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Curious to know which agencies aren’t set up to serve the interests of white men? I mean I get what you are getting at but I’m resigned to the reality that even our agencies with missions to help the underserved and excluded really are just reinforcing white male superiority. 

But what is the alternative? When the medical establishment is failing you what other choice do you have? When the alternative is continue suffering or die, that’s not much of a choice at all. Desperate people do desperate things.

I mean yes but also at some point people are so desperate especially when establishment medicine continues to fail them. This isn’t limited to ED. As someone who is suffering from a mysterious chronic fatigue issue that has been dismissed and unexplained by my doctors I see the allure of these people who claim to have …

I know very few adult women who do not engage in restrictive/ritualistic behaviors when it comes to food. The thing is that like most behavioral rooted diagnoses those things are only considered disordered if they ultimately impact a person’s health or daily functioning. It’s hard to separate the societal impact of bas…

I work in human services with new clients pretty frequently. In one job I tried to go by my boy name and it was miserable for everyone. It was just exhausting to explain my name over and over and over. Maybe that’s an unfortunate reflection on our society but I can choose to not be on that front line and sometimes I sh…

My name is Christopher after Christopher Norris from Trapper John MD. I’m a pretty ladyie lady. I use my given name on my resume. And alwaysi n person “you’re a woman?” “you’re a Christopher?” Yup.

Yes, but it’s known to be an unreliable form of proof. Other cooborating forms of proof establish credibility. Relying on eyewitness when there are other forms of proof available seems to be a suspect choice.

I think this outlook is short sighted. Holding back innovation is not realistic OR beneficial for the long term despite it being a temporary solution to provide close to minimum wage jobs. Structurally, we need to look at how the economy is changing with automation and make adjustments so that the jobs lost through…

I have anxiety and depression that when I was pregnant decompensated significantly. Around the same time the pregnant native woman in Washington was killed in front of her kids after her partner called the police to do a welfare check. I had my husband promise to never ever call the police on me if I was having a menta…

WTF kind of ableist bullshit is this. People with a disablity can and should be able to pursue any kind of employment they want to if they can do the job. Past or future potential for mental illness should not be a disqualifier for having a job caring for others (making probably close to minimum fucking wage)

Right, people who make a lot less and get a lot less training than police are expected to be calmly assaulted by folks as a regular part of their job. Any person who works in care of people with developmental disabilities, dementia, mental illness, etc are required to deescalate and intervene without violence. Most get…

Unfortunately most have centralized dispatch. You don’t get a choice who is sent to the scene. The dispatcher makes an assessment of the call and decides which emergency services to send to the scene. Which really means that folks who, for good reason, do not want to interact with the police also can’t really access ot…

Carl... Carl is the perfect mundane cat name.

I got carded for kombucha. Like seriously... I don’t get carded for wine but surely my one bottle of .5% ABV Ginderade is a problem for this 30 something white lady. Damnit.

Yeah. He also has a “Pull in case of Monday” fire alarm shirt that I think he’s worn like 5 times. We often drive over to the other side of the state on Friday evenings so he always wears his Friday shirt. Generally he just puts on lounge clothes after work so the Monday shirt gets much less play.

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Right? He is the embodiment of a dad joke and that is just how he likes it.

My husband has two favorite shirts. One says “Casual Friday” which he wears almost every Friday. The other says “Irony, the opposit of wrinkly.” He’s a 38 year old dad of six... these shirts are his life.

Toxemia is pretty much high blood pressure (pre-eclampsia)