my friend told me that her boyfriend got her a super cool rock while they were on vacation together and you would not BELIEVE my disappointment when i realized she was talking about her engagement ring
*holds your head in my hands* im sorry i let you down
“I was fine with the LGBT community existing, but I draw the line at forcing their lifestyle on children.”
Translating:
“I was fine with the LGBT community trying to heal LGBT adults who we traumatized when they were children, but I draw the line at preventing us from traumatizing them in the first place.”
Alternatively:
“I am fine with the theoretically concept of queer people existing, but I draw the line at having to see or acknowledge them in public spaces”
Another alternative:
“I am fine with queer people existing and may even be friends with some of them (because I want to look open minded), but I am not fine with the possibility that my child might be queer because then they would be different from me and clearly worth less to me as children (children are property and they’re meant to give you children the right way).”
i feel like every human should max out at one disability or chronic illness. like when i hit adolescence and my brain chemistry went “bipolar time now?” the response should have been an error message like sorry! this slot can only contain one (1) item and has been filled with childhood asthma. i would even allow the possibility that you can overwrite previous disorders like “you have equipped chronic migraines and so no will no longer display symptoms of bipolar disorder.” i just think it should work that way.
It is actually way better for 100 addicts to get their fix on pain pills than a single person in pain go without. I call this the “Torture is bad” principle. You should be able to get the good stuff forever after a single doctor’s visit. If you’re worried about addicts fund rehab centers and needle exchanges instead of torturing people.
Among other things if you can’t use the legit market you turn to the black market anyway.
if you’re worried about addiction, build a society where people get their basic needs met, including pain management.
people with medical issues are not “putting a strain on the medical system”. that’s what the medical system is for. yes this includes people with substance use related medical issues and other people considered “undeserving” of help
“In Irish when you talk about emotion, you don’t say, ‘I am sad’. You’d say, ‘sadness is on me’ ‘tá bron orm’.
And I love that because there’s an implication of not identifying yourself with the emotion fully. I am not sad, it’s just that sadness is on me for a while.
Something else will be on me another time, and that’s a good thing to recognise.”
