it’s a fulltime job
Alice in Chains - God Am
“Mad women fight back”; “Bet your ass we’re paranoid” - Psychiatric survivors during a protest in 1976
the woman on the right is Saralinda Grimes, and I believe that this photo may have been taken at the June 29–July 29, 1976 sleep-in in the office of California Governor Jerry Brown enacted by members of Network Against Psychiatric Assault and Women Against Psychiatric Assault, documented in Madness Network News 4, no. 1 (1976). I welcome correction.
in her own words, Saralinda Grimes was a “deaf Native American lesbian feminist” (Madness Network News 4, no. 3 [1977], 9). she was active with Women Against Psychiatric Assault.
and the woman on the left is Jenny Miller! you can find most of her writing in Madness Network News under the pen name “Arrow”
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lmaoooo this pissed off a venn diagram of men and gun-loving rightwingers
Dont hug me im scared is so real bc if i was scared. I would not want to be hugged either . Thats all. Reblog if ur also scared
Dont hug me im scared is so fake bc if i was scared. I would want to be hugged actually . Thats all. Reblog if ur also scared
The stories of women in my family who were forced into lives they didn’t want and didn’t utilize their passions breaks my heart. My grandma wanted to be a journalist and write about the injustices she saw inflicted on disabled ppl while she was volunteering at a state run institution as a teen. Her father decided that she was “too fat and stupid” for college and forced her to get married at 17 or else he’d make her homeless. As a kid she told me that she wished people believed that she had meaningful opinions on events around her. One of my great grandmothers wanted to be an artist but was pressured into marrying a man who beat her. She stayed up late each night when her children were in bed writing poetry and pasting it over elaborate collages she mad herself. We still have stacks of these notebooks she created but was never allowed to do anything with. My mother wanted to be an operatic singer and was considered a musical prodigy in her town because she taught herself three seperate instruments by 13. When she was 18 she met my then 30 year old father who emotionally manipulated her into giving up her dreams to start a family with him. As a kid I would hear her up at night playing the violin or doing vocal exercises until she became too depressed to practice anymore. Like idk y’all there’s a quiet type of violence in the way women’s talents are devalued and brushed aside in favor of bullying them into “traditional” roles that ultimately don’t fulfill what they wanted for their lives. We’ve lost so much art, music, writing, science, and happiness to misogyny.
*me, literally sick with want* whatever
i will always change my mind. ill look at things i said yesterday and go what the fuck am i talking about
women have been cohered and forced to have men’s babies for thousands of years, and now that we have the ability to perform medically safe abortions they want to take it away and part of the reason is “what if he wants children” okay well what if i fucking DONT
Also like, who fucking cares if he wants children? His body isn't growing the child isn't donating its nutrients to the child, isn't literally rearranging its organs to accomodate the child. A man can't DIE from having a child nor be submitted to life-threatening conditions during the process of creating a child. So if he wants a child, WAH WAH. Find a woman who wants one.
My unpopular opinion (in the general public at least), is that if a woman dies due to complication in pregnancy, the father is executed as well. If the woman has uncontrollable vomiting, the man has to take poison to make him just as nauseous. If the woman loses her teeth due to pregnancy, the man has his punched out of him. If she develops diabetes, we fuck up his own insulin production and give him diabetes as well. If the man drinks while his pregnant wife is abstaining, he gets his dick chopped off.
Men will never ever respect us as humans. Ever. They only respond to personal punishments and consequences. So if he can't keep his legs closed and gets someone pregnant, he will be experiencing everything she does.
If a man truly wants a child, he will be willing to go through all of this with her. Women do it all the time, sacrifice their bodies and life because they want a child so badly. Men don't really want children, they want a legacy and to ejaculate. We'd easily see men's willingness to reproduce go down to the single digit %. And those men who are willing to sacrifice his own life for a child will probably be half-way decent fathers. If he makes it.
pad nation will always stand strong against the sharp tongue of tampon warriors
Tatum O’Neal and Crispin Glover in Little Noises (1991)
Male: hello
Me, having listened to 5 true crime podcast episodes today: kill any women and children lately 😑😒