I also think that people are getting more used to finding pleasure in being more curious about people who are different from them, instead of being threatened by such.
And, I also think it's getting harder and harder to ignore that a lot how society functions depends on the labors of the others.
It just reminded me that actually, liberal people and conservative people tend to have a lot in common when it comes to their treatment of "others" in society.
Both liberal and conservative people share the tendency of feeling very uncomfortable with certain "other" kinds of people. And both liberal people and conservative people seem to feel the most comfortable with people who have fit in well with the Patriarchy, based on their genetics and upbringing, and the choices that were available to them. So actually...they have a lot in common, whether they identify as conservative or as liberal people...
People who voted for Trump and people who voted for Biden actually really do have a lot in common!
What were they?
"Dad Charges Superintendent at High School Graduation"
https://time.com/6986087/wisconsin-father-storms-graduation-superintendent/
"Second Generation" by Bernadette Kirwan
Excerpt from pg.113 in my book 💚 #thecelticarab
"Violette trailer" - English subtitles
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lzhp2PCOWfI&si=wdHjAd2PxvQdyRLf
But I felt it was worth watching!
"Violette Leduc on Simone de Beavoir"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dkn54x5tw9k&si=rkxwIEG9j_pHNY-5
I wonder if Violette ever thought of herself as "genetically favored?"
"Writing for Madame: The Complex Friendship of Violette Leduc and Simone de Beauvoir"
"Burn Your Village (Same Old Energy pt.II)"
~ Kiki Rockwell
"Robertson went to her doctor, went to different doctors, many times. 'I was always asking for help,' she says. 'I’d say, I want to know why my periods are so bad. I’d want to know what was wrong with me, but I’d just be told: ‘Periods can be like this.’ It made me feel I was wasting their time.' She was about 30 when her best friend told her: 'I’ve found the password! I know how to get proper treatment. Tell your doctor that you’re trying for a baby.'”
So Robertson did. 'The doctor literally said: ‘Lets get to the bottom of this, then,’” says Robertson. 'No one wanted to get to the bottom of why, every month, I was debilitated and in pain. Now that I wanted a baby, I was given an internal scan. I got to see a gynaecologist. All these things finally happened.' As a result, Robertson was diagnosed with adenomyosis – a condition that might affect as many as one in 10 women. (Last year, BBC presenter Naga Munchetty described its devastating impact on her life, saying she’d been 'failed and gaslit' by the NHS.)"
~ Anna Moore
"What happens when a woman’s monthly bleeding just won’t stop? Marjolein Robertson discusses her years-long fight to get help for her haemorrhaging and pain – and how she turned this into comedy"
By Anna Moore
"The period that almost killed me..."
"Macron also bestowed the Legion of Honor on 103-year-old Christian Lamb, the daughter of a Royal Navy admiral who was studying in Normandy in 1939 when her father called her back to London. There, Lamb created detailed maps that guided the crews of landing craft on D-Day.
The French president bent down to Lamb in a wheelchair, pin the medal and kiss her on both cheeks, describing her as one of the 'heroes in the shadows.'”
~ JOHN LEICESTER, SYLVIE CORBET AND DANICA KIRKA
"Dwindling number of D-Day veterans plea to recall WWII lessons in today's wars"
https://apnews.com/article/d-day-france-russia-ukraine-wwii-7b6896a9d891fb2d2f75b29e1cfd67ad
"She lived the next two years in safety in Limburg, not far from where her son was being cared for, though she could not know where he was for security reasons. The only sign that he was well was an unsigned letter from Max’s foster mother allaying Rebecca’s fears and mentioning how much, perhaps too much, the little boy enjoyed vlaii, a cake with green berries that was only baked in that southernmost region of the country."
~ Ariel Dorfman
"Remembering the Holocaust While Gaza Starves"
https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/remembering-the-holocaust-while-gaza-starves/
"Across Latin America, a backlash against women’s rights is underway and girls are criminalized for miscarrying'
"The father decided to bathe his daughter"
u/ViolettaJacy
"Slow, Simple Living. We Are What We Don't Eat."
~ Primal England
And in spite of the fact that I met a couple of humanity's brothers when I didn't know they were "who they were," and I discovered I was not comfortable with some things about how they choose to live, even though others go along with it...
To me, it seems like some of you guys really need to remember you should be who you're meant to be and not get knocked off your path by more money or a bigger house or an addiction to adulation or controlling others.
That last one is the worst of all.
I truly believe old ways are dying out because future generations of people are not going to be into going along with a lot of the same old nonsense that wasn't good for them or their forebears, either.
Patriarchy, I think you need to get more advanced and be more willing to heal.
"Texas man details wife's devastating miscarriage amid state's strict abortion laws: "Nobody uses the word abortion"
"We're all just highly sensitive beings trying to act like we're capable of acting like we're a lot less addicted to devaluing female bodies & feminism, & making things better for our ever evolving society, and things of that nature."
"It was a very Patriarchal time, as you know..."
"It’s time we put a felon in the White House,’ California Sheriff says"
https://ktla.com/news/california/its-time-we-put-a-felon-in-the-white-house-california-sheriff-says/
"Texas radio host slams abortion laws after wife's miscarriage"
Oh well, your stomachache knows what people were brought up to ignore."Based on historical weather data, evidence suggests that during the 15th and 16th centuries, colder temperatures made it significantly more likely that a Jewish community would be expelled."
"From the persecuting to the protective state? Jewish expulsions and weather shocks from 1100 to 1800"
People can be very cold to the "different" ones who have "different" backgrounds and had "different" experiences when it suits them, and when that's what they got rewarded for doing in the past.
The coldness and indifference to others, grafted onto a more comfortable way of life in modern day America.
It really has depressed me that the Patriarchy has trained whole generations to be insensitive assholes and conveniently look away just to protect themselves and celebrate a supposedly superior way of life and use a toxic form of "positivity" as a way to shut out others.
Insensitivity and self-absorption is not a superior way of life.
Saying it's worse somewhere else in the world is also not an excuse.
Look at the people who pick your food in this country, too.
Look at what's happening to girls and women in this country, too.
The dream was just about being expected to move in somewhere others had been forced out and not being able to do it and crying.
I feel like you could sit some guys down and be all like "Hey! What if you fight the paycheck yet night?" Hahahahaha I meant the PATRIARCHY sorry, my bad, like maybe you astral travel and your feminine ghost haunts people and what do you think her name is?
I should visit one, or more. 💜🌾🔮🧑🏽🌾🪻 East Coast, West Coast, and everywhere in between...
"23 Breathtaking Lavender Farms in Michigan..."
A Father-Daughter Swearing Lesson | “The F-Word” | "The New Yorker"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_42tJgX_S48&si=HKMYBRRen9relKZ3
What if your true self can get mad at everybody but doesn't actually stay mad at everybody...
You liberal people are so conservative and you's conservative people are so liberal and you're so close to each other and vice versa.
"Firefly vs. Lightning Bug - What's the Difference"
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/just-for-fun/a40311116/firefly-vs-lightning-bug/
I'd also like my cat to see some.
"How shots instead of pills could change California..."
https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2024/06/california-homeless-street-medicine-injections/
If I had gone to schools that were more interested in different kinds of people, maybe I would be in school right now doing lots of studies. Maybe I needed to attend the university for neurodivergent people that didn't exist yet. Hahaha...
If we had potential healers inside of us, but warrior sides got triggered instead, just because we have different life circumstances this time around.
"How Jeffrey Epstein allegedly targeted girls from disadvantaged backgrounds"
"Burn Your Village (Same Old Energy pt.II) - Official Music Video" - Kiki Rockwell
Do you ever feel differently from how others feel in this life?
"I think I figured out why Gen X is aging differently"
~ Tmonaeey
What if people started treating you like they treat certain kinds of women's bodies?
And more specifically the "unimportant, genetically inferior" kinds of bodies?
What if, suddenly, you had the status of an unimportant, genetically inferior woman, who apparently nobody is very interested in protecting or even giving adequate medical care to?
That would almost be like the perverse inverse of a patriarchal society.
What if you got out of that bubble of narcissistic privilege and quit being needlessly cruel to others?
"I wasn't dead enough for an abortion": Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life
If Trump wins in November, "he will make this nightmare a reality nationwide," says Lauren Miller
By CHARLES R. DAVIS
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/i-wasnt-enough-for-an-abortion-texas-mom-for-almost-losing-her-life
"Rosewood Enchantikal Cottage: A Space for Art and and Fairies"
https://texassignal.com/rosewood-enchantikal-cottage-a-space-for-art-and-fairies/
I think it would be very nice if the privileged people who were favored the most by Society's Patriarchal Norms got a lot more articulate about why they felt so entitled to treat the underprivileged ones with such disdain.
How do you intend to be less dehumanizing and insensitive to "those certain kinds of different girls and women" in the near future? Maybe even today?
"'I wasn't dead enough for an abortion': Texas mom blames Trump for almost losing her life
If Trump wins in November, 'he will make this nightmare a reality nationwide,' says Lauren Miller"
By CHARLES R. DAVIS
"How to Stay Productive When the World Is Ending"
https://shop.reductress.com/products/how-to-stay-productive-when-the-world-is-ending
Who cares about all the "least valuable" daughters in your Patriarchal society being dehumanized even further by the various and sundry?
"Reductress » ‘Money Isn’t Everything,’ Says Person Who Has It"
https://reductress.com/post/money-isnt-everything-says-person-who-has-it/
"Reductress » ‘Young People Lack Professionalism...'"
"Reductress » Mom Just Wants You to ‘Sparkle’ Again"
https://reductress.com/post/mom-just-wants-you-to-sparkle-again/
A few.
When
"Clearly, we were just brought up to act like it's A LOT more fun for US to behave in ways that are dehumanizing to certain kinds of people than it is for OTHERS"
meet
those "different types of girls and women" they were trained to conveniently unsee and disrespect rather extend the barest bones of basic human courtesy...
We'll see how that goes tomorrow!
"Burn Your Village (Same Old Energy pt.II) - Official Music Video" - Kiki Rockwell
My body decided I needed to tend to its health first. Again.
It seems that is so.
It makes me think about professors in Texas who might next wish to sue so that they can give better grades to any female students who come to class dressed like Barbie dolls.
"Reductress » Study Finds Nothing More Threatening..."
https://reductress.com/post/study-finds-nothing-more-threatening-than-entirely-blonde-family/
"Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions
Men are using abortion bans to control and abuse women in their lives for 'consensual sexual intercourse'"
By AMANDA MARCOTTE
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/
"After her maternal grandparents emigrated from Europe to escape the Holocaust, Sheinbaum was born in Mexico City in 1962 – a city she would go on to serve in various roles across decades."
"Claudia Sheinbaum profile"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/03/americas/mexico-claudia-sheinbaum-profile-intl-hnk/index.html
"The Partisan" ~ Leonard Cohen
https://youtube.com/watch?v=7sXbaCWsl-s&si=LtKmT9R4GINNtAdC
"World War II justified by former German soldiers"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1PJkNZ30WV0&si=XlISRZ28thUSLPBB
"80th anniversary of D-Day:
This year will likely be the last major D-Day anniversary with living veterans in attendance"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/02/europe/d-day-80th-anniversary-commemoration-preview-intl/index.html
"The US cages more women than anywhere else on earth, with just 4% of women’s total global population but 30% of the world’s incarcerated women, per the Prison Policy Initiative."
~ BAHAR MIRHOSSENI, CHELSEA HALSTEAD, AND SANDRA BABCOCK
Little Jimmy Dickens - "Out Behind the Barn"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t92CmuPgJlk&si=jwO2NNNkyBk-1rj5
I know some guys aren't very happy with the "feminist" types right now, and it's probably because even though Society tells them they've been given all the advantages of being a privileged white male from the patriarchal society they were born into, they still don't feel that lucky.
Their feelings could be valid.
Maybe they're really not that lucky.
Getting a bunch of materialistic advantages at the cost of something much better, something that is truly more fulfilling than what they were brought up to expect to deserve...it seems to be a painful way to experience reality.
Well that's a feeling that needs to be contended with.
What options are there?
How many of these guys have tried therapy?
I mean, if you try therapy just once and it doesn't work, that doesn't mean you give up on therapy. It means you find the therapy that works for you. What would you happen to you if you gave up on something else, like feeding yourself? Oh, this meal didn't work, so I just give up on feeding myself for the rest of my life.
That wouldn't make any sense would it?
"Growltiger's Last Stand / The Ballad Of Billy McCaw"
"Indeed, it is so very interesting how the patriarchy trained someone like me to act like your body is so much more worthless to society than other kinds of bodies."
"I'm not afraid..."
~ Shiadanni
https://www.tiktok.com/@shiadanni/video/7343668345138318597?_t=8msX5YSjbBK&_r=1
X: "I just watch this stuff because they're trying to to stone girls and women to death!"
Y: "Okay, you don't have to justify it to me."
"Potential Texas GOP Platform Suggests Death Penalty"
"like couldn't have started with a personality attribute?"
@simplyysri
https://www.tiktok.com/@simplyysri/video/7144866299674397998?_t=8msWR2iaSde&_r=1
"The Unexpected History of the ‘Little Jack Horner’ Nursery Rhyme
Little Jack Horner has quite the reputation for greed."
By Lorna Wallace
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/little-jack-horner-rhyme
"our moms wish we had straight hair"
~ @simplysri
https://www.tiktok.com/@simplyysri/video/7364177901803064618?_t=8msSGDlWFRL&_r=1
"#pov Book girl cheats on her boyfriend"
~ HeyitsStuart
https://youtube.com/shorts/eRrVgJGp7xY?si=zBI0GH7bTZZpFhxT
"Yes, I love to reuse old footage 😅💚 #celticarab"
~ @bernadette.kiran
Social media butterfly? As if.
"It’s giving eldest daughter vibes 🤍 #celticarab #" ~ Bernadette Kiran
https://youtube.com/shorts/zsqURP4VZyY?si=S4p0eyMAwlQeCeM5
🌬️🫧🌊🌪️
"I dare you to find me on Rizz"
See this Instagram video by @simplyysri https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7QBVaDpl7M/?utm_source=ig_web_button_native_share
🌨️🌧️🌞⚡
#pov Introverts dating #youtubeshorts #shorts" ~ HeyitsStuart
"Mexico expected to elect first woman president in historic election
In Mexico, two women vying for the presidency lead the polls for the first time in the country’s 200-year history. Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez will face off at the polls on Sunday against a backdrop of political bloodshed that has gripped the country. NBC News’ Guad Venegas reports."
"We are Russians, WE ARE NOT RUDE! \\ with @AgentNesty"
@ElifromRussian
"6ft. in 7min. - Short Film by Rafael Del Toro"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uhoOtJ368K0&si=hYk9BQoqz1EFA8Kj
Noooooo....gag, twitch, twist, gasp, cough, choke, spasm, fetal position!
"This Isn't Your Average Storage Space! Tour Rajiv Surendra's stunningly beautiful..."
What if your higher self is like, "It's okay with me if so and so, who on the surface had a very privileged life, but still carries quite a bit of unexamined baggage which gets in the way of even better opportunities, and an even more expanded worldview, and even more fun times, figures out how to evolve at a more rapid pace, as long as it doesn't harm them too much physically and emotionally. It's okay with me if you evolve more quickly. Why not give it a try? Good things could happen maybe?"
Then you might know, Dads and Moms, that even if you were an American dude who got drafted into the military and became a World War II veteran who never got treated for his PTSD and somehow that ended up translating into abusing or even molesting children and women in the last lifetime...
You still had some good qualities in that lifetime!
That's the shocking thing.
Really.
And that life has ended now.
Well, moving onwards, what can you do next time, that will be so much better for your body and mind and Spirit...
"Journey of Souls"
https://sbpl.overdrive.com/media/469017?utm_campaign=searchfeed&utm_source=google
when you have a new opportunity to do so much better in the new life?
"These people are the MOST RED HAIRED IN THE WORLD"
@ElifromRussia
https://youtube.com/shorts/pPW0HfSIF-k?si=k1MeED5iYtiBzmyB
"According to experts, around 1.7% of the population is born with intersex traits – comparable to the number of people born with red hair."
Tori Amos - "Take To The Sky" (Official Audio)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=__i-CccPdmk&si=otZt2Zo8rwVqNoDd
"Myth 1: Everybody is either born male or female"
I know it's embarrassing and painful that those narcissistic and prejudiced ancestors didn't even want to consider you.
"Amanda Zurawski, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, had been told that she had a condition that meant her baby would not survive. The Austin woman said she was forced to wait until she was diagnosed with a life-threatening case of sepsis before being provided an abortion.
She spent three days in intensive care and was left with a permanently closed fallopian tube from an infection, affecting her ability to have more children."
~ Jim Vertuno and Jamie Stengle
"Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion law over medical exceptions"
"All of my genetically superior grandchildren will definitely support my sensible and 100% justifiable coping mechanisms."
"I only act like I don't give a s*** about people like you because that's what the paid charity wanted me to do in order to fit in better with The Great Patriarchal Values we were raised and indoctrinated to uphold from the time we were very small."
"In the Inland Empire, Fontana is the latest California city to block a Planned Parenthood clinic, saying it’s studying putting an entertainment hub there."
~ Deborah Brennan
https://calmatters.org/health/2024/05/abortion-in-california-inland-empire/
"The HORRIFIC Torture Of The Women Who..."
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6DKrFm6CGuE&si=_G6Xdrpi9W_k21OE
My therapy is soaking in the cozy bath of pampering that the Patriarchy has provided for me my entire lifetime!
"Calgon commercial - 1987"
"World War II justified by former German soldiers"
I sat next to Elon Musk, dad extraordinare, on a plane, and then another plane, and he acted like a lot of you all act.
It's the Lord's Day and I hear that certain Dads who don't let themselves care about anything too healthcare-related that might trigger their inner wounded feminine sides still seek solace with the Moms who totally do that all the time, too.
Oh, so that must be why those dads and moms have been giving those guys all the best toys, like the Big Babies O' Patriarchal Privilege they were raised to be, and...
Why they're clearly so comfortable with letting the little ones who harvested their tasty organic food banquets go without!
"TEDMED - Talk Details - How farmworkers are leading a 21st century human rights revolution"
https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=731047
Well, I bet those guys can't even go to their Narcissistic-y Patriarchal Parenting Meetups. Because they probably care about Others too much.
😮
Oh pipe down, ornery ancestral ghost.
😡
Well, don't just laugh about it like such a narcissistic ninny!
The great grandchildren are going to be so shocked at the insensitivity of them!
Have some respect for once!
The systemic oppression is SO cringe!
Lands really were stolen!
For goodness sakes, get thee to rehab, ye olde excessively jolly addicts of self-indulgent Patriarchal Programming.
Alright grouchy, settle down.
Why don't you do some hip opening stretches?
You seem tense.
How did I get so fortunate as to be surrounded by people who think I deserve better healthcare than my ghost daughter deserves?
Caring about girls and women's healthcare is going to be so much more popular with the younger people than it was for you and your friends. Because otherwise...
Does it bother you because it hurts to know that it oppresses people and creates more rampant, unsustainable, systemic inequity?
Or does it bother you because it's a threat to your ego?
"Ecopsychology: How Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health"
https://e360.yale.edu/features/ecopsychology-how-immersion-in-nature-benefits-your-health
I'm so glad the grandma on that side of the family wasn't mean to those certain categories of women and girls just because a bunch of insecure rich white guys thought her jeans were superior to the other women's and girls' jeans.
Meet the grandparents and future grandparents who act like they know they're not entitled to make life worse for the girls and women that the patriarchy deemed not as valuable to it's small-minded, unhealthy, prejudiced, misogynistic structure.
I, for one, am grateful that the conservative grandmas aren't huddling together with a copy of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and deciding which granddaughters deserve to be killed off first.
"And the truth is misogyny isn’t a Republican problem; it’s a cultural problem that is indeed shared by Democratic men. It’s extremely difficult to write about; as young girls we’re taught to manage the emotions of others and to dutifully and uncomplainingly manage multiple tasks, then we grow up into women who are constantly told not to be 'dramatic' regardless of how severe the behavior of men. But I’m not going anywhere, and this isn’t the kind of culture I want for my goddaughters."
~ Bri Buentello
"Bri Buentello is a Pueblo mom, former special education teacher, and served as the state representative for House District 47. She is the Government Affairs Director for Stand for Children Colorado, a nonprofit organization that advances educational equity and racial justice through meaningful partnerships with families, educators, schools, and policymakers."
"What's that racket?"
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/31/g-s1-1606/woodpeckers-bang-metal-homes-loud-urban-noise-mating
"But when they bash away at metal, 'what the birds are trying to do is make as big a noise as possible," he said, "and a number of these guys have found that — you know what? If you hammer on metal, it's really loud!'
Woodpeckers primarily do this during the springtime breeding season, and their metallic racket has two purposes, 'basically summarized as: All other guys stay away, all the girls come to me,' McGowan said. 'And the bigger the noise, the better.'"
~ Sacha Pfeiffer
At least so-and-so will get LOTS of supportive messages from HIS society about how it's actually a really GOOD thing to care about human rights for LOTS of different types of people, eh?
Humans generally enjoy embracing change, growth, and variety!
"Our joke is about how Grandma was from that generation where discriminating against anyone who was different from her just felt incredibly comforting and satisfying, so what could Grandpa do about it, or about anything at all?"
“I am outraged on behalf of my fellow plaintiffs who the Court deemed not sick enough,” said lead plaintiff Amanda Zurawski, who suffered from PPROM during her pregnancy and not only lost her daughter but almost died after developing sepsis. 'Our Courts should acknowledge all of our suffering and vindicate our fundamental rights to reproductive autonomy. We should not need to beg elected officials for our right to control our own bodies,' Zurawski continued."
"Texas Supreme Court Rules Against Women..."
https://reproductiverights.org/zurawski-v-texas-ruling-texas-supreme-court/
People who don't already have a lot going on are going to have so much else to occupy their time with that my little notes will be like a drop in a bucket.
