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My name is: Michelle, but most people call me Dark online.
My gender-pronouns are: They/them/their.
I am: 26 years old, a feminist, liberal, an atheist, an omnivore, and an ISFJ.
The Feminist: Intersectional, body positive, pro-choice, and sex positive.
My privileged identities include: Female assigned at birth (trans* privilege), white, able-bodied, allistic (?), dyadic, monogamous.
My non-privileged/oppressed identities include: Gender-fluid, fat, gray-a, neuroatypical, and gay.
I have: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Major Depressive Disorder.
I like: Pets & animals, animal welfare, pet care & pet care education, ~*SCIENCE!*~, anatomy & physiology, roleplaying, anime/manga, computer & video games, rock & metal music.
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The bombing you didnt hear about
U.S. pilot makes a mistake and drops a bomb on an Afghan wedding, killing 30. This happened today as well.
it sucks that people don’t care about those countries. They’re at least as important as all the others. I feel so sorry for those people who got killed. It’s sad that people get killed when others are giving eachother “I do” and make them believe in true love. Bombs suck…
(Source: treebeard-the-anarchist)
"You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": The weirdness of being told that the death alternative is the one I should consider.
So here’s some of what’s been going on.
As my gastroparesis has gotten worse, I’ve been aspirating more food from my stomach because of the gas bubbles caused by the gastroparesis. I also haven’t been able to maintain even the minimal Iiquid diet I need to get enough nutrition in a day. When I…
Though I will not rest till Amanda has a gj tube, what she says near the end is very inportant. This must not become just about “saving a celebrity blogger” —- we should not rest till the hospital adopts an explicit nondiscrimination policy for all the people who are being pressured, have been pressured, and will be pressured to die (and until that policy is not mere words but practice, and until the death pushers identified in this and any other case are punished).
Here is the phone number for this facility:
802-847-0000
Here is a contact form for the administrative department.
Here are the Social Media Pages for this Facility:
Facebook - Where we introduce you to the people who make Fletcher Allen the high quality, community-focused organization that it is. We share the stories of our people, news, health and wellness tips, upcoming events, hospital services, and photos and videos. We encourage two-way conversation with our community.
http://www.facebook.com/fletcherallenhealthcare
Twitter — Where we share 140-character tweets with news, links, health tips, photos, videos, events, and the latest research information. We also use Twitter to share information from our events, so if you can’t make it in person, you may follow along on Twitter to learn with us virtually. Tweet us!
http://www.twitter.com/fletcherallen/
Blog (Wordpress) — Where we share the expertise of our clinical and administrative staff. These subject matter experts write about a variety of healthcare topics – always with you in mind. Our CEO John Brumsted, MD, also blogs about his reflections as a physician CEO, discussing how Fletcher Allen serves patients, community, and medicine.
http://fletcherallenblog.wordpress.com/
"You don't need this junk. You need a cat.": The weirdness of being told that the death alternative is the one I should consider.
Also, for those who haven’t seen it, here’s what youneedacat says in her own words about what’s been going on at the hospital.
(Content warning: Explicit descriptions of medical conditions and procedures. Also attempted denial of health care to a disabled person, and attempts to manipulate a disabled person into choosing to die rather than get a lifesaving procedure done.)
So here’s some of what’s been going on.
As my gastroparesis has gotten worse, I’ve been aspirating more food from my stomach because of the gas bubbles caused by the gastroparesis. I also haven’t been able to maintain even the minimal Iiquid diet I need to get enough nutrition in a day. When I…
This is really, really scary shit. This is stuff doctors would only try to get away with pulling on a disabled person because of stupid fucked-up beliefs about “quality of life,” even though disabled people consistently rate their own quality of life as being higher than doctors estimate it to be.
The procedure she needs is standard indicated treatment for her condition and is completely reversible. Yet her doctor kept on with the “consider other alternatives” bullshit even when it was explicitly pointed out to him that at this point the only “alternative” was death.
If this doesn’t terrify anybody who is disabled and doesn’t have a living will and someone they trust to make power of attorney decisions for them, it should.
This is what they will try to do to you. This is what they think they can get away with. Because they do get away with it, much too often. And with April coming around again we can expect to hear a brand new round of crap about how parents can’t be blamed for killing their autistic children and that killing autistic people is a natural and understandable reaction to our existence.
And this stuff that youneedacat describes doesn’t just happen to autistics but to all disabled people— and that includes people with psychiatric/emotional problems too. Our housemate& have repeatedly had to be a long-distance advocate for a friend who has been a revolving door mental patient since her teens, has a multitude of health problems (some directly caused by doctors prescribing her toxic doses of drugs), and has had several close calls with death in hospitals and nursing homes. Because doctors didn’t think this manic, paranoid, schizophrenic, insert diagnosis of the month here, woman was worth saving. The medical system does not value our lives, our minds, or our bodies. (And there’s a vicious catch-22 where you get accused of being paranoid if you say you suspect doctors want you dead because your experience is that, in fact, they do want you dead.)
So don’t think, if you are disabled, that this kind of thing can’t also happen to you or someone you care about. It’s important for all of us to have living wills and advocates with our power of attorney. Amanda has both and she’s *still* fighting an uphill battle against a system that’s trying to talk her into choosing to die, and seems to be reversing that decision only because other people now know what’s going on and are joining in on advocating for her, even if they have to do it by long distance.
repeat after me
- you can be heterophobic
- you can be cisphobic
- you can be sexist towards men
- you can be racist towards white people
- i have listened to one of my best friends cry his eyes out over skype because he feels like a horrible person simply because he is a straight, white, cis male
- tumblr if you make a grown man cry because of something he can not control you know you’re fucking doing something wrong
No. No. No.
There is no systemized hate of heterosexual people. There is no systemized hate of cisgender people. There is no systemized hate of men, nor is there systemized racism against white people.
You are wrong and you have no concept of how this society works at all.
Your friend was hurt and I understand how this must make you feel, but let me make myself clear: you have NO RIGHT to equate the suffering of minority groups with the hurt the members of privileged groups like your friend receive. The hurt that your friend has experienced is real but the reality is he is not likely to be targeted for being straight, white, and cis, and even less likely to be bullied, beaten, or killed for it.
Your friend has cried once over his treatment at the hands of other people. A lot of the members of minority groups cry every single fucking day because of people like him, and it is disgraceful that you should try to downplay this by spouting your unoriginal reverse oppression bullshit.
Your friend now feels horrible for being something he can’t help being? Good. Maybe now he has an extremely small inkling of what it’s like to be queer, or female, or of colour. Maybe his feelings of shame will bolster him to do something good for the people our institutions are condemning, instead of turning around like you and trying to “even the playing field”.
The systematic oppression of minorities is not a Tumblr-exclusive phenomenon, and neither is your bass-ackwards thinking. It happens everywhere, every day, all the time. But if your biggest concern is that some folks on a blogging website made your buddy cry? Then you have some serious fucking rethinking to do.
The creepy paternalism of Hugo Schwyzer
I’ve been reading some old commentary on Hugo Schwyzer due to this recent Tumblr post defending him, which was written by a woman who identifies him as a father figure. And I came across a blog post that explains why Schwyzer’s fatherliness is just more evidence why he can’t be trusted. He’s so sketchy that even other white male feminists are creeped the fuck out:
Here’s how Schwyzer described his relationship to his students not long ago:
Go ahead, call me paternalistic. I’ll wear that title with pride, thank you. I see my students not merely as independent, autonomous agents whom I need to empower, but as vulnerable young people whom I — and others around me — need to protect. And I still have the nerve to call myself a feminist.
This notion that feminism calls him to protect the weak — to save them from themselves, to guide them to the right path — recurs again and again in his writing. As the co-organizer of the LA Slutwalk earlier this year, he referred to his role as “Herding sluts. In the best and most responsible way.” His students say he’s an electrifying lecturer, but complain that he severely restricts class discussion. And he frequently conceptualizes moral behavior as a matter of denial and restriction. (He has, for instance, described feminism as a “cold pool” in which “none of us can fully immerse ourselves forever.”)
I don’t have any reason to believe that Hugo Schwyzer is likely to attempt another murder anytime soon. But the man who described his girlfriend as fragile and broken and in need of his sheltering strength as he plotted her death has not gone entirely away. The paternalistic impulse to save that young woman from herself — an impulse that came to him with “incredible clarity” then, one which he remembers “perfectly” today — is still in him, still driving him. It’s an impulse he’s redirected, but it remains unexamined, unchecked, and dangerous. (It particularly inflects and infects his writing about sexuality, about youth, and about people of color.)
There’s nothing pro-women, feminist, or new about being a man who wants to rescue, protect, teach and otherwise be the master to women, particularly young and vulnerable women (like the one who wrote that Tumblr post). That’s pretty much the essence of patriarchy.
I’m so glad you & I both are on this anti-Schwyzer-stan tip right now. I was just about to make a video talumbout this white feminist fuckery that keeps his name in circulation…
Just reblogging because I love anyone and anything that highlights what a douchefuck Hugo Schwyzer is.
- # Hugo Schwyzer
- # douchefuck
- # men
- # feminist men
- # paternalism
- # feminism
- # gender
- # equality
- # sexism
- # misogyny
- # fauxminist
- # rape
- # rape culture
- # sexual violence
- # violence
- # sexual assault
- # assault
- # death threats
- # death
- # relationships
- # boundaries
- # arseholes
- # creepy
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[TRIGGER WARNING: HATE CRIME, MURDER, RACISM] White Man Kills a Black Couple with Kids because they asked him not to Shoot his guns while they were playing outside with kids
HAS EVERYONE SEEN THIS? This happened recently. The story goes that this father was playing outside with his kids and went to go talk to this guy(the white man), because he was shooting his guns in the area where they were playing. The white man came over and shot him in the head FOR NO REASON. Did the same thing to the wife WHILE THE KIDS WERE WATCHING. Swear, white people don’t give a damn anymore about being discrete. This is why we need to tighten gun laws. This why we need to have a predominantly ethnic (People of Color) police force and investigation unit to combat this crap. We wonder why the Black Panther is calling for the death of George Zimmerman, but think about it. They grew up in a time where a white man could lynch you or kill you IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, and go about their business as if nothing even happened. We are now devolving back to a time where prosperity, peace, and higher knowledge will not come because whites feel as if they are being oppressed (meaning they don’t get to be superior to people of color anymore *white tears*)
I need everyone to either reblog this post or copy and paste the link so we can bring national attention to this story. It’s about time we make this an issue.
Oh god damn it.
Of course this happened in NC.
JFC. Guaranteed if it was a black dude killing a white guy, this would be ALL OVER THE FUCKING NEWS.
BRB, setting everything on fire.
Petitioning the White House to stop transplant discrimination against autistic people
We have until December 14 to get 25,000 signatures on it. You need to live in the USA, and you should seriously sign, signal boost, tumblr bomb, anything you can. Lives are on the line- lives of people like me.
Reminder.
Um, do people not understand that this so so people with autism can get life-saving organ transplants, instead of given a death sentence on the grounds that our lives are inherently worthless?
Do you think this doesn’t happen to young adults?
23-Year-Old Autistic Man Denied Heart Transplant at UPenn Hospital
Do you think this doesn’t happen to children with various developmental disorders?
3-Year-Old Amelia Rivera Denied Kidney Transplant
Do you think this doesn’t happen to adults with Down’s Syndrome?
32-Year-Old Sandra Jensen Denied Heart Transplant
“Contraindicated.” That quite literally means that they considered saving a cognitively impaired person’s life HARMFUL.
signal boost
Stanford & NYU report: Only 1 in 50 killed by US drones in Pakistan are militants; the rest are innocent civilians
October 17, 2012A new study shows that only one in 50 people killed by US assassination drones are militants in Pakistan while the rest are innocent civilians.The study, conducted by Stanford and New York Universities, concludes that Washington is terrorizing women and children as well as men round the clock with its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) attacks.
The authors of the study think that the “double-tap” method — a drone fires a missile, then followed by a second drone — is largely to blame for the casualties.
“This shows that drone strikes go much further than simply killing innocent civilians. An entire region is being terrorized by the constant threat of death from the skies,” said Clive Stafford Smith, the director of the charity Reprive that also participated in interviewing people for the report.
According to the study, Pakistan’s tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan have witnessed at least 345 drone strikes during the past eight years.
“These strikes are becoming much more common,” The Independent quoted Mirza Shahzad Akbar, a Pakistani lawyer who represents victims of drone strikes, as saying.
“In the past it used to be a one-off, every now and then. Now almost every other attack is a double tap. There is no justification for it.”
Research also shows the consequences are much more profound than simply the fatalities, as the survivors of the attacks suffer from deep psychological trauma.
Despite Pakistani government’s repeated calls on Washington to end the drone attacks, the US government continues its strikes on the tribal regions of the country.
The aerial attacks were initiated by former US President George W. Bush, but have escalated under President Barack Obama.
The drone strikes have triggered massive anti-US demonstrations across Pakistan to condemn the United States’ violations of their national sovereignty.I cannot stress enough how much this is not a holdover from horrendous Bush era foreign policy. What we are doing is criminal, and our government needs to be held accountable for these crimes, not just by the victims, but by us, the governed body who elected these people into power.
