@bitterkarella
it's literally just bodily autonomy and they could be also fighting for intersex and trans people within their movement (which would strengthen their position). but I think the issue is that they consider it a "mens issue" and so because of misogyny they can't be normal about it
@drdevonprice
I tell people this a lot but most people who abuse children whether sexually or otherwise don't do it out of a compulsion, but rather simply because *they can*
and honestly that should be more terrifying - the regular joes will abuse kids just because they can
@Yorishiriamori
@euclicide
yeah if a giant hand popped out of the sky and started making even small creeks out of awful smelling thicker-than-water slime, I wouldn't cross it either
@pyroclextic
see, this is why I hate it when someone tells me "you can adopt" when I lament the fact that I can never be a mother. I desperately want kids but I'm not willing to traumatize them or treat them like cattle I can buy in order to have them.
@ProtoProgester
just by the picture you've shown I can tell he trusts you in his darkest hour. You've given him a good life. A better life than he would've had in the wild or with a different person. You've been a good cat parent and he knows it.
I'm sorry for your loss.
@cuniiform
@arlenparsa
can we like airlift the kid out of Florida I'm afraid their parents are going to kill them??? There's no record of them existing so who would report them missing????
alright mother truckers, it's time for another BONE FACT:
we don't have the slightest clue how the hell primates went from claws to nails. The earliest evidence we have for the evolutionary process comes from tiny primates but it's entirely unclear what selective pressures were
@drdevonprice
it's almost the same pattern for rapists of adults, people who raped corpses, animals, etc. it's almost always just because they can. No other motive or reason other than opportunity, power, and no risk of consequences
@genshinyaoi
@BraindeadKara
@scar4mayor
disagree. AM can change the biological makeup of the six humans it kept alive and also keep them alive indefinitely. It clearly has the power to build the life it wants, and it's hyper intelligent, so it clearly has the intellect. This leaves pretty much OP's explanation as right
@TheSegirly
"they were well written characters not diversity shills" no they werent stop saying chell and alyx were well written they are not compelling characters at all
@onionweigher
I seem to remember one that was a colosseum with lions and maybe a guy with shackles? I remember thinking "wow that is messed up" even as a small child
@ButNotTheCity
i used to get on the treadmill by making it my time to waste time on mobile games and twitter. not exactly safe when you're running to be distracted but if you're walking and/or have a phone stand on the treadmill it works
@DragonCobolt
the part where Kim is like "we have to have some limit on the cruelty of war" or whatever made me really sad bc that limit doesn't exist irl
@Saeko_Cut
@ChickfilA
I think hes just as confused as the rest of us as to why you would eat at Conversion Therapy Chicken with Extra Homophobia Sauce
they don't even make good chicken
BONE FACT: teeth have a terrifying origin. They come from a distinct evolutionary lineage as opposed to bones. Bones probably came from shells or spines that may have originally been a sort of energy reservoir before become a structural element. Teeth on the other hand...
@dianacorsten
I don't know what they teach on TERF island but in my education we've learned that most individuals tend toward the middle of the bell curve for sexually dimorphic traits, and the accuracy on trying to estimate sex for these individuals tends toward zero.
@pickleshanks
oh I know from experience. I tried to put a recovery onesie on my cat to keep her from trying to bite out her stitches after getting spayed and she just start screaming and jumping and flopping around like if a dying fish could also be angry and had claws
@ThoughtSlime
also 'every culture has ghosts' is only true if the definition of 'ghosts' is so broadly defined as to include the living memory of a dead person
@cuniiform
@arlenparsa
like the parents could straight up kill the kid and face no consequences because the siblings aren't gonna report it and there's no school.or anything to wonder where they've gone
@cuniiform
@arlenparsa
that's a mild relief but I really really hope he gets out from under his parents soon 😨 I know what it's like to be in a kinda similar situation and it makes it nearly impossible to escape abuse
@ChazakielDoremi
phylogeny is a thing they believe in. And also if you read the imperial library texts it's explicitly true that some evolution occured (e.g. the atmorans to the giants and nords). Even in game the snow elves became falmer as a result of artificial evolution
@epistemophagy
I have DID and have never put coffee in my bath but it sounds like just a slightly more unusual version of the bullshit I *do* actually engage in as a result of it
Something I'm thinking about: donating my body to an osteological lab after I die. One reason I want to do this is because I would like to be a skeleton. The other reason is that I'm interested in furthering the research into skeletal changes caused by HRT.
@G1RLPET
it's not "fair" you should block him
that man is a serial sexual harasser who used to threaten to rape my sister all the time and his only defence is "you're lying she never mentioned having siblings"
@coyoteprinceart
any extra advice on when you can't get access to AC? I had three summers in a row with no AC a few years ago and at least 1 person in my house almost died
If you say "here's why I'll be violating a rule you established for your comfort in your own living space" you will never be invited to my living space regardless of what that rule is or how strongly I feel about it
If you found this thread interesting, come back tomorrow when I'll write about the HORRIFYING ORIGIN OF TEETH (they are evolutionarily distinct from your other bones)
As anthropologists, it's important not to trivialize the understanding of people & cultures we're studying. Try as it may be to be scientific, anthropology still requires that we not privilege a western scientific perspective over that of our interlocutors. You'd think that this
Can someone please give me some monies I can't afford a new car battery
Also I owe U-Haul $6k and I have a ton of credit card debt from when I was homeless last year yay