thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

I just saw the phrase “whooping cough party” and I can’t… I can’t.

Okay, so here’s the thing. Whenever someone asks me “how are you still alive” my favorite
flippancy is usually “spite”, but in all honesty it’s vaccines. Spite
and vaccines.

And not just me being vaccinated, but everyone
around me too, because there are some vaccines I cannot safely have and I
rely on everyone else around me being vaccinated to avoid it.

Things
like, oh, say, whooping cough, which I actually had as a child because I
went to school with the victims of antivaxxers, and we all got super
sick and coughed so hard the blood vessels in our eyes ruptured and
every fit felt like you were going to die choking for breath.

And
tonight, a friend of mine who happens to be a mother, hauled me into an
argument on Facebook where people in her neighborhood group were hosting
a “whooping cough party” cause one of their kids got sick, and the tag
line was “come on over and get it over with lol”, and words cannot
convey how much visceral hatred I had for this person in that moment. If I could have set them on fire with my brain, I probably would.

Because I
can wholly remember sitting in bed clutching my little
chest, desperate for the pain to stop, making that horrible wheezing
sound, with tears streaming down my face, utterly convinced I was going to die if I couldn’t draw breath. And that went on for months
because even with treatment, the cough can take up to three months to
subside. And that is a horrible thing for a child to go through. I
cannot stress enough how painful and terrifying it was and my parents
for all their faults could do nothing. They’d done everything they could
to keep me safe from other illnesses. I had all my other vaccines, I
just couldn’t have that one.

And the thing is, you can get it
again, it’s not a one time deal. You can get it more than once, and
doctors actually recommend you get a booster shot for it every ten
years, and I can’t do that. I cannot protect myself from it. I rely on
other people being responsible, and taking the necessary steps to keep
whooping cough outbreaks low, and the only way to do that is through
regular routine inoculation.

And these fuckers are throwing a party??? What???

Let me be clear, it is through profound measures of willful ignorance, hubris, and yes privilege,
that people have allowed for things like measles and whooping cough to
make a come back. It is a privilege to live in a healthy society where
you can expect all your children to make it out of infancy. It is a
privilege to not die young from TB, it is a privilege that many people
before you had to suffer for and work hard to bring about, all in the
hopes that another child wouldn’t have to go into the iron lung from
polio. And through the privilege of never having had to suffer, you have
elected to do harm. You have elected to allow for the resurgence of
mumps, and measles and coughs that sound like a death rattle in the
lungs of infant children, and then you have the absolute audacity and
malice in your souls to celebrate and throw “sickness parties” because
you’d rather let your child suffer through unnecessary illness than be
vaccinated?

How dare you. You have a moral and social
obligation to protect your children and the people around you, and not
only have you chosen to wave this responsibility, but you are actively endangering others?

How dare you.

And
the thing is I know, I know in your own misguided way you think you are
doing what is best for you child. But if the road to hell truly is
paved with good intentions, I can tell you now with absolute certainty
that you fuckers have got your own burning stars on the walk of shame.

Vaccinate
your god damn kids. And get your booster shots while you’re at it. You
might just save someone’s life without ever knowing or trying.

(Note: This is not aimed at people who cannot be vaccinated or whose
children cannot be vaccinated. I know that struggle, I know it is real
and I’m so sorry other people are putting you and your loved ones at
risk.

Also yes, I know chickenpox parties used to be a thing, I
went to one of them as a kid. Thankfully there is now a vaccine for that
too! Isn’t living in the future neat!

And just so you know, if
you come onto this post telling me that vaccines cause autism, you will
be afflicted with the condition known as my foot up your ass. I will not
engage on discourse over this, there is no discourse to be had. You are
wrong. And that is the end of the discussion.)

feministbatman:

we’ve been seeing female characters drawn with their nipples pointing out of their clothes, with cameltoe poppin’ out of leather pants somehow, with thong leotards with their butt cheeks flapping in the wind. is about time we saw some super men dick if u ask me

thatwriterchickyouknow:

charlotebronte:

fromrushhourwithlove:

charlotebronte:

every fall teenage girls are like.. “oh , im gonna enter a place of business and order a product which is offered by that place of business because i like the flavor of it” and honestly? how dare they. that’s so annoying. why can’t they buy the beverage that i, a smart man, would prefer to drink

Probably because they’re generally indifferent to the flavor of it and rather use it for in group/out group signalling like the giant basic bitch wall-decorations-from-target early childhood education/nutrition hive mind they are.

dude shut the fuck up lol

ok i spend all day with teenagers and am paid to educate them and let me tell you most of my girls may love leggings (comfy) and iced coffees (yummy) but i have never, NEVER, seen thirty of them spend a solid month all playing the same boring goddamn video game or had to pry them off their tablets and phones the day some ugly-ass overpriced sneaker drops

try and get a group of teenage boys to all stop making the same fucking meme reference all. goddamn. day. then, and ONLY then, can you talk to me about hive mind

dagwolf:

aderam:

tiwesdaeg:

randomganon:

allthecanadianpolitics:

finetalpies:

awkward-teabag:

allthecanadianpolitics:

Working in the oil patch is not a guaranteed way to earn money. Oil Companies right now are specifically trying to eliminate full time jobs.

Plus the oil industry is a horrible job creator:

Renewables Now Employ More People Than Oil, But Canada Is Missing In Action

Clean energy employs more people than fossil fuels in nearly every U.S. state

Also consider this: A lot of millennials, including myself have no desire to work for the oil industry regardless of the pay. I will not sell my labour to be complicit in an industry that is largely responsible for the disaster that is climate change.

On trades however I agree. There are a lot of good jobs in the trades that do not require you to be complicit in destroying the planet, are in high demand and pay well.

But do what you want to do. If you want to go to university for your career do that, but the trades are an option too.

It’s also unreasonable to expect people with little to no money (or who are in debt) to be able to up and move across the country, leaving behind their support systems.

Plenty of millennials also can’t work trades. A job I was at for several years destroyed my wrist and back because speed and productivity were valued more than safety. You could do a WorkSafe refresher at the start of your shift then head down to the stock room where you were expected to lift 50lb+ boxes off of shelves higher than your head or tucked under shelves with no option but to twist. This wasn’t a Walmart, either. It was regarded as one of the better employers in no small part of the province.

And it’s a story I hear everywhere from every millennial who has worked retail or warehouse. So many have busted wrists, backs, shoulders, knees, and ankles because businesses put profits over safety and treat us like cogs that can be replaced once we get too broken.

Trades are good and all, but they’re not an option for everyone.

Calling Millenials “kids” is a bit revealing. I’m a millenial. I’m also 29 years old. These generational criticisms have no basis in reality they’re just trying to dismiss the concerns of the working class.

I’m a millennial. I turned 30 this summer. 

I see this kind of discourse a lot. It serves nothing more than to mock and dismiss the very valid concerns that millennials are experiencing when it comes to the job market, the housing market and unaffordability in general that simply did not exist in the boomer generation.

Hi, I do work the trades. Specifically, I work in landscaping. You know what? It’s not an easy job. It’s, actually, very, very hard, even without any education. My boss will hire you on the spot, he’s desperate for more workers! But odds are pretty good you’ll be gone in less than 3 days – and you’re the one who quit. Know why?

Trades are super, super taxing on the body. Having worked in both retail and trades, I can say retail was easier on my body. I don’t like going home so sore and tired that I literally have no energy left to enjoy the rest of my life. I am dreading this next week because I’m going to be outdoors, soaked and chilled to the bone, for 8 hours a day. Most people do not have the willpower to keep going in these jobs.

Using power equipment for 2-6 hours (and the boss is cheap so enjoy the push mowers, they’re especially ‘fun’ uphill!), hauling 50-100 lb tarps, and working at a pace where you’re expected to completely weed a 40 square feet space in less than 5 minutes. That’s just an average day for me.

Sure, trades pay well, sure, they’re always in demand, but blurting “just get a trades job!” completely ignores that most people will not have the physical ability to even do them.

As a millennial who is a red seal licensed journeyman I was still making shit money in a trade. I went to trade school thinking it would make my life easier because academics aren’t my strong suit, but with basically everything we were told all throughout high school i had one of three options: 1. university/college with no real guarantee of work, 2. a life time of minimum wage, or 3. working a trade job.

But all I really managed to do was pay off my student loan, jump start my carpal tunnel, mess up my knees, back and shoulders. We shouldn’t have to be forced into the trade industry that the extant of it caring is wether or not you can make it into work just to make a decent living that doesn’t involve university.

Frankly the trades are also a really unstable job market. It’s contract based and people do get laid off extremely frequently. In the construction industry every day you are working yourself out of a job – you’re just hoping that something else will need to get built next. (And there are many unemployed tradespeople out there.) 

One of the reasons I went into the trades was because I was told it was guaranteed well-paid work. One of the reasons I left was because I never felt secure in my job and I was employed more consistently than most of my peers. (I’d say barely half of my trades school class got jobs – and most of us took a while to get them.) It’s taxing knowing that any day you or your co-workers could be told to pack up and go home without notice.

important thread

igglooaustralia:

igglooaustralia:

… I see she hasn’t changed..

croxovergoddess:

newtandthediamonds:

for starters, just so you have some background, drake is currently dating an 18 year old girl he met when she was 16, he is 31.

also here’s a tweet from drake himself talking about fucking young girls

and noww let’s talk about how he’s preying on Millie.

At the Emmys, when asked about her friendship with him, she said he regularly texts her things like “I miss you” and that they’re very close, also, that they talk about boys/dating advice. He is a 31 year old man and this is a 14 year old girl. He’s talking to her about boys and dating and sending her “I miss you” texts, there’s a word for this. It’s called grooming. (Grooming is when someone builds an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for the purposes of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation or trafficking. Children and young people can be groomed online or face-to-face, by a stranger or by someone they know – for example a family member, friend or professional.)

He met his current girlfriend at sixteen talked and flirted with her, groomed her like this, and is now in a relationship with her. It is so disgusting to see people claiming this is normal, the industry she is in is highly pedophilic and she’s a child. This is not normal or okay, a 31 year old grown man has no business texting a 14 year old girl like this.

If you watch the whole interview, Millie mentions (while smiling really big) that there’s more in their text convos that should stay in just text form which scares me ALOT

He’s for real praying on her and I really hope he gets what he deserves