Hey just a general PSA from someone officially diagnosed and documented:
Now is not the time to seek out an autism diagnosis.
RFK's plans have been made very clear and any diagnosis you do get will get you put on this "national disease registry" they're proposing.
Trust me when I say I completely understand the need for accommodations and a better understanding of yourself, but if you have gone this long without being diagnosed, you will be better off waiting.
Furthermore, listen to and advocate for folks who are diagnosed, especially folks with higher support needs. They'll be the first ones targeted for whatever bullshit "experimental treatments" the government tries to push.
Stay safe and look out for your neighbor.
Girl brush the crumbs off your tits and keep going <3
now you're just making shit up
Genuinely the current political climate is fucking abysmal people have gotten so weird and pearl-clutchy about sex that they get frightened when sexuality is celebrated at gay pride and somehow we've regressed past the "equating women to uteruses is bad what if we didn't treat people like breeding stock" stage of feminism from like, the 1920s. In an effort to get a #win against trans people or something?? So that's cool
100%. It's not the fault of mean feminists that men fall down these pipelines, but if we want to counter it effectively, there's no point in throwing more fuel on the fire. These pipelines depend on the opposing forces playing their part as they do and warping the perspective around it to confirm their own biases. Woman rightfully angry about interpersonal mistreatment uses cruel language in her own defense = see they ARE mean bitches who hate you and don't care about you. It sucks to have to care about it but if we want to make progress, we have to pay attention to the consequences of our language because it doesn't exist in a vacuum and is being both anticipated and accounted for by these pipelines.
And that doesn't even mean putting up with bullshit behavior from misogynistic assholes, it just means changing tactics for responding or disengaging with their game entirely if its not comfortable. They're expecting a mean shouting match to confirm what they already believe. In my experience, people usually thrown off entirely when you respond to their provocations with kindness or another subversive response.
Name-calling or yelling back is just part of the self-hating game to them. We don't have to play the game.
“maybe men wouldn’t fall down the alt right pipeline so easily if feminists were nicer” yesss women famously got our rights by saying “pretty please? 🥺 with a cherry on top? 🥺🥺🥺” and the men were really nice and said “omg yes of course 🫰🏻”
there is actually a large radfem population who get mad if you imply women’s fashion throughout history wasn’t specifically designed to torture and maim women. like, not just corsets. if a fashion historian talks about the functionality of removable pockets and underskirts, they’ll get really angry. idk why, truly. women throughout history were doing jobs and living lives, they needed clothes that could be functional. even if the upper crust was competing to see who could strangle their waist, everybody else had to have clothes comfortable enough to move in. and the widespread corset maiming is a myth too.
there’s a big difference between “i’m sad because a character i was emotionally invested in was killed off” and “this character’s death served no purpose, was used for shock value, and is the product of bad writing and i’m upset about that”
It’s Mollymauk missing hours 💜
they need to invent retractable boobs for nonbinary people (me)