SharkEatingBreakfast

It’s okay.

Really messed me up, tbh. Told that my purpose as a woman was to get married and “please my husband”, no matter what.

As a teen, my desire to like boys never manifested. My youth pastor would preach about how women were princesses whose desire was to be saved by a knight, and men were knights seeking adventure. I always wanted the adventure, and I was completely ostracized for it.

Imagine being told that your purpose is to be loved, then realizing that your true self is something nobody will ever love.

It’s disturbing, and I was severely depressed throughout my entire young & teenage years.

(it got much worse, but I don’t want to go over that. Just know that I escaped that shit eventually.)

Ayyy my da told me that line about women, too!

I also am a woman!

My da told me “God does not forgive people who curse his name.”

I asked “But God forgives people who sexually abuse kids?”

“If they ask for forgiveness, yes.”

wHy DoNt YoU aTtEnD cHuRcH aNyMoRe??? lmao shut up.

Seems like a huge part of the problem is equating “self-worth” to “getting laid”.

Putting your dick in a woman doesn’t make you any more of a man / successful / worth more than anyone else.

Societal expectations need to be rejected. Oh, success is measured by your ability to get married, have a house, and raise your 2.5 children? For a vast majority, NONE OF THAT IS CURRENTLY SUSTAINABLE AND/OR OBTAINABLE. So why bother? Right?

I get it. It ain’t right, but I get it.

Sex ain’t gonna fix 'em.

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Thank you.

Birth control was my savior and actively allowed me enjoy life again. 💕

Excruciating period pain that would leave me fainting and vomiting every. Single. Time.

“Every girl goes through this” said the doctor, convincing my parents that I was just “dramatic”.

Turns out I had huge polyps growing out of control! Left scarring in my uterus and high-risk when pregnant.

Dealt with that hell every fucking month since I was 11 until I got onto birth control in my 20s.

I dunno. I miss him, though… and his pony pal Pokey, too.

…is bread mold harmful to eat?

EDIT: Still have not gotten a wholly confirmed answer lol

Group of juggalos living out in the woods in Washington saved my life by helping me ditch a r×pist who was traveling with our caravan.

They did stuff like help out at the food pantries, told us the best places to go for free/low-cost supplies, and sabotaged the construction area for the Walmart often enough for it to be delayed for a loooong time.

I always think you gotta check with the people before you assume anything, but, from what I have experienced, they are scarily enthusiastic yet genuinely cool folks. Majority seem to be supportive of LGBTQ+ kinda stuff. 👍

R×publicans literally called Obama the anti-christ and tried to make everything he did into a scandal (remember the tan suit?).

This is absolutely not a joke, unfortunately.

My SIL recently did just this for my niece. Now she’s chronically online, unsupervised.

…the same niece who gave her bank details to a Tiktok scammer earlier this year.

He has a Breloom on a social media profile.

Memes coming out of this have been pretty good, tbh.

I have had extremely good reasons why I was unable to vote since I’ve turned 18.

However, I finally registered to vote a few months ago, specifically to vote in this election.

I’m extremely nervous and don’t really know what to expect once I’m in my polling place, but I’ll be damned if I don’t do my part to prevent my country from becoming a fascist dictatorship with a man willing to throw its citizens into the grinder if it meant he gets a dollar out of it. Fuck that.

It’s been used by people for nefarious purposes, regardless of its original intent. Both perspectives are valid.

edit: sexist horseshit is not a valid perspective.

If I’m remembering right, wasn’t this specifically developed to assist in helping to better identify victims of human trafficking?

Yep. Found it.

https://www.romper.com/p/a-man-made-app-that-shows-women-without-makeup-on-there-is-so-much-to-unpack-here-5480392

You adapt to us now. 😏

Oh dear lord, the vehicles… not only that, but my kid hearing me yell about pissing on the bike and then throwing it at those damn Tremor worms had him in stitches. I was only half-joking, though.

Thanks for the game suggestions! I’ll look into those.