"La police a regardé et laissé faire" ...
Bah ouais, pour la même raison pour laquelle Peter Parker & Spiderman ne peuvent pas être vus au même endroit.
First you construct Palestinian masculinity as inherently threatening. Then you classify every male casualty as potentially militant. Then you propose “saving” families by separating them from their men and leaving those men in Gaza. Colonial logic from beginning to end.
Also shoutout to this piece of art Just Take Ibuprofen was told to me by my doctor right after she said she’s had some women pass out from the pain of IUD insertion.
A woman one month into a new job at the FDA was handed an application to approve a sleeping pill. It looked routine. They gave it to her because she was new and it seemed like an easy one to start on.
She read the file and something was missing. No evidence at all that the drug was safe in pregnancy, and it was being sold as a remedy for morning sickness. The drug was thalidomide, and West Germany was getting through a million doses a day.
Frances Kelsey asked for more data. The company sent representatives to her office, then telephoned her at all hours, then went over her head to her supervisors. Between them they contacted her and her boss around fifty separate times. She later said most of what they called her could not be printed. Ten million tablets were already sitting in warehouses waiting for her signature.
She said no six times. And while she held the line, doctors in Germany and Australia were piecing together what was happening to babies whose mothers had taken it. Limbs that had never formed, hands and feet attached directly at the shoulder and hip, in at least 4,000 children across Europe. The company withdrew its American application in 1962.
Seventeen cases turned up in the United States, all from free samples doctors had handed out before any approval. Without her it would have been thousands.
Congress passed a new law that same year requiring companies to prove a drug is both safe and effective, and requiring informed consent from anyone in a trial. Those rules are now used worldwide. Kennedy gave her the highest civilian award in the country and she was the second woman ever to receive it. She stayed at the FDA another 45 years and died in 2015 at 101.
Every American woman handed a pill in pregnancy is downstream of one woman refusing to sign a form six times while men shouted at her.
https://t.co/Xx4rbkh2gH
Was literally just thinking how crazy it is that when I was growing up my dad made less than I make now and was able to support a family of 4 plus a mistress
first ten numbers, with a female advantage in roughly 70% of the countries sampled. No scholarship, no re-entry policy, no sanitary pad programme reaches a three-year-old. Whatever is happening starts before school. Girls are serious because the world is already against them
🦔ChatGPT can now read your entire iMessage history and send texts on your behalf. Every conversation with your family, your doctor, your lawyer, your ex, on OpenAI’s servers so it can reply to your mom for you. Altman told us a few days ago he wanted ChatGPT to hold your entire life. He meant it. This is a company that hasn’t turned an annual profit, is heading for an IPO, and just asked for access to the most personal data on your computer.
But sure, let it answer your group chat.
Hedgie🤗