its kind weird how i missed the memo about harrassing trans lesbians and calling them heterosexuals being the crucial strategy that will finally topple the patriarchy
For real though to see the amount of time some radical feminists spend just pretty much entirely devoted to ~the trans issue~ is really odd because you kinda have to wonder how someone looks at modern patriarchal society and says “this incredibly small part of the population are in fact the linchpin and cornerstone of patriarchy and arguing they shouldn’t exist is the most useful form of feminist praxis I can engage in”
Its not particularly surprising when you read gyn/ecology and the transsexual empire and it becomes clear that this emerges from a literal conspiracy theory about men trying to replace the need for cis women by creating artificially construct frankenstein women in their own dionysian and techno-necrophillic image. Like just typing that (legit the argument Mary Daly makes in gyn/ecoloy) has me in awe of the amount of absurd conspiritorial thinking these people are engaged in to get to this point.
heads up: posts are officially out of order on our dashes by default even though we didn’t get notice. the most popular are at the top, meaning posts that aren’t already spread everywhere and/or aren’t from bloggers we don’t interact with most often aren’t gonna be the first we see.
however, we can also officially turn this off now that it’s here. to do so, go to settings (gear icon) > global settings > dashboard preferences and turn off “best stuff first”
years later House is still as relevant as he ever was
I wasn’t vaccinated and never got sick so
And I swam and didn’t drown.
Anecdotes aren’t evidence. The reason YOU specifically didn’t get sick is because of something called Mass Immunity.
That means that since everyone ELSE is vaccinated (you’re welcome), there’s nowhere for the virus to establish a hold. That mass immunity is the only thing that keeps people who CANNOT vaccinate—like the immunocompromised—from catching it.
The second that people stop vaccinating, that immunity disappears and the disease resurges, as is clear from the fact that the US is currently experiencing an epidemic of a disease that was projected to become extinct in our lifetimes.
Get immunized. There’s no reason not to.
Considering that there’s a whole host of people in my age range who weren’t vaccinated enough (even I was missing the second dose of MMR until recently) getting the measles and the mumps I think it’s ridiculous that we’re arguing over a life and death situation. Literally, do you want to live or die?
Also, even if you weren’t vaccinated and never got sick–at least not visibly–that doesn’t preclude the possibility that you picked up a virus and passed it on without knowing it.
Maybe you had…oh, let’s say measles. But you had no symptoms. Or maybe you had a fever, or sore eyes, or a harsh dry cough, but that was it. But nothing that said anything was seriously wrong. And in the meantime, you went about your business. Maybe you waited for a bus with an old man, or shared an aisle at the store with a pregnant woman and her wailing one-year-old, or attended a party with your friends.
