logged in for the first time in 84 years and one of the first posts I see is re: taxes and was suddenly slammed into the fact that time passes by under my nose and we’re all of the age to do our taxes. goodbye.
reddit goes down for 1 day and i come back here like a dusty cowboy to the town i swore i’d left behind, but the road is long and you know those desert nights just get so cold
should be clear, 9/11 as an event sucked n shit & like. a bunch of people dying is fucked up. but there’s no way to talk about it in america without it also having a certain symbolic meaning as a nationalistic rallying point and the start of a new era of american imperialism. basically, it’s more advantageous for us to destroy its social gravity and value as a symbol than to revere the dead by observing those same nationalistic rituals
in light of the texas abortion ban here’s a reminder to stop debating what counts as a human, baby, or life with pro-lifers because that is not a debate you can win. you can not win a philosophical debate about what counts as a person, and you will not change their minds.
what can be proven is that in no situation under united states law is an individual legally obligated to lend their body or organs for the sake of another life.
4.5 million people each year are in need of blood transfusion, the entire process of donating blood takes a little over an hour, it’s free, and a single pint of blood can save up to 3 peoples lives, but there is no legal obligation or requirement to donate blood in place.
it is illegal to take organs from deceased peoples’ bodies without permission. CORPSES. bodily integrity is prioritized by law, even after death.
it doesn’t fucking matter whether a fetus is a person, whether a fetus is alive, whether a fetus has a soul. it literally doesn’t matter. pro-lifers set up the argument through that lens (hence their name) to evoke empathy and pity and take the focus away from the actual process of pregnancy, which changes a person’s body FOREVER. that is not an exaggeration. whether the pregnancy is complicated and high-risk or totally smooth sailing, the birthing person will physically never be the same. if they’re lucky, they’ll come out of it with weight gain, differently shaped breasts, and changes to the cervix/vagina. if they aren’t, there’s a fucking laundry list of potential complications that could arise, that may eventually fix themselves, need surgical or therapeutic intervention, or never go away, like varicose veins, separation of the abdominal muscles, incontinence, prolapse, diabetes, postpartum depression, and chronic pain, just off the top of my head. and this makes no mention of the very real possibility of income disruption, as well as the financial cost of giving birth, and the chance of fucking death, which is even higher for underserved communities like black women.
there is no basis for a governing body forcing an individual to lend their body or organs for the sake of another life. that is the argument. period the end.
It has happened. Abortion is illegal in Texas right now. SCOTUS failed to act so in effect Roe v. Wade is meaningless. These are truly devastating times. I don’t know what else to say.
Here’s Jessica Mason Pieklo again explaining it helpfully. Check out the whole thread.
Sorry to spam so much tonight but I’m kinda freaking out.
Also sorry to be a broken record (not really sorry) but what happens in Texas is coming to a state near you soon. Check out the soon-to-be situation:
That’s a horrifying lack of access. How many poor and working class people will die of botched procedures? (While wealthy people like those who passed this law will be able to easily travel for their abortions.) How many children will suffer in families that didn’t want them and/or can’t afford them?
I fear the reverberations of this day immensely. I gotta get off my phone bc I have an early/long day tomorrow but I’m just so sad.
I feel like a walking zombie at the moment. Today is the first time I’ve been required to report to an in person work event in 18 months and I’m really fucking overwhelmed trying to pretend I’m not a mess.
Anyway, here are some helpful round ups of what’s going on w/ this.
Gotta love the added bonus of snitches getting fucking bounty money for reporting anyone that gets an abortion after 6 weeks. (When, lets face it, most people don’t even KNOW that they’re pregnant until AFTER that point.)
The punishment for aborting a pregnancy resulting from rape is far worse than the punishment for rape. I’d ask if they could be more obvious that this is a war on anyone with a uterus, but I unfortunately know that they could.
i can’t relate to people who bitch about reddit. name one other website where you’ll get subjected to such an assortment of guys
currently reading a comment on a finance sub where someone is explaining that his financial strategy is to live on three serves of aldi peanut butter toast a day and calls oven baked chips “a luxury”
you are literally on tumblr
if you think tumblr guys are in any way on the same level as reddit guys I can’t help you. tumblr guys are all fake cryptic edgy cannibalism jokes trying so hard to seem weird and eccentric but reddit guys will use their whole chest to say anyone claiming to like salmon is doing it for clout. radically different ecosystems
there’s this interesting tendency that especially young ppl have when it comes to art where they want to “consume” art by women, lgbt ppl, poc, to make themselves more feminist, anti-racist, etc, and then when they discover these artists have flaws too, that they aren’t perfect representatives of the social movement that’s being projected onto them, they don’t know what to do with that so instead of engaging with these new perspectives they return to art by straight white men who avoid saying something wrong on these topics by simply not speaking of them at all
Most targets of “cancel culture” are women and people of color for this reason.
There’s also something very paternalistic about judging art from anyone who isn’t a white man by how flawless and “non-problematic” the representation is in their art while we judge (mostly white, mostly western) men by the metric of good prose, good characterisation, themes and narrative for example, when it comes to books. It feels as if the “universal” work is reserved for them, while everyone else gets to sit at the kids table and get an award for stuff like “book with most likeable bisexual character”.
new tag game: the thing you most often pretended to be as a kid—whether it was a horse, a bride, a queen, a specific character, a knight, a lawyer, a baby, anything—is symbolically representative of you currently. what is it for you?
