it’s not too late to get your flu shot. my boyfriend brought the flu home and while it’s been rough for me (vaccinated), it’s been infinitely rougher for him (did not get vaccinated!)
Your whooping cough vaccine, assuming you were vaccinated as a kid, probably needs to be renewed! they wear out over ten years or so. The TDAP vaccine will protect you from tetanus, whooping cough, and diphtheria.
MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) however, lasts for life. If you were vaccinated against them once you probably don’t need to do it again.
4. It’s also not too late to start masking again to protect yourself from all airborne disease including COVID, flu, measles etc 🙂
For MMR you should have a titer test done to see if the immunization took or has worn off. Did one, found out I was not immunized for mumps, got the MMR shot again because my dad is partially deaf from mumps and fuck no thanks.
“women can wear pants now. they can dress masc and it’s fine”
body hair is seen as disgusting and wrong and sick and “too masc” on a woman still. Did we just forget that?
not wearing makeup as a woman can prevent you from getting hired.
this is absolutely ridiculous
I didn’t think that you’d have to calmly explain to other trans people that regular misogyny still exists and is a serious problem
My ex was forced to depilate by her mother, and the people at the beauty place who did the wax depilation were apparently mad at me for not caring about whether or not she had body hair.
It very much is still a problem.
In 2013, before I came out, before I was on T, when I had only the kind of hair on my face that gamer bros complain about re: girl characters, I had a (young) woman at the nail salon point at my face and tell me I needed to wax my whole face, or at least my upper lip and chin.
She didn’t work there. She just felt like randomly telling another (presumed) woman that the completely transparent, shortest physically possible hair on my cheeks was Too Much.
I got more than one Official Talking To at Wachovia/Wells Fargo bc my suits were too masculine in cut, my haircut was too masculine (and had i considered getting highlights?), and I didn’t wear, or didn’t wear enough, makeup. These were all framed as Coaching, as an attempt to help me present myself in a way that would help me to advance my career (and as someone gently telling me that these things were currently very much in the way of my career).
you’re not an horrible person you are 15 years old
“you can be 15 years old and also a terrible person” teenagers do stupid shit all the time, adults do stupid shit all the time, what matters is that you learn about that and that you don’t let that define you. you are figuring out yourself and you never really stop doing that.
this is a thing i saw on tiktok and it’s been bothering me forever and ever. okay yeah you took bad decisions/hurted people/etc. but that doesn’t mean that you’re destinated to hurt people or to be a bad person forever and ever. perhaps at the moment you thought what you were doing was good. perhaps you were trying to protect yourself. perhaps you just didn’t know any better. perhaps you thought that it wouldn’t be that bad. whatever thing you’ve might’ve done on the past doesn’t define you in any sort of way. you are a human being and you will do a lot of mistakes until you die. putting yourself down won’t help on anything. others putting you down doesn’t mean anything. don’t let your mistakes be something that defines you, but let them be a reminder that you’re still here and that you can grow as a person.
if this breaches containment I’ll be genuinely happy. be kinder to yourselfs. life is about growing and learning, not about punishing and denying.
Former Minnesota Vikings punter, Chris Kluwe, who was blacklisted from the league for standing up for marriage equality, speaks at a city council meeting where he calls Trump a Nazi. He is subsequently arrested and carried out by police.
I just want to clarify a few things, because I have a feeling some people may share this without watching the video in full and/or getting further details from related newsarticles:
Kluwe was there to specifically protest the installation of a [massively cringe] pro-Trump plaque. Per ABC News: “Kluwe, a Huntington Beach resident, was protesting the council’s decision to place a plaque commemorating the public library’s anniversary. The plaque included the words "Magical Alluring Galvanizing Adventurous,” an apparent nod to President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again slogan.“
Kluwe was not just arbitrarily hauled off by cops for speaking out against Trump. If you watch the video until the end, you’ll hear him announce his intentions to engage in the "time-honoured American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.” From there, he defiantly approaches the stage where the seven [aforementioned cringe, right-wing lunatic] Huntington Beach City Council members are all sitting, knowing full well that he is about to be arrested and charged with disrupting an assembly.
Thanks to this deliberate act of protest, some of Trump’s 24/7 news blitz will now be interrupted by images of a former NFL player being carted away by a gaggle of dour looking cops:
(this is a good thing, if that’s not clear; I feel like too many people have forgotten about the tactical use of arrests by activists, especially during the Civil Rights era, to highlight injustice or disrupt a media narrative)
Anyway, kudos to Mr Kluwe for this, I hope more public figures will follow suit.
amhrancas 