Golf clubs were actually one of the targeted locations of the “Man Therapy” mental health awareness project (I had to pick a topic to write about in my public health nursing class). They also advertised (/spread awareness & did screenings) in gyms and car dealerships. It was a great example of how when you’re trying to increase access to something in a population with historically low access you gotta go where they’re at. They also hired a marketing firm to do some market research and design the materials, which I would argue is one of the few good uses of such an organization (rather than say, arms dealing or making up new ipod colors).

I LOVE this. Simple. Succinct. Says everything that needs to be said. Make this shit viral people.

Yesterday before evening nursing shift report/ handoff on my unit the nursing assistants were talking about how hot he is while reading and sharing his manifesto with each other. I’m crossing my fingers that we can repurpose the incels into ceo hitmen.

Also that lack of polish reads as sketchy to a lot of people with only basic tech literacy. I’ve had trouble getting other Healthcare workers to join and they always look at me sideways when they first glance at the layout. I actually agree that making something slicker looking the default would pull more normies without having to sacrifice a customizable interface for the people with enough know-how that they’re probably already modding it anyway. A big part of reddit for me was commiserating about my Healthcare job and while some of us are tech literate a lot just… aren’t.

Also the idea that most nurses would be picking hot cocoa over coffee is… well. I guess the best way to put it is that it strongly suggests that these people don’t actually interact much with nurses.

I’m about to get the unihertz atom (I’m trying to cut back on social media use) so I can tell you how that works out.

I wouldn’t know which comm to put it in, when I wrote it I just looked for the most recent post about him in c/all.

This is the corporation that administers the PA DOCs inmate commissary (don’t get me started on everything that is philosophically wrong with that sentence; I have a manifesto of my own to write). Mr. Mangione’s inmate ID# is QQ7787. The system requests an email address and will likely collect credit card information. I’ll try to see later this week if it will accept a burner email and a visa gift card purchased with cash, but my hopes are not high. I will tell you as someone vaguely familiar with the correctional system that in many places conditions are basically unlivable without commissary (again, don’t get me started). I also don’t know how much they will punitively restrict his access regardless of funds due to the political nature of his alleged crime. If they don’t allow privacy for those providing funds I will have to weigh how much I value my own privacy in this current political climate against my continued soft spot for those exposed to the correctional system.

because the demiurge thought it would be cool

Another talking point that doesn’t get discussed enough. I didn’t realize my next job didn’t cover until the next calendar month after the start date and that three week gap was long enough that I’m out of therapy and need to try to reinitiate.

Murder is bad etc but I get it.

He did all the good of murdering a person in power responsible for the deaths of millions while simultaneously managing to not hurt a hair on literally a single other person’s head. I don’t even care about his politics he did the one thing that should truly unify all of us - removing the rich from their seats of power with literally the only outcome any of them truly fear. They don’t even have the excuse of innocent people getting hurt anymore. The man was a mass murderer and his kids can dry their tears on their trust fund money.

how do I donate to this person’s defense fund? I don’t have a lot but I have like $10 and I bet a lot of others do too.

We need to stop erasing the existence of trans men =/= blaming trans men. You’re getting reactionary about something you don’t need to. It’s probably a trauma response, you’ve probably been blamed before. You’re not being blamed here and you need to stop looking for enemies within the trans community because it makes it much harder to fight the external ones.

Wondering if this is gonna wind up like cigarettes where we can’t actually prove they cause cancer because we’d have to create an RCT where we randomly assign nonsmokers to begin smoking to prove that it’s not some other comorbidity or unrelated risk factor endemic to that population but we can’t because telling people to begin smoking is wildly unethical because while we can’t prove it with 100% scientific certainty we do know it. We can’t put plaques in randomized control groups of people with and without plastics to see if one is worse or forms more easily or dissipates less easily.

I don’t even speak German and this spoke to me (sorry to intrude). edit: have crossposted just because the visual storytelling is so damn on-point.

Transmen need to be a lot more visible.

I feel like as an enby I benefit a lot from hiding under the “tomboy” label and a lot of transmen just pass more easily because while it’s harder to create a penis through surgery, testosterone makes the rest of the immediately visible changes more easily vs estrogen can’t change facial bone structure or un-deepen a voice.

There’s also a society wide stigma not even necessarily about women but more about femininity. It’s why you also see stigma against men expressing emotion and wearing clothing and engaging in hobbies that are traditionally “feminine.” Often it’s not even really women we have a problem with; it’s the whole concept of femininity, no matter who it’s applied to.

Both of these things make trans women a lot more visible in the public eye, but that also makes it easier for TERFs to act like this is a feminism issue. That would be (a little) harder if we were putting more transmen on the cover of GQ. Equality, y’know?

I actually like this more than the ones that base it purely on race, since that’s such a wishy washy culturally defined thing. Idk how exactly they’re planning to trace those lineages since intentional meddling in those communities often disrupted quality record-keeping, but it seems to at least try to get more to the direct point of reparations than playing the lighter or darker than a paper bag game that got us into this mess to begin with.

That’s also somewhat to do with the concept of fetishism. Most people have never fucked someone without feet but it’s not a fetish until you start all but ignoring the rest of the person in favor…

I just put that label on the whole sub since a significant quantity of the diagrams are likely to be depicting or appear to be depicting genitalia or sexual acts. I just don’t want anybody popping a diagram of, for instance, how to remove a vibrator from an anus in front of their supervisor.

Mine are mostly for being a trans person the wrong way. People do nooot like my brand / combo of gender apathy but also having been surgically confirmed with some androgynizing removals. I get called transphobic a LOT just by saying I don’t personally get dysphoria related to pronouns. I understand that others do. I understand that for many the whole passing one way or the other thing is a matter of safety. But I’m good being called whatever personally idc. Straight to jail. I’ve learned to just stay away from trans communities they’re pretty much all just assholes.