CantTrip [she/her]
Getting an IUD was such a load off my mind. Definitely increased my sexual happiness. Yes, insertion is painful and I wish my partner and I could trade off every 5 years. Actually, we’d both probably just get it because increased security is worth the 3 minutes of big ouch and 1 day of small ouch.
Condoms are not as effective as hormonal (or copper iud) birth control. Using them instead of birth control increases “fairness” but the least fair thing that can happen in consensual, healthy sex is an unwanted pregnancy and that happens to the AFAB person.
This argument is so stupid for the majority of people who have sex. Exception being AFABs with awful side effects.
I know every situation is different but if your bosses went into your wallet while you were at lunch and took out 20 bucks every day, would you not call them out? Even if it meant some consequences? There’s something vital about standing up for yourself - they only get away so easy with it because its robbery with extra steps (a la Rick & Morty)
Your personal experience is that you think Jimmy Dore has some sort of positive impact on leftist discourse or exposure and shouldn’t be disregarded out of hand.
That’s fine, that’s an opinion, and I’m sure people would be interested to hear you out on it.
The rest was your guess at other people’s personal experiences and painting your opinion as the “Black-approved” one, which is then equated with the correct leftist view.
We see that tactic all the time when white liberals defend Bill Clinton.
I’m glad you commented these thoughts. I’m a recovered addict who works with addicts and I commented my experiences in reply to amethystamiss too.
Myself and many addicts get clean after many attempts… and the successful attempt is usually when there’s some hope and support in the picture. The opposite of rock bottom.
It’s hard as a recovered addict to even wrap your head around how you came to be successfully sober after so much hardship and failure to do so. I can see why many just adopt the AA/NA mythology of “I finally hit rock bottom,” or “I finally took responsibility for my addiction,”… it’s an easier narrative than “my tenth attempt was good timing, a decent treatment model, and a dose of luck,” which is how it feels to me.
I’m a huge proponent of giving addicts resources regardless of their sobriety or even their intentions regarding sobriety. One of the most important messages to them is that they are still a part of society, they are not broken off from it… that there’s a decent life waiting for them on the other side.
In 2016, we had Pat McCrory who was nationally infamous for the anti-trans and minimum wage bathroom bill and also coal ash corruption. It fucked up our state’s economy to the point where 2016 was a referendum on him, so Roy Cooper won the Gov., but Dems got wiped out otherwise.
Huh, so weird. It’s like actually material consequences as a result of an action campaign worked, but just repeating “they are bad. we are good” didn’t?
The list of issues that directly affect cis women and not trans women is pretty short: abortion access, menstruation needs, OBGYN/childbirth services, etc. My trans comrades have always had my back on those issues.
So we know Arielle’s opinions are about “safety in locker rooms” and other issues that - if they were good faith - directly affect trans women, too. But they’re not in good faith, they’re transphobic garbage.
You can’t point to an example of a feminist talking about negligent, for-profit childbirth centers and getting called a TERF for it. I’ve never seen that.
OMG this was my experience too.
“Doesn’t stuff like this happen all the time?” I had an anxious mother, and I was (surprise!) an anxious child.
I was oddly comforted that this was seen as uniquely bad - thankfully it didn’t make me more anxious… quite the opposite.
Really cool to hear someone else shared this reaction.
I worked as a research assistant in adolescent medicine in college. My gut told me the first statement wasn’t even true.
Here’s a large study of adolescent stealing behaviors.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3671850/#!po=1.19048
Demographics of the sample are presented (Table 1). The overall prevalence of stealing was 15.2% (95%CI: 14.8–17.0). Twenty-nine students (0.72% of the entire sample, 4.6% of those who steal) endorsed stealing symptoms consistent with a DSM-IV diagnosis of kleptomania. Males were more likely to have reported stealing than were girls. African-Americans and Asian-Americans were more likely to have reported stealing. Those students in 9th grade were more likely to have stolen, and students living with two parents were less likely to have stolen (Table 1).
It’s self reported, which can be a rub if boys are more willing to admit to behaviors they see as masculine/ adventurous, and girls less so if they’ve internalized that the same behavior is “trashy”/ unfeminine. But n=3999 and it apparently tracks with other studies with differing methodologies. Kids are pretty honest about behaviors on surveys, actually, as a general rule.
If anyone is wondering, girls made up a smaller percentage of those in the “kleptomania- qualifying” group too.
So maybe boys are more likely to go through a stealing thing because their ancestors had to provide for their mates during/ after pregnancies. Just spit balling here.
[Anyone else find it weird that they write males in the bolded sentence and then girls?]
Did you try to find a new home on Reddit after the ban? What’s the scene there for ex-CTH posters? I’ve noticed r/blackwolffeed has a lot more activity now, full on conversations that expand beyond the posted episode.
Anyway I’m glad you found your way here!