"Enslaved workers are making your breakfast: Wisconsin confronts labor trafficking" - Wisconsin Examiner
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Even certain changes in climate affect the ones who feed us more immediately.
"Lord please take care of your people especially those who work our fields to supply food for USA. They are now in need, supply them with all their needs." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/Mariabandita1/status/1629999910631231497
United Farm Workers on Twitter: "400+ farmworker families showed up at UFW's farm worker led "De Campesinxs a Campesinxs" food distribution in Taft CA today. Usually we serve 300 families, but the rain & snow means many workers are working less hours than usual & can't afford to feed their families. #WeFeedYou https://t.co/rFKkK2Re1x" / Twitter
Certain children and adults suffer more in painful caste system situations.
Melissa Gomez on Twitter: ""Children scrub dishes late at night. They run milking machines in Vermont and deliver meals in New York City. They harvest coffee and build lava rock walls around vacation homes in Hawaii. Girls as young as 13 wash hotel sheets in Virginia." https://t.co/mphWqdIvQb" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/MelissaGomez004/status/1630339394237513728
"Many migrant women workers face conditions that worsen mental health, such as harassment in the workplace, wage theft and lack of paid family leave. In addition to making changes to address the physical harms, employers should prioritize the mental health of their employees by ensuring that mental health services are available through employer-sponsored health insurance. Employees who are immigrants, Black, Brown and LGBTQIA often face additional barriers to accessing these services. Through Justice for Migrant Women’s Healing Voices program, which provided free mental health services for farmworkers, we learned firsthand how COVID-19 has exacerbated mental health challenges faced by the farmworker community. Both Congress and the Administration should take action to increase access to mental health services and hold employers accountable."
"Policy Priorities"
Certainly, there are some who are striving...
"Why Seattle banned caste discrimination" | PBS NewsHour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/why-seattle-banned-caste-discrimination
"How India’s caste system manifests in Seattle-area workplaces and beyond" | The Seattle Times
Sensitivities seem to be improving somewhat?
"Class-action suit filed for Indigenous women subjected to coerced sterilization" | Vancouver Sun
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/class-action-suit-indigenous-women-coerced-sterilization
It's as if being addicted to oppressive conditioning is still not actually a good thing for our society?
"U.S. Rape Culture Is Sidelining and Silencing Future Female Leaders" - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2023/02/22/teen-girls-violence-sad-cdc-rape-culture-politics/
"When do the privileged feel like victims? When others seek equality" | The Seattle Times
Was this when they thought the ERA would pass?
"Lily Tomlin WALKS OUT After Chad Everett's Sexist Remark" | The Dick Cavett Show - YouTube
Harmony?
“silence is golden for the men who smother and intimidate women into not talking, or have them change their tune to maintain harmony”
Kate Manne's Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny quoted in "No Don, It's *Patriarchy* That Is 'Past Its Prime'" by Allison Butler
The demographic that deserves better health, too.
"She said most of the people who seek help are girls and young women — many between the ages 12 and 19. They come from our own high schools and communities, she said."
~ Julie Ireton, Cynthia Bland
"Human trafficking strategy helping girls being moved along Highway 401 corridor" | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/human-sex-trafficking-truckers-highways-1.6354316
Which kinds of people, & why...
"Dussault said, because you can travel freely between Quebec and the United States with no border crossings. It's also surrounded by the waters of the St. Lawrence River, a convenient channel for traffickers of weapons, tobacco — and people."
~ Camille Kasisi-Monet
"Trafficked woman hopes sharing her story will help girls back home in Akwesasne" | CBC News
And the reason is...
"Throughout her interview, she held the hand of Patrick Dussault, a human trafficking liaison officer at a family wellness centre in Akwesasne.
Dussault, a former Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officer, said he helped a few women like Sierra during his law enforcement career — work he carries on today."
~ Camille Kasisi-Monet
"Trafficked woman hopes sharing her story will help girls back home in Akwesasne" | CBC News
"She has decided to help tackle the issue of human trafficking in other ways.
She wants to work with Dussault, who runs prevention workshops aimed at families, police officers, social workers and at-risk girls that help participants recognize the signs of trafficking.
'I survived this for a reason,' Sierra said. 'I want people to know that it could happen to their sister or daughter.
'If I had known how to show signs, if my mother had known how to decode certain signs or ask questions, I could have been saved from the start.
'I want to give others the opportunity to be free from dangerous situations. It fills me with dignity and pride to know that I've been through this and am coming back to help. Here I am, 20 years later, strong enough to talk about it.'"
~ Camille Kasisi-Monet
Mrs. X & Mr. X will be treating you as a real human being as a way of "normalizing" such behavior while giving back to the community.
"The New Normal: CDC finds teen girls experienced record levels of violence, sadness and suicide risk in recent years"
Monday, February 27, 2023
"Embarrassing" is one word...
"The dads caucus exists largely to amplify the same legislative priorities championed by the moms, but it has, predictably, been somewhat hapless in its image control."
~ Phillip Maciak
"Modern Dads Are Embarrassing. Which Just Might Be Good Politics."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/magazine/congressional-dad-caucus.html
"Gomez’s group now represents only about two dozen of the chamber’s scores upon scores of male parents, few of whom appear to struggle with child care. It was for this precise reason that members formed the Moms in the House Caucus in 2019 — not just to spearhead a legislative agenda but also to help the House itself create a previously nonexistent infrastructure for mothers of young children. (“Congress wasn’t built for members like me,” Representative Katie Porter, a single mother of three school-aged children, said.) Conveniently, they also contributed to the ongoing reframing of the archetypal political mom, from the cold careerist of sexist attacks to a relatable vision of tenacity, the Mom as Fighter.
The dads caucus..."
~ Phillip Maciak
"She loved cocaine."
"'Cocaine Bear' Review: That’s Mother"
https://www.nylon.com/life/cocaine-bear-review
"SN: She loved cocaine, she loved her cubs, and they loved cocaine, too.
LH: The little cubs immediately being addicts was incredible to see."
Sam Neibert
Layla Halabian
First Gentlemen & Lady Presidents really cannot feed all the illegitimate children, single moms, and suicidal sexual assault survivors by themselves
"CDC data shows U.S. teen girls ‘in crisis’ with unprecedented rise in suicidal behavior"
"Renewed and ongoing supports for families of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/renewed-ongoing-supports-families-missing-190200079.html
"The cost of living crisis: a pre-Budget briefing | Institute for Fiscal Studies"
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/cost-living-crisis-pre-budget-briefing
"900% increase in babies born with syphilis in Mississippi may be part of nationwide trend" | Live Science
"The Obamas' net worth: How Michelle and Barack Obama make money"
https://www.businessinsider.co.za/amp/barack-obama-michelle-obama-net-worth-2018-7
GAYLE - "abcdefu (lyric video)" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cKjbDpAtatk&feature=youtu.be
"How Food Assistance Helps a Single Mother" – Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
https://www.lafoodbank.org/stories/food-assistance-helps-single-mother/
"The Humans Who Feed Us"
Sunday, February 26, 2023
Dear now honest babies who will get older
Can you believe GrandX's entire lifestyle rested on being a dishonest person who was cruel to others, surrounded by people who thought that being paid to make excuses for GrandX's umhealthy habits was the best they could do for themselves?
Illegitimate Reason.
Because X still needed Misogynistic Ones to support the Bubble O' Bigotry to which X had become accustomed.
Hectares and houses cost money which is contoured by design principles.
"Sexual Attacks Against Teen Girls Are Rising" | HealthNews
https://healthnews.com/news/rise-of-sexual-attacks-against-teen-girls-cdc-suggests/
Tell "not all coddled dads are incels" to quit their corset tightening.
"There is a trope in a lot of period dramas wherein an aristocratic woman turns her back to her maid or someone who otherwise hates her, who then bends her over a chaise lounge or powder table to aggressively tighten her corset—clearly taking out some frustrations with each lace up."
~ K. R. Ashcraft
"Netflix, BBC Deny That They're Banning Corsets, But They Could at Least Use Ones That Fit"
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/netflix-bbc-deny-theyre-banning-204500634.html
SO mean! 21st century.
"Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/25/us/unaccompanied-migrant-child-workers-exploitation.html
Reading Some History After "The Wonder"
"Inside the Story of America’s 19th-Century Opiate Addiction" | History| Smithsonian Magazine
"The Wonder (film)" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonder_(film)
"The Beautiful, Lethal Hunger of 'The Wonder'" - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/12/the-wonder-netflix-review/672303/
Why not embrace balance?
If Mr. Obama could never have been rewarded or excused for manipulating people or misusing power as Mr. Burr & Mr. O'Brien have, that seems to me like a good & healthy thing for him.
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Reading about "The Quiet Girl."
"'The Quiet Girl' review: This tender Irish drama speaks volumes" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1158520033/quiet-girl-review-oscar-irish-film
"The Quiet Girl movie review & film summary (2023)" | Roger Ebert
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-quiet-girl-movie-review-2023
"Review: Irish Oscar nominee 'The Quiet Girl' speaks clearly" | AP News
Stories of human sensitivities.
"The Half Moon Bay shooting was sparked by a $100 repair bill, prosecutor says" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/29/1152389441/half-moon-bay-shooting-motive-repair-bill
"Teresa Romero on Organizing California Farmworkers"
https://www.kqed.org/news/11941664/teresa-romero-on-organizing-california-farmworkers
"County Working on Improved Housing for Farmworkers After Half Moon Bay Shooting" – NBC Bay Area
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/improved-housing-farmworkers-half-moon-bay/3144610/
"Q&A: Sens. Dodd, McGuire co-chair state’s wine committee for 7th year"
Interesting opinions in the comments.
ArianaJasmine 🔴 on Twitch on Twitter: "A meat packing company hired over 100 children as young as 13 years old across the US to clean dangerous meat processing equipment with hazardous chemicals. Most of them were children of immigrants. How is this not breaking news???" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/arianajasmine__/status/1627835952889729027
Believe it or not.
"San Diego Doctors Offering Help as CDC Warns About Increase in Trauma Facing Teens" – NBC 7 San Diego
"Police: 'Random' shootings leave woman, child, reporter dead" - The San Diego Union-Tribune
"ER visits for suspected suicide attempts by adolescent girls are up over 50%, CDC study finds"
https://www.inquirer.com/health/suicide-teens-adolescent-girls-mental-health-20210611.html
"Gunmen Shoot Toddler, Mother and 5 Teens Near Philadelphia School" – NBC 7 San Diego
All those kids and the mom are stable after three gunmen shot them?
Detected a bit of Advertising Humor
At the beginning of
"The Power" - Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rjcgp-FxMxk
HA HA
"Wooing A Latin Star, Kardashian Style"
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/18/opinion/john-leguizamo.amp.html
"Leguizamo 'ain't litigious.'"
https://variety.com/2023/film/news/john-leguizamo-marvel-vulture-gave-up-role-michael-keaton-1235519152/amp/
"'The Menu' Actor John Leguizamo Says the Cast Once Bathed in Chocolate at a Restaurant" | Bon Appétit
DECADENT!
"Hope Anger & Courage"
Some natural beauty & storytelling in this video.
"working as an artist in the countryside - being a creative soul without fear" - The Cottage Fairy - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHmM8u7vlpY&feature=youtu.be
Celebrating Context
"To add context to their classroom learning, students visited a working organic farm, had a personal glimpse into the lives of migrant farmworkers, observed professional research in action on a college farm, viewed artists’ expressions on this topic at a museum exhibition, and prepared a sustainable food potluck."
"Cultivating Awareness and Digging Deep: Sixth Graders Study Agroecology"
THERE'S SIXTH GRADERS WHOSE KNOWLEDGE SURPASSES!!!
"Guided by teacher Hilary Alvarado, students 'embarked' on a semester-long study that included several 'stops' or community learning journeys curated to develop students’ thinking about agriculture as an ecosystem, with inputs – like sunlight, water and compost – outputs such as food and habitat for organisms, and significant species interactions involving competition, predation and symbiosis."
"Cultivating Awareness and Digging Deep: Sixth Graders Study Agroecology"
Bless their self-absorbed, patriarchally-oriented hearts
I sometimes can't believe the CDC currently cares more about "certain category of human beings" than so many patriarchal parents were raised to care, or to even acknowledge them as actual people, but on the upside, someone working at the CDC at least cares more about them now.
"U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence" | CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
Friday, February 24, 2023
Different but perhaps a little like the dream.
Why itsa pyramid.
Radiohead - "Pyramid Song" - YouTube
"Have we time-traveled back a century"
"...when child labor was wildly prevalent? That's what I first thought when I heard that a food sanitation company was being sued for illegally employing more than 100 children ages 13 to 17. The teens cleaned razor-sharp saws with caustic chemicals while working overnight shifts at 13 meat processing facilities in eight states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Tennessee and Texas."
~ Deborah Levine
"Opinion: Child labor making a come back' | Chattanooga Times Free Press
https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2023/feb/23/opinion-child-labor-tfp/
I wonder if moving would be the best thing
I fell asleep and traveled around and I had such vivid dreams, with patterns and colors. And seeing people who have passed. And some happy family with dogs stuff. And I was in a room in a different place. I even felt good again. Such dreams could mean EVERYTHING. Haven't we suffered enough, and don't we deserve to feel good?
How can some form new habits?
I feel sorry that some people who are capable of much better things still choose to get more pleasure from cruelty (and get rewarded for it) than they do from finding ways to change things for the better.
"systemic, generational..."
"'We Have a Moment Here': An Urgent Push for Farmworker Housing in Wake of Half Moon Bay Tragedy"
Feelings from Experiences
I don't feel the "Make entertainment to tell abusive people that they're entitled to keep on being abusive" mentality is working out well for society.
Maid, a young woman.
“'I went through hell,' Rimsha says. 'The person who put me through hell is enjoying the payments.'”
~ Ashley Belanger
"The Financial Abuse Shown in Netflix's Maid Is a Growing Problem Offscreen" | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/financial-abuse-netflix-maid
So much therapy needed by so many
"Sexism among fathers is tied to increased aggression toward partners and children during lockdown, study finds"
It's nice to think society can get healthier
Maybe some parents will finally ask higher powers for help with ceasing to be Enablers of The Misogynistic Ones Whose Unhealthy Chauvinism and Narcissistic Tendencies do not actually in the long run serve to benefit them.
(Even if there may be all manner of corrupt forces at work that still want to "reward" them for being SO Needlessly Insensitive to Others?)
As a father of daughters, does DeSantis feel as entitled to misogynistic entertainment as other dads?
"Ron DeSantis: Florida bill would give governor more power over state universities and ban gender studies"| CNN Politics
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/ron-desantis-florida-universities-gender-studies/index.html
Coinciding with Supreme Court Misogyny
"Sexual attacks against teen girls increased in 2021, CDC found"
To therapeutic breakthroughs.
"They certainly paid those misogynistic patriarchal people a lot of money to be so much worse to certain kinds of people than they should have been."
Even in Massachusetts, #FridaysForFemales does not mean every other day is for The Misogynistic Bullies To Degrade Girls & Women.
"For instance, at the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center, an organization we direct and manage that is focused on prevention of bullying and cyberbullying, staff members post female achievements – be they intellectual, artistic, scientific, athletic or literary – on social media channels every Friday, using the hashtag #FridaysForFemales."
"Analysis: There’s a mental health crisis among teen girls." Here are some ways to support them | PBS NewsHour
The Patriarchy is Not Very Nurturing.
"CDC report on teen mental health: girls, LGBQ+ folks at highest risk"
It's the 21st century...what do you see...
A World of Daughters & Sons who now have opportunities to find folks who are way less sexist and racist than what was role-modeled for them, probably?
Thursday, February 23, 2023
🌼 Surely, the humans can be better 🌼
"Commentary: Why close the ‘super bloom’? Because we can't seem to love nature without trampling it" - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-02-16/super-bloom-wildflowers-closed-lake-elsinore
Interesting how this mom is tired of people she barely knows warning her about her own daughter.
"Jo Stanley on why we should stop speaking negatively about teen girls"
Which statistic & why?
"U.S. Teen Girls Experiencing Increased Sadness and Violence"| CDC Online Newsroom | CDC
Shall it be that way again or no?
"Lake Elsinore Is Closing Off Hiking Trails In Advance Of An Expected Poppy Super Bloom" | LAist
Patriarchy's "shame girls for having bodies" problem.
Kat Tenbarge on Twitter: "On why teen girls are sadder: "Several mentioned that they think their bodies are policed at school in a way male students’ bodies aren’t, with girls subjected to dress codes and told their bodies are a distraction to classmates — particularly boys." https://t.co/sDz86QeLyb" / Twitter
Over 90
AJ+ on Twitter: "BREAKING: Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 16 years in prison for rape and sexual assault. The disgraced film producer is already serving 23 years on a New York conviction for sex crimes. Over 90 women have accused him of rape, sexual assault or harassment. https://t.co/sXOrkL2j77" / Twitter
In addition to basic human rights being restored...
Daughters & sons also deserve far better than what many people's Misogynistic Toxic Patriarchal Values would have you believe.
God cares, I guess.
"How come some rich husbands eat other people's children when they could be doing better things with this life?" does not make a good sourdough starter.
"The child farmworkers we interviewed were not working on their own families’ farms. They were hired laborers, risking their health and lives to tend the fruits and vegetables that make their way to our dinner tables."
~ Margaret Wurth
"Next labor secretary should protect child farmworkers"
How can any sane, healthy parents aid and excuse either their most misogynistic family members or their male supremacist friends in making life more imbalanced and unhealthy for the descendants, unless someone else's offspring are working and feeding them and perhaps their sexist spouses (if they are married) just as The Patriarchy intended?
(GOD KNOWS AND CARES that other people's children exist, too, I suppose.)
Some Adults In Patriarchal Cults Are Not Okay.
"Adults Are Letting Teen Girls Down" - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/adults-are-letting-teen-girls-down/673144/
"What if we've forgotten that child labor laws exist for a reason"
~ Marcie, mother of a daughter, to Conor Friedersdorf
ALSO
Are the women who think they aren't still being brainwashed by misogynistic cults even really okay?
Nancy ReadyDickerson☮️ on Twitter: "@anylaurie16 I tell pregnant moms-hope you have a boy-if you have a boy you only have to worry about 1 penis-if you have a girl, you have to worry about all the penises😂😂😂" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/thenicenancy/status/1628584262034399233
Way to be a frightening mother who is equating having a girl with fending off "all the penises," I guess?
Laurie Kilmartin- Albany NY Feb 24/25 on Twitter: "Picking up my son and a mother/daughter combo walked by and I am so grateful I had a son." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/anylaurie16/status/1628563896541020161
Holman on Twitter: "@anylaurie16 What’s wrong with daughters?" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/EmilyVanHolman/status/1628566680224899075
The Blasphemer's Chapel (they/them) on Twitter: "@anylaurie16 Oh right, I forgot comedians are into misogynistic jokes, my bad." / Twitter
https://twitter.com/DarkArts_Crafts/status/1628587274140106753
"Next labor secretary should protect child farmworkers"
"Agriculture is the most dangerous industry open to child workers in the United States. My colleagues and I have interviewed hundreds of child farmworkers through our work at Human Rights Watch, and they described working in harsh and terrifying conditions. Many work 12 or more hours a day in extreme heat, use sharp tools or dangerous machinery, lug heavy buckets, or climb tall ladders with nothing to protect them from falling."
~~~~~~~
"The child farmworkers we interviewed were not working on their own families’ farms. They were hired laborers, risking their health and lives to tend the fruits and vegetables that make their way to our dinner tables."
~ Margaret Wurth
Misogyny is a serious mental illness in America.
Patriarchal people, who almost would've voted for a misogynistic man like Trump, but then they met others who just made them gravitate towards having lots of supposedly "liberal" misogynistic friends instead, are suffering from it, too.
Sadly for him...
Mrs. O is addicted to acting like an abusive and chauvinistic man, and he is surrounded by others with similar addictions.
He seems to become more & more insensitive to girls and women as he courts the praises of a very misogynistic society.
He pays others to be his echo chamber and has gotten rewarded for indulging in creepy sexism for so many years that I wonder if his psyche has been permanently damaged.
It's to the point where I am sure I wouldn't feel any better around him or his followers than I would around Trump or the ones who make excuses for his selfishness.
"a more hopeful future and a country that is worthy of them"
"The mental health crisis among teen girls is an emergency, one that is worsening. Their suffering will not abate until we, American adults, make a world that is more worthy of them, and give them lives of prosperity and hopefulness – that is, we need to give them a more hopeful future and a country that is worthy of them."
~ Moira Donegan
"American teenage girls are experiencing high levels of emotional distress. Why?" | Moira Donegan | The Guardian
A good book is on its way to me.
I know several mothers of sons who are pretty nice people, who don't seem like they have to be mean or insensitive to others, just to feel important on Earth. Four in particular come to mind. One of them is going to send me a book about healing the inner child.
What if they had to learn to be nice to anyone who was grieving?
They seem like they'd be cruel to grieving mothers, or to any human. Like genocidal people. They are that excessive in their insensitivity.
They don't act that way because they love others.
Would the patriarchal people who still rely on cruelty to get by in life even learn how become better to others if they had to be nice to grieving mothers? Or would that be something they'd fake, too?
How about the people who are "from that culture they were trained to ignore or dominate." Would they ever get to that in this life? Or will such an opportunity have to wait until the next lifetime for those patriarchal people?
It's noticeable that laughing mean people aren't really about sharing happiness, are they?
They just seem to be addicted to enjoying a kind of amused bigotry.
How exactly the opposite of happy their choice to be needlessly mean, uncaring, and misogynistic with other people is, and it reminds me of others who go along with genocidal campaigns.
Those who are addicted to being cruel to others, who just laugh about feeling entitled to badly treat other human beings, are cheating themselves out of having a better life.
They won't be able to keep on doing things that way forever.
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
#1 was "My daughter," and there are many other interesting responses...
"Hey Pandas, If You Could Talk To Any Real Person, Living Or Dead, Who Would It Be, And Why?" | Bored Panda
They all agree...
“'We all agree that our collective health depends on the well-being of the people that have been working to feed our communities,' Ortiz Valdez said. De Loera-Brust and UFW’s members say the failure of the FWMA means that those people could have gotten some relief and instead got nothing.
But Valdez sees it differently: 'They don’t deserve crumbs.'”
~ Lisa Held
What if violence really is a product of negligence?
"Images: Half Moon Bay mass shooting and aftermath" | KRON4
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/images-half-moon-bay-mass-shooting-and-aftermath/
Degrading daughters has never helped sons.
People who choose to bully others just do it for their own temporary selfish gratification.
They do not do it for the benefit of anyone else.
And why are they still obeying their misogynistic training instead of growing out of it?
What if a kid simply cares more about "those kinds of people" than his misogynistic family members ever did?
People who get paid to dehumanize others aren't helping.
Don't post about crimes on Twitter: "I despair when I read findings like these and see interventions suggested are like, more guidance counselors. Kids need adults who treat them as people, sex ed that covers consent, and for adults to stop providing cover for boys who sexually bully others. https://t.co/nNmHct5XeE" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/KateRoseBee/status/1626620764597391361
"American teenage girls are experiencing high levels of emotional distress. Why?" | Moira Donegan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/16/teenage-girls-mental-health-survey
Even Though it's Clearly More Her Friend Than Other Kinds Of People's Friends...
Mrs. HUMAN Explains Why That Particular Brand of Misogyny is still more His Friend than it is Her Friend, Because Human Rights Are Good For Humans, and She Is One Of Them.
Ah, this makes me want to travel again someday...
"Watch: Johannes Vermeer exhibition stuns with scientific revelations" - CNN Video
https://www.cnn.com/videos/arts/2023/02/14/johannes-vermeer-exhibition-amsterdam-rijksmuseum.cnn
Encourage The Sad Dads, Too.
"The Avalanches's 'Frontier Psychiatrist' sample of Dexter's Expulsion scene in Polyester" | WhoSampled
But perhaps there's no time like the present!
What about therapy for the formerly misogynistic dads who don't want girls or women to suppress or destroy themselves on account of the patriarchal system?
Just Wait Another Decade, Man.
The Hate Speech That Hurts Hollywood Men The Least Is Still The Most Acceptable Form of Bigotry To The Patriarchally Trained Women and Men of The 2020s, But Nothing Is Forever...
Vigilant if not vigilante moms everyone is wondering about are wondering...
"How does a person who thinks rich guys can hurt or oppress whoever they want since they still get rewarded for it anyway NOT act?"
With a little social progress, His Wife will soon be just as nice
to the not so misogynistic types of guys as she was to the misogynistic ones.
Mom really wants to be a little bit nicer to girls and women now, so
She's also asking Her Abusive Partner to go to Rehab for His Addiction to Being Toxically Sexist Thanks To The Patriarchally Oriented System.
Interesting To Observe "They Literally Change The Rules of The Game To Accomodate ME since I Am Their 'King'" Privilege
Sara Schaefer on Twitter: "I honestly do want to start posting random shit like that because it's funny to me, but seeing how this machine works, some dipshit will find it post it out of context and I'll wake up to a thousand boys telling me to kill myself! And THAT's what comedy is all about" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/saraschaefer1/status/1626658637585473537
Why not use that "the rules bend for my kind" power for good?
"'Wait Wait' For Jan. 19, 2019 With Not My Job Guest Conan O'Brien : Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me/686587694/wait-wait-for-jan-19-2019-with-not-my-job-guest-conan-obrien
Wow, i wonder if Spain likes human beings more than US now.
"Independent UN experts laud Spain for enacting new feminist laws" | UN News
Well, that's because they deserve better.
"'Like slaves’: Zimbabwe farmworkers lash out at work conditions" | Agriculture | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/21/in-zimbabwe-farm-labourers-decry-working-conditions
Great Grief Processing Opp.
Who needs to be around masochistic people who won't listen to "certain categories of human beings" because "being addicted to abusers and unseeing the abusive behavior that harms others more still helps us fit in with this particular industry & misogynistic culture." Sob!
Not Funny As They Think...
Female comedians who need to shit on girls and women just to fit in with misogynistic men.
Mellow Daddy Drama
Help, I can't possibly criticize the misogynistic habits that certain men have picked up from their wielder of the paycheck-iarchal trainings, for then I will starve. What if I become An Unfortunate who can't afford to travel to A Liberal State in case of wanting any special medical procedures in these unjust & threatening times?
High Achiever Dads Who Are Gonna Be Daughters Could Enjoy A Double Feature
AFTER J. Dielman's tedious revelations.
"Polyester (1981)" ORIGINAL TRAILER [HQ] - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ndt-QtXDxzc
Does it end on an uplifting note?
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
And in an alternate reality...
YOUR fairy god mom must be SO happy to have the opportunity to pick raspberries for all of us, everyone, even your most misogynistic friends.
Isn't she?
;-)
Or is That Not You Repeat Not What's Actually Happening?
ITSA FACT, MAC
"Because Itsa Patriarchy,
Big Rich Men Can Still Quite Often Get Rewarded For Their Dehumanizing Activities."
"(However, Why Do They Even Want To Do That???)"
Even though all of their dads who traumatized them on Earth might be up in Heaven, having a 3.5 Hour Movie Night with Jeanne Dielman, that feminist cinematic classic of...
"Revelatory Tedium"
In preparation for the Next Great Shift in Consciences...
How many more humans still feel like they must act, like an "HONORARY whatever," just to fit in?
WHAT A BIG CONTROL ISSUE IT WAS IN THE TEENS...
"Iliza Shlesinger Came After Other Female Comics, and It Did Not Go Well"
AND surely the 20s could still GET BETTER?
At any rate, GOOD LUCK To The Next Generations...
Look at this beautiful blond farmworker whose hair matches the color of all the wheat or whatever
"Women We Love: 25 Influential Women in Food and Agriculture" – Food Tank
https://foodtank.com/news/2016/01/women-we-love-27-influential-women-in-food-and-agriculture/
Oh, The Heartless & Unhealed "Industry" Again
"Farmworkers Finally Won Overtime Pay. Now the Industry Wants to Repeal It."| Civil Eats
Monday, February 20, 2023
This is a very Healing-Oriented Essay & Event
"Photo Essay: Indigenous Women’s Day celebrates female leadership and resilience while spotlighting ongoing struggles" - New Mexico In Depth
Who's gonna be a daughter of somebody else's bizarre extreme next time?
"Editorial: Virginia menstrual-tracking bill underscores bizarre extremes in abortion debate"
Got a hurtfully sexist patriarchal partner? Well
Don't start with Other People's Daughters, first.
ENCOURAGING THEM TO IMAGINE that perhaps Their Own Daughters are capable of being just as impressive and important as First Ladies When The Entitled Chauvanists Aren't Hate Speech Dumping on Them to Please Crowds of Patriarchal Cult Followers might be the better way, for some people.
Then, after that marinates for a while, you might ease into suggesting one or two other Patriarchal Persons' Daughters also deserve Some Human Rights.
Maybe? Possibly, yes?
It might be true; it really might be true.
Dear Upwardly Mobile Citizens.
What if ANY of your descendants choose to be less sexist with their sons and daughters than you were trained to be with yours?
Setting aside their sufferings, the epidemics of male mass shooters and the recent mutilation of reproductive rights...
Why don't you also try being less sexist for a change, maybe even just to be happy?
"Because I get rewarded a lot more in this kind of body for going along with Patriarchal Norms than others in their bodies will ever get rewarded for it."
I see.
Well, that is interesting reasoning, honestly, but I guess that sort of makes sense now.
Not That Patriarch's Daughter, Too.
Did she feel more oppressed by feminists than by male misogynistic speech against her because "always be pleasing to rich men, no matter what" is the message that the patriarchy instilled in her and in so many other small children?
Good Morning, Body That’s Getting Some Healing
"174Hz - Pain Relief Frequency - Natural Anesthetic | Healing Singing Bowls"| Healing Camp | Day 20 - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_gvU2sl5GuE
If Only The Unwell Patriarchal Ones
didn't also make me feel sick to my stomach and PTSD triggered during their Blatantly Sexist Episodes, which they have far too often for my health and well being...yeah. The sickness of their sexism is way worse for some kinds of bodies than it is for others, that's for sure.
Considerately, kids...
MAYBE no I think Probably you should meet the Moms & Other Women I know who truly want girls and women to have good lives sometimes.
Dear Descended Ones of The Painfully Abusive Parents In Patriarchal Cults...
What else on EARTH could they be doing with their lives besides getting rewarded for Blatantly Disrespecting & Dehumanizing Girls and Women? (It's even worse for the ones who don't have a lot of money to inherit from the Abusive Ones, BTW.)
Garden of growth and healing
Dear smart & gentle energy in the universe, thank you so much for kindness and good, helpful people. Please help me know what to do so I can helpfully heal this body and change my life.
Better go to bed for the body.
Mind: Well, I just hope their kids and their grandkids...
Yes, Monday. We know. There, there...
🌾 Do the fruits & vegetables ever dream in YOUR LANGUAGE 🍋.
"Indigenous Farmworkers Are Unheard, Overlooked, and Exposed" | Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2022/02/03/indigenous-farmworkers-are-unheard-overlooked-and-exposed/
Sunday, February 19, 2023
Why so resistant, still?
"Half Moon Bay shooting shows California’s resistance to humanely housing farmworkers" José Vadi Special to CalMatters
"In the wake of these shootings, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that neither site was permitted to house farmworkers in any capacity, leading to no oversight from any authorities. Twenty-seven farm workers, including families, lived in converted trailers and substandard living conditions. San Mateo County officials 'found no records of housing permits or inspection records for either farm.'”
"California Terra Garden has announced plans to build proper housing with codes and permits by next year – but why must it take a mass shooting to catalyze a farm to humanely house their workers?"
🙏🙏🙏45,560 was a lot back then🙏🙏🙏
"In June 2016, the California Institute for Rural Studies’ farmworker study on the Salinas and Pajaro valleys noted an “additional 45,560 units of farmworker housing are needed to alleviate critical overcrowding,” in addition to permanent housing needs and affordable, permanent, year-round family housing."
~ J. Vadi
"California farmworkers have endured poor living conditions long enough"
HANG ON, meanies
Hey, sometimes it's a Christian Piccolini & Shannon Martinez world.
"Deradicalization in the Deep South" - YES! Magazine
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/building-bridges/2019/11/12/deradicalization-in-the-deep-south
"Feminism is the New F-Word – Populism & Patriarchy Among Young South Korean Men" - Harvard Political Review
Better Take Care of Your Own Body
A body's advice. Well, there is that lower back issue flaring up again...
AND TO THINK, YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW MUCH YOU'RE GONNA LOVE A GOOD HEATING PAD. Boy, u r in 4 a TREAT!
ALTERNATIVELY, "How to Handle His Affairs After..."
No-no. It's happened already. Centuries and centuries have passed, and tomorrow is another day! Break The Cain, I Mean Chain! Like that one song...what song? Song? Did some BODY get you to focus more on the OTHER side this time?
Sons & Daughters Could Fundraise to Reform Misogynistic Dads
Moms Against Hate Speech Could Help Out Too
Brotherly prospects,
What about all the dads who were rape culture supporting misogynists in the early 2020s, but now they wanna turn their lives around?
That dad did eventually...
"claudiaqute:
My dad was talking about Burr pretty positively and I brought up an interview he did on Conan's podcast where it just seemed like he hated women. I had to turn it off, but anyways my dad was like 'oh I never noticed anything I thought he was funny!' and I was like yeah ok sure I guess I was just uncomfortable, ignore me. AND THEN like a couple months later by dad randomly says 'yeah you were right about Burr! Listened to more of his stuff and he just seems to have weird issues with women. So fuck that guy". I was so happy that my dad took what I said and used it to listen critically to someone and that he didn't brush off my feelings. Anyways just happy for growth and yeah Burr has weird issues with women!"
"Saw Bill Burr perform live and the show was just one long, drawn out, increasingly hateful misogynistic rant. : r/TwoXChromosomes"
Saved
I ate dinner out, and they sat us next to a group of Christian African American women and a white guy. They all really liked him. He said he wasn't a very nice-acting person (unlike how he is acting now, in other words) before he got "saved."
Saturday, February 18, 2023
🧐🌳❤🍃
"Utah's Pando Aspen Vs. California's General Sherman: Which Is Really The World's Largest Tree?"
Why? Gonna read to find out...
"Masculinity overdue for a reckoning after mass shootings, child advocates say"
South Korea Too Can Handle Guns Better Than Women's Rights?
"How Feminism Became a Dirty Word in South Korea" – The Diplomat
https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/how-feminism-became-a-dirty-word-in-south-korea/
"What America can learn from South Korea’s model of gun regulation"| MinnPost
Good Gun Laws for Great Britain Tho
"Andrew Tate: Figures that lay bare the shocking scale of toxic influencer’s reach among young men in Britain" | The Independent
"Why MY misogynistic man friend who could totally be the president of a small country is STILL
never gonna be able to fully enjoy ALL THAT ATTENTION because it's not as much as that other misogynistic guy with a lot more money gets."
"I remember him being a nice dad until like 4 years ago"
"MY DAD IS SO FUCKING MISOGYNISTIC" : r/TwoXChromosomes
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/slp7ax/my_dad_is_so_fucking_misogynistic/
I really want birdhouse seller guy to have a better life
I was so touched by his whimsical talents! One looked like a red windmill. MY HEART. I would have like to have bought one, and also given him a card to help him set up an online business. He wouldn't even look up at the cars, even though he was there on the median at the intersection of Central & Chicago to sell those birdhouses. How could it not be that he deserves better. Of course he does!!!!
Invite Your Friends
"First-of-its-kind study compares domestic violence programs, finds promising results" • News Service • Iowa State University
https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2022/04/25/domestic-violence-act
2/3 of student loans are taken out by women!
"Just because socially accepted sexual harassment privileged MY patriarchal education doesn't mean it's gonna be that way for YOU, missy!"
Courage!
X did NOT need to be genocidal OR make excuses for ANYONE'S destructive habitual toxic misogyny.
Better.
Alamosa News | "No more stolen sisters"
https://alamosanews.com/article/no-more-stolen-sisters
“'I consider myself a feminist,' Vigil says. 'As an Indigenous woman, when it comes to missing and murdered Indigenous women, it’s wrong that no one is talking about it, and no one is reporting on it. I have to seek justice for all the unsolved cases for these women. I have to seek justice on their behalf.'
'I’m also the single mother of two Indigenous bi-racial children. I worry about them, but I also do this to teach them the importance of speaking out against things they think are wrong,' she said."
~ Priscilla Wagonner
The ones who've left us can come back again.
"Greta Thunberg Doesn’t Have To Be Nice About Your Dick" | by Jude Ellison S. Doyle | Jan, 2023 | ZORA
https://zora.medium.com/greta-thunberg-doesnt-have-to-be-nice-about-your-dick-5456bb7bf5db
"There are a lot of depressed and lonely guys in the world. They might drink, or self-isolate, or numb out playing video games; they might even start bar fights or Twitter arguments. I sometimes have. What depressed guys don’t do, however, is accidentally join political movements aimed at the violent subjugation of women. That only happens if they’re already misogynists. The problem is political, not psychological; not loneliness, or sadness, or a lack of self-help books at Barnes & Noble, but a conscious investment in patriarchal structures of power."
~ Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Go, to sleep, you poor dear.
Doug Herzog on Twitter: "Many thanks to the great @billburr for joining us @EmersonLAcenter to speak with the students. It was a masterclass in comedy and show biz from one of the very best. He was incredibly generous with his time. Hilarious, inspiring, and insightful. @EmersonCollege @ComedicArtsEC https://t.co/74qBGA2uE3" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/dherzog77/status/1621358848144715776
"Bill Burr Constant Shitting on Women" - Laugh Planet - YouTube
Friday, February 17, 2023
Poor!
Well, if many SO rich women DO prefer misogynistic men over others, why should rich men feel inspired to be less misogynistic? Are they scared of losing the ones The Patriarchy Deems Most Valuable to an even more Abusive Alpha Male?
But at least Canada doesn't have as many angry men shooting and killing people as US!
"Canadians like to think we're not misogynistic. But we are." | Broadview Magazine
https://broadview.org/hockey-canada-misogyny/
Because they just needed the Patriarchal Masses to like them?!
"Sadly, they probably wouldn't have liked them so much if they had NOT degraded women & girls?" SIGH.
How does getting rewarded for Misogynistic Drivel Help You?
And make the world WAY WAY WAY worse for Other Peoples' Daughters? Sons, too, actually.
Poor Rich Patriarchal Habits, Again.
Just needs to dominate and terrorize everyone, even his own family, just to feel like A Real Person? Where the hell did that come from?
Got A Problem, Still?
"She's Grateful I shit on her less than I shit on The Other Worthless Vaginas. Why aren't you as content about it?"
SO MANY Institutions Really Do Respect All Misogynistic Flavors
"That's Why Our Wives Would Love You So Much If You Were A Man Who Degraded Women and Gave Them A Lot of Money for Being Such Good Sports About Putting Up With It and Comfortably Exploited Others To Serve Male Supremacy."
Kind Souls?
A man who has his head down and won't look up is selling two nice-looking red birdhouses on the corner of Chicago & Central in Riverside and I wish I could have given him some money.
Be Better Next Time.
"'Backlash' showcases the real-life horror of online misogyny" | Broadview Magazine
https://broadview.org/backlash-film-2022/
"Kiah Morris resigned from politics because of the harassment she experienced. Rehtaeh Parsons ended her life."
~ Julie S. LalondeOther Good News...
Someday a Very Special HUMAN With The Right Genetics To Make Very Special Children Will Explain Exactly Why THEIR EXTRAORDINARILY SPECIAL OFFSPRING Would Rather Respect & Love GIRLS AND WOMEN Than Dehumanize Them, Unlike All The Unwell Misogynists They Had To Make Excuses For Just To Fit Into A Very Toxic, Patriarchal System.
Good for Her!
"Xochitl Torres Small, a grandchild of migrant farmworkers, to be nominated as USDA deputy secretary"
Well, good for them.
"County to Vote on $750K Allocation for Displaced Half Moon Bay Farmworkers" – NBC Bay Area
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/half-moon-bay-farmworkers/3156815/
Yes They Can.
Can any privileged descendants explain why increasing 'exclusion, oppression, and inequality' feels fine to them?
"How the Right Wing Uses ‘Feminism’ for Its Own Purposes"
https://www.leftvoice.org/how-the-right-wing-uses-feminism-for-its-own-purposes/
"Beyoncé, Ivanka Trump, and brands like Dove incorporated feminism into their marketing discourse (does 'progressive neoliberalism' ring a bell?). Arfini points out that the 'global expansion of feminist messaging is fraught with contradictions and paradoxes when pursuing the feminist goal of systemic social justice in areas that foster exclusion, oppression and inequality.'
Do very few powerful women sit at the tables where important decisions are made? Yes, but criticizing sexism doesn’t mean that having more female prime ministers and presidents improves or disrupts the pillars of the democracies we live in."
~ Celeste Murillo
Plethora O' Problems Patriarchy
"Matt Damon Tells Story About George Clooney Pooping in Litter Box"
The Daily Show on Twitter: "Wondering why you're so angry all the time? It's not a coincidence. @SarahKSilverman explains how entire industries are profiting off our anger in a new #LongStoryShort https://t.co/bfkb1e6woa" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1626613190690832394
"Why some Republicans have made odd claims about school litter boxes"
NOT RICH ENOUGH, APPARENTLY
"Why a woman's doctor warned her not to get pregnant in Texas" | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/health/abortion-restrictions-texas/index.html
MONEY really misogynizes SOME
"The ugly truth about The Ugly Truth"| Movies | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/aug/03/the-ugly-truth-women-sexism
Nevertheless, Greta is not a fan.
"Andrew Tate: research has long shown how feminist progress is always followed by a misogynistic backlash"
SOME PEOPLE would prefer NOT to make the world worse for OTHERS
"What’s the Matter with Men?"| The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/whats-the-matter-with-men
Real BILL BURR~ESQUE Nazi Energy is Less Great
"Bill Burr Constant Shitting on Women" - Laugh Planet - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UnFutP6mI
Are the Obamas just grateful that the O'Briens respect them more than Bill Burr ever will?
Omg Misogyny Makes Him So Popular
Poisoning fewer people: a step in the right direction.
"New Pesticide Legislation would Protect Farmworkers and Children from Toxic Pesticide Exposures" – Farmworker Justice
"Biden EPA proposes restoring pesticide protections for farmworkers rolled back under Trump" | The Hill
The community is helping her family.
"One of the students injured in MSU shooting is the daughter of migrant farm workers" | Northern Public Radio: WNIJ and WNIU
"GoFundMe started for MSU student Guadalupe Huapilla-Perez"
I had a dream about migrant laborers, and then I woke up.
"Jane Fonda gives tycoon more than he bargained for as she goes rogue at Vienna ball" – The Irish Times
Thursday, February 16, 2023
They're friends!
"‘Howards End’: The Schlegel Sisters Aren’t Your Typical Edwardian Women"
https://www.tvinsider.com/655652/howards-end-new-series-starz-schlegel-sisters/
And for some reason, I almost felt like a Schlegel sister.
I was the one who heard the knocking at the door and opened it for the sister who came to comfort and collect her sibling. "Oh I am so sorry. Please come in."
Either the film or the PBS series of Howards End highlights characters who are expressly apologetic.
Now it is also interesting to recall that the hostess spent part of her childhood in Great Britain.
At Least It Was A Healing Evening
Such a pivotal event. I witnessed sisterly rescue and chastisement, and motherly apology. It's because I attended a gathering where we saw a collection of drastic behavioral changes because of a person's traumatic response to certain substances. Everyone tried their best to be supportive, and also dealt either with guilt feelings (hadn't we been told before that they were on medication? But had been drinking alone for weeks) or trauma triggers. Thank God for the presence of calm, happy pets, too.
After some family members finally arrived to help the one who had suffered the most (getting in touch with them was no small feat either), we processed our feelings and gave thanks that no authorities needed to be called, and also for the healing presence of the dogs and kitties. Since they had been suffering alone for weeks, perhaps it was better that their meltdown happened amongst caring people in a safe space? As the others wished, I brought home half a case of hard ciders for a calm, hardworking man who will be able to enjoy them at the end of his shift with no negative side effects or consequences.
Thanks be to the Higher Healing Guides.
May the rest of life be better.
"Missing Michigan girl, 14, found after a year in a closet, pregnant" - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/10/michigan-missing-girl-found-closet-pregnant/
"She was visibly pregnant. She was crying. We brought her outside..."
~ Watson to Bella
U can change! U can do it! Yes U can!
Alternatively...
"Gaslighting is incredibly fun to do to other people, but when it’s happening to you, not so much. If someone is trying to gaslight you, try telling them the following things."
"What To Say If Someone Is Gaslighting You"
https://www.theonion.com/what-to-say-if-someone-is-gaslighting-you-1849866820
During this period of transition, they began asking themselves questions, like...
"Why don't women come forward after sexual assault? This comment nailed it."
https://www.upworthy.com/why-dont-women-come-forward-after-sexual-assault-this-comment-nailed-it-rp
What else could they do differently?
"Red flag: Parents excusing violent behavior and not supporting their daughter who feels unsafe."
~ Annie Reneau
"Boyfriend's reaction to Tubi Super Bowl ad sparks important domestic violence discussion"
Perhaps a parent who someone will parent can use this as a resource
"What To Say To Someone Who Is A Fan Of Andrew Tate"
https://www.theonion.com/what-to-say-to-someone-who-is-a-fan-of-andrew-tate-1850061243
This published on Valentine's Day, too!
"Parents, talk to your sons about Andrew Tate – we teachers can’t take him on alone" | Lola Okolosie | The Guardian
O, Jolly Paragraph of Hollywoodesque Gems...
"...exclusively employed 10-year-olds with blond hair and blue eyes from affluent suburbs around Boston, Milwaukee, and the greater Chicagoland area. 'When you buy one of our diamonds, you should feel proud and guilt-free knowing that the types of kids we send into mines have names like Harper, Ashlynn, and Murray. Yes, our child slaves are underage, criminally underpaid, and oftentimes abused or killed, but they are of European descent. And that only makes the diamonds more beautiful!'”
"Ethical Diamond Company Only Uses White Children To Mine"
https://www.theonion.com/ethical-diamond-company-only-uses-white-children-to-min-1850073267
It's a recent point of view, relatively speaking.
"Where Greta Thunberg does (and doesn't) expect to see action on climate change" : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1155695838/greta-thunberg-book-climate-change
Concerned about their image dudes can also enjoy this classic tune...
Billy Joel – "An Innocent Man Lyrics"| Genius Lyrics
https://genius.com/Billy-joel-an-innocent-man-lyrics
Clearly, concern about why acting like you're entitled to oppress certain suffering people who literally cannot appease your greedy selfish appetite (even if they wanted to! Which they don't!) is not gonna stop climate change from happening, SO...relax a little, & have a laugh.
"Cackling Oil Executive Watches Through Crystal Orb As Greta Thunberg Gets Lost In Nordic Forest"
https://www.theonion.com/cackling-oil-executive-watches-through-crystal-orb-as-g-1850077160
Why don't you?
Why are this guy's traditional beliefs about male and female roles less famous than Rich Woman Author's Wizard Boy Books?
"Native American (Navajo) Balance of Male and Female" - YouTube
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-LJRbaWhNfo&feature=youtu.be
"J.K. Rowling's trans views: Pamela Paul's New York Times op-ed defending the novelist has many more problems than its terrible timing."
https://slate.com/business/2023/02/jk-rowling-pamela-paul-new-york-times-trans-coverage.html
Bell's family is Indigenous to where? It's an honest question.
"A 2022 study of Indigenous families found that being honest with children created more resilience, quality relationships and overall life satisfaction. But when looking at parents who practiced less open communication, including lying, children were less likely to be resilient and had an increased risk of trauma symptoms in adolescence."
~ Jacalyn Wetzel
"Kristen Bell's 'honest parenting approach 'could help other parents."
https://www.upworthy.com/kristen-bell-honest-parenting
Which parents and why?
"Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell Leave Voice Roles as Black Characters"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/arts/television/jenny-slate-big-mouth.html
Clearly, this is sarcasm.
"Ethical Diamond Company Only Uses White Children To Mine"
https://www.theonion.com/ethical-diamond-company-only-uses-white-children-to-min-1850073267
Do you find humor helps you in challenging times?
"Cackling Oil Executive Watches Through Crystal Orb As Greta Thunberg Gets Lost In Nordic Forest"
https://www.theonion.com/cackling-oil-executive-watches-through-crystal-orb-as-g-1850077160
OR is it more like, well, Trite Brain, hope you're happy, now.
"Conan's Dream Comes True: Fonda Jokes About Threesome with O'Brien and Wife"
https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/conans-dream-comes-true-fonda-jokes-about-threesome-with-obrien-and-wife.php
You skimmed the whole thing and still have no idea who HER "safe celebrity cheat partner" is by the end of it.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
Good Job, Kitty!
cats with jobs on Twitter: "https://t.co/rhgsqRMMjg" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/CatWorkers/status/1625518919397040130
♡ Hundreds of Hearts ♡
On Valentine's Day...
"Hundreds come together in Minneapolis for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives March"
How can some parents care SO little about even The Most Caucasian Ones?
"Shocking CDC Report: More Than 1 in 10 Teen Girls Say They’ve Been Raped"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/shocking-cdc-report-finds-1-in-10-teen-girls-say-theyve-been-raped
Kids with The Special Genes Clearly Know
Mr. O's Society believes that HE can degrade all the girls and women and even other kinds of human beings as much as he wants, and no one stops HIM, ever! Will he run for president next? What a Patriarch! But he was an innocent baby once, too, right?
The Sisterly Art of Photography
"Northern Light photos..."
"After losing her, Anderson-Pyrz said she had a vivid dream of the northern lights all around her.
Ferguson didn't realize when she took the pictures that she had recreated Anderson-Pryz's dream.
'I really wanted to do something in honour of her family,' Ferguson said, adding she intentionally doesn't watermark her images so people can use them and share them if they want.
'I've always been taught that when you have a gift, you're meant to share it with others. That gift is never meant for you to keep it. So this is my way of gifting it.'
The photos also raise awareness.
'It's really important to promote that all Canadians are part of the solution to end the genocide,' Anderson-Pyrz said."
~ Janell Henry
Was it only "conservative" outrage? Hmmm.
"People are mocking the conservative outrage to Chelsea Handler’s ‘Childless Woman’ sketch" | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/chelsea-handler-childless-woman-video-backlash-b2283007.html
In America, Every Pregnant 15-Year-Old Can Find A Wealthy Lord To Keep Her In Style if She Has The Right Attitude
Therefore, You Don't Need To Worry About Her Pesky Reproductive Rights! Make It SO!
21st Century Dilemma
How young is too young to become "A Good Mom Who Puts Wealthy Men First?" How old is too old to change?
And LOTS of kids learned how to bake from TV, too.
"Pillsbury Doughboy 1982"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ynrsuuDZcCg&feature=youtu.be
Un-Cancellable don't mean Un-Pokeable!
Une autre belle journée pour apprécier l'alphabétisation?
"Bien plus qu’une bibliothèque, elles rappellent que ce lieu qu’elles ont créé est devenu « un espace de guérison après la guerre au Haut-Karabakh] et un refuge pour les voix marginalisées d’Arménie »."
~ Camille Grange
"À Erevan, les féministes et personnes LGBT arméniennes se cachent pour lire" - Equal Times
https://www.equaltimes.org/a-erevan-les-feministes-et#.Y-0mGqSIYzQ
Another Great Day To Appreciate Literary
"More than just a library, they emphasise that the place they have created has become 'a space for healing after the war [in Nagorno-Karabakh] and a refuge for marginalised voices in Armenia.'"
"This article has been translated from French by Louise Durkin"
"In Yerevan, feminists and members of the LGBTQ+ community hide away to read" - Equal Times
https://www.equaltimes.org/in-yerevan-feminists-and-members#.Y-0VbaSIYzR
How Much MORE Evidence Do You Need
To Ascertain WHO None of HER Favorite Patriarchal Figures Ever Rewarded Her For Caring About?
Mom had no money! Then what happened?
"I asked my mother for $20, but she had no money of her own to give me. As I watched them drive away, I had zero dollars in my pocket, standing in a country as foreign to me as the moon. I felt free, like the world was full of opportunity, but simultaneously alone, scared and angry that no one had ever taught me a single thing about the real world."
~ Daniella Young
"I Escaped the Cult. But I Couldn’t Escape the Cult Mentality"
https://narratively.com/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldnt-escape-the-cult-mentality/
Top of the Food Chain Has His Concerns, Too.
How will his daughters ever get enough resources to start caring about the health and well-being of other people's daughters?
Bees make pollination and food for humans possible
And as far as the humans go, I bet some of the people who made a few of your meals possible in this lifetime are also members of some of the sectors of society that you say you care about, too?
Scroll, scroll, scroll...BEE Inspired!
"Indigenous women record age-old knowledge of bees in Colombia’s Amazon"
Poor, violently patriarchal USA.
What a rage-filled and insecure and insecure and insecure & yet also violent & patriarchal country it is sometimes.
O Exclusionary Patriarchy. AGAIN?
Steadfastly, Mrs. O
CELEBRITY CULTURES
Mr. O's
IMMENSELY IMPOTENT CULT STATUS!
Treasure!
"I say embrace your forties, fifties, sixties and beyond being a childfree AMAZING woman/ or man and know that the world NEEDS people like you desperately. And so do other people's children. You are the fun ones, the carefree wise ones, the artists, the dreamers who never quit, the ambitious, the adventurers. You will be taken care of. You will be just as loved, those who say you won't don't have the creativity or imagination to know how good friends and nieces and nephew can actually be. In fact, you are a treasure to the world, we need you."
~ AdieSpringsB
"Windows To Green: Should you or shouldn't you (have kids)? Advice from an on-the-fencer who took the plunge."
http://windowstogreen.blogspot.com/2013/09/should-you-or-shouldnt-you-have-kids.html?m=1
Who knows in this era of womanly evolution?
Maybe going back in time and fixing the 900% rate of increase in syphilis for impoverished babies born in MS would have endeared the sarcasm of Chelsea Handler to all the self-righteous yet loving parents who were incredibly offended by her "childless woman" video, but I kind of doubt it?
Chelsea Handler on Twitter: "Just another day. https://t.co/Bf4cdBqunG" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/1624130272265662464
"Mississippi sees 900% rise in number of infants born with congenital syphilis" | Mississippi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/12/mississippi-alarming-rise-newborns-syphilis
All I know is that SO many loving parents on the internet are SO angry at Chelsea Handler's "childless woman" video now, though.
Sarah Andress on Twitter: "@TheDailyShow @chelseahandler As a childless woman in her 40s, I 100% feel this! I get pretty tired of people condescending to me bc I have chosen not to have kids." / Twitter
Ah, to be sarcastic and a woman.
I thought this was rather funny (ha-ha, she had so much time as a childless woman that she even went back in time & killed Hitler!) But a lot of self-righteous "loving" parents sure did hate it A LOT, according to the comments. Hmmm.
Chelsea Handler on Twitter: "Just another day. https://t.co/Bf4cdBqunG" / Twitter
https://twitter.com/chelseahandler/status/1624130272265662464
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
The Humans Deserve Better
Alesha on Twitter: "@JessicaValenti Hemorrhage is already the 4th leading cause of death in the US for pregnant women. Allowing a woman to bleed out in the name of their forced birth crusade is the pinnacle of anti woman & pro-death. https://t.co/5LJIW4IKTr" / Twitter
Liked this Library Story.
"In Yerevan, feminists and members of the LGBTQ+ community hide away to read" - Equal Times
https://www.equaltimes.org/in-yerevan-feminists-and-members#.Y-xJsaSIYzQ
Urf. Quite a day.
It seems my body still thinks cults are quite often bad for human health on so many levels. For example, there's still a cult of motherhood mentality which seems connected to limiting access to healthcare and controlling the bodies and minds of girls and women in ways which I still cannot feel comfortable with. It's not that motherhood can't be beautiful, or that group activities can't be fun. But I get these gut feelings that getting into a cult-like mentality about it is really not what nature intended.
Checking out this V-Day Story!
"What happens when you start trusting women? We have the receipts" | Life and style | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/feb/13/v-day-womens-rights-activism-gender-feminism
Ooooh, also good, potentially.
"San Mateo County launches task force to improve living conditions for farm workers" | KRON4
Fun?
Kinda sorta.
"Learning How to Become 'Not the Fun Kind' of Feminist" - The Bull & Bear
https://bullandbearmcgill.com/learning-how-to-become-not-the-fun-kind-of-feminist/
"Jane Fonda Assumed She 'Wouldn't Live Past 30'" | Vanity Fair
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/02/jane-fonda-never-thought-live-past-30-life-career-challenges-call-her-daddy-podcast
"How Alexandra Cooper turned 'Call Her Daddy' into a multimillion-dollar baby" - Los Angeles Times
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-06-09/how-alexandra-cooper-call-her-daddy-podcast-empire
Thanks!
It seems like progress when you notice this positive change: X, who used to regularly act out in ways that definitely reminded you of icky school bus sexual harrassers, is seemingly NOT relying so much on using misogynistic rhetoric to feel more important to The Patriarchy anymore. Progress is great, yeah?
Hey.
"How Angry Parents Forced Florida to Back Down From Forcing Student Athletes to Reveal Menstrual History"
It will be a Terrific Day.
X 2 can be 4-teen on the inside and embarking on a psychedelic experience, & yet 40-something on the outside and almost embarking on a cup of chamomile tea.
That is ONE drastic statistic. Just ONE!
"Mississippi sees 900% rise in number of infants born with congenital syphilis" | Mississippi | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/12/mississippi-alarming-rise-newborns-syphilis
For the Love of God.
"Premie" - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premie
What if your dad comes back as a premier...premie with syphilis in the next life, and you have to use an orange to knit a cozy cap to keep his little head warm?
The lights of their hearts will open their minds.
"BUT HEARTS!"
"The Heart Health of X Type of People Certainly Does Matter Since Others Could Hardly Have Enjoyed Such Comfortable Lifestyles Without All Their Labors"
"Truth Be Told, It Hurts Our Hearts To See That The Patriarchal Ones Were Raised To Act Like Their Menfolk Are Entitled To Degrade Anyone Thet Want in order to Deal With Their Own Despair."
"How to Heal Your Heart When It Got Hurt While Encountering Certain People's Insensitive 'Entitled To Be The Most Pampered By The Unwell Patriarchy' Mentality."
"Nevertheless, maybe they will someday open their hearts to those other kinds of people even if they weren't exactly encouraged by the Patriarchal Ones to do so."
"In These Trying Times, You Still Can't Succumb To Despair, Because Maybe Their Descendants WILL HAVE HEARTS THAT HEAR OTHERS."
It's like a calm mood has come back for some reason.
If you do have a heart that can hear certain things, perhaps even a little bit in advance of others, isn't it a gift to yourself if you can listen to it? And not just squelch it, or toss it away in order to fit in with others, or temporarily be the one who is supposedly "in control." Oh well. That's rather like a cape which certain people put on, for a time.
Even as more and more upheavals occur, couldn't it be that a more balanced, safer, happier world is increasingly possible for many (& not just a select few with a lot of money) whenever more humans on the planet feel free to tap into & enjoy such gifts?
Oh well. Maybe I will be able to sleep soon.
I know I am far from perfect, but...
I honestly do not believe that people have to wait until "the next life" to choose a more expanded version of life.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Inspiration evolved slightly...
The other ones looked fancier, but what is this liquor.
"Elderflower Cucpakes with Lemon Frosting" | St-Germain Cupcakes
Inspired to suggest someone else make them.
"Alcohol Infused Cupcakes" | Boozy Cocktail Cupcakes With Liquor
https://www.cupcakesandcutlery.com/alcohol-infused-cupcakes/