But it is radical. Trans people face persecution in most parts of the world. We are the exception, and that’s a great thing.
Be radical, even if you are the last person on earth to support trans rights. Not because it’s the normal thing to do, but because it’s the right thing to do.
Do you want to institute change, or do you just want to give trump voters an ‘I told you so’ because it feels good?
Not extending sympathy is how we got into this shithole to begin with. You cannot convince over trump voters with facts and logic. The best you can do is wait for leopards to eat their faces, or pacify their egos until they are emotionally invested enough to vote for someone other than trump. Trump voters do not respond to reason. But they will respond by voting trump again if they feel alienated.
Yes, it’s shitty and they deserve so much worse. However, we deserve better, and we won’t get anything better until we coddle trump voters into doing the right thing.
I too, take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are not American.
Of course the 145 police reports don’t count. This is 145 women were talking about.
Girl boring guy quirky.
Funny how often childbirth is brought up to describe how much more painful something else is, usually by people who have never given births themselves.
Truly spoken like someone so privileged with good health they don’t even know what a chronic disability is.
Imagine being this ignorant about chronic pain that you think it’s a product of moral failure. Imagine thinking that doctors treat chronic pain sufferers like anything but drug seekers. Imagine picking up a prescription is so easy you never had to see your pharmacist give you a dirty look or even deny you medications because they think you don’t ‘look like you’re in pain’.
Nothing makes us want to kill ourselves more than hearing the ‘just diet and exercise duh’ people pretend to know what a fraction of being in pain every living second is like.
Invalidating ADHD doesn’t make trans people feel better, it only perpetuates ableist and medically misinformed views on ADHD.
Particularly women, minorities, and non-binary people, who have historically been severely underdiagnosed and neglected as is. Girls are 16 times less likely than boys to receive an ADHD diagnosis and treatment.
Women who speak out about their ADHD are often dismissed on social media as ‘self diagnosed pick me girls’ just seeking attention. In reality, many are speaking up against the ongoing crisis of medical neglect.
Untreated ADHD can put already vulnerable people into higher risk of developing clinical depression and other comorbid mental health issues. ADHD medication can be life saving, and calling it meth only serves to stigmatize the mental health issues ADHD patients go through, as well as discourage them from getting the help and medication they need.
If you call yourself an ally to trans people, that includes trans people with ADHD. There is no need to add to their intersectional struggles when they already have so much on their plate.
Never donate at the cash register. It’s a tax deduction scam.
Donate to a real non-profit instead of blood sucking corporations.
Never really understood the flying car meme.
We have so many manners of flying cars. Helicopter. Planes. Supersonic jets. Hell, we have planes literally called ‘Airbus’.
Granted, it’s not cheap enough for everyone to own a private jet or a helicopter, but the technology has been around for a long time.
To come out of 4chan a better person, one must transcend humanity.
The point is that Republicans are allowed to have a literal insurrection with Trump supporting them, while Democrats protesting ICE’s human rights abuse triggers Trump enough to deploy the national guard on them.
OP is drawing a parallel between the two, not pretending that anyone will mistake that for LA.
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^Here, you dropped this. It’s called the point. You must have missed it while stating the obvious.
As someone with a chronic incurable disability, I’m tired of abled bodied people deciding for us which of our experiences count as ‘evidence’ and which do not.
People have this perception of modern medicine as an infallible cure-all that isn’t saddled with systemic discrimination and neglect of women and minorities.
It doesn’t matter how effective a medication is for a certain condition or for off label use. The only thing that matters is that that clinical trials are worth the investment to pharmaceutical companies, and the people most worth investing into are those with money and the privilege of being heard by their doctors.
The rest of us can continue screaming into the void as our symptoms are dismissed and as we are treated like unreliable witnesses to our own bodies. ‘Have you tried yoga?’ ‘You just need to lose weight.’ ‘Abdominal pain? It’s just your period.’ We are treated like we aren’t trying our hardest to live with every symptom. And then when we find something that works, we are told that ‘it’s not covered by insurance’ or ‘there is no evidence that it works’ or ‘it’s just placebo’. It’s like nothing we feel in our body is true and everything we say is treated as a drugseeking lie.
Fuck the cherry picked ‘evidence’. The system is broken and chronically ill people are left to suffer.
Average day of being a woman on Lemmy and feeling excluded and alienated.
Not sure what being sexually attractive has to do with specifically being a woman as opposed to being a man.
I think that severely discounts the internal experiences of what trans people go through and the reasons why they transition.
Fuck all the adults who say this to kids with less privileged childhoods.
Yes. I’m going to cut to the point here.
You are likely conflating the phrase ‘toxic masculinity’ with ‘men’. Toxic masculinity is a systemic problem, not a gender. It’s the cultural norms we grow up with that instill poor notions of what it means to be a man. It’s the widespread shaming and dismissal of men’s mental health. It’s the normalization of anger as the only acceptable emotion for men, making it the only outlet for their grief and pain. It’s the preclusion of men from caretaking roles and the expectation of men being breadwinners, and so much more.
Men are raised by people, and people, men and women alike, in their ignorance, instill outdated ideas of masculinity in their kids uphold the expectations of their peers and elders.
The honest truth is that toxic masculinity is perpetuating an environment of hostility towards showing the need for emotional support and giving fellow men who need it.
Women receive emotional support from other women because they have been socialized to give and receive it without shame.
If you are a man, ask yourself when was the last time you were able to express emotional vulnerability with other men without feeling judged.
This isn’t an issue of ‘value in females’. It’s an issue of valuing men’s emotion vulnerability as a critical part of healthy masculinity.
Peeing is also normal behavior. But it’s not normal if you have to pee every 30 minutes.
What’s with this new trend of invalidating ADHD and autism symptoms simply because you don’t experience it to a degree that impacts your quality of life?
ADHD and autism don’t have one specific symptom. It’s a thousand little things that drive you insane from having to conform to neurotypical behavior.
Let patients share their experiences without normalizing and invalidating their condition.
It’s always ‘everyone has ADHD these days’ just like how people day 'everyone is LGBTQ these days. It’s never ‘underserved and underdiagnosed ADHD patients are finally getting recognition these days’.
Boys are 16x more likely to get an ADHD diagnosis than girls. The vast majority of backlash against ADHD patients on social media are against women and PoC who are finally speaking out against the medical neglect. Women traditionally present different symptoms because girls are punished more heavily for exhibiting ADHD behaviors than boys are. Same goes for autism.
Remember that a lack of diagnosis does not indicate the lack of ADHD and autism. Modern medicine is rife with systemic inequality. Undiagnosed ADHD and autism patients are frequently penalized and not rewarding for concealing their symptoms. The more effort they put into concealing them, the more heavily criticized they are for ‘faking’ it.