“Do you eat salmon, they say it’s good for the bones?”
“Have you tried pumpkin seeds?”
“You should go out more”
Oh we are SO over all this bull from “well-meaning” people who can’t help but offer suggestions as soon as they find out your disabled or ill. So, we made a shirt (and some other things) that are a perfect counter!
[img description: a white male-presenting person in dark gray jeans and a dark teal short sleeve tee shirt. The shirt has a checklist split into 2 parts vertically. The top half reads, “Yes, I’ve Considered: Essential Oils, Accupuncture, Superfoods, Cleanses, Yoga” and each line has a box with a corresponding checkmark in it. The bottom half reads, “Have You Considered: Shutting Up, Minding Your Own Business,” with similar boxes that are NOT checked.”
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God, someone at my son’s school, ON OUR FIRST MEETING, hearing I have fibromyalgia, IMMEDIATELY said “Have you tried paleo?”
I said I was allergic to fad diets, and that I didn’t care for unsolicited medical advice.
“Well, I know when I cleaned my diet up, a lot of my health problems went away, so I thought -”
No, no you didn’t think. You ASSUMED:
-fibro is my own fault
-my diet is shitty
-it worked for your medical problems, it’ll work for my completely different ones
JFC, when I made it clear I didn’t want to hear it, don’t fucking double down. APOLOGIZE.
UUUUGH I especially HATE the diet suggestions. Like, thank you for reminding me that I have food issues too, reallly appreciate it.
Also, we have a few designs related to this nonsense:
and:
being two fo my personal favorites!
Well, I know what I’m asking for comes my birthday!
Last time I had a flare of my mystery arthritis, no fewer than six people asked me if I had tried cutting out gluten. No. No I haven’t, because I do not have Celiac Disease.
The Black Footed cat is the smallest wild cat in Africa and one of the smallest wild cats in the world.
Here’s an adult kitty for size comparison:
too smoll
OK but you can’t mention my all-time favorite cat without also mentioning that these little motherfuckers are legendary for being 1000% ready to throw down with anyone at any time, they’ve literally been seen trying to fight a giraffe and are known to successfully bring down sheep by getting underneath them and ripping their bellies open like what the fuck, chill
Their name in Afrikaans means “anthill tiger” because they’ll hide inside a hollowed out anthill and then jump out and try to rip your face off
the athiesm of women/people of color/lgbt people is absolutely different than the athiesm of cishet white men and i feel like people forget that a lot
how?
Don’t have spoons for long explanation – also this is only speaking for christianity – but religion has been a force of oppression for women, people of color, and lgbt+ people and the rejection of the religion is often coupled with the rejection of how religion treats them.
I’ll also say that abuse survivors are included in this because it is a reaction to and an attempt to reconcile how (christian) god would allow abuse to happen.
For straight white men atheism is usually rooted in intellectual and rational superiority complexes. It’s a “i am more rational and intelligent than you, how can you believe in something so obviously fake” thing as opposed to a reaction to a societal institution that upholds their oppression and abuse.
Women, PoC, Queer people, immigrants, trauma survivors, etc: How can I believe in something that teaches you to be cruel? How can I trust the books that tell me of peace and love, when you use your faith to hurt me? How can a loving god allow [insert injustice of the day]?
White Men: I, as an Intellectual, eschew silly superstitions that say I might, someday, after my death, face one (1) single consequence.
Capitalism is so insanely evil it’s honestly kind of impressive
“if you force companies to pay their staff more than starvation wages they’ll just fire people and then those people will starve even faster and that’s just how it is and there’s literally no way to change it or fix this serious problem of people starving”
“if you force landlords to maintain their properties instead of allowing the buildings to decay around their tenants then they will just charge higher rent which will price people out of housing and then they will be homeless, this is an incontrovertible fact and is both inevitable and a morally neutral phenomenon”
??????????
“helping people is bad, actually, and hurting them is objectively a good and positive thing 100% of the time, the world would be worse if nobody was suffering and dying for stupid, preventable reasons”
In case anyone’s wondering is because getting an x ray once is so barely harmful that it rounds to zero but standing in front of an x ray emitter 40 hours a week for years will definitely kill you
If I go to the bar and have one drink with the bartender I’ll be fine. If the bartender has a drink with every patron then they will die
Tom Bob refuses to simply live
in the world. He’s reshaping it. Creating clever street art on common
objects in the urban landscape, he’s perfectly personalizing his boring
surroundings. (Source)
Steel Phoenix Studios 