Attn: Dudes
Call out your bros.
I have literally never seen a guy tell another guy that he is being sexist, misogynist, or slut-shamey.
Not even once.
Call out your bros.
Wanna be a male feminist? This is the only way, The. Only. Way.
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Things worth noting in the middle of being happy about the same-sex marriage bill: it contains a clause which allows spouses of trans people to veto their obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (i.e. legal recognition of gender on birth certificate), even if that spouse is abusive. The only way around this is divorce. So if you want to transition and your spouse doesn’t want you to, they can stop you for as long as it takes for you to divorce them, which can take years.
This is the English bill, btw.
God fucking dammit, LGB people. Let’s get with the fucking program. There is NO EXCUSE for us leaving trans people behind like this. FUCKING STOP BEING BIGOTS.
So, Mrs. Gastronomer went and did some research on this, and she says that what it looks like to her is that if you’re single and go through the process, you just get the GRC. If you’re married, you get an interim GRC and the board informs your spouse. If your spouse doesn’t make a statutory declaration of consent, or you just want to end the marriage right away, the interim GRC allows you to get an immediate annulment of the marriage (which is different from a divorce, but still ends the marriage), and then you can get your regular GRC. A spouse who’s being a pain in the ass can delay things for six months (and the interim GRC may get converted automatically after six months, we’re not sure) unless you just get the annulment immediately, but can’t stop you from just getting the hell out of the marriage, and you don’t have to wait years for the divorce.
Not as bad as it first sounded, but not so great, either. Extra hoop to jump through. And annulment instead of divorce isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Yahoo, please get rid of this bullshit where we can’t reblog ourselves.
When people claim that willfully ignorant opinions that support systems of oppression and discrimination are the other side of the argument and should be given the same respect in order to have a balanced exchanged.
Exactly.
There is no other fucking side to racism
There is no other side to cishetero supremacy
There is no other side.
That side is always WRONG.
Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.
#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in fact they are not even attracted to the doctor
so basically we want Donna back
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Things worth noting in the middle of being happy about the same-sex marriage bill: it contains a clause which allows spouses of trans people to veto their obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (i.e. legal recognition of gender on birth certificate), even if that spouse is abusive. The only way around this is divorce. So if you want to transition and your spouse doesn’t want you to, they can stop you for as long as it takes for you to divorce them, which can take years.
This is the English bill, btw.
God fucking dammit, LGB people. Let’s get with the fucking program. There is NO EXCUSE for us leaving trans people behind like this. FUCKING STOP BEING BIGOTS.
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There’s a medicine that, in half a century of use, has been linked to a grand total of zero deaths or serious complications. It’s safer than aspirin. Physicians willingly admit that their advice is not needed for it to be taken correctly. The largest organization of pediatricians in the nation is urging its members to pre-write prescriptions for patients who may need it, because it’s so safe they believe everyone should have access without visiting a doctor.
This medicine is often desperately needed. It must be taken within a specific 120 hour period in order to be effective. It prevents a condition that can be devastating to the people it affects, especially young people, who are more likely to develop depression, drop out of school, and even die. Furthermore, if young people can’t get this medicine when they need it, they are more likely to spend their lives in poverty, never marry, and have their kids end up in jail.
So why has the supposedly progressive Obama administration repeatedly spoken out against making this medicine available over-the-counter to young people, even after a federal judge ruled that girls under seventeen must be given access to this medicine? Why would the president go against all scientific evidence and say that the medicine “could be dangerous if misused”?
Because the medicine is emergency contraception, the medical condition it treats is pregnancy, and Americans are terrified of teenage girls being in control of their own sexuality.
"Anya Josephs, Girls of All Ages Need Access to Emergency Contraception (via sparkamovement)
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All I want is an episode of My Little Pony where the antagonist is male pony with a fedora cutie mark who goes around harassing everyone for pursuing their own interests instead of dating him and then the mane 6 use the elements of harmony to banish him to an actual place called the friendzone and where he is kept prisoner until he learns to appreciate having girls as friends and see them as actual people.
Oh my god, THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS!
