@scarlett4kids@PiaJSigler It's Thailand. Center of sex trafficking. They have a distinct culture for LGBTQ people, where lesbians are called "Ladee" or "Tom" and "Ladeeboy" fits right in bridging the gap between the genders, and in Thailand NO ONE CARES about other people's gender presentation.
@JuliePerri29401@Julesk23 -they were the first national bird, for good reason. They have excellent eyesight and smell and rafter together for protection and warmth in winters. I love them too .
I hate pornography with every fiber of my soul because I have spent the past three years writing about violent sexual criminal cases that I have traced back to porn use.
There is no redeeming quality to pornography. It corrupts men and conditions women to accept sexual violence.
There isn't any government, or non-profit, or any organization in the world tracking the connection between sex crimes and pornography.
To do so would disrupt a very profitable industry. Even social media banks on the addictive nature of porn - it's everywhere, and increasingly violent, and the algorithm feeds it to viewers.
Men and women can never respect each other as equals in an environment where men are aroused by choking and punching women.
When men are trained to respond sexually to the torture of women, it undermines any humanity. Yes, men suffer too, but pornography hijacks men's sexual response to the detriment of women and children.
Pornography breaks the social contract. Police officers, judges, teachers, who get off on images of sexual torture are the normal now.
The only solution for restoring the social contract, in my opinion, is the abolition of pornography.
@floridanow1@FearedBuck Mercedes used to put little blades on the headlamps like windshield wipers but for the lights. Novel idea, not sure why it didn't catch on.
Inundate a mind with enough falsehoods and fear, and its ability to discern reality from fiction is lost.
Yet if a shimmer of truth pierces through this dissolution, it fragments until not one part remains and the mind is freed once more.
Gisèle Pelicot is on the stand today and asked about her decision to continue using the surname "Pelicot".
Gisèle explains that when the trial began her children were "ashamed" of the name.
She adds: "I have grandchildren who are called that.
"Today, I want them to be proud of their grandmother.
"My name is known across the world now. They shouldn't be ashamed of carrying that name.
"Today we will remember Gisèle Pelicot."
Yes we will. What a woman.
#ShameMustChangeSides
October 24th 1975, women in Iceland refused to participate in society. They did not go to work, take care of the children, they did not feed the children, they did not take the children to daycare, they refused to cook for anybody.
Men did not have a single clue about how to
@historyinmemes apes do not ask questions. Though many express themselves through sign language, they do not use it to question others, a significant cognitive difference between apes & humans (& certain politicians)
However, at least once, a parrot did. He asked what color he was
“He is not bad to me all the time, just sometimes when he is stressed. The rest of the time he is lovely.”
“He is definitely not abusive. He does lose it sometimes, but he has never hit me.”
“I know he’s a bit controlling sometimes but he just really cares about me and wants to protect me.”
These are some of the things abuse victims will tell themselves and will believe. They are also words that have come out of my own mouth, multiple times.
Many people don’t realize they are being abused because what they are experiencing is different to what is shown in the media.
Control, rules, demands, rages, hot and cold moods, insults, criticism, blame-shifting, humiliation, isolation, silent treatment, guilt tripping, being amazing and kind one minute and nasty and mean the next – all of this is domestic abuse when it is regular, consistent, and a pattern of behavior that makes you feel undervalued, unloved, and disrespected.
#coercivecontrol #domesticabuseawareness #emotionalabuse
Pam 1954 - 2024
The love of my life passed away peacefully without pain or fear Tuesday afternoon October 8 after a 43 day hospitalization triggered by COVID but ultimately caused by multiple organ failure from battling 30 years of Multiple Sclerosis.
I met Pam in 1973 in a fencing class at our local community college and we celebrated our 47th anniversary last December. We would joke that we had stuck it out through “thin and thin” and that the secret to a long marriage was not killing each other. But we had a hell of a lot of fun and it was a great ride. As Hunter S Thompson once wrote
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
God speed Pam. You leave behind so many people whose lives you have touched forever. We will miss you. Pickels misses you.
I love you ❤️
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