[ID Start: transparent image of three cats laying on their backs, side by side, looking up at the viewer. Left to right is a black tortoiseshell, an orange tuxedo with an orange mouth, and a white cat. /End ID.]
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can we please acknowledge that tma/tme is a meaningful distinction? a justice of the US supreme court is openly saying that it's legal to discriminate against trans women because the same laws do not target trans men. the transmisogyny is what makes it permissible. your transphobia is fine as long as it has carveouts for men.
Fascinating parallel here. This incapacity of the legal framework to protect groups who are at the intersection of two protected groups (trans women in this case, black women in the original) even while protecting both groups individually is Crenshaw's original reason for coining the word "intersectionality", which has since gone through the wringer.
[text from image: Justice Amy Coney Barrett asked Hartnett "how would we say this discriminates on the basis of transgender status when" "trans boys can play on boys' teams," so that the effect of the law "really only runs towards trans girls?"]
was at the emergency department yesterday due to my respiratory issues (neuromuscular respiratory weakness) and one of the symptoms i've had when this is bad is being unable to speak, or only able to get out one syllable at a time and only very quietly. another has been confusion. the triage nurse seemed to entirely dismiss both of these symptoms due to me being visibly disabled (wheelchair user). assumed i was nonverbal (permanently unable to speak) and it took my mum some very pushy explaining to get across that no, it is because of my breathing. the triage nurse then said (in an angry tone) "well then, how are you going to tell me what's wrong with you?!" i just did not respond because. well. i couldn't.
and with everyone else when a tech or nurse came to take them for a scan or whatever they'd introduce themself and say where they were going. with me the tech just grabbed my wheelchair and started wheeling me away without saying Anything to me or my mum. hiiii i am actually kind of a person if you had not noticed..
was at the emergency department yesterday due to my respiratory issues (neuromuscular respiratory weakness) and one of the symptoms i've had when this is bad is being unable to speak, or only able to get out one syllable at a time and only very quietly. another has been confusion. the triage nurse seemed to entirely dismiss both of these symptoms due to me being visibly disabled (wheelchair user). assumed i was nonverbal (permanently unable to speak) and it took my mum some very pushy explaining to get across that no, it is because of my breathing. the triage nurse then said (in an angry tone) "well then, how are you going to tell me what's wrong with you?!" i just did not respond because. well. i couldn't.
[image description: a photo of a small puppy sitting next to an old iPod. the iPod is about two thirds as large as the puppy. end description.]
桜吹雪の弘前公園 Cherry Blossom blizzard of Hirosaki Park JAPAN 青森観光 by Discover Nippon
I am so very serious when I say that minors should have a legal and easily reinforceable right to say "I don't want to live with my parents (or other adult caretakers)/I don't want to be around that person/I don't want to go to that place" and actually get their wish accommodated. So much childhood trauma could be avoided or ended if children actually had the right to leave the situation or the person hurting them.
“Cats don’t actually love you”
A cat is a small creature in the middle of the food chain that is fully aware that you are a very large thing that could stomp its head in at any moment and yet it chooses to rest its tiny little head on your leg for a nap and spreads out on the floor near you exposing its belly and its most sensitive organs. It brings dead mice and bugs to you to share food.
Don’t you get it? This tiny thing trusts you. It wants to help you too. It licks your leg thinking that it’s helping. It kneads on you to find comfort. It shares its body warmth with you in the cold and gives you your space in the heat. It hisses at other mammals it sees outside including other cats in an effort to protect its family.
Cats love you so so much. But they will keep trying to eat plastic.
"cats will bring you mice and bugs" actually my cats bring me leaves and sometimes sticks. i believe this is because they know i'm vegetarian
the patient exhibits all the symptoms of being literally cutes...
he had to jump in the ballpit to cool off after getting all airplane ears over a treat puzzle that proved a little too advanced
he's done this a few times now. the ball pit actively soothes him when he gets mad over puzzles. i could learn something from this
[image description: a photo of a tabby cat sitting loaf-style in a small net ball pit. end description.]