Thank you for this. I think the lack of empathy behind ignoring other people’s suffering is the terrifying undercurrent to all of this. My generation hasn’t had to deal with starvation, botched abortions, strings of unwanted pregnancies with no options, (more blatant than now) lynching, diseases like polio, etc. We…

Can anyone who lived through/studied up on the lead up to Roe v. Wade explain to me how on Earth we ever gained the right to abortion in the first place? Or maybe point to some resources that could? It seems as though we’re going to have to fight all these wars a second time, so a historical perspective on how we did…

I love the way we use the word ‘theory’. Evolution: just a theory! Ignore it! Oil spill into a creek: we’ve got several theories to explain why, so everything is fine and pipelines are great.

I think that Satanists are kind of the perfect place for it to come from. Christians have been working themselves into a panicked frenzy over reproductive rights and ‘threats’ to their religious freedom for a while now; they haven’t needed an actual adversary to push that perspective and its accompanying legislation.…

Does anyone have any ideas of what people from solid blue states can do to help? I’m in California and nothing like this is happening here anytime soon, but aside from donating to advocacy groups, I haven’t come up with any way people in safer states can help ensure that other women aren’t punished for their…

My satanist friend says they’ve done a few unbaptisms at an event that go something like this: take some holy water from whatever faith you were baptised into, and then throw it into a fire so that it becomes steam which is both pretty freeing and a fun aesthetic.

It never ceases to amaze me how people are so desperate to deny that someone is an abuser that they’ll ingore all the shit that person is doing in front of their very eyes.

Wow, I knew this was a generally supportive community but I didn’t expect so many welcoming responses. Thank you to everyone and I look forward to finally actually interacting with you all!

That was good advice. I managed to make the switch while I was still signed in to the burner so I got to keep this name. Thanks!