@sappholives83 Unclean?! Un fucking clean?! How dare you - women are not unclean, especially when they menstruate. We are the bringers of life - if you hate women so much, release them to freedom and see how far your ridiculous ideology gets you. Fucking unclean, you pathetic degenerate idiots
@DrJessTaylor My daughters have a barbie who is deaf with hearing aids, he happens to be black and they are white - they generally use him as my husband who is mixed race and full hearing. They also have 3 that use wheel chairs - all of them are used in many games etc, all of which are loved
‘Autistic Barbie’ by Mattel just landed. So, let’s get into it.
She is thin.
Conventionally attractive.
Feminine.
Long straight haired.
Neatly presented.
Barbie-proportioned.
Minidress and long legs.
And what marks her out as autistic?
Headphones. A fidget spinner. And I quote, a ‘vacant look in her eye’ according to Mattel, to represent that ‘autistic people struggle with eye contact’.
That’s it.
Be real with me. This is not representation of autistic lives. It’s aesthetic labelling. Autism reduced to a single, sanitised visual cue that has become popularised through social media stereotypes. Headphones function as a shorthand for ‘sensory sensitivity’, which is then flattened into ‘autism’.
This is branding and commodification of autism.
“Autism is where you have headphones on and a vacant look in your eye.” I mean. Are we being serious?
Nothing about this doll reflects the material realities of autistic people’s lives. There is no engagement with power, exclusion, or harm. Autism is treated as something you accessorise, not something that shapes how you are treated by schools, employers, healthcare systems, families, friends, partners, police, courts, prisons, or the state.
But forget about all that. Look pretty, get your legs out, and play with your fidget spinner, sis.
My new article sharing my views has arrived.
@DrJessTaylor Ok, so "convention" people can't be autistic? You're looking for someone who "looks autistic"?
"You're don't look autistic" "show me the autistic". Normal autistic people (and I'm so sorry to inform you, but we do exist, we are infact quite normal) don't need to give you a "look
It seems difficult for some men to truly grasp just how universal being sexually assaulted is for women, but we live in a world where even the Queen of England - perhaps the most privileged woman on the planet - has experienced it.
In 42 years, I’ve never discussed the subject with a woman or a girl who didn’t turn out to have a story of her own — not even once.
The fvcking Queen of England, y’all. But somehow, even though every woman has a story, no man ever seems to know a man who does this kind of thing. Amazing, isn’t it?
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Five years ago today and my only regret is that I didn't speak out sooner. To every girl and woman who's paid a heavy price for fighting to retain their rights and boundaries, to every person striving to halt an appalling medical experiment on minors, I salute you. We will win.
For the last two weeks @cnbc has let Tom Lee have the spare room to promote Ethereum constantly. If we don't see @bgarlinghouse on to talk about the SEC case being over you'll know the propaganda machine is still fully intact.
The Skull of Satoshi was originally built to call attention to blockchain energy usage, and today it’s a symbol and reminder of Bitcoin’s incredible staying power to many around the world (including me!).
As crypto and blockchain technologies become widely used, respected and understood – it’s past time that we set aside our differences and work together to move the industry forward. I hope this gesture continues to remind folks that we (BTC, XRP, and other crypto communities) have more in common than we think.
@realEstateTrent Any age, just leave them with the grandparents for a week 👍🏻 You can always have a kid friendly / kids focused holiday afterwards (or before, so you can recover 😂)
@Denosko1 I think she looks great, and for her age she's clearly been looking after herself. The hair cut might not be to everyone's taste, but if she likes it then why does it matter? I think she's fab