April62013

Anonymous asked: Why don't you update more often?

I’m sorry my internets really bad here. I’m getting a new phone soon so I should be on more then!

April22013

Work was awful today. I don’t even want to talk about it. I need to find another job.

work job minimum wage 

March282013

Anonymous asked: Are you a Social Justice Warrior?

I really hate that term but yes I do believe in social justice.

March242013

Anonymous asked: Why do you dislike your uncle? Is he the one who abused you?

No he’s just a dick.

March232013
otherkuotes: Confession: When i see someone crying, i want to hug them and wrap my wings around them to comfort and protect them, even if they can’t seem them. This confession really reminded me of that Castiel headcanon so uh, yeah, forgive me for the SPN picture, it was the only one that I could find that suited the confession. Image Source I don’t have wings myself but I love this so much. It’s so perfect.

otherkuotes:

Confession: When i see someone crying, i want to hug them and wrap my wings around them to comfort and protect them, even if they can’t seem them.

This confession really reminded me of that Castiel headcanon so uh, yeah, forgive me for the SPN picture, it was the only one that I could find that suited the confession.

Image Source

I don’t have wings myself but I love this so much. It’s so perfect.
March212013

The Simpsons has got really bad

They used to be at least a bit funny and now they’re just so crap. And they make fun od people too much I know they always have but it feels more viscous now. Like, Homer is just the fat one and Lisa is annoying and everything.

Anyway I always liked Lisa a lot. She cares a lot about social justice issues and everything. But there’s one thing that annoys me she is often portreyed as being annoying for being vegetarian. I’m not vegetarian but I would be if I could (my mum won’t let me right now) and i would if I could live alone. I would probably be vegan. 

I just don’t get why they have to be so horrible about so much thagt’s not stupid even.

simpsons social justice vegetarian vegan personal post 

March202013
thisisthinprivilege: biyancuh:   thisisthinprivilege: Because it is. What we consider “healthy” is not the same as what is considered healthy in other cultures, nor what was considered healthy at other times in history. Hell, our own definition has changed considerably just since I was born. (This is also how we can tell that things like gender and childhood are socially constructed.) And we know that much of what the public considers healthy right now does not actually give the benefits people think it does (such as the fact that people “overweight” and “obese” by the BMI chart actually live longer than people it lists as “normal” weight). How would you not consider that a social construct? “Healthy” in our culture is constructed from a lot of false ideas and false assumptions about people’s bodies. This isn’t just a HAES idea. (Indeed, there are a lot of parts of the popular idea of “health” that HAES subscribes to.) If you read the actual medical and scientific literature that’s out there, you’ll find all kinds of things that contradict our idea of health. And, of course, the popular idea of health leaves out a lot of people, especially people with disabilities, and makes it something they can never attain, but are told they should strive for constantly. -MG rebloggable by request Woah woah woah. Yes, the definition of WHAT IS HEALTHY FOR YOU is a “social construct,” but what is healthy for your BODY is a construct based off research, experimental results.  Other cultures may have differing opinions on what’s healthy /for someone/, but they absolutely cannot dispute science and what is physically healthy. What bloodletting healthy? Were lobotomies? Trepanation? You can’t just DEFINE what is good for you physically — in that case, why don’t we just throw all medical research that’s ever been done away. Okay, so, to be clear: what you’re SAYING (I hope) is referring to the /idea of what is healthy/, not what is ACTUALLY, medicinally, healthy. Is gastric bypass surgery healthy? Is affixing inflated tubes around perfectly well-functioning internal organs healthy? Weight loss diets, especially yo-yo dieting? Consuming large amounts of fake sugar? Over-exercise to the point of repetitive stress injury, in the name of weight loss? Spending a quarter-time job on dieting and exercising in combination with a stressful full time job, family, and other obligations? Putting kids on diets? Diagnosis #1 of all fat patients being fatness, and Treatment #1 to lose weight, regardless of their complaint, regardless even of whether weight gain was caused by an underlying factor? Being told to lose weight during pregnancy if you’re over a certain BMI? Being labeled as high-risk and oftentimes banned from every birthing practice except surgery because you’re over a certain BMI? Because these (and many more) are all things that are currently considered ‘healthy’ by many researchers engaged in modern medical ‘science.’  Our collective scientific handle on what is ‘healthy’ is not anywhere near accurate. It’s largely skewed by political considerations like the vast amount of funding available for anti-obesity research, and the agendas of certain politicians who want to link unhealthy lifestyles with whatever kind of lifestyle they personally oppose, moral panics like the obesity epidemic, commercial interests, and private biases. If what we know about medical science was the size of a frisbee, half of that frisbee would be under dispute, and what we do NOT know would be the size of the entire fucking planet. I know people who buy into the cult of healthism are prone to buy into this ridiculous worship of current medical science, but please, PLEASE, think a little more critically first.  -ArteToLife YES. Thank you. I’m not fat but I have sturggled with my weight in the past and I am very on side of the rights of people considered overweight. This is excellent commentary,

thisisthinprivilege:

biyancuh:

 

thisisthinprivilege:

Because it is. What we consider “healthy” is not the same as what is considered healthy in other cultures, nor what was considered healthy at other times in history. Hell, our own definition has changed considerably just since I was born. (This is also how we can tell that things like gender and childhood are socially constructed.) And we know that much of what the public considers healthy right now does not actually give the benefits people think it does (such as the fact that people “overweight” and “obese” by the BMI chart actually live longer than people it lists as “normal” weight). How would you not consider that a social construct? “Healthy” in our culture is constructed from a lot of false ideas and false assumptions about people’s bodies. This isn’t just a HAES idea. (Indeed, there are a lot of parts of the popular idea of “health” that HAES subscribes to.) If you read the actual medical and scientific literature that’s out there, you’ll find all kinds of things that contradict our idea of health.

And, of course, the popular idea of health leaves out a lot of people, especially people with disabilities, and makes it something they can never attain, but are told they should strive for constantly.

-MG

rebloggable by request

Woah woah woah.

Yes, the definition of WHAT IS HEALTHY FOR YOU is a “social construct,” but what is healthy for your BODY is a construct based off research, experimental results. 

Other cultures may have differing opinions on what’s healthy /for someone/, but they absolutely cannot dispute science and what is physically healthy. What bloodletting healthy? Were lobotomies? Trepanation? You can’t just DEFINE what is good for you physically — in that case, why don’t we just throw all medical research that’s ever been done away.

Okay, so, to be clear: what you’re SAYING (I hope) is referring to the /idea of what is healthy/, not what is ACTUALLY, medicinally, healthy.

Is gastric bypass surgery healthy?

Is affixing inflated tubes around perfectly well-functioning internal organs healthy?

Weight loss diets, especially yo-yo dieting?

Consuming large amounts of fake sugar?

Over-exercise to the point of repetitive stress injury, in the name of weight loss?

Spending a quarter-time job on dieting and exercising in combination with a stressful full time job, family, and other obligations?

Putting kids on diets?

Diagnosis #1 of all fat patients being fatness, and Treatment #1 to lose weight, regardless of their complaint, regardless even of whether weight gain was caused by an underlying factor?

Being told to lose weight during pregnancy if you’re over a certain BMI?

Being labeled as high-risk and oftentimes banned from every birthing practice except surgery because you’re over a certain BMI?

Because these (and many more) are all things that are currently considered ‘healthy’ by many researchers engaged in modern medical ‘science.’ 

Our collective scientific handle on what is ‘healthy’ is not anywhere near accurate. It’s largely skewed by political considerations like the vast amount of funding available for anti-obesity research, and the agendas of certain politicians who want to link unhealthy lifestyles with whatever kind of lifestyle they personally oppose, moral panics like the obesity epidemic, commercial interests, and private biases.

If what we know about medical science was the size of a frisbee, half of that frisbee would be under dispute, and what we do NOT know would be the size of the entire fucking planet.

I know people who buy into the cult of healthism are prone to buy into this ridiculous worship of current medical science, but please, PLEASE, think a little more critically first. 

-ArteToLife

YES. Thank you. I’m not fat but I have sturggled with my weight in the past and I am very on side of the rights of people considered overweight. This is excellent commentary,
8AM

maleprivilege:

My male coworkers telling me that being hit on inappropriately is just going to be part of my career as a woman in the workplace. 

Ugh that is disgusting we are not meat.

March192013

Kind of nice meal…

I finally got to go to that vegan place. The food was BRILLIANT. I had: Soup to start. It was a butternut squash soup with coconut milk swirled into it. It looked BEAUTIFUL and was spicy and just delicious. I had stuffed courgette it was stuffed with chilli. I like spicy stuff! I didn’t have a desert because omg I was so full. It was such such great food like I thought it would be. That was the good part.

The bad part was my friend. I took her there for her birthday because she’s been in America for a couple of years (she’s doing something with geology or something that she needs to be there for) and she’s back for a few months and I wanted to see her. She just complained the whole time. She had soup too to start but apparently it was cold (I tasted it it wasn’t THAT cold, she could have just eaten it and not made a fuss) then she had something with mushrooms in and she doesn’t even like mushrooms so she was picking them out and making a big deal. The only part she even liked was the desert but she kept saying vegan ice cream is too grainy so she only ate the fruit. SO basically I paid for her to waste a load of food.

Then she started on at me for only giving a small tip. WE’RE NOT IN AMERICA. She pulled it out from under the bill and was WAVING MONEY AROUND adding more to it and being really embarrassing. The server just stood there looking really uncomfortable.

I mean I get that she’s been in America for a while and things are different there but she was doing stuff like grabbing the bill to see how much it was and everything and it was all just so impolite. I was so glad to be out of there even witht he food being so good. I missed her but she’;s changed a lot and I don;t know if we’ll stay friends really now.

So it was good and bad but mostly bad. I’m going back though for the food I wish they did takeaway.

vegan vegetarian food friends personal post 

March102013

Anonymous asked: Some how I have a feeling that you believe in Judith H. Katz's definition of racism.

I didn’t know who Judith H Katzs is so I looked her up and yes I do agree. Is that a bad thing? 

racism ask me anything 

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