I really wish PETA would go away. They do such a disservice to all the other people out there doing important social justice work for nonhuman animals. FFS all these oppressive systems are intersectional and failing to work with that as a basic principle of animal rights activism does no good for anyone, least of all…

Kenickie’s broken condom.

Haha yeah, a pretty big tool. I’ve studied some of his stuff philosophy closely for school and it boggles my mind how willfully he would have had to ignore common sense to come up with some of his ideas.

That’s kind of my point. Since Enlightenment thinking (namely Descartes’ cogito) dominates Western constructions of self and mind, people conceptualize mind and body as separate, such that mental illness is perceived as being distinct from biology. Whether or not the binary is legit, it exists as a social…

Gah I’m sorry you had/have to suffer through that. Starting at the level of education would definitely be a good place to begin.

I have been meaning to read that book! It looks really fascinating.

What I find especially fascinating about this too is the insistence that these two things (the mental and the biological) are actually distinct from each other. Perhaps if that binary was disrupted accepting mental illness would be a lot easier for people.

Haha I was pretty shocked by the news even though I’m not up to date with the show. Dobrev is pretty great, and Kathryn was always fun. I think that’s part of what lost me on the show, the villainous love-to-hate-to-love-them characters got a bit too soft. It will be interesting to see what happens after she leaves.

Ah I see. I initially read your comment as because we dissect humans it’s fine to dissect animals rather than a dismissal of the supposed horror of dissecting of humans. Now that I think of it that way the PETA ad is oddly humanist.

You can be against something going on now while simultaneously recognizing that historical practices have contributed to valuable knowledge today.

I lost interest right at the end of last season — the mythos has just gotten so bloated. I do still love Caroline though. But The Originals, that I can get on board with.

Yeah but aren’t cadavers generally donated rather than bred for dissection? (At least I hope that’s the case.) So regardless of whether it’s an experiment or not, there’s a kind of consent there that nonhuman bodies don’t give.

That sounds like a fucking nightmare. People are the worst.

Fuck yes.

Hey, as long as people can work it doesn't matter if they, you know, have water to drink or grow food with. The economy and jobs are all people ever need.

Yeah, I think if it came with less frequency it would be more effective, but it’s overdone. At this point I’m more amused by the people defending “her”. I’ll bump Judyj up a letter grade if those accounts belong to the same user for some kind of extra complicated performance art/long con.

It was really hard for Judyj, to be honest.

I had to have a second look too — B.Spears the fledgling independent artist? Something don't smell right. Oh wait, I can't read.

It is seriously one of the tougher calls to make on this holiday Friday.

Oh you.