Notes to Self

“ One of the hardest things for me in dealing with my mental health condition is my very strong theory that everyone else is having exactly the same problems that I am, but they’re just 8 million times better at dealing with them, and hiding them from everyone else. And thus, I don’t talk about my mental health, much, because everyone else is obviously coping with the same thing, and I’m just a big whiner who can’t cope and fails at everything and is useless and should just run away and everyone will be better and– stop.

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FWD/Forward » I don’t have a “real” mental health condition, I’m just weak, and other bad self-talk

Yep.

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I know the feeling all too well.

yerawizardharry:

Irena Sendler
1910-2008

A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won - for a slide show on Global Warming.

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abbyjean:

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» The Weekly Standard - HuffPo's Misogyny: The NSFW Path to Liberal Journalism Success

abbyjean:

The Huffington Post’s methods for getting traffic of late put it at a distinct disadvantage when trying to argue credibly about respectful treatment of women.

“ We aren’t coming there to cause problems or cause trouble. Trouble has already been caused by a handful at Ole Miss, including the black student body president, who wants to shape Ole Miss into yet another liberal sodomite college.

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KKK-person Tate

Daily Reveille - KKK planning rally in Miss.

WTF. While I didn’t think they should stop playing the fight song before reading this, when the KKK takes up the cause, you kinda reconsider.

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Ole Miss to become a liberal sodomite college? Yes please! I’m buying my ticket now.

$bmckinney: Dinosaurs are for Boys (Girls Allowed) » Sociological Images This sort of thing is actually kind of distressing to me as the parent of a little girl who is really interested in everything science-y. *sigh* :\$

bmckinney:

Dinosaurs are for Boys (Girls Allowed) » Sociological Images

This sort of thing is actually kind of distressing to me as the parent of a little girl who is really interested in everything science-y.

*sigh* :\

tiredofbeingignored: (via clingtomymouth)

“ Hey low-income women: Stop having babies! But we’re going to make obtaining an abortion as difficult as possible for you, lulz!

— Health care bill (via sarahmc)

thoseareturkeys:

There’s a lot of chatter today about something and my views on it are obvious because it’s an obvious concept.

Yes means Yes

No means No.

Maybe means You should take that as a No.

Compliance is not consent. If you force a person in some way (like intimidation) to say yes, that’s a No.

That’s it. It’s not complicated. If you’re a woman, man, child, priest, prisoner, soldier, teacher, relative, etc, those are the rules. If you can’t follow those rules, you need some fucking Jesus in your life. And by needing some Jesus, you need to be nailed to a cross and left to be seen as a warning to others.*

*If you took that to mean I think Jesus is a rapist, the captain of your brain ship is drunk at the wheel.

Love it - especially the last line.

“ Social justice for girls and young women in the sex trade means having the power to make all of the decisions about our own bodies and lives without policing, punishment, or violence. Our community is often represented as a “problem” that needs to be solved or we are portrayed as victims that need to be saved by someone else. We recognize that girls have knowledge and expertise in matters relating to our own lives that no one else will have. We are not the problem—we are the solution.

— Girls do what they have to do to survive: methods used by girls in the sex trade and street economy to fight back and heal (pdf) from the young women’s empowerment project. (via igather) (via spreadmagazine) (via abbyjean) (via gauntlet)

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slagath0r:

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Win.

Wouldn’t giving unattended children espresso and a drum make it worse for everyone?

That’s the point.

“ This is not a legal problem. This is not a problem statutory reform can solve. Her work was legal where she was doing it. She was a service provider engaged in a lawful business enterprise, not meaningfully legally different from a masseuse or a personal trainer or a manicurist, for these purposes. Her work puts her in close contact with customers to whom she provides services. Nothing about that implies that she waives her basic human rights to do her job.

And this is not an enforcement problem. The police made an arrest and the prosecutors brought the case. The judge didn’t throw it out. The case went all the way to a jury.

This is a cultural problem. He admitted he pinned her down, he admitted he covered her mouth, he admitted that he put his penis inside her with no condom … and a jury of ordinary citizens acquitted him anyway. I can’t see any way that happens unless they simply decided that they are so biased against sex workers that they think sex workers deserve to be raped when doing their job.

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Sex Work Is Not An Invitation To Rape « Yes Means Yes Blog

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