There's no time like the present to stop making excuses for sexual violence just to fit in with your socially conditioned "friends."

"Last week, Texas Rep. Chip Roy addressed the allegations that Pete Hegseth had falsely imprisoned and forcibly raped a woman in a Monterey hotel room in 2017, saying, “You know, look, we’ve all had some indiscretions in our past and things like that. Every human has.” I don’t know what’s worse: That a sitting U.S. congressman sees alleged forcible rape as an “indiscretion” that all men have, that Roy seemingly told on himself, or that the rest of Washington D.C. just shrugged their shoulders and went about their day. In this new administration, violently assaulting a woman is not, and may never again be, a disqualifying behavior for the for a society steeped in rape culture. 

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

"So if you’re wondering how we got to a place where the president-elect of the United States and four of his cabinet nominees have been credibly accused of sexual assault, , the answers can be found in the world of sports. They’ve established a long tradition of just how little violence against women matters."

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

Patriarchal people are too conditioned to dehumanize others in service to a cult

"There’s also the persistent belief that when it comes to powerful men, 'crying rape' can be a quick and easy way for a woman to cash in. I can tell you from experience that reporting sexual assault to the police is no easy thing, even if the perpetrator is nobody special. Leveling allegations against a high-profile athlete, who has a team of lawyers, agents, publicists, and an entire professional sports team at his back is far more daunting—and that’s before you factor in their rabid fanbase."

Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault" 

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

"The woman who successfully sued MMA fighter Conor McGregor for sexual assault was further traumatized by a gang of masked men who allegedly broke into her home and stabbed her boyfriend. The woman who accused then–Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane of sexual assault in 2015 saw her name and face splashed all over social media, while Blackhawks fans called her names like “stupid skank” and speculated on where they might find her. NBA star Derrick Rose’s defense team was scolded by a judge for publicly slut-shaming the victim. After the Rose was held “not liable” in a civil sexual assault trial, the judge and jury took pictures with the NBA star."

Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

If only some people weren't so conditioned by their cult-like mentalities

"It should come as little surprise that an alleged sexual abuser has won a second presidential term and wants to appoint a cabinet full of sex pests, considering our long history of excusing our favorite athletes’ alleged assaults."

Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

"As writer Andrea Ciannavei recently wrote on Threads, “TIME Magazine picking Trump as Person of the Year when Gisèle Pelicot [the French woman whose husband was sentenced to 20 years in prison for repeatedly drugging and raping her and enlisting at least 50 other men via the internet to rape his wife while she was unconscious] was right there is all you need to know about rape culture in this country.”

Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

More cultural conditioning for The descendants to deal with.

"Four women have come forward to accuse former Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer of violent sexual assaults, yet he has amassed an army of angry young men who defend him against all comers while calling his accusers liars. Bauer has spent countless hours online maligning his victims and proclaiming his innocence. And, despite the fact that Major League Baseball heard all of Bauer’s explanations and professions of innocence and still gave him the longest suspension in MLB history, there is a significant number of young men online who adamantly believe him.

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

"Cleveland Browns QB Deshaun Watson was suspended for 11 games by the NFL following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct made by 23 women Watson had hired as massage therapists. In September, Watson was accused of forcible rape by a 24th woman. Last week, the NFL said it would not take further disciplinary action against Watson despite the most recent allegation.

Initially, the multiple lawsuits against Watson did nothing to deter some Browns fans, who infamously showed up to games with signs reading “Free Watson” and “Fuck Them Hoes,” and selling shirts that read, “Bitch, give me a massage.” Browns fans only turned on Watson when it became clear he wasn’t the star player they thought he was. When fans cheered after Watson suffered a season-ending injury in October, teammate Myles Garrett defended Watson, calling him “a model citizen.”

On a “You can’t make this up” note, Watson was replaced in the starting lineup by Jameis Winston, who was also accused of raping a woman in college and suspended by the NFL for groping an Uber driver in 2016. Days later, ESPN’s biggest NFL reporter, Adam Schefter, posted on multiple social media platforms that Winston was a “national treasure.”

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

That's their cult mentality thing manifesting again.

"I, too, have been a victim of sexual assault, and I will never forget driving into work the night of Bryant’s death and seeing much of the Chicago skyline awash in purple to honor his legacy. That legacy did not include space for the complicated feelings of women who may have been thinking about Bryant’s victim that night. To date, 644 murals celebrating Bryant have sprung up around the country and overseas."

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

"Bryant’s apology is the closest thing to a confession we’ve ever seen from an athlete accused of violence against women. Even so, try posting on social media about the allegations against the basketball icon and watch how many young men (and, sadly, even some young women) come out of the woodwork to berate you for “spreading lies.” It seems an alternate history has sprung up among Millennials and Zoomers, one in which the L.A. Laker was acquitted and the woman who accused him was proclaimed by the court to be a liar. Of course, none of that ever happened, but it hasn’t stopped a large section of sports fandom from believing it did."

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

Just one example of people promoting a sexual predator: Kobe Bryant.

"Kobe Bryant’s 'Mamba Mentality' has become a slogan embraced by athletes across the board, from Little League players to WNBA stars. Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter accident in 2020, has even appeared in an ad for the WNBA. But few seem to remember that Bryant created his Mamba alter-ego as a response to being charged with allegedly raping a woman in Edwards, CO, in 2003. After the then-anonymous victim’s name was disclosed to the public six times by Bryant’s defense attorney, she was subjected to harassment on a horrific scale. A man in Iowa even offered to hunt her down and kill her."

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

"The woman eventually refused to go forward with the case, leading prosecutors to dismiss the charges just before the start of the criminal trial. But in a pre-trial hearing, the nurse who administered a rape kit to Bryant’s victim found multiple vaginal lacerations—“too many to count,” she testified at a pre-trial hearing—and trauma consistent with penetrating sexual trauma and not with consensual sex."

~ Julie DiCaro

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

Yes, so much need for denial to hold up a sexual predator as a hero.

"Sports Taught Americans to Ignore Sexual Assault"

https://www.damemagazine.com/2024/12/19/sports-taught-americans-to-ignore-sexual-assault/

Come back to us, Dame West...

"At the age of 16, she published an open letter in The Scotsman demanding the vote for women, which cost her friendships with her peers at their school for young ladies."

~ J.M. Guelbenzu

"'Black Lamb and Grey Falcon’ by Rebecca West..."

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-02-18/black-lamb-and-grey-falcon-by-rebecca-west-a-book-that-no-cultured-person-should-ignore.html

"Afterwards, there was a series of abortive liaisons which, bizarrely, often seem to have left the men impotent (Charlie Chaplin and Max Beaverbrook among them). West's position as an unmarried mother was difficult, so, in 1930, she was pleased to marry Henry Andrews, a banker desperate to look after her."

~ Lara Feigel

"West's World..."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/06/wests-world-lorna-gibb-review

Morning!

 

The day has begun! Time for a cat nap.

Maybe I'll be able to see the color of the sunrise the morning after the solstice.

Just have to stay awake for less than another hour, which hasn't been hard so far.

Ah....made it. A pink sky over a parking lot!

Hello🌻sunflower🌻sandwich? Maybe I will reread Rebecca West's "Sunflower."

"'The newspaper…comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable,' Finley Peter Dunne, a Chicago humorist, wrote in 1902."

~ Valerie Schultz

"Dear Catholic Boomers..."

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/12/19/catholics-voted-trump-afflict-comfortable-249473

In West’s gendered politics, Essington embodies a sort of doomed and sterile “male reason,” while “stupid” Sunflower offers an alternative “way of looking at the world” through intuition and emotions (183). As an inarticulate, working-class woman in a marginalized profession, Sunflower’s greater wisdom is an affront to the dominant discourses and social hierarchies of her contemporary world. West insists on the “rightness” of Sunflower’s perspective in many incidents and especially in a courtroom scene where a contextual, compassionate judgment—that contrasts with a literal, narrow, legal interpretation–achieves justice.

"The rot began before the war": Rebecca West’s Sunflower

https://bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2018/12/the-rot-began-before-the-war-rebecca-wests-sunflower-and-the-failure-of-british-liberalism.html

"Let's call it what it really is, argues author, founder, and activist Reshma Saujani: another misogynistic scheme."

"How Can You Overcome Impostor Syndrome? You Don't"

https://www.glamour.com/story/impostor-syndrome-isnt-a-syndrome-its-a-scheme

I cannot tell if I just want to read about this or actually reread it.

But I would prefer the blue-covered book that we had lying around the house if I ever do read it again.

"Sunflower by Rebecca West" | Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1199692.Sunflower

Image Noted.

I felt an ovary twinge pain and as it went away I got an image of a man on a construction beam sitting down to rest and needing to ease an aching body.

God knows?

I wonder if the cat had weird dreams? She woke up and made noises and walked from the living room to the bedroom but now she's quiet again and who knows where she went.

Oh, for Pete's sake! I mean, Poinsett's sake.

"A proponent of American expansionism and an enslaver, he played a key role in overseeing the Trail of Tears, one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history. His interference in Mexican politics further tarnished his reputation, expelling him from the country. Despite Poinsett's troubling history, the plant was named "poinsettia" in his honor, erasing its Indigenous origins. In 2002, the U.S. Congress declared December 12th National Poinsettia Day to commemorate Poinsett's death in 1851, mainly overlooking the plant's Aztec heritage."

~ Shirley Gomez

https://www.hola.com/us/lifestyle/20241220737301/poinsettiaindigenous-roots-how-become-christmas-symbol/

"From an Aztec symbol to a Holiday icon"

"The poinsettia is a 'mortal flower' with indigenous roots: How did it become a Christmas symbol?"

https://www.hola.com/us/lifestyle/20241220737301/poinsettiaindigenous-roots-how-become-christmas-symbol/

Maybe I just found a mission.

"A Very Sad Winter Solstice"

https://www.edhat.com/news/a-very-sad-winter-solstice/

"Winter Solstice at Mission Church"

https://www.edhat.com/news/winter-solstice-at-mission-church/

"Mission Santa Barbara"

https://www.santabarbara.com/attractions/mission-santa-barbara/

What's the best way to find common ground with myopic, rich parents?

"Americans are buying cars, appliances ahead of Trump's tariffs"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/19/tariffs-consumers-appliances-cars/

Phew!

The rich, myopic parents are still too busy propping up Patriarchal Norms and rape culture to see you today. Try again on a day when you have the energy.

Lol!

Wouldn't it be weird if I have an alternate life as a myopic parent who makes more money???

Where are the rich and myopic parents in this story???

"Indigenous US farmworkers face greater job-related pain compared to undocumented peers"

https://news.rice.edu/news/2024/indigenous-us-farmworkers-face-greater-job-related-pain-compared-undocumented-peers-study

Don't expect your descendants to be like you.

Any out-of-wedlock or within-wedlock ancestor ghosts from several great grandparents ago should know that I definitely don't approve of sexism or of sexual predators being in charge of anything.

Tell me, O Catholic-raised One...

Y: Every once in a while I get reminded of how weird Catholics are.

X: Why is that, O Catholic-raised One.

Y: I'm reading this:

"Frances Xavier Cabrini - Wikipedia"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Xavier_Cabrini

"In 1933, her body was exhumed and divided as part of the process toward sainthood. At that time, her head was removed and is preserved in the chapel of the congregation's international motherhouse in Rome. Her heart is preserved in Codogno, where she founded her missionary order. An arm bone is at her national shrine in Chicago. Most of the rest of her body is at her major shrine in New York.^[18]"

X: Do you know if they do the same if you're a Mexican Catholic Saint as an Italian Catholic one?

Y: Well, all that came from Rome, right? They're just following tradition.

X: Don't both of our ancestry tests say we're like 15 percent Italian or something? Maybe that was a commonly accepted practice for them, too. Oooo maybe we should get Italian food for dinner...

What a great find!

"Kittens, suffragettes and snowball fights: How Londoners were wished a very merry Christmas in Victorian and Edwardian cards"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2869918/Kittens-suffragettes-snowball-fights-Londoners-wished-merry-Christmas-Victorian-Edwardian-cards.html

I just ate so many of these!

 They were tart! 

And tasted good.

This is inspiring!

 Lives are changing. What a time!

https://www.reddit.com/r/ididntknowthatexists/s/Wtp5585Vd3

Swan surfing!

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/Satisfyingasfuck/s/rkYEz6AelE

What else can you do if you're not even in the mood to save up for a house or go on a vacation??

It's kind of a cynical time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/s/ZXcdu74gN9

Rape culture's even worse! But anyway the doomscrolling might have something to do with it as well.

You can still experience the icky effects of rape culture without even touching the internet though.

"Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/doomscrolling-is-slowly-eroding-your-mental-health?utm_source=pocket-newtab-android

I should probably go out and mingle with the masses, huh?

"Your Parents Christmas Shopping #shorts"

@CharlieBerens

https://youtube.com/shorts/7AF14UkRSIg?si=YItgG6PrMxrXdKSt

You can read that later!

Childcide?

"This overpowering violence amounts to what we may term childcide, which is the deliberate or systematic destruction of children, whether through direct violence, neglect, or the conditions of war and oppression that render them uniquely vulnerable."

~ Henry A. Giroux

"Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Children | Truthout"

https://truthout.org/articles/israels-war-on-gaza-is-a-war-on-children/

Patriarchy fail.

"'Tired of writing about dead kids’: why a US state department worker resigned over Israel Gaza policy"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/18/state-department-employee-resigns-israel-gaza

"There are 'clear signs' of ethnic cleansing by Israel in Gaza Doctors Without Borders says"

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-doctors-without-borders-hrw-rcna184978

"LIVE: Israeli forces shell Kamal Adwan Hospital"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/12/21/live-over-100-palestinians-killed-in-two-days-of-israeli-attacks-on-gaza

"Pope calls Gaza airstrikes 'cruelty'"

https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-calls-gaza-airstrikes-cruelty-after-israeli-ministers-criticism-2024-12-21/

Big Patriarchal Unhealed Trauma.

"Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Children | Truthout"

https://truthout.org/articles/israels-war-on-gaza-is-a-war-on-children/

They are in a country with many children, and quite a few who are still alive have been wounded or orphaned.

"Palestinian Americans trapped in Gaza sue Biden administration" 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/20/palestinian-americans-gaza-sue-biden-administration

And the Cold War, too? Interesting.

"ANNE AND SAMANTHA DAY - December 21, 2024" - National Day

https://nationaltoday.com/anne-and-samantha-day/

I don't know. I wonder if I should watch some World War II era documentary or something this weekend.

Anyways, as many know, it's very sad that so many people have such low self-esteem, and they're addicted to violence, and they prop up sexual predators just for more acceptance from other people, or for temporary short term gains.

And it really makes you see how some people who were unwell and abusive got put in positions of power in the past, like when Hitler got elected.

It's sad to think about how 80 years ago Anne Frank was in a very bad place, and she was going to die within a few months, due to genocide. And 81 years ago she was hiding from those people who were inflicting genocide on others, and she was with her family, and at least they had other people to help them. But then someone betrayed them. And for what? For who?

I just got a good tip.

The short version is "resting a****** face."

See below:

Wouldn't it be weird if they had more beauty magazines for dudes about how to get motivated to look better! 

Like, if a guy had a male version of "resting b**** face," which is more like "resting 'I obviously got trained to act like anyone whose not a moneyed white dude is such a worthless piece of s*** to me'" face, they could them give them nice relaxing facial tips and jaw exercises to correct that situation.

Maybe you should blame the beauty magazines for making people more superficial.

Wouldn't it be weird if they had more beauty magazines for dudes about how to get motivated to look better! 

Like, if a guy had a male version of "resting b**** face," which is more like "resting 'I obviously got trained to act like anyone whose not a moneyed white dude is such a worthless piece of s*** to me'" face, they could them give them nice relaxing facial tips and jaw exercises to correct that situation.

It's happened before.

Well, maybe some of the kids and grandkids will learn how to be more sensitive people based on what their parents and other relatives didn't demonstrate for them.

Her P.S. to J.D. Vance!

"Linda Ronstadt Condemns ‘Rapist’ Donald Trump in Open Letter"

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13964139/linda-ronstadt-condemns-rapist-donald-trump-in-open-letter

I know right? I'm sure other husbands feel that way, too.

As a heterosexual man in an alternate reality, I do not want my wife to get raped by the new head of the DOD at a conference just so a Fox News Employee can relive her Mean Girl High School days and take a big old s*** on the world's sexual assault survivors for *giggle* popularity points! Plus, you know all the other countries are going to point and make fun of us for being stupid enough to put him there. They're disrespecting us about the other rapey guy who lies to everyone and just wanted to avoid prison.

I just remembered him again!

"Anthony C. Acevedo"

National Museum of the United States Army

https://www.thenmusa.org/biographies/anthony-c-acevedo/

Thousands! That's a lot. Other parents will be joining them soon.

"Thousands of protesters, mostly women, flooded the courthouse steps after the sentences were handed down. Their collective fury was palpable as they stood in solidarity with Gisèle Pelicot and denounced the appallingly lenient sentences. For white women in America, this case should strike an even deeper chord because it is a stark and unrelenting cautionary tale that lays bare a chilling truth: even those historically granted proximity to societal power are devastatingly unprotected from its betrayals."

~ Stacey Patton

"Gisèle Pelicot Rape Case And White Women In Trump's America"

https://newsone.com/5792642/gisele-pelicot-case-white-women/

Oh well, what can you do?

People really don't want to go to jail. You know?

Why did this make me think that sentence could be delivered next?

"As a Feminist, I Believe a Woman Can Be Miserable Whether She is Childless Or Not"

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/as-a-feminist-i-believe-a-woman-can-be-miserable-whether-she-is-childless-or-not

After reading this piece, a peculiar feeling began to creep over me.

There seemed to be a voice that said: "After putting all the rapist felons and racist bigots in charge, the unhappiest ones still weren't satisfied."

(GULP!)

"And they really wanted to shake up the agenda this time.

So. That's when they started saying, hey let's put all the sexual predators, kidnappers and organ harvesters in charge, but let's VET them to see which ones are gonna be the worst to all the WHITE MEN WITH THE MOST MONEY. And let's put those degenerates in charge now! Now! NOW!"

Gross, huh?

You really do make conversations like this possible!

"Gisèle Pelicot Rape Case And White Women In Trump's America"

https://newsone.com/5792642/gisele-pelicot-case-white-women/

Oddly appropriate to see what she's most concerned about.

 "Oh, no! I can’t give this to 11 and 15 year old boys to take into their female teachers."

~ Megan Kelly

https://www.megynkelly.com/2024/12/20/megyn-kelly-shares-how-her-christmas-gifts-for-her-kids-teachers-went-wrong/

You are not your 4.0 GPA overpriced whatever.

I think certain "fortunate" women who are still overly rewarded by Patriarchal People for being more unempathetic and uncaring to certain "other" kinds of people could at least help certain other rich women who are also so rewarded for being unempathetic and uncaring. They could get more devoted to building their self-esteem. Go to some spas retreats. Do some self-care. Eventually, one of you will start to remember those long ago days when you used to be a better person, and it'll start trickling down to all the others.

Another cheerful reminder.

Some who got hoodwinked in the early days ended up changing their minds.

A cheerful reminder.

There are ninety year olds who voted conservative their whole lives who couldn't bring themselves to make excuses for such a morally impaired candidate this time. I think they would not have gone Nazi.

"Who Goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

She really does!

My cat deserves better.

Ha-ha, Happy Caturday!

"There is currently one (1) cat in front of you for the heat vent."

~ chadtuckerTV

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDOOPeMMbvU/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng==

Ignorance is not a good excuse.

If only a lot of Patriarchal People weren't so bizarrely addicted to being depressingly dehumanizing of other human beings to the point where it's even unhealthy for their very own favorite kinds of people.

"'Family Ties’ Star Justine Bateman to Megyn Kelly: Trump Win 'Long Overdue'"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/family-ties-star-justine-bateman-to-megyn-kelly-trump-win-long-overdue/

"Pete Hegseth Tells Megyn Kelly Trump Is Still Supportive"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/pete-hegseth-tells-megyn-kelly-trump-is-still-supportive-despite-smears-from-media-hyenas-i-don-t-owe-them-answers/ar-AA1vhjfz

"Megyn Hilariously Explains How Her Christmas Gifts for Her Kids’ Teachers Went Horribly Wrong"

https://www.megynkelly.com/2024/12/20/megyn-kelly-shares-how-her-christmas-gifts-for-her-kids-teachers-went-wrong/

"Malcolm Gladwell on Parents Hurting Their Kids..."

https://www.facebook.com/MegynKellyShow/videos/malcolm-gladwell-on-parents-hurting-their-kids-by-trying-to-hold-them-back/1211261306085399/

Staying away from a lot of unwell people in show business is a good way of communicating to myself that dealing their ignorance, prejudices and misogynystic coping mechanisms is not my job in this lifetime. I am not here to be a repository for the willfully ignorant women and men who would in all likelihood be heiling Hitler if we were living in Germany less than one hundred years ago.

Mean people. What do they need?

"We Found The Cuckoo Whose Nest Got Flown Over"

https://notalwaysright.com/we-found-the-cuckoo-whose-nest-got-flown-over/341781/

They are SO mean.

The Future Dept of Defense Director's Guide  on how to be SO mean to even a GOOD Republican wife and also get other Republican women and men to support you in being SO mean!!!

Another patriarchal culture thing!

 "How could any woman resist Senator Lindsey Graham’s generous summons to speak publicly about her claim of sexual assault?"

~ Megan Garber

"You Are Cordially Invited to an Event That Could Ruin Your Life"

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/12/lindsey-graham-pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-accuser-satire/681039/

Omg.

 "You Are Cordially Invited to an Event That Could Ruin Your Life"

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/12/lindsey-graham-pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-accuser-satire/681039/

Comedy?

You could read about Lindsey Graham and the possible new guy who's gonna be in charge of the DOD or...

"Truth or Dare with Rape" - YouTube

~ Anna Akana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxCntTmdfJ8

Since those olden days childhood diseases are apparently all coming back, might as well check this out.

"What was life like for ordinary Victorians? Historian Ruth Goodman explains"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5Ncn_LoAQXk&si=DFyaLEU3x3KGDQcZ

Also, what was that Great Grand Ancestor's deal, man.

I told her that, too! It's good to give them something to look forward to.

Sometimes when spoiled people get awakened, they discover a new layer of meaning and a spiritual depth to life that they've never experienced before.

Well, I guess we'll try again tomorrow..

I came home and told my child that she might have to start picking the vegetables when the other women and their kids get deported but she doesn't seem to get it.

Cat ladies.

Well, at least you can not be as bad as some people still are with their attitudes towards the girls who grow up to be one of the "most worthless" kinds of women in your culture. And you know what we're talking about.

It's his mom! Maybe she's the one to blame?

"JD Vance tells a revealing story about his mother and race

In an eye-opening story he shared during an event for conservative moms in Pennsylvania, the GOP vice presidential nominee recounted his mother’s anger over his children being identified as biracial"

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/jd-vance-mother-biracial-children-crt-schools-rcna175725

Amazing Grace. Not J.D Vance. He's prejudiced against immigrants even though his children are not as white as he is.

One day I realized that being bad to other women's children was also going to be really bad for my own children; that was the day I got saved!

Now the patriarchy wants to give me a medal? God, leave me alone.

I just got pregnant, gave birth, and experienced the joy of getting praised for not giving a rat's tail end about anybody except for just me and my beautiful HOUSE and maybe my children who are such wonderful HOME ACCESSORIES, but definitely not Other Women's Children, and definitely not Other Women's Healthcare. Nope, the Patriarchal Ones would definitely penalize me if I ever did that. Me me me me me me....

But maybe that won't happen.

"Trump's deportation plans threaten two-thirds of U.S. crop farmworkers - report"

https://www.freshfruitportal.com/news/2024/12/17/trumps-deportation-plans-threaten-two-thirds-of-us-crop-farmworkers/

Then all the mildly racist people will be like, "Phew. He's just mildly racist like us, and we're not going to starve or anything."

Kind of makes me want to gag though.

Sigh! Do you really think it is so?

Sometimes, you might have a bad tendency of seeing the potential in people and trying to hang around to see if they're going to fulfill that potential, instead of just accepting that they don't want to, and maybe they're just not going to do it in this lifetime.

Off to search for better horizons!

The odd stance they take whereby they seem to think that they can improve their self esteem or social status by acting like you're supposed to be a repository for their gross ignorance is not something you actually want to be around very much either, huh?

Right?

"If a bunch of grown ups who became moms and dads are trying to act like you're a worthless piece of s*** just because they've also regressed to back when they were being bullies on the school bus, then you should not believe this is the best that humanity has to offer you."

What? Do some parents really have to be so mean? I feel they were supposed to grow out of bullying before they had kids.

"JD Vance Attacks Immigrant Children At Rallies" 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-immigration-kids-attack_n_671a6da4e4b0ede6b2c07c56

Huh! But they can't be treated as nicely as an average white guy born on American soil yet?

"Undocumented immigrants in Oklahoma paid $227 million in taxes in 2022, according to the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy."

~ Nathalie Baptiste

"Oklahoma Proposes Chilling New Rule For Immigrant Children 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-schools-undocumented-students_n_6763339ee4b02d22ce099973

Sick!

"Oklahoma Proposes Chilling New Rule For Immigrant Children" 

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oklahoma-schools-undocumented-students_n_6763339ee4b02d22ce099973

Vintage ads are not an excuse for them.

"Video: Tucker Carlson compares Trump to angry dad spanking 'a bad little girl' at rally"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/politics/video/tucker-carlson-trump-dad-spanking-digvid

"12 Crazy Vintage Household Ads"

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/12-crazy-vintage-household-ads/

Think of the revenues from advertisements and property values.

They most certainly could change their behaviors and make themselves look less shallow, sexist and racist to the descendants, and it would make their homes sparkle more brightly.

What a day to appreciate libraries and public education!

Women and girls and boys and other people didn't always have access to these things, you know!

"YOU'RE HIRED!"

"She will titillate with pleased excitement to the first popular hero who proclaims the basic subordination of women."

~ Dorothy Thompson

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

How to become a better person before you get reborn.

"He fits easily into whatever pattern is successful. That is his sole measure of value—success."

~ Dorothy Thompson

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

I gotta go get some pastry to eat.

You're not in WWII era Vienna. But then, instead of apologizing for degrading their very own children in addition to other peoples' kids, they just cover up and deny it! Who trusts them to be good to the ones that the Patriarchy trained them to constantly degrade and dehumanize?

Well, it's a beautiful thing to know.

Those "Be more inspired to treat the kinds of human beings they were raised to dehumanize and disrespect and degrade a whole lot better" vibes are circulating.

You?

"My kids will totally pick all the fruit snacks and various vegetables for other peoples' kids when the other peoples' kids get deported."

Who expects anything better?

Someone is picking the breakfast for all the myopic wives who gotta discriminate against other women and other women's children in order to get a bigger house to live in right now.

Oh good, is this truly a possibility?

Many descendants can be less discriminatory than those who came before them.

Also, imagine if the Uvalde Shooting had not made a bunch of parents cling to their violent viewpoints even more tightly

"The UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Reflects Bigger Systemic Issues"

~ AOC

https://youtube.com/shorts/UmUKrb-IopQ?si=2KGYT6K-d_uuE-62

Hopefully, they've made a plan to get reincarnated in the right bodies for their next lifetimes?

It's like, next time somebody has an orgasm over how amazing a fit for The Patriarchal Structures you are, I think you should ask them, why do you need to dehumanize & torment other women's children in order to have a nice life?

Prejudice really does a number on some of The Sheltered Ones.

But at least you're the kind of guy whose great at pointing out just how many rich women AND men would not care about you at all if you were in another kind of body in this lifetime. WOW!!!!

The world is filled with such a variety of human beings who deserve better.

Whenever they act like your shelteredness is the best thing about you, it's because they want you to be distracted from seeing the absolute atrocious shallowness of their harmful "values."

So annoying!

Callous rich dudes who don't wanna dismantle the patriarchy because then they'll have to give up being the big pampered toddlers they are.

Well, it's good thing that food was pretty mediocre.

I must remember the mediocrity next time I want to be nicer to my organs and yet also partake in a cheap indulgence.

🌮 I might have to go out & get something from the belle of tacos 😺.

🌝🃏 I thought maybe I was going to be better than this tonight, but I'm not. 🤷🏽‍♀️🪄

Anna Akana

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYVrxfup/

Oh, and then she goes, "I feel the same way..."

 

"...about inequality."

Anna Akana

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYVrxfup/

I SEE HOUSE PEOPLE

"Do you rent or own?"

Anna Akana

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYVrxfup/

What is it????

It surely is more far important than my human rights, or other women's human rights, or whatever is going on with other women's children. 

Is it a house?

Is it a position of status? 

Is it a coping mechanism that gets me through life's tough times? 

What could it be?

There you go. That's a start. Good job.

"My 'privileged' lifestyle is hugely dependent upon a lot of women acting like they don't care about their own rights. They also must act like they don't care about other women's rights, and they definitely don't want to act like they care about what happens to other women's children."

More rare, but actually, that definitely could also be true.

You know, there were Grandpas who had loads of unwaged experience raising other people's kids from a very young age. Especially if their sisters met with some early and unfortunate demises.

Well never mind. He's reincarnated, and he's not going to do that again.

How come that great-great Grandpa seems like he kind of acted like a big enormous kid who got catered to every which way whenever I look back at whatever he's doing with his life in that Very Patriarchal Era?

The unwaged have just showed up.

Who's doing all the babysitting for the people who are sewing the clothings so the babysitter can come to work appropriately dressed and not be naked?

Hold on...there's honorary parents to think about in the other buildings.

Who's doing all the babysitting for the people who are feeding the babysitter?

Ding-dong!

Who's doing all of the baby-sitting? You have a nice place. 

Big House! It's a vibe.

"Well, in my next life, I just want to be one of those women who totally dismisses and de- incentivizes other women from ever speaking out about anything and that's because it's honestly the best way to get to live in a big house. Don't you know???"

Sounds like a good Bible study at the coffee shop group for SOME men.

"If we were females, we would either have to be more shallow, just to further prop up the Unwell Patriarchal Norms, or we would HAVE get WAY more spiritual, just to get through this crazy life!"

I'm excited for future medical advancements.

"CPR used to go through your butt."

~ Anna Akana

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYVr14J3/

Hello, this life. It's been a teacher. And a learning experience!

Do you ever get engulfed by what feels like a Real Injustice, which is how so many people seem to feel completely entitled to just not care about how certain kinds of female bodies get treated worse in this society, because not seeing the inequities is how the patriarchy trained them to be? Do you think it's a great failing if some feel more engulfed by that lesson than others???

A find! It came early.

It was so well wrapped and in great condition, and sold for about a third of the price of the other copies that are available. They're getting popular.

Veronica (Sunfire Romance, #18) by Jane Claypool Miner

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/127606613-veronica-sunfire-romance-18-by-jane-claypool-miner?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=TQwXjj3JZU&rank=1

Her cat looks real cozy.

"I spent Christmas like a 1940's Housewife!"

~ Real Vintage Doll House

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dHQJj_2ozvI&si=q0iGNyY7fbE52UF9

I wonder what happened after this picture was taken.

"An attempt to heal a Child suffering from Rickets by dragging him through a Healing tree. Sweden. 1918."

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/s/aCYrxYQk5t

Children need people to care about their health. Keep an eye out for the conscientious ones!

"For Marmot, the surge in infectious diseases reflects the cost of living crisis and decade-long cuts to social services and public health..."

~ Mark Honigsbaum

"'It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/18/return-of-victorian-era-diseases-to-the-uk-scabies-measles-rickets-scurvy

Born into the kind of body that the patriarchal culture wants you to not care about?

So many human beings, including quite a few  children, and such a wide variety of diverse human perspectives. The mind would become overwhelmed if it tried to consider them all, but why not try to at least consider a few?

Who can help turn that money into nourishing meals for children?

"Michigan’s thousands of farmworkers..."

https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/michigan-s-thousands-of-farmworkers-are-19987853.php

Top ten hits for "Notable moments in insensitivity for women's bodies"

Which hit would you be the most interested in exploring if you searched for something like that?

"Losing a baby in pregnancy through miscarriage or stillbirth is still a taboo subject worldwide, linked to stigma and shame. Many women still do not receive appropriate and respectful care when their baby dies during pregnancy or childbirth. Here, we share your stories from around the globe."

https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/why-we-need-to-talk-about-losing-a-baby

The "Toy Trumpet" song was in my head while I had an amazing dinner.

It was plain baked fish, topped after baking with fried spring onions and ginger, lemon salt (kosher salt with dried time of Meyer lemon), Jasmine rice and dandelion greens.

Note to self: you will not have too many spring onions, so go ahead and add more. So good.

It was inspired by: 

"Chinese steamed fish"

Aja Dang

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYV2c5W2/

Really, so good!

The Toy Trumpet"

~ Al Hirt

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fFLDbGgYuM4&si=1vrf7WrS8wXzV62n

What a wonderful opportunity to learn about weird traditions!

"Mari Lwyd: The Welsh Horse Skull Who Wants Your Beer'

https://youtube.com/watch?v=af5m8SxHRzk&si=4Nw5007OTV-mDfTL

Hahahaha.

"What the heck is Wassail?"

~ Tasting History with Max Miller

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aEbO80_4uyM&si=sd-rkseOaTUeJQQ0

Your ancestry test is of the opinion that you're only a little over half German.

Could the Wales version of this be you if you go to visit the isles and try to trace the heritage of one of the disowned ancestors?

"Irish Americans - SNL"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xzlMME_sekI&si=ysVVNCJ3vFSfsmdy

Sounds like fun! 😺📚🥠

"'Used books and baked treats for homeless cats

Proof that Petaluma gets weird sometimes, plus 15 local bestselling books'

'Ghost stories at Solstice, books for singing cats'"

https://www.petaluma360.com/article/entertainment/ghost-stories-solstice-books-singing-cats

Who wants to be in a position where they can jump in the car and drive 8 hours just to go to someplace new?

I wonder if my cat would like the big basket? I've looked at it before.

"15 Holiday Gifts for Cat Lovers That Will Make Their Christmas Meowy"

https://www.countryliving.com/shopping/gifts/g63148028/holiday-gifts-for-cat-lovers-2024/

Insight into why abusive practices continue for so long in some institutions and churches.

Maybe the girls and women and boys and men really do deserve much better than a nation of negligent and insecure people who are willing to put unhealed sexual predators in charge of things just to go along with some false sense of security they temporarily got from going along with whatever others were doing.

Uh-Oh. The sleep didn't come.

I think a bigger problem than Trump et. al being sexist is how many people were raised to be insensitive and act like girls and women who don't fulfill certain gender norms are like worthless pieces of trash to them. It's a Groupthink thing. Patriarchal Society wanted them to be hurtful to others that way. Patriarchal People are Very Insecure. And now, how many of them are raising the kids to go along the same damaging attitudes that they have been going along with for years and year and years? It's disturbing!

Sorry you couldn't eat something. Are you going to go back to sleep?

MEHAW!

"15 Holiday Gifts for Cat Lovers..."

https://www.countryliving.com/shopping/gifts/g63148028/holiday-gifts-for-cat-lovers-2024/

Groan.

 "Women's health questions for the dudes!"

~ drkaranrajan

https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BAF2irsTJn

They should make a tarot deck based on the farmworkers because some of the pictures are really good

"San Joaquin County officials confirm 2 bird flu cases in farmworkers"

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/san-joaquin-county-officials-confirm-2-bird-flu-19979518.php

It seems like becoming a parent and finally knowing what "true love" is at last didn't fix certain kinds of problems at all.

"Tori Amos on trauma, Trump and Neil Gaiman..."

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/dec/03/tori-amos-on-trauma-trump-and-neil-gaiman-a-heartbreaking-grief

PRETTY MUCH! Genetics, lol.

Some of the kids are gonna be way less Patriarchal than you are, huh???

Average American parents should be pretty happy about these kinds of developments, I guess.

 "Tuberville said he also spoke to Kennedy about farmers in Alabama and that while they’re 'very concerned about food and food safety,' the government should 'not go overboard where we can’t have good crops. And I can understand that, and he’s very on board.'"

~ Sarah Fortinsky

"Tuberville: Trump and RFK Jr. came to ‘agreement’ on abortion"

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5045099-tuberville-rfk-jr-abortion/

Well, I think you handled that pretty well.

I've really enjoyed this. Talk more about how much you have in common with Elon and JD and Trump amongst yourselves.

Meet the chickens.

Someone has to feed a nation of clodding, insensitive souls.

"Farm workers aren’t getting the PPE they need. This local mutual aid group is picking up the slack"

https://kgnu.org/h5n1-bird-flu-personal-protective-equipment-ppe-covid-safe-colorado-csc/

Why? Why not go back to sleep instead? Or meet some cats?

"Meet the parents who routinely act like they need their kids and grandkids to be just as prejudiced against and insensitive towards 'people like you' as they were trained to be."

Auuugh, its like a long nightmare...

So you see, the patriarchy taught guys like J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, and Donald Trump that it was totally fine to be insensitive clods about women's health issues just as long as they could get someone to call them "dad," and moreover...

We're apparently just not ready as a society for them to get better!!!

How many more must suffer to prop up egos...

"Both liberal and conservative people were indoctrinated by the Patriarchy to be supportive of all kinds of systemic prejudices! So you see, by caving in to their own propensity for insensitivity to others, this appears to actually work in their favor in many instances because..."

Stop.

Wow! I really felt like I heard this somewhere before!

"Figgy Pudding | A Victorian Christmas Tradition"

~ Tasting History w/ MM

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2qauMSeqWpU&si=oo9cqzVaYbeY6vy2

Snip, snap, dragon!

Aw. Christmas letters to Santa past.

"Christmas During the Great Depression..."

@~ Tasting History w/ MM

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FMIe57DDKY0&si=q9uuD27DOR9PQjiT

Good to crochet along to. 🧶

Tomorrow is another day to investigate those values.

Elise Joshi on X: "Why they want to ban TikTok Part 2"

https://x.com/EliseJoshi/status/1867667176335061209

What should we do with the drunken sailor.

For some reason, that song is hanging around.

"Trump’s 2017 tax cuts expire soon"

https://theconversation.com/trumps-2017-tax-cuts-expire-soon-study-shows-they-made-income-inequality-worse-and-especially-hurt-black-americans-233758

"Kidults are all around you." Yes, they are!

I feel like this could be expanded way beyond the scope of what I see from the first paragraph of this article...

"Is Western culture stopping people from growing up?"

https://www.economist.com/culture/2024/08/16/is-western-culture-stopping-people-from-growing-up

Also haven't seen the rest of the article, but anyways, hmmm. Next?

Can't I do it for myself? Geez.

"Watch the first trailer for Kate Beaton’s Fat Pony"

https://www.polygon.com/22983022/pinecone-and-pony-trailer-kate-beaton-animated-series

Sigh. The rampant insensitivity.

"UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism"

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/health/unitedhealth-children-autism-propublica/index.html

This is a different topic from which babies are the most expensive to adopt...

"White women, who make up 85% of people getting IVF, may be facing more barriers, but for women of color, those barriers are mountains."

~ Annabel Rocha

"Who gets to afford IVF in the US? How Alabama’s ruling exposes the unequal access to family building"

https://www.reckon.news/news/2024/03/who-gets-to-afford-ivf-in-the-us-how-alabamas-ruling-exposes-the-unequal-access-to-family-building.html

I'm thinking about calling myself "the good fat."

When I say the patriarchal society has trained many to be self-absorbed and ignorant about girls and women's health in ways that definitely could harmfully affect both their sons and their daughters 

Now, maybe this makes me seem like I am too fat? (With my opinions).

But what if I'm "the good fat?"

Ha ha! 🎶

"Dad recorded his music loving daughter's growth over the years"

https://www.reddit.com/r/impressively/s/XiTXPgy7xl

Seriously...

"Was Jesus Really Born in a Manger?" | Catholic Answers

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/was-jesus-really-born-in-a-manger

"No room at the inn!"

On second thought, it might be fun to go back and look at even more traditional Christmas carols. "Away in a manger, no crib for a bed..."

These are on the watch list! 🎭

"A Depression Era Christmas - Mock Christmas Pudding"

~ Tasting History with Max Miller

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FMIe57DDKY0&si=2-6cBsZPdo49Ftzo

"What people ate | I make a World War 2 Rationing Christmas Cake"

~ Through Lucy's Lens

https://youtube.com/watch?v=STKjYbKN32E&si=7wbOHhSpGdbqJHT5

No, young'uns! Senseless murder is not acceptable! Write protest songs 🎶

"Jesse Welles, known for his folk protest songs, releases ode to United Health"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/I0C5c5ru7Q

"41 percent of young voters find killing of UnitedHeath CEO acceptable"

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5044269-poll-finds-41-percent-find-killing-unacceptable/

This was effervescence!

 

"What part of 'no fallopian tubes' don’t you understand?"

~ The Pasinis

https://youtube.com/shorts/hSAvZcmqU5I?si=w74NJlIywvBGKOae

Perhaps our modern day income inequality problems just reveal that we still have much to learn about human fragility?

"A Working Class Christmas in 1910..."

~ Through Lucy's Lens

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qZ3p7aoWlzU&si=t1EKyrLAcx7OIzwu

Watching that just before the bathroom plumbing needed attention whilst having some health issues can make one realize how much we really do love our indoor plumbing in these modern times!!!!

sehr kultiviert

"Trying German Thing In The USA Goes Wrong!😂🇩🇪🇺"

@ZacXCVIII

https://youtube.com/shorts/1Qia0bQC7O0?si=ih4NDsGtWqQ3RyOx

This one always seemed a bit subversive?

Benjamin Britten – "Deo Gracias Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics

https://genius.com/Benjamin-britten-deo-gracias-lyrics

Compared to what's been taught to some.

Well, here we go again! O, St John's Voices

"Axing of Cambridge mixed choir ‘regressive move for women'"

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/21/axing-of-cambridge-mixed-choir-regressive-move-for-women-say-supporters

"St John's Voices" - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John%27s_Voices

"John’s spent over 17 times more on chapel choir than axed St John’s Voices"

https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/27438

But reborn?

"St John’s Voices ‘reincarnated’ as the Cambridge University Schola Cantorum"

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/11-october/news/uk/st-john-s-voices-reincarnated-as-the-cambridge-university-schola-cantorum

"Start-up funding was provided by a Cambridge alumnus, Dr Supraj Rajagopalan, who is CEO of the private equity firm Cinven. Unlike SJV, the Schola does not receive any funding from the university or colleges, relying on donations from friends and supporters."

~ Hattie Williams 

This is a beautiful rendition! I discovered it earlier

"St. John's Voices | A Ceremony of Carols | Benjamin Britten"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lp0YJ8gdmbE&si=JAVjgQDYmdyO1Avb

Health is special and we deserve good health.

Since my body has been doing the thing my body does,and in this case it involves stabbing pains and it felt quite bad, but it's gotten better now, I know I am going to need to redefine what it means to be a strong person. I either have to look at old messages that are still sticking to me but aren't serving me and figure out why they're still around and how to let them go, or I just need to let a lot of stuff go.

What a great piece to find for puzzle time!

"Denial" | UnFictional | KCRW

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/unfictional/denial

It's a time...for processing stuff.

"The smartest..."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/15/2292060/-The-smartest-stupid-person-in-the-Senate-proves-it-again-about-Hegseth