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For my readers in the UK, the very amazing Indie film Frozen River is currently available on iplayer.
Directed by a woman. Starring mostly women. Oscar-nominated. It’s probably in my top ten films ever. If you’ve got a free couple hours between now and Saturday, check it out.
Anonymous asked: Have you seen the photo's by a Chicago teen pregnancy campaign that show pregnant boys to underline shared responsibility. Are these photo's transphobic? Seeing a lot of disagreement in the comments section of the news and I'm not completely sure about this 1.
I hadn’t; i had to google it to find it, but after looking at the campaign—yes, i would agree it’s transphobic.
Here’s a (Daily Mail) article on it, inc. pictures: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325100/New-billboard-campaign-launched-Chicago-features-images-pregnant-boys-remind-baby-isnt-just-girls-responsibility.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Anonymous asked: WOW, I just lost a bunch of weight using the OFFICIAL TUMBLR DIET!! Are u using it as well?
What.
Anonymous asked: Could you provide a list of how abortion save lives and how it does not leave the person who had an abortion traumatized forever afterwards?Thanks:)
This took me literally less than two seconds on Google.
“Recent studies that have been used to assert a causal connection between abortion and subsequent mental disorders are marked by methodological problems that include, but not limited to: poor sample and comparison group selection; inadequate conceptualization and control of relevant variables; poor quality and lack of clinical significance of outcome measures; inappropriateness of statistical analyses; and errors of interpretation, including misattribution of causal effects. By way of contrast, we review some recent major studies that avoid these methodological errors. The most consistent predictor of mental disorders after abortion remains preexisting disorders, which, in turn, are strongly associated with exposure to sexual abuse and intimate violence.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19637075
And the great news is there’s a whole internet of research and data out there for you to investigate for yourself! THANKS AND HAVE FUN!
Watching a show called “Your Style in His Hands”.
Or, more accurately, “Throw Away All Your Wife’s Clothes, Buy New Ones That Make Her Feel Uncomfortable And Are Only Appropriate For Summer And In So Doing Assert Financial Control Over Her, Reinforce The Idea That She Needs Your Approval For All Her Outfits And Social Outings And Make Her Feel Even More Shit About Herself Than She Does Already Probably All Thanks To Being Married To A Cunt Like You”
For the love of god this is actually a show?
Oh, sure. On TLC, alongside corkers like “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” and “Long Island Medium”.
Anonymous asked: What do you think about Author Kailin Gow? Does she really empower girls as her Amazon bio's claim?
Not a scooby; until this message i’d never even heard of her, much less read her books.
Watching a show called “Your Style in His Hands”.
Or, more accurately, “Throw Away All Your Wife’s Clothes, Buy New Ones That Make Her Feel Uncomfortable And Are Only Appropriate For Summer And In So Doing Assert Financial Control Over Her, Reinforce The Idea That She Needs Your Approval For All Her Outfits And Social Outings And Make Her Feel Even More Shit About Herself Than She Does Already Probably All Thanks To Being Married To A Cunt Like You”
Anonymous asked: Since you posted that article blowing his trumpet, what do you think about the fact that Charles Ramsey did time for domestic violence a bunch of times?
I only read about this just now after getting this message.
He still saved those women. Nobody else did that. Would we even be hearing about these (spent) convictions if he were white? If we were would i be getting messages like yours about it? Like, fuck, what would you prefer? That he ignored it? Jesus fucking christ.
I bet you listen to the Beatles.
And i couldn’t care less about his non violent convictions so don’t even start.
But one phrase in particular, from the interview, is worth dwelling on: “I figured it was a domestic-violence dispute.” In many times and places, a line like that has been offered as an excuse for walking away, not for helping a woman break down your neighbor’s door. How many women have died as a result? They didn’t yesterday. — Amy Davidson about Charles Ramsey http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/05/amanda-berry-charles-ramsey-cleveland-kidnap.html
