Above, a picture that’s been floating around online for a little while, helpfully meme-ified by Manception on the AgainstMensRights subreddit.
Below, a picture of an anti-abortion protestor at the Texas State Capitol that Amanda Marcotte posted on Pandagon a while back under the title Silent Mansplaining. Which pretty much sums it up.
Have any of you run across any similar photographic evidence of real-world man-activism you’d like to share?
What “may be” part of that comment?
The ‘my brother may be a mentally ill alcoholic’ part? Idk it was near the beginning
I can kind of see where you might be coming from, but AK is a known quantity around here. I think you need to read the second part of that sentence and let that sink in.
If freak is triggering or has ablelist connotations to it I’ll change my name. I guess I can not currently acess whether I entirely over reacted, I don’t feel like I did but clearly I’m kind of not in a right way at the moment so I guess I can’t judge myself very well right now. So ak I’m sorry if I was being rude and unfair, and I will properly apologize when I have a clearer head. I’m not trying to be an asshole or a shit stirrer I was legitmently upset (even if I was wrong which it seems like I was). I’m a real person, I’m 19, I have a tumblr I can give a link to if that legitimizes me? I am making things worse probably.
I think the wisest move would be for everyone to just drop this conversation.
It sounds like you need some rest. I hope, once you’re feeling a little better, that you do choose to come back and give AK a real apology. (One without an “if” in it, yeah?)
I’m sorry that people comfort your parents in front of you about having to deal with you. That is totally fucked up. However it is still unfair for us as disabled people to demand that those in our lives never discuss their own experiences with us, in non-ableist terms and without dismissing our own experiences.
Or what Cassandra said.
So! Our new house has more wildlife around it than I thought.
Beloved says she saw a wee snake on the front step a few days ago, and a little lizard there some time later.
I disturbed a skink of some sort last night when I moved the wheelie bin off the street. Its body was striped yellow and black and its tail was very blue.
And the deer come up through the yard practically every week.
Haven’t heard the peacock calling in months, but Beloved says she saw a peahen in another portion of the city, so maybe they got together.
My boy was full of vim this morning, but my girl basically slept through breakfast and didn’t protest when I put her back to bed.
You’re lucky, Falconer. I just see the occasional ‘possum.
@Falconer – Are they wild/feral peafowl? One of the folks near us keeps ’em, but all we have for wild fowl is turkeys.
The peacock wanders around a specific residential area, and I would expect that if he was wild/feral or escaped Animal Control would have caught him by now.
We see turkeys out in the rural areas every so often, but my most common bird sighting are the local mockingbirds.
Also also — I’ve been Skyping with distant relatives so they can see my babies, but it’s inconvenient to move my computer often so we just end up with the babies in my lap. I want to show everybody how well the babes are sitting up now, and I’ve been considering getting some sort of tablet.
It doesn’t have to be very fancy, but a camera is sort of the whole point, so an iPad 1 is out of the question, for example.
Does anybody have any suggestions or recommendations? Thanks!
@Falconer – I have a 1st gen Google Nexus 7 that I’m pretty happy with. Looks like they’re going for about $100-$200 on ebay nowadays
Where does one acquire this amazing cookbook? Why did I not know this existed?
Dire Sloth:
Another fairly easy recipe–you only key bit is knowing how to ‘fold’ the coconut into the mix.
With that, I’m going to add a thing my wife has found helps her with her own depression bouts–after baking whatever it is you want to bake, go and drop part of the batch off at a friend’s house, or take them to leave out at your church social room, or just take them to work and leave them in the break room.
@fit-to-freak
As someone with a mental illness, I see where you’re coming from. I don’t think AK’s point was self-pity of claiming that they’re the one suffering from their brother’s problems, but yeah, it looks like they’re using their brother’s mental illness as an example of “something that is bad but not as bad as the thing we’re talking about”, and I can see why that would make someone uncomfortable.
That said: I am also a trauma survivor, partly due to my parents’ mental illnesses, so I’m not gonna sit here and say that the loved ones of mentally ill people don’t also suffer. That’s just plain not true.
And then I saw the request to drop the conversation. My bad.
Falconer: Probably a Five Lined Skink (that was the easiest to read/most informative page I found on them)>
@Pecunium: That’s the li’l cutie.
Here’s another li’l cutie, this time a hognose hiding in a sock.
@diresloth
::Is envy:: Good for you though 🙂 Sadly, I think my depression atm is being amplified by jerk-ass relatives.
@cassandrasays
And, in strange news, the phrase “alien shrimp” is making me hungry.
@Tracy
The book is called, “Can You Take the Heat?” It was published in 2000, back when it was called the WWF.
Falconer: That’s adorable. A cinnamon phase Heterodon nasicus.
🙂 😀
I am much happier for that gif.
I’m glad I made your day better, pecunium. I think the very shallow depth of field adds to the cute.
@Marie: I’m sorry your relatives are being jerk-ass. And I think I missed something — why were you going by Zombie Marie yesterday? If I may inquire.
RE: Argenti
Hey LBT? Wtf do I do with page 6? Be glad I don’t get out enough for it to matter?
Enh, I kinda slapped together the pages to try and cover as wide a number of scenarios as possible. (Also because in a highly dissociated state, we can’t remember basic shit like where to go.)
@Falconer
I think someone mentioned zombie dworkin and I kinda took that opportunity to post as a zombie. Sorry about that. Tell me if it bugs you guys when I do it.