sexgenderbody

dancing-with-diversity:

heisalive:

lux-inferior:

PSA: if a trans* person does not plan on medically transitioning, they are still the gender that they tell you they are!! If you don’t have any reason to be directly consensually involved with someone else’s junk, what that person does with it is really none of your business!!!

Also if a trans* person decides to stop medically transitioning, thay are still the gender that they tell you they are.

Yes, this.

Comparing Yourself To Other Survivors

communityandresistance:

When you meet or read about other survivors whose assault seems much worse than yours, you might decide that you should forget about recovery and count your blessings instead. According to Johnathan Shay “Placing one’s self in a ‘hierarchy of suffering’ to one’s disadvantage is widespread among trauma survivors” (2002, 79). Even if another person suffered more injuries than you did, you are entitled to grieve for your own pain, every bit of it. You are important, too, and you owe it to yourself to recover as much as possible. 

Jealousy is another feeling you may encounter. “Why are they recovering so much faster than I am?” or “How did they recover without any help but I need as much help as I can get?”

Stop! Comparing yourself unfavorably to others is a form of self-violence. Some people have a more emotionally or physically reactive central nervous system than do others. Therefore, they respond more intensely to emotional and physical pain, which can prolong their recovery. Such emotional reactivity may be the combined result of genetic inheritance, upbringing, background, or prior life experiences. Yet in our society, where myths like “nobody can hurt you unless you let them,” are widespread, emotional sensitivity is often viewed as a personal failing. Myths and stereotypes about “strong women of color” can serve to make it physically and emotionally difficult to connect with pain from these experiences. Emotionally sensitive and emotionally expressive people are often devalued. Assure yourself that you are worthy of healing, that your emotions matter and are not a burden, and that it is ok and often necessary to put yourself first and make yourself your number one priority.

Its also important to remember that a survivor with progress in one area may have problems in another. The one who seems “normal” may be hurting in ways you cannot see, may be in denial about some issues, or may not want to expose her issues for fear for burdening others. Futhermore, the degree of a woman’s recovery is highly dependent on factors outside of herself that are part of her recovery environment: her financial status, her access to good medical and physiological care, the amount of emotional support in their life, and the severity of current stress in their life.

Breastfeeding in a Public Restaurant

thisgingersnapsback:

abaldwin360:

stonedmisandrist:

young-republican-and-free:

So, I literally got into an argument with my mother about this the other day. We were out to breakfast when a woman at the table next to us began breastfeeding her child without a covering.

Me, being me, was disturbed and quietly said to my mom “she shouldn’t be doing that out in the open for everyone to see.” My mom being her witty self decided to respond cleverly to me by saying… “it’s natural, she should have every right to do that!”

My response which stopped her dead in her tracks and she stopped the talk then & there…

“Sex, nudity, and masturbation are all natural but it doesn’t mean I should condone them happening at the table next to me in a restaurant.”

I do believe I made my point. 

OH MY GOD. A BOOB AND A NURSING INFANT. THE HORROR.

Republicans.

If I can deal with a boob while I’m eating, pretty sure you can too. Stop the self-righteous bullshit.

Someone with “free” in their user name saying people shouldn’t have the right to feed their child in public.

That’s some funny shit right there.

You know what else is funny shit? The fact that they equated someone feeding their child with sex and masturbation.

OP does realize what the function of breasts are, don’t they?

Oh my god I literally hate people like that.

No, I mean it. Fucking hate ‘em.

If you’re allowed to sit down and eat at a restaurant, why the fuck isn’t a baby?

And yeah, equating breast feeding—feeding a baby that literally has no other means by which to get nutrients other than to rely on people, usually it’s mother, for the food it needs—with sex and masturbation is gross as FUCK. OP is the ultimate scumbag.