People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.
Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian
Specifically he was Parsi. Also raised Zeroastrian.
the common wisdom women are told not to have sex with a man right away if she’s interested in a deeper relationship because he’ll think she’s easy/cheap or get bored with her now that he’s gotten sex IS rooted in sexism BUT the actual advice to wait longer isn’t actually bad advice, it’s just the logic behind it has become warped to blame women for men’s misogyny
this advice probably stems from the fact many women experience putting out for men on the first date and then never seeing the relationship develop – but it’s not that a woman has missed out some deep, fulfilling relationship because she didn’t keep it in her pants long enough. it’s that the man wasn’t interested in a long term relationship with her but saw sex as an opportunity. in all likelihood he was only interested in sex to start or, once he decided he wasn’t interested in her specifically, pursued sex anyway bc, to the entitled male psyche, why not? even if a guy was so hypocritical and sexist as to dub a woman cheap, then sleep with her anyway, none of that is a woman’s fault. in either scenario: the man is still using you for sex, nothing more
there’s actual logic in holding out on sex if you have a deeper interest simply because it helps you weed out the assholes who will fuck you under false pretenses. women are told having sex early on undercuts their value to men, but really the men who “hit it and quit it” have already undervalued women as a whole anyway and never were interested in a deeper relationship to start
War is immensely fascinating and has always been and likely always will be a part of human civilization. This blog is dedicated to war in all it’s forms and nuances
*960 consecutive photos of German soldiers during world war 2*
I actually just heard about this on the radio; the Michael Berry Show on WRNO 99.5. The hospital was trying to harvest his organs, and declared him dead. His father barricaded the door, and held an entire swat team at bay, until his son squeezed his hand, awake from a forced coma.
It gets better…
The swat team brought their own doctors who, after finally securing the room, started to check the kid. Turns out, the kid was fine, after waking up from the coma.
It gets better…
After the swat team doctors checked out the kid, there was a nurse who came in to “check” on the kid. The swat doctors asked to see her orders. Turns out she didn’t have any. What she did have was a 50cc syringe in her pocket, full of a powerful sedative. 5cc’s were enough to put someone in a deep coma. There were 50cc’s in the syringe, more than enough to euthanize the kid.
It gets better…
Swat doctors took her into custody. She refused to talk. They got a warrant and started checking into the deaths happening at the hospital. Turns out, there were a great many “quick decisions” made by hospital staff, for patients to be put into medically induced comas, from which they never woke up. All of which were finalized with organ transplants. Organ transplants which the families of the deceased did not know about.
TL:DR The hospital was euthanizing patients after illegally putting them into medical comas, then harvesting their organs.
3. Also: you can google the hospital from the OP news story. You’d think that a crazy organ-stealing conspiracy would be the first thing that comes up when you google that hospital. Nothing like that comes up. Also, if you listen to the radio show the second poster keeps citing: nothing about it comes up either. (Quelle surprise.)
4. Fear-mongering about organ transplants, and just hospitals in general, is a classic ultra-right-wing scare tactic. Which would make sense, considering that Tumblr user doubletap-centermass is…
a virulent anti-Semite and homophobe. It feels extra weird to see LGBT and Jewish tumblrs sharing this right and left.
5. There have been scandals about hospitals being pressured to declare unconscious patients brain-dead so that they could harvest organs… such as this scandal from 2012, in New York state, which involved precisely four cases and also is totally unrelated to the article shared by OP, from Texas in 2015. And again, just because I can’t get over this: the part about deliberately putting patients into comas to steal their organs is literally the plot of 1978 film Coma.
6. If you’ve reblogged this and you’re like “Shit!!” and wish you hadn’t: I guess maybe considering deleting the reblog from your tumblr? Or even reblog this instead. I mean, getting the correct information out would be a good way to fix this bizarro thing. Hell, even if you haven’t reblogged the weirdo post but you’re seeing this on your dashboard instead: consider sharing it just to get the correct info out there.
Please feel free to add to this post if you find concrete actual evidence of anything I missed. I am human and fallible.
P.S. I will also add, just for the principle of the thing: somebody saying “I heard it on the radio” is about as reliable a source as “I overheard some man on a bus telling it to his neighbor”. (Especially since so much radio, these days, is about as reliable a source of accurate information as any random conspiracy theorist’s podcast.)
Man i was gonna fucking say, that second part is like, point for point that freaky-ass book Coma by Robin Cook (obvs what the movie was based on) and the dude doesn’t write true crime.
he writes good books. Don’t read them before you have to go to the hospital for anything lmao
Shattered Heritage (2014) // A documentary about the destruction of Iraq’s heritage and culture
by American forces during the 1991 and 2003 invasions, through the looting of Iraqi art and the indiscriminate bombing of museums, universities, theaters and libraries.
Incremental change favors the privileged. Time is quite literally a luxury many oppressed and marginalized groups cannot afford. Centrism and “pragmatic incrementalism” are crappy strategies for fighting Republicans. I’m here for the fierce urgency of NOW, not for lukewarm moderates who care more about preserving order than they care about justice.
Always reblog because this is the best way I’ve ever seen it put.
This weekend, activists in Uganda – a country where homosexuality is punishable by death – held their first Pride.
This is the epitome of courage. I have no other words.
this is making me tear up holy shit
This makes me soo fucking proud most of us in places like Nigeria and Uganda especially northern Nigeria, the punishment by law is getting stoned to death if you show any signs of being gay. This makes me sad that Me and thousands of others can’t be themselves but still, this is so FUCKING beautiful I am proud of the people of my African continent!
I just want to make it clear that the photo was taken, and the first Ugandan Pride was held, in 2012. Five years later they’re still celebrating Pride. Despite the fact that they face police raids and arrests, they’ve made this an annual event.
This Pride was just one year after a prominent LGBT rights activist was murdered in Uganda. David Kato also worked at my University in the UK as an academic at the Centre for Applied Human Rights. He was murdered after a local newspaper published his face and address. It’s a horrible situation, and he was a great person who should be remembered.
Except no that’s not what happened, that’s not why he sued, he sued because when he went to ask for more napkins, the staff started racially harassing him, all over fucking napkins. As for the amount, ut was probably exaggerated by the lawyer so when the court shrinks it, McDonalds would still have to pay at least something.
There are no such things as frivolous lawsuits made by individual people.
McDonald’s (and most businesses) have insanely good pr departments. The woman who sued McDonald’s for being burned by their coffee was turned into the face of “people will sue over anything” because suing over coffee being hot sounds ridiculous, right? Except for she was literally burned to the bone. The pictures are nauseating. What she went through was horrifying.
If you ever find yourself ridiculing an individual on a company’s behalf you’re probably just repeating pr propaganda
26-year-old Jamarion Robinson’s grandmother Beverly Nixon said her grandson was bipolar and schizophrenic. Still got shot 76 (!!!) times. Would a white person get the same treatment?
The witness said he saw more than a dozen patrol cars at the complex where US Marshals killed Robinson on August 5, 2016. Why were there no behavioral specialist? Surely one of them would know how to interact with a bipolar schizophrenic better than the police.
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