The Warcraft community managed to prove that AI was being used to write news stories about the game by creating a bunch of fake reddit posts about a new feature called "Glorbo". This seems to be a very common trend with many gaming sites articles recently.

The examples in the images are "news" articles from Game Rant from a single writer jumping between very different topics and games in roughly a day.

#warcraft #the elder scrolls #diablo #call of duty #really this seems to be happening for every major gaming franchise right now #tidbits

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lokorum · 1 year

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"even the most benign of them, are like a hurricane off the coast"

if you want to support me - and have a coin to spare! - you can donate here!! it will help me super-duper much!! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)و

#so from the left top to the right bottom we have hereeee:#molag bal #namira #nocturnal #mephala #mehrunes dagon #azura #hircine #meridia #the elder scrolls #WELL #this one took A WHILE #+ we spend all week packaging and unpackaging boxes bc we moved to a new place and im *dead inside*#but i hope i'll be able to draw and post more regulary from now on!!#ೕ(•̀ㅂ•́ )

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