There’s an obvious correlation between having lots of touching, kissing, and intimacy without the expectation of sex, and having a lot of really good sex. Y’all boys aren’t attuned to your women, and you’re cool with unenthusiastic, unwanted sex. Pretty gross, guys.

One of the lasting things I learned while getting my degree in SPED is gifted kids were just as likely (sometimes more) to drop out of school as those with disabilities.

Another rare insult! Phenomenal!

“Exposure to respiratory viruses before a baby’s first birthday — when immune systems are immature and before most childhood vaccinations — consistently predicted reduced earnings, education and health decades later.”

Ask him why he does not have a group chat or a therapist. Women are not born with these things, they put in effort to create all these for themselves.

As a doctor, I can’t tell you how many older women I have treated over 80, who often recall to me their life stories and have told me things like: “I really wanted to be a doctor/lawyer/professor, but in those days, we were told that women don’t do those things” So anyone who genuinely believes that the 1950s or 1960s were fantastic times, better also explain why it was okay for half the population to not be allowed to pursue their dreams (… and if you are OK with it, I presume you are also okay with discouraging your daughters/granddaughters from having careers)

A lot of men out there forcing their girlfriends to take up knitting, embroidery, baking, and book clubs.

RT @polypocketknife: conservatism is basically an endless chain of “well MY dad would’ve beaten my ass if i tried that, therefore i must de…

Absolutely fascinating. Spammed me and now thinks it’s a gotcha I haven’t looked through them all and gone over all the sources. Bro, it’s not even 7am here. I’m not even out of bed. Chill tf out.

This was me, and it is exactly why I’m so against young marriages unless both people come from deeply secure bases, which is incredibly rare. I’ve turned much of that era of my life into lessons, and I do not hate what ultimately built me into who I am. But I am also lucky to be alive, and I would never wish that path on anyone else. People often attempt to shame me in my comments for where I came from, as if that invalidates anything I say, but I feel no shame. I did not choose it. I was born into that life, and surviving it is not something I am going to apologize for. I feel deep grief for these girls because a girl that age is usually too young to see that she is repeating what is familiar to her, not necessarily choosing what is good for her. And the most fucked up men exploit what has already been primed into these girls as *normal.* I wish we had stronger community around young women. More guidance, more protection, more people willing to step in and tell the truth. Instead, we live in such an individualistic culture that girls are often left to call survival patterns *love* and learn the hard way.

This is described in the authoritarian personality — thinking everyone but you has crazy sex lives and judging them for it.

Everyone always talks about how burnt out caregivers are when taking care of a disabled person but hardly ever mentions the burn out disabled people experience just from being disabled. It's a never ending burn out. We don't get breaks from being disabled, it's constant.

i'm genuinely flabbergasted by how many people believe it's better for a child to be born into starvation, abuse, neglect, illness, & poverty than not be born at all

> “equal in skill to their male peers” > “THEY WANT THEM ALL TO JUST BE GIRLBOSSES” It’s so fascinating when they read their own biases into things.

The concept of thinking you need to go to HR because your employee writes fanfic that *might* be explicit. 🙃

if you insist you must be married by 28, or there is only one way to do things, or that life ends in your 30s, you are begging to be deeply, fantastically unhappy for the majority of your days

Once, before I did mobile crisis, I was taking a job outside MH for burnout and was asked this. I was like, “Well, I’ve administered Narcan, done CPR, worked detox addition, handled active suicide attempts, ...” And she blinked at me and said, “Oh I just meant like… deadlines.”

These men have crippling anxiety about dying alone and they project it onto women in desperation.

Exactly.

If i had a dime for the number of 50 year old women that do that, then come to my shop crying they hate bras and will not "go that big a cup," i would have enough to pay off a mortgage