Hi comrade, I’m John. I’m the angry feminist your friend Chad warned you about. I’m trans/demigender (he/they), queer and white and was born in 1989. Saying it that way is easier than changing my age in my bio every year. I’m very, very depressed and severely unequipped to deal with the trials and tribulations of adulthood. I am a soft and tired bear (the gay kind, I’m not kin or furry, but not I’m not judgy). Trans/sex worker exclusionary radical feminists and MAPs are my enemy.
I want to preface this by saying this is not victim blaming. This not calling people online lazy or grifting or whatever.
But an underlooked proponent on why some people are nearing homeless and crowdfunding heavily rn is bc society has failed you by making it as inconvenient as possible to learn about social systems and programs that already exist to help your situation as well as not having enough programs and aid.
Lemme give some examples. I have been unemployed for 10 months. My mom told me about a paying job training program a month ago after I already decided to mive in with her to find work, because nothing was coming up in my own city. My best friend didn’t know about affordable housing assistance in my state until she talked to my dad about it on a chance encounter. Some people on here have to see posts about much cheaper alternatives to their current prescriptions or medical plans because its not in the interest of their doctors paychecks to tell them about it. I would have waited to get vaccinated and not have crowdfunded for Uber money if I had known they were going to give free vaccine rides the next month. But I wouldn’t have really known this until I opened the app once that program started, because it is in their interest to keep taking my money until its their desired time for me to reap their “generous” services.
What I’m trying to say is that this is an under discussed aspect of how capitalism fails people. When you are forced to make your life and work and finances so singular and self interested, you are cut off from community and equivalent social services to proper government assistance. You literally don’t know that there is help somewhere out there for you unless you’re told.
I believe a professor I had called this “cultural wisdom” but I haven’t been able to find the social science articles that expanded on this. It’s a practical knowledge of local systems that allows someone to function and thrive in that system. The example she used was having an understanding that banks can hold your money, but the practical aspect of accessing your money (in a convenient and easy manor) was knowing about ATMs and how to use them. But unless you have an account or someone ready to inform you, there’s no dedicated time or milestone where someone learns this.
And that’s just with a machine designed to give you YOUR money, let alone complex social service programs.
I want everyone who crowdfunds for hospital bills to know they probably don’t have to oay them at all. Just find the financial aid office of the hospital. It’s on the website BY LAW. Find the form. Fill it out. Get the bills canceled or lowered! You don’t need crowd money, you need the government’s money that’s already set aside for your medical care.
GO TO, MESSAGE, OR CALL YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. Libraries are focusing more and more on community resources, support, and outreach. If you genuinely don’t know something or feel uncertain or are in a new situation, a reference librarian will not only help you sort your thoughts through their reference interview but then help you arm yourself with knowledge from reliable and often local sources. It doesn’t even have to be a question to Ask A Librarian. You can simply say “I’m in this situation now. I don’t know what to do next./I’m not confident I know everything I should or want to know.”
If Jason Voorhees was ten when he died, then how come he’s so crazy hugelarge?
a.) He swelled up in Crystal Lake like one of those grow-your-own-dinosaurs.
b.) Hell has a Make-a-Wish program and he wished to be an eight foot slab of stab meat.
c.) Flintstones vitamins.
d.) He’s wearing stilts.
e.) It’s an optical illusion.
Follow-Up Question: Why did ten-year-old Jason go to Hell?
1.) Never got baptized.
2.) Cussed to impress the big kids.
3.) Didn’t finish his vegetables.
4.) Said he cleaned his room but really did that thing where you just shove everything in the closet and shut the door so your mom can’t see.
5.) Turns out not knowing how to swim is a sin.
Hi! I’m really interested in horror movies, especially the slasher genre, so I’m just gonna clear this up because I know not everyone is really well-versed in the Friday the 13th lore: Jason Voorhees is so large because he is very big. And the answer to your follow-up question is “yes”. Hope this helps :)
I know this is a lot to ask for, but I’m a disabled mother and I need $2000 to pay for an important aid in order to keep my job, which will continue to support my kids and family with my income. Unfortunately without the money to pay for this tool, I will lose my only source of income. Please consider donating:
12th of December, 2021. It’s been 638 days since Breonna Taylor was killed by the LMPD & Brett Hankinson, Jonathan Mattingly & Miles Cosgrove haven’t faced charges or been arrested for her death.
look i get that gender as an element in various spiritualities will likely never change but ppl who fixate on like the divine feminine or masculine or the binary in general are always so fucking weird and also massive transphobes like i cant overstate enough how sick to death i am of this ridiculous pseudo-mysticism
As it becomes winter again… and as somebody who once popped out his kneecap by slipping on ice, I would like to remind my followers that slip on shoe spikes exist.
You can usually get ones like these for around $10, and they’re really worth it. They’re made of rubber, so you can just fold them up, and I’ve been using mine for a couple of years now.
And if you use a cane, don’t be afraid to get one of these bad boys:
[Image: The bottom of a cane, with an ice grip attachment. The end has several metal spikes for gripping ice and snow.]
The tip is on a hinge. You pinch the white knobs together and the ice tip just sorta flips around and up against the cane, so you can use it on dry floors indoors without removing it entirely! This thing has saved me from so many falls in the winter.
