tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-845289090285486122024-03-04T22:26:35.715-08:00Sensually Submissive: Confessions in Leopard PrintMusings of an intellectually driven kinky girl...JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-36237884863297055012023-05-23T22:32:00.001-07:002023-05-23T22:32:37.190-07:00The Food Blogs Begin! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div>Dinner; masala califlower/chickpea salad, spicy impossible sausage, pickled daikon, cucumber, and pita. </div><div><br></div><div>No snackies today.. and yes, I use paper plates alot because I'm lazy. Chow! </div>JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-72754773229257347542019-11-01T13:58:00.001-07:002019-11-01T13:58:19.808-07:00There's a reason people regularly tell you not to read the youtube comments!! I get it.. you're alone on your phone so many hours a day reading and watching mindless shit, that you begin to crave attention; you want to feel less alone after a long purge of this deep spiral.. you want affirmation!! You need community! Likes!? (sad)<br />
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For many, that means taking to the cringy comments section for social interaction.<br />
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It's important to remember that he comment section in most online spaces tends to attract a larger percentage of (single/lonely/often bitter/cis-men/socially-isolated) folks statistically, who spread their (often critical, misogynistic, and/or hate-based) opinions and worldview based on that isolation.<br />
Comment spaces are in no way a reflection of greater societal opinions!! This is critical to understand... (unless your sample gets so large that it truly begins to imitate your population.)<br />
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People who are generally happy with things/films/people/etc.. don't tend to regularly haunt the comment section alone on their computers and critique it; they're more likely to be offline/out living their lives in social situations and learning/interacting instead from their peers.<br />
Any intro statistics course/book will drill this concept into you endlessly; to get an unbiased statistic (meaning something you want to know about a particular population) you need to use a random sampling method from your chosen population, or sample nearly all of that population anyway.<br />
My most recent encountered example inspiring this post was from youtube comments (typical!)... particularly from all the people who had (assumedly) watched either the Season 1 trailer on youtube or some amount of the series "Easy" on netflix. (A friend recommended... haven't watched it yet)<br />
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The first ten or twelve comments I encountered were exceptionally critical, and I wondered why that might be; is the show really that awful (it certainly could be!), or is bias sneaking in? (Particularly noting that the show is about love/relationships/sex, etc..) What do all the women think? Happy people think? (I see so few of them represented overtly in the comments section generally)<br />
We know that netflix removed ratings years ago for at least *some* similar reasons.. namely negativity bias, but also to get increased viewership of course! (Something prime video ever-so-painfully clings to for ethics reasons probably.... I respect it, however flawed and unhelpful)<br />
...But long story short.. we rely on youtube comments/ratings now. Interestingly, the general upvote didn't match the first ten comments at all.. it had a whopping 3.2k up-votes/500 down. Why? Maybe satisfied people are good enough with a simple one-click thumbs up?<br />
In stats you also need to use a large pool of samples to get a good result; the bigger the pool, the more accurate your statistic is. Bias can show up in countless ways; particularly in an online space like this. It seems that sometimes the loudest/angriest few tend to drown out the complacent larger crowd overall. (I think immediately to extremist movements)<br />
We refer to user-generated comment spaces in statistical terms as "self-selection bias" (certain folks feel more compelled to comment than others) and in concert as "non-response bias" (of course, not everyone who watches the video also comments). As a result, we see themes like negativity bias arise; (ie: those that hated the show the most feel most strongly; and are more likely to comment!) :)<br />
We gotta give Netflix at least some credit.. but youtube algorithms could use some major work too!! Until we find a better way of polling/sorting commentary online, never feel bad if you want to just skip the damn comments altogether; they're a great research tool, but so often weaponized!<br />
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...butt-hurt is real... but so is a broken system, combative partisan politics and income inequality. If you ask me, we need more love, respect and understanding in online spaces. <3 p=""> </3>JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-39036687619299087472019-04-02T17:18:00.000-07:002019-04-02T17:38:12.480-07:00On "stupidity"...<span id="docs-internal-guid-fdb3eb98-7fff-a064-3db2-3c73a2cae980"></span><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-fdb3eb98-7fff-a064-3db2-3c73a2cae980"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In fact, our ability to communicate our wants and needs through advanced language and symbolism (interpersonal communication via culture) is literally what helped make our brains so big! You don't have to like it, but perhaps have some respect for our species keen ability to navigate and obsess over socialization! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An online chum and I were discussing the idea of idiocy today... a politicized word I find myself using less and less as an adult.. and then flat-earthers jolted into the conversation!! .. (a concept I'd historically feel quite content combining into the same sentence as "idiocy")... but wait.. what IS idiocy? A general lack of knowledge? A lack of acceptance? A smaller brain? An inability to trust institutions? A person with low IQ? (our IQ tests discriminate based on race, FYI)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is liking/watching the Kardashians an idiotic thing? Why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do any nerds here remember that episode of Star Trek where the concept of "small talk" was laughably labeled as silly and unnecessary by data and others? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">...that episode made me a little uncomfy. What's wrong with bonding with others through small chat? What constitutes everything else? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Are we (in our ever-persistent pursuit of progress) a social species consciously trying to break away from our "chains of social-ness?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Lordy help us Seattelights!! :P ..we already ignore all live humans in public)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What about oppressed groups who rely solely on group solidarity and social function to unite uprisings? What about those without community? What about all the people that (willingly or not) use small-talk to get their needs met? I had a lot of questions after that episode... but the idea of oppression always changes my perspective on things... "idiocy" and "stupidity" being prime examples.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Understanding oppression is critical here... (yeah.. you knew it was fucking coming)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine you're living in poverty and you're working 3 jobs. You're chronically stressed from your wage-labor life.. both physically and mentally. You often feel discriminated against by those you're supposed to trust (i.e. your doctors/lawyers/the police/etc) and you have to work weekends with little to no vacation time. You have a hard time paying for general bills, rent, and healthcare. Life is tough, and it's fucking stressful. You have to make sacrifices.. a lot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I'd argue that if you're truly stressed, you don't generally go home at the end of the week (with what little time off you have) and watch something serious like sci-fi or documentaries or something of any real seriousness or complexity.. instead, as a wage slave, you probably tend to watch things that represent capitalist fetishism, things that represent what you don't have and things which help numb you; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">#1; rich people. doing rich things.. (as we're living in a capitalist universe, getting small glimpses of what it's like to be a person who's "made it" is our ideal.. people who aren't attached to the chronic stress of poverty and who can afford luxuries like time, health, and recreation, and those who focus instead on leisure activities) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> #2; frivolous social matters... [watching others stress out instead of yourself; and watching self-induced affluent 'stress' (vacationing/beauty/social elitism/party planning) instead of real stress like bills, child support, medical needs, etc.. being able to turn off real life, and imagining these beautiful celebrities instead are your family/friends/etc]... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One can imagine that the more 'mindless' the TV shows available in a place, the more poverty, discrimination and wage disparity you see overall .. and it turns out this is an actual correlation too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oh..and the wage/medical/work/housing/interpersonal discrimination crap.. is very, very real... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">we see the disturbing numbers from studies again and again.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- Black mothers are more likely to die in childbirth in this country than white mothers... black women also suffer much more chronic stress than white women, as well as medical discrimination in terms of pain management..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- communities of color don't live as long as white communities overall.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- indigenous populations have higher disease rates like diabetes due to lack of medical care and power/water/food distribution infrastructure... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">- children of color have higher asthma rates than whites (due to historic redlining of neighborhoods predominantly into inner cities/spaces near road traffic/pollution/etc)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the list goes on and on... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fact is, life is considerably harder to navigate for people who don't own property, who don't have lots of money, who lack anglo-saxon sounding names and who don't look typically white in the US.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are also people with high stress rates, that often choose to watch silly rich people on TV as a form of escapism from poverty and daily discrimination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In essence, the 'Kardashians' show is literally what a stressed-out, unequal, and often impoverished nation craves.. the socialization aspect we crave as humans.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and a show about rich people who socialize about frivolous rich people things, instead of the struggles of ordinary daily life in a capitalist wage-labor country built of the backs of oppression. TV shows don't account for idiocy in this way; they point to a deeper oppression we simply wish to turn-off for an hour or so every few days. That's hardly idiotic.. that's therapeutic. </span></div>
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</span>JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-6439691026298669542019-03-21T14:30:00.001-07:002019-03-21T14:30:32.846-07:00On Solidarity<p dir="ltr">Many white settlers here in North America like to feel better about themselves when they think they're taking the moral high ground based on others actions...</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm better than ________.<br>
At least I'm not a ______. <br>
You name it .. a racist, a manipulative person, a sexist, a con-artist, a rapist, an abuser, a murderer, a thief, a gunman, a mysogynist, a nazi, a bigot, a pedophile, a smuggler, a killer... <br>
..a *gulp*... trump supporter?! <br>
...the list goes on and on...<br>
And sure.. some ppl are trash.. hell, lots of ppl are trash!</p>
<p dir="ltr">But are you really better? <br>
So maybe you never shot up a school, or raped babies, or blew up a bunch of nuns, or whatever the fuck else..<br>
..but are you really going to call yourself a good/moral/wise person based on what you DON'T do?! <br>
All kinds of awful people of ALL kinds exist.. but if you're a white colonizer living on stolen indigenous land you're sure as shit still one of them.<br>
Get off your high horse and think of yourself as one of the bad people already. <br>
Then go do something about it.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It's easier to think of other bad behaviors and people (like racists) as a lost cause.. <br>
...as those "other" awful people you simply can't stand to look at or talk to..</p>
<p dir="ltr">Yeah, well indigenous folks and POC don't like fucking dealing with opressors either. They're just forced to endure us every damn second of every damn day against their will. That's forced upon their lives. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I try to do good. I know that consistently open/non-judgemental dialog can and does change the minds and hearts of bad ppl over time. I know because I changed. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I grew up surrounded by abuse.<br>
I was taught to abuse.<br>
As a youngster, I abused.<br>
I also choose not to abuse now.<br>
I unlearned that shit. <br>
(Thnks, feminism/therapy/friends/allies..)</p>
<p dir="ltr">People aren't born monsters.<br>
Racism isn't biologically innate in certain humans.. it's learned. </p>
<p dir="ltr">I also know I'm not going to change minds by preaching to the choir either.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It's always seemed unfair (for me as a priviledged/rich/whiteIDd person) to not actively use my many privileges to try to dismantle systemic and internalized racism every chance I possibly get.</p>
<p dir="ltr">So I choose to talk to racists...<br>
Because I am part of the problem. <br>
...and I owe it to others to be part of the solution.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I don't like dialog with bigots anymore than anyone else.. but my education was never about me or for me. It was never about making things easier for me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(the world doesn't revolve around me) </p>
<p dir="ltr">.....my education was in solidarity alongside those allowing me to be an ally.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I went to school on Duwamish land.. not for myself, but for all those who can't.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Why not strike up a conversation with a shitty person today? </p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-59732568339866400762018-12-11T16:37:00.004-08:002018-12-12T08:45:44.043-08:00Choosing pregnancy specifically and purposefully to abort <span id="docs-internal-guid-c4264fb9-7fff-4f94-f286-063fb21bb2d8"><span style="color: #e06666; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aka; a premeditated baby-grinder is me...</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">feel they need to lay down a long-winded excuse or description of circumstances </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">leading up to their natural bodily processes needing medical intervention? Stop. No.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> The parasitic cell division that occurs in ½ of the human population as a means of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">continued existence is a naturally occurring biological process.. something human </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">bodies are designed solely to do as a function of our simply existing in the first place.. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">no different than our innate desire to eat or shit or cough or breathe.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Cell division is a necessary function of human bodies.. get over it. You owe zero </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">excuses for your body functions. NO ONE should be stigmatizing pregnancy anymore </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">than they might cancer or cleft palates… you know; those natural bodily processes </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">people routinely DON’T provide any fucking excuses for... because we shouldn't have to.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I had my 'abortion' 110% purposefully premeditated. I did it for me and ONLY me </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">because I can do whatever the flying fuck I want to my body. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I wanted to experience what the whole "preggers" thing felt like for a wk or so, mostly </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">for sexual reasons (because you only live once, right?).. and maybe (it was a long shot </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">maybe) get some bonus bigger/darker nips or areolas out of the fun. (sadly it was cut off </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">much </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; white-space: pre;">too soon to do much on that note, but it did end up being a hell of a preggo/breeding </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">fetish fantasy come true for this kinky slutbag!) Naturally the ultimate turn-on for any cunt </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in heat, ever, duh... (thanks evolution)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I just didn't want to experience it for very long, because pregnancy can be quite </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">dangerous and the idea of growing crotch parasites.. yuck; yeah, no.. hard limit </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">on stomach </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">growthy things. I stick to adopted fur-babes/ready born chittlins, thanx.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I’m privileged enough to be an anti-natalist.. and fully given the choice to decide, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">there's no ethical excuse I can personally come up with to birth a life. It would be cruel </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and unnecessary in my eyes; especially on an already overpopulated planet currently </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">unable to sustain its current inhabitants even remotely ethically. But the idea of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pregnancy is fucking HOT.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I wanted to avoid any vacuum evacuation/curettage, so I decided to schedule my </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“medical” abortion as early as I possibly could; which ended up being pretty much </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the same time cells started dividing in my uterus. (ugh..shudder.. I just couldn't wait </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">more than a few days... it's just too fucking creepy knowing something is growing in </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">there)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I routinely use those cheapy (yet reliable!) dollar-store hCG tests every month </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(or anytime I have a late period) just for general peace of mind.. so i caught my tiny </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">little growth within 1-2 weeks of it attaching to me. It ended up taking my fat PCOS </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ridden ass roughly 14 </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">months of (ovulating) vaginal sex with the resident boislut </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">for my anxious horniness to </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pay off </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">too! I really prefer anal with intact cocks both for </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">feel/subbyness </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">and pregger protection.. but I just </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; white-space: pre;">had to get this </span></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">out of my </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">system.. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; white-space: pre;">(pun.. ohh............) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> My plan was to force a "thick period" via mifepristone/misoprostol so I could get a </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">day of heavy cramps comfortably at home, gather my little cell blobby in a jar, take </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">some family photos, and delight in personally “murdering” it; (as much as you can </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">murder a centimeter-size cluster of dividing cells anyway) ...I just really wanted to be </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">able to say I committed SOME form of baby murder... muhahahahah! (not many </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">chances in life u know)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I also just wanted to see what the whole mysteriously medicalized guilted/shamed </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">patriarchal bullshit process of navigating an 'abortion' in this state and country was </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">really like, because I’m an Anthro/Comparative History major and I delight in </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">investigating gendered cultural narratives like this one.. particularly one so insanely </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">new.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> Let me also note that I'm a privileged white 34 year old college-educated ape from </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Seattle who has pretty excellent (and free) access to healthcare through medicaid </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">while studying at UW, so I was/am privileged as shit to be able to do this so casually </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and live/type to talk about it as such, while so many in the world still can't.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I learned a lot.. that the docs on UW campus have to refer students out to a </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">specialty clinic bc they don’t carry/perform “medical” abortions on campus interestingly; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">that a day of excessively heavy cramping is kinda fun as a once-off feeling of </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">supposed “motherhood” if you’re never having kiddos otherwise but want to feel like </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you still kinda got a little of the physical experience; and that the whole process </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(testing, referral, pill-popping and follow-up) was absolutely riddled with political, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">gendered, and lawful whiny medicalized bullshit (unsurprisingly) even in liberal as fuck </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Seattle.. (boy, we love policing womens bodies!)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I went into this adventure with a fair amount of medical knowledge; so I knew what </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to expect; but nothing prepares you for other women expecting you to be this sad, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ashamed, afraid, alone, demolished creature.. acting as this helpless victim unsure </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of your options and how your body works… that was mind-opening to experience </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">first-hand.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I’ve always felt very in control of my healthcare (having participated in numerous </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">clinical studies on and off campus throughout the years; in random sampling and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">multiple medication phase trials, etc.) This experience definitely stood out as unique </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> The MDs, ARNPs and nurses on my medical team (all women) at the referral </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">clinic (“Cedar River” in the downtown Seattle medical/dental building), all shared </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">this invisibilize bond.. a sense of shared strength and struggle.. both in my first visit </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(mifepristone necessarily taken in the presence of an aid visually in office) and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">during the follow-up ultrasound (2 weeks after my misoprostol dosing at home).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> The rooms there were thick with a sense of collective triumph; I remember that </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">solidarity well. What started as a curious decision to experience this procedure </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">myself, ended as a unique way of seeing women's struggle; as 2 of the women </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">waiting next to me looked like they didn’t have homes; and there perhaps as necessity.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> I have similar women throughout civil rights history to thank for paving my path to </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">equal quality healthcare options like this; notably those that never apologized and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">never felt even slightly at fault for taking responsibility for their bodies, their future, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and their autonomy.. AND, lets not forget, their sexuality!! because I don't regret </span><br />
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- I'm a fat person and stalls are fucking tiny annoying stinky cramped spaces<br />
- I like having an "out" in case of unforeseeable emergency (earthquake, shooter, etc)<br />
- I'm not a fan of doors...or walls... or enclosed spaces in general...<br />
- I don't have an inherent fear of others seeing or judging my body<br />
- Door/stall handles are the dirtiest thing in the bathroom (they aren't cleaned routinely like toilets)<br />
- No one ever tries to enter my space (wiggles handle/knocks) when I'm seen<br />
- It opens up space for chit chat (vulnerability breeds connection)<br />
- If I run out of toilet paper, someone can actually hand me some<br />
- I like to look my friends/family/etc in the eye when I'm talking, not yell over a door<br />
- More often than not, stalls/bathroom locks are dysfunctional in busy restrooms anyways<br />
- The idea of locking myself into a tiny corner with strangers around seems creepy<br />
- I grew up using stalls in parks that never had doors on them<br />
- Urinals don't have stalls in-between them... why the fuck do toilets?<br />
- Most restrooms around the world don't have doors... and people manage just fine.<br />
- Ventilation, ventilation, ventilation!! I don't want the stink to linger..<br />
- Every animal on earth outside homo-sapiens doesn't give 2 shits (I mean, they do.. but..)<br />
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I rarely encounter other folks not locking doors, and I find it odd.. outside disabled folks and little kids (the tiny innocent folks who haven't internalized societal body shaming yet) it's as if women are ashamed of their piss and their genitals. I can't say I'm surprised.. :/<br />
We don't all lock ourselves into little metal boxes when we put things inside our body.. (aka eating) we actually do quite the opposite and make it a social function... we tend to WANT to eat together. Why can't bathrooms be used as the valuable social spaces they are? (After all, we do ALL share the same regular need to go.. it's not as if anyone DOESN'T take dumps) ...In restaurants we all hold ourselves accountable for cleanliness because it's a shared space.. and that's rarely the case with restrooms... secrecy breeds some disgusting habits.. not flushing, not picking up what you drop, not using the plunger when you plug one up (ew) etc.. bathrooms are weird fucking spaces.. they remind me of the depths of 4chan, reddit and youtube comments where people go just to make trouble.<br />
There's even bathroom-messing fetishists... it's a thing! (I've seen it) wherein folks go into the secrecy of a stall, intentionally plug up a toilet with giant wads of toilet paper, then flush and run... just for the funsies of it... like a hobbie. (It's usually older retired women earlier in the mornings in larger department-type stores where they can't be easily caught.. they're surprisingly common!) It turns out that humans turn into irresponsible pieces of shit (pun intended) when left to privacy. Such.... bizarre.. spaces!! (Not surprisingly, I'm also a seasonal/recreational/social nudist.<br />
As always, the issue is gendered... it's completely acceptable for men to stand next to one-another and excrete bodily fluids as a group.. while the "filthy/nasty.. in need of protection because of our inherent feebleness-women" are expected to shut themselves away in a stinky dark un-ventilated germ box. No..fucking.. thanks.<br />
I'll be keeping my door wiiide open, thank you! :)<br />
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<br />JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-91807534033642880462018-10-11T10:27:00.000-07:002018-10-11T10:27:23.925-07:00Dose = Poison!Repeat after me:<br />
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Dose = Poison<br />
Dose = Poison<br />
Dose = Poison<br />
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Everything is a chemical and can be dangerous in high enough doses or if consumed improperly. Take H2O (water); it will kill you if you breathe enough of it in (drowning, duh) and it will kill you if you consume too much in a short span of time (aka water intoxication; disturbs electrolyte balance leading to rapid drop in serum sodium concentration.. causing seizures, permanent brain damage, coma and/or death) Keep in mind H2O is also primarily what we're made of.<br />
Always remember, *Dose = poison*. H2O isn't inherently toxic to humans; it just is in large doses. This applies to EVERYTHING.. [i.e. sunlight (radiation) or salt - both deadly to humans if we're exposed to too little/too much] and EVERY food; take caffeine or vinegar (coffee/salad dressing)... both carcinogenic, but damn tasty and GRAS (generally recognized as safe!)<br />
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Dose = Poison. Preach it.<br />
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Why does this matter? Because the term "toxic chemical" is relative. There are a few notable exceptions to the rule of course... but enough with the alarmist ideas in the food realm... come at me with a dose that's toxic and I'll listen to you like you know what the fuck you're talking about.<br />
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<br />JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-37417454546079887472018-09-24T15:49:00.003-07:002018-09-24T15:49:58.934-07:00What turns our crank and why? I try to break it down...<div dir="ltr">
From what I've gathered in readings and research as an undergrad over the years in anthropology and cultural studies (history), (as well as my own sexual sluttery with over 200 people in my day) there are three drivers I've found routinely popping up in "gratifying" human sexual experience that happen OUTSIDE PHYSICAL FEELING.</div>
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These three I've come to know are understood psychologically and sociologically (or those we can test or poll regularly and then record) and seem to constantly be in play with each other in various (known famously) conceptualizations... ie Freudian, Maslow's hierarchies.. blah blah blah.. (mostly white institutionalized western thought which I tend to avoid using as meaningful or scientific)</div>
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The formation of these overlapping desires I've gathered are based on my accounts of human need relating back to sexual desire and fulfillment. They're variable, but always present in some form.</div>
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These are the 3 drivers in non-physical desire I've come up with (and hope to elaborate much more about in time as a senior):</div>
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<b>1. <u>Novelty</u> - </b><b>(whatever/whoever's newest or weirdest or foreign/unique gets us most excited) </b></div>
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<b>2. <u>Fantasy</u> - </b><b>(</b><b>sexualized ideas/feelings we've built or associated in mind; coming to fruition</b><b>)</b></div>
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<b>3. </b><b><u>Group Identity and group dynamism</u> - (what identities we sexualize and/or how our groupings interact w other groupings; ie.. gender identity, concepts of family, sex as social tool</b>) </div>
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I find we can usually figure out what excites us all (and why) when we account for these three overlapping variables... at least as far as I've found in my own research... why? ...we're a group animal with group animal needs :) Our sexual perceptions and need to procreate are always based on others and the way we perceive others when we're talking about anything outside physiology.</div>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-2552229422622619612018-09-24T15:23:00.002-07:002018-09-24T15:23:42.635-07:00Bias in Science; how does a messy species find truth?<div dir="ltr">
I had a great conversation this wk with a newer online chum.. particularly surrounding bias and systemic racism in and around research and methodology. He raised some great points about how research is largely biased, and I couldn't agree more. </div>
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One only has to look at current maternal death statistics to see that black women in the US are three times as likely to die post-child birth than white women, or look at the history in the US of syphilis "research" methods used on black Americans in the last century in the name of scientific advancement, or the history of eugenics, the concept of the 'one-drop' rule, or historical methods created to classify classes of humans like phrenology.</div>
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The list of human atrocities made in the name of science had been absolutely horrendous.. including the shit-show in the White House and EPA at the moment.</div>
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On this note, I need to talk way more (and hope to see others talk more) about systemic racism <u>and</u> how it creates bias and actively oppresses in science today.. it's critical.<br /> The point I wish to make, however, is why we so desperately need an unbiased method to interpret the world around us amongst this chaos our species repeatedly creates. We're lousy with stats, we're biased, we can't remember things well, and affluent white wealthy land owners can't seem to treat each other (or anyone we've deemed outsider ourselves) with much mutual respect.<br /> The gentleman I spoke with made a great point about race relations and the systemic bigotry white folks used to build this country on... and about his own struggle inside that shit-show casm as a person of color in this colonialist country. (This is critically important shit that needs to be talked about.. alot!!) But it kinda had zero percent to do with what I was trying to really talk to him about... that true empirical data is just that opposite.. it doesn't lie or work within bias. We can distort our scientific methodologies to no end, but evidence.. evidence is "pure" in that it's simply explaining reality (after we test and test and test and test and then test once more :) </div>
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We need to totally be down to talk race relations and politics and science ethics surrounding racism.. it's totally my bag.. and it should be yours too.. but I want to also point out that messy humans stand outside empirical reality... that reality is something beyond human bias.</div>
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It's critical here that we discuss the literal definition and function of what the scientific method is and what it produces... and that while messy humans follow it, we find true empirical realities the more we practice it. There should always be room to talk ethics alongside science (and there has to be) but what science and science communicators are trying to get across to society is much simpler. I only wish we come to have more voices of color reaching out.... trying to convey a method of testing. ... .. and you, I, we...all know it..(you probably learned about it in grade school playing with batteries and basic household chemicals)</div>
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It's the scientific method... one that shows what's real vs what's not, in the most basic sense.. ie, gravity, chemical reaction, the physics of light and motion... basically the stuff that explains why the world works the way it does (ie why your remote control makes things change on your TV screen, or how I'm able to talk to you across town via a soldered glass/metal/led box) .. it's understanding how we got to know these things, and then using those fundamentals to explain and research further.</div>
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Humans can affect funding and grant processes of research, write shitty ethics for an experiment, commit genocide in the name of science.. etc, etc.. but at the end if the day, we can't stop fundamental processes.. we can't manipulate gravity or stop the sun from coming up, or halt radioactive decay or stop fundamental particles from being atoms.. they simply are. </div>
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Human bias doesn't affect the rules of physics.. the numbers/the data.. the fundamental equations that make the world work. In this way, science serves us as a tool determining empirical reality. That's what I think so many who "believe" things are missing. The science/numbers don't lie.. it's just we the imperfect people who do.<br /> How do we account for human error? The scientific method seems like one of the only ways i've found... It simply asks for repeated data over and over and over again.. verifiable results.. it's used with methodologies that root out human error (ie statistical noise, falsified data, or liers) </div>
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This is why we can only be 98% sure global warming is human produced in meta-data (studies combining hundreds of other studies on subject to account for error) Yes, it's preeeettyy obvious it's occurring... but climate data is messy.. bc humans are messy.. and so there's 2% of studies that aren't as explicit with their findings (or never directly refer to humans in their study, simply because they assume the obvious in light of their findings in climate Science after 30 years of publishing the same. <br /> So yeah, I guess I hope folks can understand the difference there... because belief has absolutely nothing to do with why batteries work or how magnets attract. That's science. Bias is human error, and we know it's there and how to correct for it. :) The trick going forward is... how do we stop being awful to each other and simply listen to the reality? I only hope it works to bond us in these tough times.. that science can work as a tool, instead of a political means to further oppress.</div>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-79336872731517308402018-09-24T14:46:00.001-07:002018-09-24T14:46:41.286-07:00On "Organic" Food and Practice... "Organic" food, as industry folks refer to it, is a belief system based on something called a naturalism bias; it's built on the assumption that chemicals mixed synthetically are inherently worse than chemicals "not mixed synthetically".. even though they're often the exact same chemical soup, regardless. Chemicals are chemicals are chemicals. Everything in existence is a soup of chemicals. The Organic lobby is a multi-billion dollar industry that spends a lot of money telling us these "natural chemicals" are somehow inherently superior to "not natural" chemicals.<br />
The bias is confronted when we accept nature as inherently unhealthy; (for every healthy green food growing in the ground there's also a generally toxic counterpart.. from rhubarb greens to cashew pods to poison ivy) Nature wants to nourish you, but mostly it wants to kill you. The continued investment and lobby in "organic industry" becomes problematic when only affluent and food secure people practice it, as is done. "Organic" farming practices are often less efficient and generally more carbon intensive than conventional, which matters when 1 in 7 human beings are still food insecure today (who collectively can't pay higher prices for organic) and we aim to reach 9 billion by around 2052.<br />
If something exists, it's natural. Chemistry is natural. Labs are natural. Mixing chemicals in them is natural. Things made "synthetically" possible by labs are natural, because they exist in our natural world. Luckily, by mixing chemicals ourselves (and the genes chemicals bond to create) we can better test their inherent risks to us, and we do. "Organic food" development has no such safety testing standard. In comparison, a patent for a a seed made using genetic engineering takes nearly 7-10 years of rigorous testing and field trials and millions of dollars to get through safety standards and eventually onto the market.<br />
It's critical to understand that there is nothing natural about any of our foods, "organic" or not... we've selectively bred all the foods we eat over thousands and thousands of years to resemble crazy mutants we just so happen to find delicious... there are no giant tomatoes, broccoli, bananas or corn that occur naturally.. these were all created by us by editing genomes through selectively crossing species, picking for desired traits, various forms of mutagenesis, and others. If anything is "unnatural," it's arguably our ability to exploit plant seedlings in agriculture in the first place. It's time to get used to the idea that everything that exists in our natural world is, indeed, natural. JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-31891279975074423352018-03-11T17:51:00.001-07:002018-03-11T17:51:58.050-07:00On abolitionist vegans "forcing" others<p dir="ltr">I brought up human animals in my last post for this concept continuation here.. inspired again by a facebook post... <br>
Oh, Facebook.<br>
It's easier to understand violence against humans <u>as</u> human animals because we more easily empathize with violence against ourselves. It's a matter of perspective. Race, gender, and sexuality are much easier to internalize than the suffering of, say, rats.. bc we use concepts like race, gender, and sexuality to identify ourselves. It's personal.<br>
My friend made a statement wherein she noted "I just can't empathize w the people who feel so strongly about their choices that they try to force them on everyone else." I find this incredibly telling.<br>
This would describe the way some spoke/still speak about slavery abolition, the women's rights movement, recognition of transgender folks, BLM, etc... they were/are all philosophical movements that non-oppressed folks tried to explain as "forced" on them when seeing the issues as outside themselves. But for any person self-identfied in one of those groups, it's always phrased radically different than force... Why? <br>
The problem these issues all shared is that we historically always made them about us, the privileged, not them the opressed. Our jobs, not immigrant lives... our morality, not trans kids lives... our cheap labor, not slaves free lives.. our economy, not poor folks healthcare.. it's always me, me, me.. never them.<br>
I'd argue that vegan abolitionists aren't "forcing" anything on any of us in the slightest... the only real force is the steel bars and fences physically holding hundreds of millions of sentient lives in perpetual slavery.</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-60748078292719868462018-03-10T13:55:00.001-08:002018-03-10T13:55:22.377-08:00A thought on militant veganism...<p dir="ltr">A friend of mine posted on FB today about how she finds some vegans in Seattle particularly ferocious.. speaking in terms it seemed about their ideology; and she ended up mentioning at the end of her post that she'd have a cheeseburger to that avail.. as if for self-care.<br>
This seemed so incredibly harsh to me... I had to put my thoughts down on this today about why... why does a movement that's specifically about OTHERS always come back to our validation of it? Why do we work so hard at erasure of others feelings? Why me, me me.. vs them them them... Specifically when so many are dying horrific deaths (both non-human animal, and humans alike)?<br>
My thoughts continue.. <br>
It's critical to understand difference here in understanding why some seem militant about a cause, while we might not. <br>
I preface by noting that it's in many ways unfair for me to equate non-human animal rights liberation to something like human rights liberation, because every struggle is experienced uniquely by those oppressed... so I can't, for example, compare CAFOs directly to the halocaust, because that acts as erasure; the halocaust was uniquely about the systemic murder and eradication of Jewish ppl (and other oppressed uniquly human ethnicities at that time like queer ppl). That being said.. abolitionist vegans or animal activists often identified as vegan see and feel and experience many similarities in the way humans oppress certain non-human animals with violence, to the way we also oppress certain human populations with violence. <br>
So, abolitionist vegans fight for the rights of all animals (human and non-human alike) similarly to the way we think about Antifa fighting fascism or BLM fighting white supremacy. It's a very real ongoing daily war to them bc it's incredibly fucking personal. Much like race and class wars are very real to the people they uniquely oppress; we hear you.. solidarity can be found in this inherent violence. <br>
I don't feel I can speak to this struggle the same way abolitionist women vegans of color can.. they really lead much of the way on this; but it does speak volumes to me about how solidarity can help fuel this incredible need for empathy. <br>
Not everyone can wrap their mind around black violent experience or non-human animal violent experience.. we can instead always try to find modes of solidarity to try our best to listen and empathize alongside others struggles... we so desperately need to look outside ourselves in this way. We find commonality in veganism as we are ALL animals who can all uniquely suffer. I hope this shared perspective works to bring us together as abolishionist veganism grows. None of us are free until we're all free.</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-38787550911740461412017-05-15T11:26:00.001-07:002020-01-25T21:13:33.723-08:00"There is no heirarchy of Oppression" - Audre Lorde<div dir="ltr">
Someone identifies racism or oppression when they experience it. There is nothing to 'prove,' and everything to gain on the subject of oppression and solidarity.<br />
Most all of us feel oppression at some time or another, but the vast majority of racism and classism that goes on in the US will never effect me as a white-identified person, so I'm hardly an expert. <br />
From my study on the topic of oppression, I find that problems arise when we try to compare or create hierarchies of this oppression. We're right to explain or identify the racial divides we know and see around us, both historically and otherwise, but we must do so in solidarity. The second we stack oppression against oppression is the second we miss the point. <br />
A lack of collaborative spirit is what further invisibilizes the oppression and struggle of others. If we frame these issues of oppression as systemic and widespread, we can more easily work toward common goals together, and begin to put ego aside. <br />
We must stress that heirarchy and hate fail make solidarity difficult or impossible. Our goal of battling racism and oppression must be unified. If we can link trends of oppression together, (side by side) things like racism, hate, colonialism, and nationalism; we'd have a lot of vastly different looking people working together on a common issue; that of oppression! Through solidarity we rise up.<br />
So, please always try to listen to one-another, and look for ways to better understand each-other. All oppression matters. We have so much more to learn from one-another on this long road to end oppressive forces. Let's never let our pride get in the way of peace, love and understanding. <<u>3</u></div>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-4721470112026280682015-09-15T13:45:00.001-07:002015-09-15T13:45:23.850-07:00You Can't "save" a life.<p dir="ltr">For the record, you can't save a life, you can only extend it. <br>
All life ends, and every one of us will end, it's just a matter of how (when is erelevant) as far as any individual life is concerned. <br>
The only reason we value longevity in others is because we're trained to. <br>
Dieing alongside our tribe is instinctual, but in a state-controlled system (one that thrives on the continual labor of our bodies, commodifying our existence and our livelihoods) ...suicide, death, and choosing not to procreate is tremendously detrimental. <br>
The second we (anyone part of a large nation state) start to take control of our own bodies and our own futures, the system falls apart rather quickly; It's our national duty to stay alive as long as possible to support the state.<br>
Live fast and die happy, friends. <br>
It'll be over before you know it.</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-15031400650549687112015-08-26T23:43:00.001-07:002015-08-26T23:43:39.874-07:00The Best Yelp Review I've Ever Read!!<p dir="ltr">This is a copy and paste yelp review from a chicks visit to the Snoqualmie Casino seafood buffet.<br>
Just so good I had to repost it :) ------->     <br>
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"(docked a star cuz the line took forever and a day)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sunday was King Crab buffet night at the Snoqualmie Casino (regularly priced at $34.95 per person). With a combination of coupons, card points, and discounts, I calculated that a king crab buffet gorge for two people would come out to a grand total of $12.95. Total steal!</p>
<p dir="ltr">As the proud offspring of an extremely large first-generation Asian family, I have been trained from birth to take full advantage of an all-you-can-eat buffet in the most economical way. So on that lovely Sunday evening, my buffet routine went a little like this:</p>
<p dir="ltr">(1) Stop eating the night before. This applies for buffet breakfasts, brunches, lunches, and YES- dinners, on the following day. You may ingest some water if your stomach acids start acting up to the point of moderate discomfort.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(2) Drive to buffet. Pay cashier.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(3) Quickly scan the layout of the buffet area, and identify the seafood section. You will NOT dare to even LOOK at the other food choices available, as they are most likely carbo-loaded inexpensive "filler" foods, intended to trick you.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(4) However, do load up on a plate of desserts to begin with. Because, if you do your buffet-ing right, there is no way you will enjoy it after your hefty meal.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(5) Request a table that has an unobstructed, direct path to the king crab booth.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(6) If beverages are complimentary (which they usually are), skip and ask for water instead. Carbonated, sugary beverages are a sly tactic to get customers to fill up on cheap liquids and eat less. You will not fall for this!</p>
<p dir="ltr">(7) Pick up a plate of king crab. Devour.</p>
<p dir="ltr">(8) Repeat Step 7 until your body starts showing strong signs of rejection (inability to swallow, shallow breathing, desire to vomit).</p>
<p dir="ltr">(9) Crawl out and call it a night.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Now, as I was happily getting into my third plate of delicious, meaty crab leg, a teenage girl and her parents sat down in the booth next to us. Apparently, they were buffet virgins, as I overheard the father explaining to the two women what a buffet was. "No one is coming to serve you", he said to his disappointed daughter. "You have to get up and take a plate, and you can get whatever you want, okay?". The girl sighed, got up, and came back....with two slices of pizza. I openly rolled my eyes in disgust. When the waiter came over to offer her a complimentary beverage, she refused and whined for a chocolate milkshake until her parents forked out $3.75 for one. Inconceivable! I murmured to JL, "Si fuera mi hija (if that were my daughter)...PASH!*". Smack the daughter for consuming carbohydrates at a seafood buffet, smack the mother for raising her daughter wrong.</p>
<p dir="ltr">When I have children, I will purposely malnutrition them so that they can get the child's buffet price for a few extra years. I will burn their Pokemon cards and Hello Kitty pencil boxes if they dare to eat on the day of a buffet. And if they do not eat their money's worth, I am leaving them unattended at a Chuck-E-Cheese, with zero tokens and no cell phone. They shall learn, the hard way. But they shall learn.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That is all.</p>
<p dir="ltr">* PASH [n.]: the sound of a chancla (sandal) as it hits the wrongdoer upside the head, usually to teach a lesson."<br>
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Omg, this woman is amazing.</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-44691530506836314132015-08-26T20:17:00.001-07:002018-12-11T16:38:46.713-08:00Thoughts on suicide<div dir="ltr">
I find suicide a joking matter because I don't take life too seriously. Why would I?<br />
None of us will make it out alive. <br />
To each their own adventure! </div>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-40584363937443406402015-08-12T04:53:00.001-07:002015-08-12T09:13:49.747-07:00How to eat healthy... without changing what you eat.<p dir="ltr"><br>
My trick to healthy eating... it's quite simple in concept, but requires planning.</p>
<p dir="ltr">...don't make any changes to the particular dishes and foods you love, just choose to increase the quality of the ingredients you're using in them. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Challenge yourself to not eat ANYTHING out of a container or out of a wrapper... instead use fresh hand-picked market fruits and veggies, fresh seafood and meats cut straight from the butcher or farmers market (quality means grainfed and unprocessed or minimally processed), fresh cut cheeses from local markets, quick homemade yogurt (make it in a crock pot while at work for dirt cheap), use high quality whole grains, rice, legumes and pastas from bulk bins, and make sure to have a well-stocked pantry of spices and meal starter basics like soy sauce, vinegars, oils, mustard, pickles, peanut butter, olives, etc that make the bases of most other sauces/glazes/favors, etc... the stuff that easily helps us make those basics we often forget we can easily prepare ourselves.. like ketchup, teriyaki, marinara, peanut sauce, etc... which otherwise (in processed form) lack the nutritional value and flavor profile we crave in quality meals. <br>
When we eat from bottles and boxes we're missing out big-time on flavor profiles and freshness, plus the processed versions often contain excessive fillers, starches, binders, corn syrups, oils, excessive salt, dyes, etc.. which not only make food taste poorly, but are generally less nutritionally dense after processing (by nature to be shelf-stable).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Follow the zero packaging (cooking and uncooking) challenge and you're pretty much guaranteed to eat insanely healthy.. but more importantly, you're eating fresh n' tasty as fuck! :) Mmmm.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><3</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-52496683840592966812015-08-05T10:41:00.004-07:002015-08-06T23:05:13.392-07:00Mmm... Human Bacon!!<span class="text " id="answer_viewer_99049">I choose to abstain from eating non-human animals because I practice veganism, and unless an animal in our care dies of natural causes, or accidentally, we're killing it.</span><br>
<span class="text " id="answer_viewer_99049"></span><span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">I would, however, love to try human bacon someday... the only consensual bacon possible. First, you donate all the medical goods; eyes, major organs, all the usable crap.. then you butcher it up and make delicious human burgers, bacon, sausage, spam, you name it. Yummy, delicious, and free-range!!</span><br>
<br>
<span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">I think the family should always get the opportunity for first dibs before it's eaten elsewhere, but you get the idea... it's consensual ethical flesh with a history. We know exactly where it came from. We know how fresh it is. We know it's medical record. Basically, it's the best meat anywhere. </span><div><span class="note">How awesome!!</span></div><div><br>
<span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">I'd also love to prepare human cheese to go with that bacon. I've had a fascination with induced lactation... not only does lactation reduce lifetime breast cancer risks; it's hyper-local and on demand!! So, so want to pump.</span></div><div><br>
<span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">Why we waste the perfectly good skin, muscle, and fat of those who die around us everyday (who aren't diseased or overly cancerous or contaminated of course) is simply beyond me. That's a lot of tasty protein simply going to waste, and it's pretty un-green to waste bacon; especially considering how much money and food went into making it. </span></div><div><span class="note"><br></span></div><div><span class="note">Plus, if we really loved our family and friends, wouldn't we want a part of them in US forever? A funeral shouldn't only have cake; it should have bbq'd loved one on the menu too. Spare no culinary expenses!! If they're lacking in fatty juicy yum, then jerky that shit up!</span><br>
<br>
<span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">Choosing
to ethically abstain from raping, torturing, and killing sentient non-human animals (as most people joyfully choose not to do) doesn't really fly with me (anyone intelligent and empathic enough to know raping, hurting, and killing things isn't okay generally does indeed stop, unless they're dilusional sociopaths or sheep) ...but that doesn't
necessarily make me not like flesh.... flesh, from anything is yummy. Flesh. Mmm.</span><br>
<br>
<span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">We're hard-wired to enjoy the taste of ourselves, which is why we eat the lubrication excreted from each-others genitals, breasts, and mouths all the time. </span></div><div><span class="note">This is the dame reason we enjoy the fatty tissues, organs, brain tissues and muscle fibers of ourselves too. </span></div><div><span class="note"><br></span></div><div><span class="note">We're obviously into eating some consensual human.</span><span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049"> </span><span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">Our bodies are instinctually going to taste good to one-another. Pigs, of course, are about as physically similar to humans anatomically as any other mammals (aside other great apes) get, and so they taste about identical to humans in almost all ways. Therein lies our bacon obsession. We simply love to taste ourselves... it's pretty addicting, isn't it? Everyone who's anyone loves fatty bacon.</span><div>
<span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049"><br></span>
<span class="note" id="note_viewer_99049">I think the act of making others
suffer is pretty disgusting, but flesh... consensual flesh; I'd happily eat some
juicy fat human for breakfast any day. I hope we start to realize what a great protein source we're wasting!!</span></div></div>JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-18940857306754809232015-08-04T18:50:00.000-07:002015-08-26T23:37:57.374-07:00On genetically engineered crops (after my Geography of Food and eating class today)Oh, the things that make my vagina wiggle about every which way... food, anal, politics, great sex toys, and pseudoscience.<br>
<br>
Below is a little response to a lecture I had today in my Geography class. <div>My professor is amazing; spirited, intelligent, and she smiles a lot (something I just can't appreciate enough from others).<br>
I've really enjoyed my time in class so far, and I'm learning a fuck-ton about the links between colonialism and its effects on eating, globalization trends and food, the effects the private sector has on food disparities, the ethics of patenting life and commodifying the very things that we need to live, etc... it's fascinating stuff.<br>The one downside is that my professor seems biased on the genetic engineering front.... we spent a half hour in lecture going down a long list of "why people think this shit might be bad," and never really showing the overwhelming scientific consensus saying pretty much the opposite. Not even a little bit. We only learned opinions, not any hard data.<br>
Now, I can't say shes in the wrong about trying to show us different sides of the argument, as plenty of folks have reason to hate/distrust, or question huge multinational corporations who are linked with a crappy past. </div><div>Monsanto may have mass-marketed LEDs, universally used plastics, and countless other breakthroughs we rely on every day, but they also contracted to mass-produce agent orange and DDT back in the day, so I get why they have a bad rep. (Even though Id argue the use of DDT has saved hundreds of thousands of lives, and is the most amazing weapon against Malaria we've seen to date.)</div><div>Many others rightfully question the efficiency and ethicacy of our government regulating system, and I get why... the feds also gave a thumbs up to secret syphilis inoculations within marginalized gruops, so yeah, again.. shitty ass rep; but I still felt the lecture was very misleading to others in the classroom who know little to nothing on this stuff. </div><div><br></div><div>There is a very large number of people (scholarly scientific type people) that say over and over again that use of transgenic crops are much safer than their "organic" counterparts, most simply because they're so intensely studied and manipulated with crazy precision. Organics, particularly those produced through mutagenesis, can't say they've been tested for any kind of safety standards like transgenic are routinely. We're talking 7 whole years until a patent makes it from lab to market... that's a lot of knowledge about a plant!!</div><div>I'm only an anthropology undergrad, but from all I've read from peer review, done projects on, and studied in depth from those well-versed on the science, I can only say this is some of the safest, most studied stuff in the history of mankind. </div><div>Thousands upon thousands of papers, countless research.. hundreds and hundreds of independent studies outside the corporate world, and the potential for so, so SO many lives being saved, and we try to ban it!?<br>
I would have loved to see golden rice covered in the slides, as this seems very pertinent to the class material, but it didn't. </div><div>I know genetically engineered crops aren't any sort of magic-bullet solution to all of humanities many food security issues, but can we please at least make educated decisions about how we want to further the issue of transgenic crops instead of believing these nutty documentaries and hyped up media titles? It's good to hear both sides, but this class only heard about the nutty riots, marches, a few of the only protesting farmers on the topic, and none of them were based around accurate date.. literally NONE of them. Oh, internet... I love you so so much, and I hate you so much for letting loonies spread propoganda, pseudoscience, and go on about topics they know little to nothing about :/<br>
<br>Also, as a side note, as some of my bloggy followers may or may not know.. I lead the 2015 Seattle counter-protest for March Against Monsanto earlier this year, called March Against Myths about Modification; we had some bad-ass scientists come out to share in the march, charged up grad students, and some animal-rights activists (me included) show up to publicize VeganGmo.com, the wonderful Biology Babe joined our group, Bill Nye made an appearance in our Chicago Branch, and countless other amazing science-forward individuals showed up to make a case for the humanitarian necessity genetic engineering can bring; especially to those non-white folks with actual scary hardships living without all the privilege we have here in the US. As if we get to protest others rights to food choices! </div><div>It's just something else seeing the March Against Monsanto group outside the Bill and Melinda Gates building.. blows my mind how privileged white girls can protest sending lifesaving food crops to sub-saharan Africa. Super classy.</div><div>Golden rice stands out as the most influential at the moment by far; (oh, and by the way, fuck you, greenpeace! "Let's promote blindness!!")</div><div><br>
I'm on a lot of banned lists, and I have some things on the internet that would probably get me in legal trouble if the right people happened upon them, but dammit... I'm not going to stand around and let fear of the unknown prevail. </div><div>I'm about saving the most lives RIGHT NOW, and stopping the most suffering we can RIGHT NOW by convincing countries in sub-Saharan Africa and SouthEast Asia to not ban GE tech simply because rich white girls from Evergreen and aging hippies with their kayaks in for repair (the entirety of the folks we saw at the protest) don't like it's politics or ideology. Tell this to the Starving kids in war-torn DRofCongo.. tell it to their faces... see how awesome your white priviledge looks on you then. </div><div>This technology can potentially save millions, and to be against it for false reasons is just the most backward garbage I've come across in a long time. People are dying. </div><div>Use your privilege to study the science and come up with other creative solutions if you don't like transgenics, but do it because you actually understand recombinant dna technology, and not bc you just watched some idiotic propoganda-promoting alarmist documentary film spouting lies, crazy people, and outright fake stats to make a buck.<br>
So, in the spirit of my rambling vomit.... here is what I sent my professor...<br>
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*Just wanted to throw a few facts around from our lecture today (8/4), and dispel a few myths:<br>
<br><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Monsanto has made a pledge to never release terminator seeds to the public ----></span></div><div><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/terminator-seeds.aspx" style="font-family: sans-serif;">http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/terminator-seeds.aspx</a><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><br style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Monsanto has never sued farmers who had patent seed on their land due to contamination -------> </span></div><div><a href="http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/gm-seed-accidentally-in-farmers-fields.aspx" style="font-family: sans-serif;">http://www.monsanto.com/newsviews/pages/gm-seed-accidentally-in-farmers-fields.aspx</a></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1">
There
has been a vast scientific consensus on the safety of genetically
engineered crops for some time now, and after thousands of papers topic,
there has literally never been a link indicating they pose health risks
or allergenic properties. <br>
(<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;">There was one exception linking cancer, and it was later retracted</span> ------> </div><div><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268">http://www.nature.com/news/study-linking-gm-maize-to-rat-tumours-is-retracted-1.14268</a>)<br>
<br data-mce-bogus="1">
First, Pew Research ---> <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-views-on-science-and-society/pi_2015-01-29_science-and-society-00-02/">http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-views-on-science-and-society/pi_2015-01-29_science-and-society-00-02/</a> <br>
<br data-mce-bogus="1">
European Union Commission ---> <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-funded_gmo_research.pdf">http://ec.europa.eu/research/biosociety/pdf/a_decade_of_eu-funded_gmo_research.pdf</a> <br>
<br data-mce-bogus="1">
American Medical Association ---> <a href="http://www.isaaa.org/kc/Publications/htm/articles/Position/ama.htm">http://www.isaaa.org/kc/Publications/htm/articles/Position/ama.htm</a> <br>
<br data-mce-bogus="1">
National Academy of Sciences ---> <a href="http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309092094">http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309092094</a> <br>
<br data-mce-bogus="1">
World Health Organization ---> <a href="http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/biotech_en.pdf">http://www.who.int/foodsafety/publications/biotech/biotech_en.pdf</a> <br>
<br data-mce-bogus="1">
Food and Agriculture Org. of the United Nations ---> <a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5160e/y5160e10.htm#P3_1651">http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y5160e/y5160e10.htm#P3_1651</a> <br>
<br data-mce-bogus="1">
Toxicological Sciences Position Paper ---> <strong></strong><a href="http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/1/2.full">http://toxsci.oxfordjournals.org/content/71/1/2.full</a> </div><div><br>
FDA ---> <a href="http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Testimony/ucm115032.htm">http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Testimony/ucm115032.htm</a><br><br>
Health Canada ---> <a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/food-aliment/gm-tg-eng.php">http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/food-aliment/gm-tg-eng.php</a> </div><div><br>
"Consensus on GMO safety Stronger than Global Warming" ---> <a href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/29/pewaaas-study-scientific-consensus-on-gmo-safety-stronger-than-for-global-warming/">http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/01/29/pewaaas-study-scientific-consensus-on-gmo-safety-stronger-than-for-global-warming/</a></div><div> <br>
Critical Views in Biotech ---> <a href="http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07388551.2013.823595?journalCode=bty&">http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/07388551.2013.823595?journalCode=bty&</a> </div><div><br>
More studies from Scientific Entities ---> <a href="http://monsantoblog.com/2012/09/24/reviews-and-studies-on-glyphosate-and-gm-food/">http://monsantoblog.com/2012/09/24/reviews-and-studies-on-glyphosate-and-gm-food/</a> </div><div><br>
"Science, Safety and Trust" ---> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584506/">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584506/</a> </div><div><br>
"20 years of research" ---> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23414177">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23414177</a> </div><div><br>
"Safety Assessment" ---> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2620507/">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2620507/</a> </div><div><br>
"How safe?" ---> <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24022153">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24022153</a> </div><div><br>
"Polarized debates, not GMOs, are the poison to be avoided." ---> <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/poison-postures-1.11478">http://www.nature.com/news/poison-postures-1.11478</a> </div><div><br>
...and
if these papers aren't enough, here's a giant list of 1,783 more
studies saying GE crops aren't harmful to us or environment ---> <a href="http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ge-crops-safety-pub-list-1.xls">http://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ge-crops-safety-pub-list-1.xls</a> </div><div><br>
Okay, all done :)</div><div>-------------------------------</div><div>I'll post her response next... (spoiler, its not super surprising or fact filled, but I do commend her in trying)</div><div>--------------------------------<br data-mce-bogus="1">
<br data-mce-bogus="1"></div>JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-76999681715209974462015-07-19T15:48:00.000-07:002015-07-19T15:49:45.811-07:00Overweight is healthier than average weight!!Because everything has an associated risk profile. Being fat has risk.
Being thin has risk. Being American has risk. Being ALIVE has risk. So
too does skydiving or smoking or speeding in a car or not replacing the
batteries in your smoke detector.. all have risk profiles and stats
attached.<br />
<br />
So lets look at stats.. its statistically better for you to
be overweight than being underweight or of average weight for one
thing.. fat people live longer than thin... again, statistics. See sources for this below.<br />
All
those impoverished and often starving folks in places like Haiti, the Philippines
and Bangladesh... yeah, they would give anything to be fat...
considering they often watch members of their family die of starvation.<br />
<br />
Did
you know that as of today the average life expectancy of the 27 poorest
countries in the world ranges from 46 to 60 yrs old? Want to know what
is is in the US and Canada? approx 80 years.... that's a 20-34 year
difference... and guess what the average obesity rate in these 27
countries is? It hovers around 7%. Here are my sources -----><br />
<br />
<a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.688?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.688?lang=en</a><br />
and<br />
<a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2228rank.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2228rank.html</a><br />
and<br />
<a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.webmd.com/diet/20090625/study-overweight-people-live-longer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.webmd.com/diet/20090625/study-overweight-people-live-longer</a><br />
and<br />
<a class="ot-anchor aaTEdf" dir="ltr" href="http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20090518/obese-heart-patients-may-live-longer" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20090518/obese-heart-patients-may-live-longer</a><br />
<br />
So someone please explain to me again why fat isn't healthier than "average" BMI ... because pretty much every scientific study and stat done on this topic says absolutely otherwise. JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-9266650255047738662015-07-09T08:26:00.003-07:002015-07-09T09:45:29.160-07:00Meaning and Ethics in Life and Procreation (Spoiler: I don't agree with breeding humans)Thought of the morning:<br />
<br />
Meaning is a made-up conceptual framework that draws from confusion, fear,
and sensory feeling. Life has no "meaning," in the same way blue has no
inherent blueness.<br />
Humans try to associate purpose in an attempt to justify
our existence. There is no point or meaning to homo-sapien
consciousness anymore than there is meaning to termite consciousness (which some may argue is very well established and unfairly downplayed on the back burner of higher-primate agendas.) To single out the higher primate identity and prerogative is speciesist and deductive.<br />
That being said, our inherent randomness in the vastness of the cosmos is
arguably what makes the human experience unique and worth continually living for some.... SOME.<br />
For others (often those without a popular voice in philosophy, physics, etc) life can resemble a hellish, painful, and vastly unpleasant pursuit into the spirals of nightmare and insanity. Anyone who says differently is coming from a place of privilege and/or speciesist constructs. <br />
It's this ever-present possibility of extreme suffering that prevents me (ethically) from reproducing or from encouraging the growth and expansion of future (potential) sentient beings.<br />
For those in the world already viable, alive, and able to feel pain I propose either:<br />
<br />
- Our consistent communal dedication to their non-suffering (fuck business, monetary gain, globalization, capitalism, retirement, etc, etc... any parents sole purpose in life should be to provide 100% of their being, love, support, time, etc, to the offspring they made, until the day they die. <br />
<br />
- The choice of comfortable and painless ethical euthanasia as a right at all times in our life<br />
<br />
- Or choice of ones own legal, cherished, painless, and non-stigmatized suicide (this should be something we also respect at ANY AGE, something we celebrate and throw a party for, etc) To go against any of our offspring's wishes to die; specifically the parents own wishes to benefit, worry or whatever else, and not always put the child's interest first is simply neglectful and crazy selfish. <br />
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Meaning and theory come from places of privilege, and I believe looking after those most vulnerable (children, non-human animals, disabled, etc.. those who lack the chance to evaluate meaning) is our essential duty, especially those supporting the ethical continuation of life via childbirth.<br />
I came to my own ethical conclusion not to procreate at around age 12-13, and my philosophy has been relatively consistent ever since. I see breeding (as sentient intelligent beings) as intolerably selfish and cruel; yet it's difficult or impossible to lay blame on others as many of us are simply the products of other irrational emotional creatures, brought up similarly unable to reason outside themselves and think outside their genitals. This choice I have to not have children is arguably just as privileged, if not anthropocentric; as many women's bodies on the planet are owned or used by men.<br />
Ideally, the best case scenario I can think of (for everyone's sake) is instantaneous universal implosion; until then I choose to continue my life simply because of my love of others, a vicious catch 22, nearly 7 billion strong. <!--3--><!--3--><br />
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<br />JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-47416471918180313482015-07-03T19:35:00.001-07:002015-07-03T19:35:40.224-07:00Judgement of Bodies....<p dir="ltr">"Healthy" is relative. The 250 million kids throughout southeast Asia/Phillipines who have or will go blind from vitamin A deficiency over the next few years would beg and plead for American fast food every day just so they have a better chance at appreciating sight. Folks prove my point beautifully when they voice opinions of who's in better shape or who's going to live longer based on looks alone.. Unless you're a doctor, this discussion of "who's healthy vs unhealthy" is irrelevant, and based on opinion more than hard data. This is why I choose to avoid opinion and use only stats and peer reviewed literature in my research. <br>
Health is so, so very relative. <br>
Stop judging bodies.</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-48051598754313482832015-06-25T09:33:00.001-07:002015-06-25T09:33:24.069-07:00Fat is benign, fat stigma isn't.<p dir="ltr">So.... fat stigma is so much a thing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">People don't die from fatness, they die from systems failure... be it respiratory, circulatory, neurological, etc. <br>
Fat doesn't kill you. Fat has never killed anyone. <br>
We would die without fat, as our brains are almost entirely made of the stuff. <br>
Fat is vital for survival, and it doesn't CAUSE death. <br>
Something like a heart attack (aka circulatory failure) can kill people, and it happens to BOTH fat people AND skinny people. <br>
Being fat, or medically "obese," statistically speaking, gives you a slightly higher life expectancy ON AVERAGE than someone of "normal" BMI.... because satistics; they don't make shit up.</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-1682860279573903442015-06-25T02:21:00.001-07:002015-06-25T02:21:38.776-07:00Feminist Porn!! :)<p dir="ltr">Women deserve to express, love, and enjoy our sexuality just as much as anyone else does, and WOMEN can direct and produce amazing pornography and make a wonderfully empowering living doing what we love... EMPOWERING FEMALE PLEASURE!!<br>
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It's unethical and inhuman to stigmatize sex workers who work hard, love, and take pride in what they do. It belittles women to not respect their professional endeavors and their choice in how to best provide for their own lives, their families, and their kids on their own terms. </p>
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<p dir="ltr">There are so many more, but these are some of the best!!!<br>
And, if you'd like to read a bit more about the growing feminist movement in porn, I'd suggest these three pages... some great concepts here about reclaiming healthy female pleasure as OUR OWN. -></p>
<p dir="ltr">http://mic.com/articles/118226/6-empowering-things-feminist-pornographers-can-teach-us-about-sex</p>
<p dir="ltr">and ---> </p>
<p dir="ltr">http://therumpus.net/2010/01/recession-sex-workers-7-how-to-be-a-girl-courtney-trouble%E2%80%99s-subversive-smut/</p>
<p dir="ltr">and ---> </p>
<p dir="ltr">http://www.feministpornawards.com/</p>
<p dir="ltr"><3</p>
JulieTigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05233923704609029822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84528909028548612.post-36029444898718374272015-06-18T10:17:00.001-07:002015-06-18T10:17:17.394-07:00Fat Stigma<p dir="ltr">No matter the size, fat or plus size models don't automatically equal sick or unhealthy anymore than stick thin models equal anorexia... we're all different sizes... all sizes of people have disease. <br>
To specifically stigmatize and say fat individuals negatively influence us or specifically corrolate to disease is also a privileged view because much of the rise of "obesity" in the first world is linked to poverty, systemic racism, and the growing number of food deserts in urban areas.</p>
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