I have a lot of dishes to do and I put on some Skating Polly to listen to while I was doing them because I either have to wash them or put them in a small countertop dishwasher and it was so funny b/c the cat jumped up on the table where the phone was on top of a cracker box and she started curling around it like the cracker box and the phone blaring the music was her pillow.
Sadly I did not get a picture, and now she's doing off some other cat thing.
But it was cute!!!!
I am going to pick out a seafood combo and split it, and then steam broccoli and cauliflower and add that, so then we will have two meals with vegetables? Yeah, that's what I'm going to do. Similar to the other night with the Hawaiian BBQ.
I think I'm going to go up to Long John Silver's and use a coupon that's going to expire today because I haven't eaten there in like over 20 years and they don't really have a lot of them out here. But they do have one in this town. I remember they used to have a lot of them around when I was a little kid and probably the last time I ate their food was when I was living in New York as an adult. But I might have eaten my meal in Pennsylvania, on the way to to where I was livinh. But it really did kind of remind me of, I don't know, people who want to read Moby Dick or tales from seafarers in Massachusetts and that kind of thing, so I think it might be actually fun to have some of that again today.
Because why not? Maybe I will even listen to it today.
"Pleiadian Workbook | Awakening Your Divine Ka"
~ Awakened Aspects
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F7WhRtpbXVQ&si=cIXiMeeZo0sV7BaQ
We're in search of The Universe of The Magical Healing Things.
My friend found this to listen to for a few minutes...
"The Great Way (Beginner's Mind Poem) - Hsin Hsin Ming..."
~ Awaken the World Film
I showed this to a friend who smokes:
https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/about-listening
And it reminded her a lot about mindfulness kinds of things, and about taking time, slowing things down, as if one were an astronaut reaching for a cup of water, or applying toothpaste to a toothbrush, and that she's more apt to just take one or two puffs and then be done with her smoke break when she's being slow and mindful.
Before I visited my friend I saw a chiropractor who lived in Ithaca and we talked about NY.
My friend and I also watched "The Rewrite," which I think is fun if you ignore any attempts at representing "feminism." Also, I didn't think anyone could actually get fired for sleeping with a student when I went there, but that's a plot device in the movie.
They put the star, Hugh Grant, in a place that reminded me of one I lived in. It's because of the style of the home's porch and placement of the driveway.
My friend said she was having fun as I was having fun.
She never lived in NY, but she used to be on the East Coast, and she went to a wedding in NY that was an hour from Niagara Falls.
It was fun to look at the screen and say, "Hey, I ate at that diner!"
That movie came out ten years after I had lived there. What else is still there? Hmmm.
Smoking had already gotten much less popular by the time it was made!
Looking forwards to lots of new songs to learn about in addition to the ones I already got familiar with!
FLOOD ~ "Skating Polly Chaos County Line"
https://floodmagazine.com/136306/skating-polly-chaos-county-line-track-by-track/
Skating Polly – "They're Cheap (I'm Free)" Lyrics
https://genius.com/Skating-polly-theyre-cheap-im-free-lyrics
Skating Polly – "Camelot" Lyrics
https://genius.com/Skating-polly-camelot-lyrics
Skating Polly – "Hail Mary" Lyrics
https://genius.com/Skating-polly-hail-mary-lyrics
Skating Polly – "Little Girl Blue and the Battle Envy"
https://genius.com/Skating-polly-little-girl-blue-and-the-battle-envy-lyrics
Oh, I am dizzy and faint, for real.
Maybe it's bleeding. Maybe it's stress.
Oh wait, now I feel better and can do stuff.
Learning how to get much better at taking care of my health instead of trying to argue with people who were trained to unsee things and rewarded for being clueless about the harmfulness a lot of imbalances are causing is a task of life!
~ Tyler Bender
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QODxsz1rbYE&si=HvkEHNl4XdDTd9TI
"....Jesus would have been a blue-haired liberal...Just, like, be nice..."
"This is where I decided that I will go to war against this woman."
"Tradwives Need To Be BANNED"
~ Tyler Bender
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QODxsz1rbYE&si=HvkEHNl4XdDTd9TI
Did you feel kinda deprived because you didn't get the kind of mommy they put on TV?
Well, thaaaat's TELEVISION.
~ Tyler Bender
"The Patriarchy has clearly communicated that it likes my genetics better and I return the the favor by constantly fawning and look at me now!"
"Uh, I don't know...'cause my parents wanted me to be good at it?"
"If I was a man like you a lot of your friends would totally get suckered into making a lot of excuses for me! It is like money don't care and daddy issues just takes over."
What a gateway into the query "Why do the women most favored by the Patriarchal Culture make more excuses for all kinds of sexism from all kinds of men?"
"And sometimes they make the most excuses for the sexist women too! Lotsa internalized sexism and misogyny!"
I think younger people already pay more attention to and find more of themselves reflected in middle class people who entertain them on YouTube and TikTok.
"The six people who died were all immigrants from Latin America, according to officials and their families. As conservative lawmakers continue to demonize immigrants, the tragedy serves as a timely reminder of the essential role these people play in fueling the U.S. economy. To be clear, immigrants contribute much more to the country than their labor. But highlighting their economic contributions — and the risks that immigrants take to make them — is just one way to call out the right-wing bigots who claim they want America to prosper yet malign people who help make that prosperity possible."
~ Ja'han Jones
"'The Baltimore bridge collapse victims were all immigrants. Here’s why we can’t ignore that.'
'The human stories at the heart of the bridge collapse undermine conservatives’ racist rhetoric about Latin American immigrants.'"
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/baltimore-key-bridge-victims-immigrants-rcna145552
"Maybe the grandchildren will also consider more varieties of 'different' people to also be like real actual human beings, and maybe they'll actually act like they realize it more, too."
Wouldn't it be nice if All Ages of Farmworkers could be warm and dry inside?
"I dgaf about girls & women's rights if those girls & women don't have my genetics is sexist and racist and discriminatory."
The Patriarchy made you insecure and shallow and manipulative and untrustworthy and rewarded you for being uncaring, insensitive, violent and selfish because that's what made them feel "in control." Perhaps you're tired of it now?
Is Patriarchal pro-natalism gonna be as nice to them? 👰👰🏻👰🏼👰🏽👰🏾👰🏿
Do you still have the same "entitled girl by the swimming pool" values you had a few years ago?
"The Rise and Fall of the Trad Wife" | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-trad-wife
"The False Escapism of Soft Girls and Tradwives"
https://time.com/6835737/soft-girls-tradwives-mental-health-essay/
"Lands, a licensed mental health counselor, had also campaigned on education and economic development issues, but took square aim at the state’s abortion ban, at times invoking the deeply personal to do so. She shared her story of obtaining an abortion two decades ago after genetic testing determined the baby had trisomy 13, a genetic disorder, and could not survive."
~ Kim Chandler
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-ivf-abortion-legislature-378c3fa32dcfc2d0401f3893828482af
"Rows of mostly-blond children. Long, layered haircuts, ranging from cornsilk blond to light brown with blond highlights."
~ Amanda Marcotte
"'Tradwives' offer an alluring vision of right-wing Christianity"
And for some reason (like easy rewards?), it is now being manufactured for the pro-natalist and not exactly anti-racist MAGA people.
"Why is cottagecore so white?" | Grist
https://grist.org/climate/why-is-cottagecore-so-white/
"I have no ambition in life - but I feel fine"
- The Cottage Fairy
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eAdhk8GkKhU&si=ag0vPzsiM0hZtRVl
"'Tradwives' offer an alluring vision of right-wing Christianity"
"Lands, a Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips seat in Alabama House"
https://apnews.com/article/alabama-ivf-abortion-legislature-378c3fa32dcfc2d0401f3893828482af
I guess I still really want all of the narcissistic, self-absorbed people who nevertheless benefited materialistically from aligning their choices with More Discriminatory Patriarchal Crap to just stop feeling so entitled to keep on dehumanizing people with their shallow values and behaviors.
When X was convinced to be very insensitive, insecure, and rude, even by the standards of X's culture.
How Shallow You Acted Just Because You Got Distracted.
I can believe your grandkids are gonna be so much better to girls and women than what got role modeled for them.
"Entertaining Comedians" are also $0 sexist and $0 rewarded for being Wounded Bully Billionaire Proportions of Mean and Patriarchal and Ignorant and Shallow and Unhealthy. How Do They Continue The Charade? I Think They Must Be Addicted To Mediocre Survival.
We talked about things like our capacity for love and our spiritual growth, and just for fun, we watched "The Rewrite." Just imagine. Well, we will get back to it. Later...
This was HIS life experience. NOT my life experience.
"That Precarious Gait - Quest for Meaning"
"There will be families at the parking lot in Twenty-Nine Palms"
~ S. Holland
https://www.questformeaning.org/military-2/that-precarious-gait/
I will be sharing all about how nice life was a few hours ago but in the meanwhile I went to the kitchen and made a sandwich of gluten free bread, arugula, and pepperoni from a food bank and had the "Oh, $0 you think a life revolving around pregnancy and comforts for certain body types in a Shallow Patriarchal Caucasian Centric Culture DOESN'T DO IT FOR YOU????" Experience.
"Get Your $*** TOGETHER U PATRIARCHAL PEON$!" Ahhhhh...HAHAHAAAA! Waaah! Whyyyyy???? Soooo muuuuuch Bleeeeeeding again?!!!!
Smart Goddess knows I am grateful for my friend and yesterday's personality around my friend and we need to do it again SOOON!
As soon as I can get motivated for composure. It is my therapy. *Sad rage silent scream about too little help for certain female health issues under certain kinds of trying circumstances.*
But (Help!) of course I can't talk about it yet because I woke up early with the kind of body in a Patriarchal society (Help!) that is putting me through a sad experience that makes me wonder why why people are trained to be so awful (Help!) to certain kinds of women & girls!!!
I am just sad I have bled too much (Why?) and gotten too little feedback in exchange for big medical bills (Why?) because our only option is the employer provided insurance that makes everything come out of the deductible (Why?)
Help! Help! Help!
Why? Why? Why?
VERY sad about my personal health crisis, and if I just own these emotions, I can get back to all those very interesting and nice happy feelings I was having just a few short hours ago!!!!!
Why does the Patriarchal Culture want to destroy people!?
X: "Do you think sunscreen makes your skin look pale?"
Y: "Uh...I guess it could..."
"bc regular sunscreen..."
~ simplysri
This is cool; she's got lots of content!
"happy mother's day..."
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLr4kPH9/
"we love a guy who..."
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLr4Yfh7/
"yea..."
~ simplyysri
By the petulant child demeanor you slip into again whenever you start to kinda sorta almost actually think about it.
"Timeline of rain expected in Southern California over Easter Weekend"
https://abc7.com/timeline-of-rain-snow-in-southern-california-easter-weekend-weather/14584734/
What does it mean?
"The Joy of Paul (Bear) Vasquez, the Double-Rainbow Guy"
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-joy-of-paul-bear-vasquez-the-double-rainbow-guy
"Saldaña bill protecting adult entertainment workers' rights signed into law"
"Product Manager Got a $40,000 Raise Using 'Lazy Girl Strategy'"
https://www.businessinsider.com/got-pay-raise-lazy-girl-strategy-2024-3
"Cancer diagnosis redirects Sen. Rebecca Saldaña’s Energy"
"Spurned by the economy, young Americans are feeling so lonely and powerless they plunged the nation’s happiness score"
https://fortune.com/2024/03/23/world-happiness-report-genz-american-dream-boomers-financial-future/
"The First-Term Washington State Senator Who Prays For the Confidence of a Mediocre White Man"
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/news/a45488/rebecca-saldana-interview-washington-state/
"normalize..."
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLr5v5xk/
"love my dad..."
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLr5t8gK/
"according to highschool dress code..."
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLr5F8M7/
"'Clean Girl Aesthetic'"
~ simplyysri
I might see a nice chiropractor soon and I hope she doesn't ask me if my husband works in IT again, and I wonder why she's accidentally done it several times...
and those ladies at a store in a mall who were saying that people cold call and ask for jobs but it seems to them that there's not many hiring these days, sometimes I get terrified of how easy and normal it feels for some people to just slip into certain behaviors and modes and ways of life.
"Come, be like me, slip into a cozy bubble bath of 'what the Caucasian-centric Patriarchal Culture deems as normal and better,' and you will be rewarded with better living conditions."
And then I want to cry.
"the narrative flips..."
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLr5dCVj/
"it just comes so natural..."
~ simplyysri
"how moms treat sons versus daughters"
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLr5dvos/
"when your parents say they were married and had kids by your age"
~ simplyysri
"POV entering a stem class"
~ simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLrDV2sM/
"when your friend thinks their baby is the cutest"
~ simplyysri
If you order one chicken and beef plate from Ono Hawaiian BBQ plus two Spam Musabi (I wanted to try it and that dream came true tonight) and then add extra broccoli at home you could make four meals out of it! I tried to only divide it into three portions and I got too full to finish! A mini meal is waiting for me to eat at a better time, alongside more food still in the to-go box.
What if Anne Frank came back as Barbro Karlen and next she's gonna come back as a yoga practitioner who maybe writes a few haikus now and then...
are DREAMS to give me the BEST intuitive guidance on what my health and body REALLY needs NOW.
If you'd had kids back then, they might be entertaining people already!
"When you and your friend have an age gap"
~ simplyysri
Some TikTok'rs prolly have parents who are younger than you!
"our parents in their 20s"
~ simplyysri
Put the TikTok app on my phone so I could access more content...
"by far the funniest excuse..."
~ simplyysri
The other week I saw a video come up about "limerence" and I knew it was going to be about all the dangerous things about it so I decided to not to click on it, because why not just go with the flow, let it be, say, okay that's what happens sometimes, but no one thing is ever forever, so why not just be curious, maybe it could help you learn some things or become more emotionally intelligent about yourself...be musical...
Fiona Apple - "Shadowboxer (Official HD Video)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QnXjISlKLuE&si=EUyfU_soi4S1rhDx
&
Fiona Apple - "Paper Bag (Official HD Video)"
Summer Wind plus Karma Police could be something like "what you'll get..."
Frank Sinatra - "Summer Wind (2008 Remastered)"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8DopzOCeKJc&si=SnjGQ48JGtpfg8xf
Radiohead - "Karma Police"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1uYWYWPc9HU&si=AWc7tT2Z1CRp0WIB
Nurse Nancy and Matthew Sinatra Duet after about 1 hour & 18 minutes.
"Call the Midwife S12E00 Christmas Special 2022"
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gmusx
"Somethin' Stupid (2008 Remastered)"
~ Frank Sinatra
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y_t2gNCXYbY&si=n-Libs2CBGzzqZ7J
I woke up. I believe I can be calm. I can be well. I can heal. I can be more about what I love about the world.
"To all the guys who would have been fired or reprimanded or penalized by both men and women if they had NOT been in a dude's body when they said or did that thing..."
SPECIAL TREATMENT.
"Representing 40 percent of California’s population, Latinos face heightened risks of exposure to paraquat because of their disproportionate representation in agricultural work. With Latinos making up 96 percent of farmworkers in California, the risks extend beyond the fields, as pesticide drift can infiltrate homes, further endangering residents’ health.
'California’s Latino communities should not be subjected to additional health risks due to the negligent actions of pesticide manufacturers, farm owners and state regulatory agencies,' said EWG Government Affairs Manager Geoff Horsfield.
EWG’s analysis underscores the urgent need for regulatory intervention to ease the disproportionate impact of paraquat on these communities in California and beyond. As the EPA falters in its duty to safeguard public health, EWG urges state and local governments to protect their residents from the dangers of paraquat exposure."
~ Alex Formuzis
"Toxic weedkiller linked to Parkinson’s poses disproportionate risk to Latino farmworkers, families in California"
A man who has been materialistically rewarded for those things far more than the average person decided to grow as a human being and find better ways of dealing with life?
And, if a certain environment hadn't become toxic and traumatic, perhaps I wouldn't have known a little about another kind of story? And I don't mind that I accidentally made a little donation to her new place of employment in the past when someone affiliated with them listened to me and gave me helpful breathing techniques and such.
"It's just a snippet, but today was jam-packed..."
https://www.instagram.com/theconfidencecoach_uplift/reel/C18-NXku9gs/
"Fired Mt. SAC Women's Volleyball Coach's Suit Dismissed"
https://mynewsla.com/education/2024/03/19/fired-mt-sac-womens-volleyball-coachs-suit-dismissed/
"Kerman woman turns 4,000 tamales into $10,000 donation to families of dead farmworkers"
"A Functional Medicine Menorrhagia Protocol..."
"Lady’s Mantle and/or Shepards Purse to help lighten..."
And yet Character has far less in common with, say, woman bleeding profusely after much displacement and bombing, than Character has in common with TikTok Soldiers' Antics & Stuff.
That's why it feels easier for the Character when they conveniently choose to ignore everything about whatever's inconvenient for them to see at the moment, in exchange for lots of money and praise from...who?
From...Who?
Moneyed people!
$0 many privileged yet sadly shallow people, who also do not act like they care very much about civil rights for the 'unimportant ones,' even though sometimes those are the same people whose labors they rely heavily upon to maintain their lifestyle?
When will Certain Rich Dudes explain why I am a completely unstable or even worthless "asset" to most of their "friends" just because I don't seem to have developed as much of a fawn response!?
"Republicans would rather boycott Tyson Foods than acknowledge how essential immigrant workers are
There are about 2.4 million farm workers in America. Foreign-born workers make up 68% of that workforce"
Why does not giving a crap about human rights for certain kinds of bleeding people make them supposedly feel more safe and and pampered and cozy, but actually, not really, huh? Because who bullies and works to de-legitimize others' experiences when they actually feel secure inside of themselves? Imagine being nearly a senior citizen with the emotional responses of a person in a decades younger stage of development. Do you think that's nice for humanity?
I should not hang out with rich insecure dudes who still get too many rewards for being shallow to want to change. We don't have the same life.
But I was wondering...so some of them might feel out of proportion defensive when you don't give them lots of compliments and make excuses for their B.S. Do they get into a bully kind of mode because they're scared? Are they, like facing down the pit of death and despair and fighting it off with the Patriarchally Instilled Bully?
Oh well, time to either turn on the heating pad or look for some ice cream.
They're just not fun at all when their mean, shallow personalities take over.
Just remembered Sam Oliner again.
"What Kind of Future Will Our Children Inherit?"
https://www.amazon.com/What-Kind-Future-Children-Inherit/dp/1947112511
"About | The Altruistic Behavior Institute"
"Miscarriage rates in Gaza turn pregnancy into death sentence"
https://www.newarab.com/features/miscarriage-rates-gaza-turn-pregnancy-death-sentence
"Israel has managed to inflict pain on the very uterus of Palestinian existence."
~ Fatimah Mohamied
"A midwife's duty of care to pregnant women in Gaza"
https://www.newarab.com/opinion/midwifes-duty-care-pregnant-women-gaza
Think of nice little kid who wasn't so easily duped into going along with being a bully.
If you're a Member of Something Shallow then Disappointment Has Definitely Happened, but maybe it's time to at least get yourself better, too...
Bodies can be painful to live in. People can be stressful and insensitive to deal with.
"O'Brien's attempt to shut his own eyes, not see the checkpoints he crossed on the way to Bethlehem for what they are, the Old City for its volatility or Netanyahu for his dire role in local politics - are ever more apparent when you compare it to his critical approach towards Trump."
~ Hagar Shezaf
"During his visit, the Late Night host praised Israel's military and hospital staff, and took to mocking Palestinians."
"Netanyahu's new poodle: Conan O'Brien rolls over for Israel"
https://www.newarab.com/Blog/2017/9/7/Netanyahus-new-poodle-Conan-OBrien-rolls-over-for-Israel
How do you get so convinced to go along with the mean, insensitive bullies that you start being bad to human beings when it was completely unnecessary?
Like, in this lifetime, instead of the next one, and after getting help with their abuse and misuse of their privileges issues. And with their weird bullying addictions.
"If Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted defeat in June 2021, finally yielding the stage to a coalition of his opponents, he could have retired at the age of 71 with a decent claim to having been one of Israel’s more successful prime ministers."
~ Anschel Pfeffer
I'd have to not only disregard my own health, but also be just as casual about disrespecting and dehumanizing others "as a way to get through life" as they are? It does not feel good. It does not feel healthy. It does not feel like the universe wants me to do that.
We're just grateful they're so much richer and nicer and better off than a bunch of drafted soldiers who keep making those funny tik toks about the genocide they're participating in.
I bet there's people who actually become less shallow and bigoted when they quit hanging out with shallow, bigoted people.
What if they picked fruit for others? Probably easier than being locked in a bombed out hospital and trying to help wounded people with dwindling medical supplies. They might be better at picking fruit.
They were better to different kinds of human beings when they were younger, weren't they!
What if your sociopathic parents and their narcissistic friends locked themselves in a bombed out hospital for a month and attended to the ailing and wailing, and maybe even assisted with some amputations?
What kind of person can get a rich person in a crack house to stop being in denial and get some help?
"These people might be doing less damage to others than we are. How fascinating."
The angry people in the yard would yell and they seemed like they truly did not care about anyone else and they wished harm on others.
You're not even being good to yourself or your own health. It's almost like you're in crack house full of addicts who can't get help or stop your yourselves.
Imagine shallow rich people thinking you should be grateful to them if they give you some money or an opportunity just because they might treat you better than a bunch of people they were trained by their Entitled Patriarchal White Supremacist Culture to unsee, but only if you act like they're far more important than all these other people you met in your life.
Imagine if the shallow rich people who do their very best to get the "glass half full" parts of genocide and sexism and racism went out to places and helped and fed people.
Before their greed and shallow selfishness made them acquiesce to Patriarchal Standards in exchange for material rewards or barter for social acceptance from a very unwell, uncaring bunch of people, at the expense of others.
My cat doesn't think a bunch of narcissistic Patriarchal people are trying to be dehumanizing of her or starve or bomb her out of existence.
Now I am going to go call my medical provider insurance and try to sort out the billing and then go on with my day.
I had to tell somebody who supposedly cares about me to not send a picture of himself and pregnant women at a pregnancy care center which makes him feel like a good person and makes me feel like a piece of s*** because I am apparently an inferior female. If I have a uterus that does not help me get pregnant but instead it just bleeds a lot.
Because for my "pay everything completely out of deductible" plan, I should not also need to pay for two uterine biopsies when I just got one.
Cucumber again.
"It’s okay i don’t need the home concoctions..."
https://www.instagram.com/simplyysri/reel/C49JuOOpxpQ/?hl=en
Cucumber, canine.
"Netanyahu's new poodle: Conan O'Brien rolls over for Israel"
https://www.newarab.com/Blog/2017/9/7/Netanyahus-new-poodle-Conan-OBrien-rolls-over-for-Israel
"He also visited the Aida refugee camp, from where he shared a photo alongside with kids who were 'not impressed with his showbiz stories.' Their lack of enthusiasm was an eloquent pushback to O'Brien's attempt to turn them into a sycophantic audience and his utter lack of commentary about their lives as refugees."
~ Hagar Shezaf
But, since there's still plenty of time for him, he's more open now to less of that and more of something much better?
"In Israel, Conan O'Brien Became a Patsy for Netanyahu"
All the people who get money for making the most excuses for the people with the most money.
"Arabs, while participants in the show, are not to be taken seriously. They offer bitter coffee and rip you off in the marketplace."
~ Amal Awad
"Conan O'Brien and his fantastic marketing campaign"
"That he could find the humour in it when he was given luxury treatment beggars belief, particularly given the disparities between life in sun-soaked, tree-lined Israel and the West Bank are so striking – and that's a misdeed he can't haggle his way out of."
~ Amal Awad
"Conan O'Brien and his fantastic marketing campaign for Israel"
"It's the humanising of Palestinians that gets you into trouble"
~ Amal Awad
"Conan O'Brien and his fantastic marketing campaign for Israel"
"Ocasio-Cortez Condemns US Complicity in Gaza 'Genocide' and 'Forced Famine'”
Grandma worked more than you and didn't get paid and didn't get to stay in school and probably used a straw hat and long sleeves. But she was fed and watered! Not too shabby, eh?
Yay for less sunscreen! Ha ha. We've had this joke before, haven't we? Yes dear, we certainly have!
"I talked to a priest and he said it was okay so now I feel differently."
"Better For My Sanity In All Kinds Of Ways. Good Luck To You! You're Gonna Need It!"
"Another 'My Genetics Are Just Too Superior' Day Is Getting In The Way, Again!"
I'm Less Worthless To The PATRIARCHY Since I Had MY Biology I Mean Kids But Does That MEan...
Plus, we can also care more about the mental health and the FEELINGS!
"Imma bleed for a month. Now you're not gonna ignore reproductive rights!"
Immigrants who pick your food are not less important than other people.
There are those who feel they need to act like the shallow, sexist people in a racist Hollywood Industry (who have way more in common with That Narcissistic Entertainer Extraordinare D. Trump than they want to admit) are more important than anyone else.
Just because a Slower Patriarchal Society still wants people to act that way, since you know that's quite imbalanced and unkind and unhealthy for you, too, you don't have to just go along with it, right?
Just because a Patriarchal Society wants people to act like the shallow, sexist people in racist Hollywood (who have way more in common with That Narcissistic Entertainer Extraordinare D. Trump than they want to admit) are more important than immigrants who pick your food, do you have to?
WHAT A GREAT LEARNING OPPORTUNITY THIS IS.
"NFAW - National Farmworker Awareness Week"
https://saf-unite.org/national-farmworker-awareness-week/
Sorry if 2020$ society still blatantly values you less than the narcissistic rich people.
I am grateful I have made some friends who have values that indicate that they care about all kinds of girls and women and that they don't think certain kinds of girls and women should be silenced or unseen or discriminated against.
To help her (or him) unlearn all the discriminatory and selfish attitudes the Patriarchal Ones wanted them to "just be okay with" in exchange for materialistic benefits and privileges.
"Here's the minimum annual income required to be 'Middle Class'..."
https://www.foxla.com/news/california-middle-class-income-2023
Even if you're in a female body, or even if you know doctors who take care of women in female bodies.
"I constantly have to surround myself with shallow people who make shitting on human beings their way of getting through this life, in order to maintain a certain lifestyle, and to protect myself from Illegitimate Children, Feminists, and Other Affronts To Our Patriarchal, Imbalanced, Greedy, Racist, Sexist, Selfish Ways."
I hope that the good people can help me.
Notice Who They Treat The Worst. Why Are They Still Feeling Entitled to do it, and Getting Rewarded For That $tuff?
To feel entitled to treat his wife with health problems so badly, which also impacts his well-being and his life, too.
"Other Ladies Just Have To Pretend That People Like You Simply Do Not Exist And That's How They Feel The Most Comfort When Negotiating Our Uncaring Patriarchal Landscape."
"$OME of the ladies I prefer would hate me if I was in your body right now. I had to turn myself into a bigot to get Patriarchal Ones to supposedly favor 'ME.'"
Don't even seem know why they have to be SO horrendous to girls and women just to happily exist with the Unwell, Uncaring, Sociopathic Patriarchal Ones they were trained to prefer and defer to.
Why are you so shallow, chauvinistic, sexist and discriminatory? You weren't like that when you were younger person.
Why do rich people habitually discount girls and women for sociopathic, chauvinistic rich guys?
Do I get in touch with the doctor soon about bleeding happening again so soon?
Trauma, why do you love to read about it?
"Friedan believed the future of women’s rights depended on mainstream respectability, said Shteir. In embracing that model herself, she paid a high toll. She did not leave her physically abusive marriage for 22 years, despite black eyes that she covered with make-up for TV appearances."
~ Shira Li Bartov
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-biography-revisits-legacy-of-jewish-feminist-betty-friedan/
In part, maybe I feel like the pandemic ruined any chance of me becoming a last minute biological mother. I didn't want to try to have kids during the pandemic at all. I had zero interest in that. Now I am a person with a very messed up menstrual cycle, and not rich enough to have kids anyway, and certainly not well off enough to adopt. Then the universe sent along some hyper rich people who could do that, and I am constantly grossed out by their shallow values and immaturity.
I think feminist rich men would be nicer to women and to out of wedlock children.
Seriously, they are so delusional. I wish I could send them to live in a community with people who have values that are the opposite of the colonizers.
Huuuuuh....
So many people made their strange appearances in the past...just to be a learning experience.
I don't exactly know how I became more comfortable reading about trauma than having certain kinds of conversations, but I suppose it's just a facet of my human conditioning and a bigger part of my consciousness could be more forthcoming any day now. I am glad I had people around me who were really into spiritual things when I was growing up, and I could probably get back in touch with a lot of who I am, and what better things I could be doing, pretty soon.
Of getting in touch with my friendly inner child who who likes to make friends and ride bikes and roller skate.
Windham Hill Records Sampler '84
I had a weirdly fun experience walking through a department store today. I just felt kind of upbeat for some reason. I wouldn't want to hang out there all day, but it was kind of amusing?
I appreciate the more sensitive doctors and technicians and I feel grateful the ones I have seen lately had good communication styles. In order of least to most tolerable: the full bladder pelvic ultrasound was the least fun, the uterine biopsy was technically more painful but in a way it was more bearable due to some pain killers & breathing out to deal with the pain, and the least awful was the goo covered wand that takes pictures of your ovaries.
"Things I've Been Silent About" by Azar Nafisi
I either added merguez or advieh without rose🌸 petals. Off to process a lot of information about how to deal with grief and rage about certain kinds of "Socially Acceptable Inequities" (for some people, who could do much better if they had more maturity and empathy and emotional intelligence!) Sorry the patriarchy rewarded you so much for becoming such an insensitive to others kind of older adult, when you used to be way less egocentric and better at listening to people when you were younger.
Quick Tomato Sauce Night: Newman's Own was both the cheapest & the best (only extra virgin olive oil and no added sugar.) "100% Profits To Help Kids."
"Historically, men translated the Odyssey.
Here’s what happened when a woman took the job."
Monthly Review | "An indomitable anti-Zionist Jewish feminist talks about the steadfastness (sumud) of Palestinians (A Land With A People coeditor interviewed for ‘The Famous Feminist’)"
"Mother Cabrini Beyond the Movie: With 'Unwavering Love of Jesus,’ She Trusted Christ Completely
Executive director of the St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Shrine in New York City outlines the strong faith of the remarkable saint"
I think it's really weird if your insecure dad comes back as an illegitimate child in his next life and when someone like a mom in a different kind of body tries to be really, really, extra nice to him at the expense of others he'll be like "No! I was such a mean, self-absorbed, insecure, sociopathic rich guy! I need to learn about other kinds of people now!" And then all kinds of things start happening. Like planting gardens and meditating. Or other, even crazier kinds of activities! What could they be?
"Celebrating the hands that feed us: Farmworker Awareness Week"
https://theproducenews.com/headlines/celebrating-hands-feed-us-farmworker-awareness-week
If forgotten brown children weren't feeding them...
"I don't want to hang out with the guys who treat women better. It will feel too weird."
They really really want you to be shallow, too. Shallowness is where they feel most safe and cozy. But it's too mean. And it never lasts forever. That is why Inequity is Such An Issue in Our Society.
"Grandma on that side only propped up sexism and Patriarchal White Supremacy because some myopic sociopathic rich guys really wanted her to do it."
What's a person who can't get access to healthcare and has bad dreams about chauvinistic, brainwashed women got to do with a man who died when a bridge collapsed in another lifetime?
Greedy women and men demonstrate why they're a large part of the reason why their society is soooo sloooow to change for the benefit of future generations.
Because if they stopped acting like they needed to be such untrustworthy and manipulative people, or if they quit acting like those guys are the most entitled to behave like uncaring, myopic, chauvinistic jerks, they'd just be so discomfited.
"Reporter sues Detroit station, claims discrimination in Gaza coverage, firing
The departure of Ibrahim Samra from CBS Detroit is the latest instance of how disputes over Gaza coverage have roiled newsrooms across the U.S."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/03/25/palestinian-detroit-reporter-fired-lawsuit/
"I was worried ‘Cabrini’ would be another sappy religious movie. I was wrong."
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2024/03/08/cabrini-film-review-247453
How Do You Get The Chauvinistic Guys Who Don't Care About You or Your Civil Rights To Donate Money or, maybe even better, Start Caring About Creating A Healthy Society?
"Supreme Court hears its biggest abortion case since the fall of Roe"
"Michigan officials release statements as U.S. Supreme Court hears abortion pill case"
"Half Full With More Benefits & Rewards For ME If I Align Myself With Shallow, Sexist, Patriarchal Standards!"
When I saw a spiritual nun to deal with trauma and to have session about some breathing techniques and other things a while back, I gave a small donation to a school that she supports in return. Well, how funny it was to find out that a woman who had to leave a work environment due to men and "we men" (ha ha, sorry, I mean women) being held to different standards in that environment is now able to work at the school I gave my small donation to!
"Former head coach suing Mt. SAC for gender discrimination"
https://sac.media/2024/01/03/former-head-coach-suing-mt-sac-for-gender-discrimination/
I wonder if the tragic ladies who still act like the mean dads are their best friends ever have to fight off "But addressing my own internalized misogyny can benefit both sons and daughters! Why wouldn't I want to get better at doing it?" thoughts to get through another day?
When you treat certain women and girls badly, you're also being very disrespectful to the nicer men and women who are better to those certain girls and women.
"Oh no, why are these Patriarchal women and men going to be way, way worse to dads like him when he gets reborn into a different body?"
Certain well-off women are gonna get so much more truthful and better at explaining why acting like the rude, sexist rich guys were far more important than anyone else on the planet was an attractive way for them to cope with their already tenuous positions in an Extremely Equity-Challenged Patriarchal Society in the 2020s.
A walk to the laundry room gives unexpected delight.
Sometimes it's visible. Sometimes it's hidden behind the clouds but the light shines through the gaps.
Communicative and pleasant people, a clearer sense of the order of certain things, a feeling of more freedom, pictures of one's ovaries, and now, more space to breathe! 🎶
I'm sure the pelvic ultrasound (s?) and a bunch other stuff will all sort itself out, eventually.
"Morning Rooms - beautiful places to be"
~ Nikki Moreno
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wd8fDOm1zs8&si=PqTljiJDg00sRwSL
"I didn't leave my house for a week - nesting and doing my best"
~ The Cottage Fairy
"In the United States, women’s reproductive rights, gained through half a century of feminist struggle, are rapidly being replaced with reproductive wrongs."
~ Julie Bindel
"The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere"
"The US war on reproductive rights should concern women everywhere"
"Why 2024 may be the most consequential election for reproductive rights in 50 years"
They just acted like that WHEN THEY BECAME OLDER because of all the rewards they could access from Patriarchal Sources whenever they chose to align themselves with those kinds of behaviors and attitudes.
"That one's Grandparents were way smarter about disrespecting girls and women, honestly."
"I am sure that when He or She reincarnates into even more fortunate circumstances, the Well-Beings of His or Her Kinds as well as Your & Our Kinds will start to Feel far more Interesting for Every Body to Consider."
This doesn't say anything about taking AZO Bladder Control (cheaper at Walmart) ahead of time, but I am still gonna try it!
"Pelvic Ultrasound" | Johns Hopkins Medicine
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/pelvic-ultrasound
"Silver Man"
~ Lisa & Francesca
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RnQNyk-fChg&si=pSIKemK1d4-8ej_Z
"If not for the veto of George Harrison..." What???
"Chimera - ‘Holy Grail’ (2017) - It's Psychedelic Baby"
https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2018/07/chimera-holy-grail-2017-review.html
The "How to be a slow living fairy and the best ways to use a thermometer in these technologically advancing times" episode isn't streaming yet...
I gotta catch up. My far-off relative who got a nice mysterious plant present recently is watching it these days. Good things are going on in the world!
Cuz, like, in the past, when I went there, and I had to wait, I mean, when I had this other health insurance, they didn't see me right away. So I went to the bathroom, and then I just drank a whole bunch of water to try to make up for it and then waited a little, and then they were able to do the procedure with the amount that I drank even though it wasn't according to what their instructions were. So when I go tomorrow, I think I'm going to have my little Johns Hopkins article with me and I'm going to ask them, Are we doing one or two types of ultrasounds today? And am I supposed to empty the bladder if I have a wand inside of me? Because if so, I really think I would appreciate having the opportunity to do that.
"How do I prepare for a pelvic ultrasound?
EAT/DRINK : Drink a minimum of 24 ounces of clear fluid at least one hour before your appointment. Do not empty your bladder until after the exam.
Generally, no fasting or sedation is required for a pelvic ultrasound, unless the ultrasound is part of another procedure that requires anesthesia.
For a transvaginal ultrasound, you should empty your bladder right before the procedure."
"Pelvic Ultrasound" | Johns Hopkins Medicine
I'm so very confused.
I told my friend that the thing I dreaded about an ultrasound was the full bladder stuff and she said well when she had an ultrasound she actually had to have an empty bladder and I thought gee that sounds better to me.
But of course I have to have a full bladder for the one that's coming up again.
Because I believe in the past I had a "transvaginal ultrasound" in which I was not permitted to empty my bladder and then I had a wand inside me, and I have a pelvic ultrasound this time and I know you're not supposed to empty your bladder.
(Noted a day later: Actually now I wonder if I might have been remembering it wrong. Maybe it was just that the first part of the procedure stuck in my memory and overrode what happened in the second part? Because of certain communication issues?)
But when I read this John Hopkins article it says with a transvaginal ultrasound you're supposed to empty your bladder but with a pelvic ultrasound you're not supposed to
But trans vaginal whatever is inside and pelvic one is outside????
(Noted a day later: Why did I not remember that it happens in two parts like this?)
And what the hell, why did my transvaginal ultrasound in the past involve both a full bladder and a wand inside me?
(Noted a day later: Again, could I have been remembering this incorrectly, because I was traumatized by the first part?)
???????????????????
"How do I prepare for a pelvic ultrasound?
EAT/DRINK : Drink a minimum of 24 ounces of clear fluid at least one hour before your appointment. Do not empty your bladder until after the exam.
Generally, no fasting or sedation is required for a pelvic ultrasound, unless the ultrasound is part of another procedure that requires anesthesia.
For a transvaginal ultrasound, you should empty your bladder right before the procedure."
"Pelvic Ultrasound"| Johns Hopkins Medicine
Perhaps this will make a pelvic ultrasound a more pleasant experience!
"When your grandchildren are probably gonna be much nicer to girls and women than you were."
Lots of women aligned have themselves with those patterns just to get treated better, too.
However, health could become a much bigger priority in the future, maybe.
"I Hope You All Feel Terrible Now" - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/kate-middleton-cancer-announcement/677863/
