#yael.text

[lesbianholster]

As a ND person with GI and immune issues, I'd be interested in your sources linking these all as autism comorbidities. Because I only know of one paper definitively linking autism with GI issues, and it's Wakefield's retracted one fearmongering about MMR where he straight up lied. Doing my own research suggests that the connection is pretty flimsy, not evidence-based.

[lesbianholster]

"AFAB transfem" "bi lesbian" "trans man lesbian" yeah yeah and I bet you think that "punk" is about being nice to other people and doesn't require listening to punk music. Do words mean nothing to you heathens

[lesbianholster]

One day we're going to have to contend with the fact that making fun of people who trigger tag slurs aimed at LGBTQ people is no better than making "lol u triggered snowflake" jokes. Did we just forget that some people have trauma with those words or what

[lesbianholster]

Anyone have that drawing of a person smiling while sitting and kicking their feet bc I need it

[lesbianholster]

Not gonna put this on anyone's post but I do hope that white goyish atheists realize we don't hate them for being atheists—we hate them for being white and goyish. Girl you are just as antisemitic and islamophobic as the Christians you hate 💜

[lesbianholster]

"I don't understand why you fucking dykes people treat MM, MF, and FF differently! Love is love, homos!" The next person to speak like this in my presence gets a sledgehammer to the knees

[lesbianholster]

I'm betting $20 this is a white

now that it’s november and the dreaded holiday months are here can we all agree that if a muslim or a jewish person is complaining about cultural christianity, and you go on that post and say “well, christmas isn’t even christian it was yule and christians stole it”, then i get to hit you with the thousand energy beams attack

[lesbianholster]

So there's one big question nagging at me throughout my foray into leftist theory, and it's one of the big things holding me back from actually being an anarchist—medicine. As a chronically ill woman who needs specialized anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant medication to digest food painlessly, have any energy, and keep my colorectal cancer risk down, the only concrete answer I've been able to find is herbalism—which, lol no I'm not treating my Crohn's with tumeric when evidence-based medicine exists.

I'm genuinely curious, so if you're an anarchist, please let me know if you have non-anprim answers to these questions and further reading (or if you're a Marxist, because honestly you guys are voices of reason sometimes), and keep in mind that you are not convincing someone who thinks capitalism holds the answers, but someone who thinks that regulatory bodies and a socialist state hold the answers.

In an anarchist, decentralized, stateless society:

How can I guarantee that the doctor mixing my infusion and the nurse administering it are qualified to do so?

How can I guarantee that the specialized antibodies going into my body are the correct ones at the correct concentration, without contamination by other medications or harmful pathogens?

How can I guarantee that the other medications I receive during treatment (Tylenol, Benadryl, and Solu-Medrol) contain the correct compounds at the correct concentrations, without contamination?

How can I guarantee that the IV pump infusing me at a constant rate is manufactured correctly in a clean environment and is still operational when I'm attached to it?

How can I guarantee that the gloves, gauze, alcohol swabs, etc. used by the nurse are manufactured correctly in a clean and sterile environment?

How can I guarantee that the bag and tubing holding my infusion is manufactured correctly in a clean and sterile environment?

How can I guarantee that the needle and catheter going into my body are manufactured correctly in a clean and sterile environment?

If I do develop a site infection, how can I guarantee that any antibiotics I take are the correct ones at the correct dosage, matched correctly to my specific infection at the right length to fight it without breeding resistance?

How do we source the metals, plastic, fibers, rubber, glass, and organic compounds needed along these steps in an ethical way? If it's impossible for some more complicated aspects such as pump machines, how do we ensure I nevertheless get infused at the right rate that isn't too quickly?

I haven't even brought up blood pressure cuffs or pulse oximeters, nor discussed other areas of treatment such as colonoscopies and the web of steps contained therein (prep medications that work without contamination, sedation medications that work without killing, a larger qualified staff of doctors and nurses before, during, and after the procedure, the scope and biopsy tools being made correctly), but suffice it to say, I have the same questions there.

[lesbianholster]

Okay separate post but like. Does ANYONE in queer circles unironically say "I hate men"?? Because, like, the only people I've ever seen in the wild saying that are 1. radfems 2. women venting about misogyny and using hyperbole to express their frustration

And idk man, somehow I doubt the lesbian venting to her friends about the creepy dudes who won't stop hitting on her just has daddy issues or is a secret transphobe. I think this website just hates women

[lesbianholster]

Like you can make fun of Israeli leftists idgaf. But everything you say about them is true about American leftists, too.

[lesbianholster]

While I'm a dedicated Libby user who always supports more people using their library... KU isn't the same as a library membership. Most KU titles are self published authors, and libraries very rarely have indie books unless they're super popular. This is a false equivalence.

Ok, I've seen this sentiment before, but the amount of Kindle Unlimited ads I've been seeing is forcing me to repeat it-

Kindle Unlimited is offering two free months of unlimited ebooks. As a trial. Which will then become a paid subscription.

Your local library is offering unlimited ebooks all the time. Forever. No contracts, no predatory practices, no tracking of how long you spend on each particular page in the hopes that information about your habits can be sold for a profit.

Use your library. They want so badly to give you all of the things for free.

[lesbianholster]

Mm hmm and if there really was an American Left then we would have long since firebombed the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin's assembly plants. American Left is a piece of shit phrase

[lesbianholster]

In case you're wondering, OP does have a post on their blog condemning lesbians with "men DNI" in their pages. They're not fucking slick

[lesbianholster]

Okay making my own post:

It's absolutely true that polyamory is unfairly the butt of way too many mean-spirited jokes, including on this website, and that a lot of people here need to learn how to be normal about poly people and poly relationships.

That said, I'm a little peeved that the overwhelming response is an inability to criticize elements of poly without looking like a bigot. The truth is that polyamory comes with unique benefits but also unique challenges—and even some not that unique at all.

I was in a poly relationship with communication issues. I'll spare you the details, but suffice it to say that multiple people (including myself) struggled with jealousy, people weren't sharing their feelings until it was too late, and I was romantically neglected by one partner and straight-up abused by another. I say this not to garner pity, but to show that polyamory isn't magically free from the issues that plague monogamy; it only seems that way because a successful poly dynamic requires you to be way, way better at communication, time management, and emotional regulation than in monogamy. When people who aren't good at that try poly, it gets real ugly real quickly.

But that's the thing, right? Poly isn't worse than monogamy; it has these issues because it's a perfectly valid lifestyle. I believe in polyamory's genuine viability and radical nature worthy of defense, and that's why I think it's so important to recognize when it hurts people just as much as when it heals them.

[lesbianholster]

Me when I'm normal about women