I totally forgot till just now but one time a new therapist handed me a pad of paper and said “draw me a picture of how you feel” and after spending like five whole minutes of dead silence scribbling a teeny tiny pitch black dot in the middle of the pad that dug a hole straight through like 15 pages I gave it back to see him staring back at me like
Women in the GDR were the largest group to lose out through unification. They may now have access to material goods not available before, but they have been pushed back into dependence by a dominant ideology of women serving men. In the GDR, 88% of all adult women worked and another 8.5% were in full-time education, which meant that 96.5% took an active part in the wider social context outside the home and they also had their own income. Work was the basis for economic independence, a sense of self-worth, a place for communication and social interaction, not just a source for additional household income or, as some critics have argued, a state-imposed, obligatory activity.
Women were highly skilled - only 6% had no qualification at all, as against 24% of West German working women. In the GDR, 50% of all jobs in medicine and law were carried out by women and a third of women worked in technical professions.
Given the great importance that work represented to women in terms of their identity, unemployment on the scale, that happened after unification, had a devastating effect. Even after 20 years, on the territory of the former GDR, two thirds of the unemployed were women (in agriculture it was as much as 75%) and they made up at least 70% of the long-term unemployed. Post-unification, the labour market was biased against women; men had a better chance of finding alternative work. […]
Although gender discrimination was by no means completely abolished in the GDR, this blatant disparaging of women as a group appeared like history going into reverse. This perception is underlined by the fact that, in the general hunt for jobs, children are now deemed to represent a problem. It is well-known that the GDR had excellent childcare facilities which made it possible to combine work and parenthood without financial hardship. In 1989, 68% of working women in the GDR had children under the age of 18, whereas in the Federal Republic it was only 25%. […]
Unification brought another considerable change for women: the abolition of their right to an abortion on demand. In the GDR, since 1972, women had had the legal right to terminate their pregnancy free of charge within the first 12 weeks. West Germany has a penal code (paragraph 218) which states that abortion is unlawful and those who attempt to abort face up to three years in prison or a fine. After unification it became necessary to bring West German and East German law on this issue into alignment. In 1992, paragraph 218 was amended to adopt GDR legislation, but a compulsory consultation prior to the procedure was added. After protests from the CDU/CSU and the Bavarian state government, which wanted abortion itself to remain illegal, even this amendment was declared null and void by Germany’s Constitutional Court only one year later. […]
Even after 25 years since unification there still exists a very different perception of equal rights among women in the territory of the former GDR. According to an investigation undertaken in 2008, 80% of East German women wanted an equal division of labour in the family, but only 50% of West German women, among whom traditional family models still exerted a strong force. In fact, the more emancipated consciousness of GDR women has increasingly influenced women in the West, even though they often appear to be unaware of where their new confidence has come.
Stasi State or Socialist Paradise? The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It by Bruni de la Motte & John Green with Seumas Milne (Contributor), 2015.
[Start ID: / this is a video by tiktok user @/pineapple.honeydew. she is a light-skinned woman with brown hair and piercings. the video shows a bust of her. below is the audio transcript:
(transcriber’s note: she is gesturing, referring to comments others make) Bro that’s a dude! Oh my god is that a man?
(transcriber’s note: below she responds to these allegations.)
Masculinity is a prison from which you will never escape, even though the key is & always has been in your hands. Alright?
You don’t hate me because I’m different, you hate me because I stepped outside & I left you in your cage to rot. You will never know a life unburdened by what your father thinks about you. Okay?
And just because you don’t have enough room to stretch your legs doesn’t mean that I can’t go outside and dance.
(transcriber’s note: she now pauses for a few seconds for emphasis)
“How do you keep on fighting when everything is lost? Ask a Palestinian. A Palestinian is someone who is wading knee-deep in rubble. Palestinian politics is always already post-apocalyptic: it is about surviving after the end of the world and, in the best case, salvaging something out of all that has been lost.”
I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he’s going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he’ll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he’s not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there’s a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he’s attaching the wings to the harness. And he’s putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he’ll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we’ll be looking at the livestream (it’s a livestream now) and we’ll scream “No, Amaury, the sun! It’s going to melt the wings!”. But he knows this already. And he is free.
String identified: a t g t a gg t a Aa Gc a ’ gg t ag g a t a gg t a , t ta ac at attag, ’ a at t t ct, t a t g , ’ t g a t g cat, t t g. A t t’ a a- a (a a ccat, , ca t). A ’ attacg t g t t a. A ’ ttg t a a tat ca a t g. A t ’ . t t a a a . A ’ g at t ta (t’ a ta ) a ’ ca “, Aa, t ! t’ gg t t t g!”. t t aa. A .
Closest match: Homo sapiens genome assembly, chromosome: contig-504 Common name: Common Human
I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he’s going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he’ll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he’s not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there’s a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he’s attaching the wings to the harness. And he’s putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he’ll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we’ll be looking at the livestream (it’s a livestream now) and we’ll scream “No, Amaury, the sun! It’s going to melt the wings!”. But he knows this already. And he is free.
String identified: a t g t a gg t a Aa Gc a ’ gg t ag g a t a gg t a , t ta ac at attag, ’ a at t t ct, t a t g , ’ t g a t g cat, t t g. A t t’ a a- a (a a ccat, , ca t). A ’ attacg t g t t a. A ’ ttg t a a tat ca a t g. A t ’ . t t a a a . A ’ g at t ta (t’ a ta ) a ’ ca “, Aa, t ! t’ gg t t t g!”. t t aa. A .
Closest match: Homo sapiens genome assembly, chromosome: contig-504 Common name: Common Human
yo hey US people who sent in absentee ballots, they are tossing mail-in ballots for no reason. i just had to call my county board of elections and demand a cure for my ballot because north carolina didn’t send out any notices of issues with ballots, and the issues are fake. if you voted by mail-in make sure your ballot was actually counted
Every time i purchase a moderately expensive item the Karl Marx on my shoulder is like “For shame… you purchase yet another pair of jeans when you have 5 already at home, you despicable commodity fetishist? In my time, a man with five outfits would consider himself blessed beyond measure, and yet you want for more, while there are children starving in the world??” to which the second Karl Marx on my other shoulder says “Objection! Those 5 pairs of jeans all wildly uncomfortable or have holes in the ass, due to the decline of clothing quality driven by the fast fashion industry, unfortunately making this purchase a necessity… Plus, by purchasing a slightly more expensive pair of jeans from an independent brand, seeking quality over ‘brand recognition’, they are deliberately trying to avoid engaging in conspicuous consumption!” to which the third Karl Marx clinging to my back like that beetle from Doctor Who says “Remember, my friend; the less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt — your capital. Buy the jeans,” to which I say “I don’t know if any of you have actually read Karl Marx”
remember when steve from blues clues was upset that people thought he died in a car crash, not because people thought he was dead but because they said he was driving a dodge charger and “that’s a cop car”
People often react to the phrase “carbon footprint” with something about how it’s coined by the fossil fuel industry to direct blame from producers to consumers, but I think there’s still something extremely valuable about looking at emissions per capita -
graph one: total CO2 emissions, NOT per capita, by region. By 2020, China, the US, the EU, India, and Russia are the largest players, with the entire rest of the world barely surpassing China’s emissions.
Graph two: The same regions but weighted per capita.
The US is unique in being extremely emissions-intense per capita while also being large and wealthy. This graph doesn’t count emissions generated in China to produce goods shipped to America - it counts those under China’s emissions.
It’s really hard, I think, for people in the US to have perspective on how wealthy they are on a global scale. Of course no one feels wealthy if they’re struggling to make rent or commuting an hour and a half to afford housing - but on a global scale, when over 700 million people live on less than $2 per day, the median American is one of the richest people on the planet.
If you look at the median individual across the OECD, take out their taxes, and adjust for cost of living by using purchasing power parity to the US dollar, the US median individual has $46,000 of disposable income a year. Only Luxembourg surpasses that (within the OECD)! Germany is at around $33k, the UK at around $25k, Japan around $21k, Mexico around $6k, and the two most populous countries in the world come in with China at $4.5k and India at $2.5k!
(I do need to note that this is disposable income and doesn’t account for the value of services provided with tax money, so countries with a stronger investment in public infrastructure look worse here relative to the US than their inhabitants experience.)
I need to emphasize that while purchasing power parity isn’t a perfect measure, its goal is to allow comparison of how much someone can afford given both cost of living and currency conversion rates.
Someone making federal minimum wage in the US is still able to afford more than twice as much (depending on location within the US) as the median person in Mexico and six times as much as the median person in India. The median person in the US has more than 20 times as much disposable income as the median person in India! When it comes to global warming and the disproportionate impact of the rich on the poor, the issue needs to be viewed in global perspective
this is not to say that someone struggling to make ends meet in the US has, like, a moral obligation to sacrifice further - but that the US as an entire nation bears a huge responsibility for driving its emissions down as a whole, and that it has immense means by which to do so
I love how you can use the environment in baldur’s gate.
for instance, I got my ass completely handed to me in a battle, so on my second attempt I piled barrels of gunpowder & wine near where the enemies would run out, and had one of my guys posed with a fire spell to ignite them. and THIS TIME, I triggered a massive explosion on my first turn of combat, instantly killing my entire party.
To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.
I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it’s now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.
No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.
However, it’s very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It’s also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.
It’s obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it’s dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can’t have an impact on the way people think about violence.
I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.
Let me pass on something important someone else said, though I forget who:
Video games do not cause social problems by being interactive or letting you have a gun. But video games are still stories and ALL stories have the capacity to affect people’s world views. Very rarely do they do so on an individual level, though they can, but in aggregate they’re a large part of what a culture IS. You do not develop an unthinking hatred for people of color and willingness to commit violence by playing Modern Warfare or Resident Evil 5, but they’re still CONTRIBUTING to a culture where these are DOMINANT NARRATIVES about people of color and sending Americans overseas to kill them.
I just think dating is a scam like 90% of the time. Joker voice And I’m tired of pretending it’s not
I can buy the concept of romance existing but the social song and dance of Dating specifically is so, like. Ok. So we’re all just expected to walk around performing desirability & having coffee with people you find mildly interesting & Hopefully you will Feel Something for one of them. & if you keep it up long enough you can get legally bound and financially dependent on each other and have kids or something, not because you want them but because you’re so fucking normal. This is supposed to be your #1 priority in life btw. Are you insane?
And people will be like “you’ll never be happy if you don’t successfully have coffee with someone you think is mildly interesting, it’s so sad that you’re not having coffee with someone you think is mildly interesting” & I’m sitting here like I don’t think that’s true actually I think I’m doing pretty good. I have other things fulfilling my admittedly lower than average need for human connection, like friends
imperative for you to understand that i deserve a little treat
“what did u do to deserve it” deserve? DESERVE? i existed another day in this foul iniquitous world of malice. i am innately deserving of Little Treats
Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -
why are your legs so long?
I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?
i will never shut up about maned wolves
just look at it
look at this
one of the animals for sure
wretched beast
If it’s neither wolf nor fox, then it’s cat software running on giraffe hardware.
I think y'all should know that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog which looks like this.
I was not ready for corgi-bear.
you’re definitely not ready for the maned wolf Front Angle then
Confirmed creature post
If you put the maned wolf and the bush dog together, they would be the henchmen for a villain or loveable comedy duo
Maned Wolf: *peering over the long grass using it’s beautiful long legs*
Shoutout to the maned wolf, which is technically neither wolf nor fox but has its own genus called Chrysocyon! Why -
why are your legs so long?
I mean, intellectually, I understand that it’s because you live in grasslands and have evolved to be able to see over the grass, but emotionally… why? Are they?? Like that??? Surely there was a way to make your body more cohesive and proportional-looking?
i will never shut up about maned wolves
just look at it
look at this
one of the animals for sure
wretched beast
If it’s neither wolf nor fox, then it’s cat software running on giraffe hardware.
I think y'all should know that the closest relative to the maned wolf is the bush dog which looks like this.
I was not ready for corgi-bear.
you’re definitely not ready for the maned wolf Front Angle then
Confirmed creature post
If you put the maned wolf and the bush dog together, they would be the henchmen for a villain or loveable comedy duo
Maned Wolf: *peering over the long grass using it’s beautiful long legs*
I just got described as an “ad hating commie” by someone because I said a minute of youtube ads is unpleasant. fully spent 5 minutes arguing and defending youtube ads. insane stuff
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.
this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.
anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:
no you don’t understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work
I’m so tired of the way suspicious meat is always human meat like for once I just want to be surprised. Let it be something else I’m so tired of it being human meat
Look I love horror I’m a big fan of it but guys. It’s been overdone. At this point when I reach a point in a story where the meat starts being suspicious I roll my eyes because we all already know it’s just some guy. Mystery meat could be so much more why won’t we let it be more
Oh my steak is a guy? Yawn. Boring. That’s every steak in horror.
Give me meat that just spawns randomly in your fridge. Meat that has no clear origin. Where is it from? We don’t know. What kind of meat is it? No clue. It’s mystery meat (non human (as far as we’re aware of)). That’s already a bit scarier if only thanks to not knowing how hygenic it is
Give me horror meat that isn’t human bt has it’s horror rooted in reality. Give me parasite pork that takes over your brain functions. Give me fucking prion disease at this point I’ll take it. I’m so starved for mystery meat where the twist ISN’T that it’s human c'mon people we can do better than this
Give me meat that IS genetically human but can’t be matched to anyone’s DNA!!! Where the fuck is it from?? We don’t know!! Scary!!!
Oh people keep disappearing but hey at least the food is really good so that’s something right? Womp womp you’re eating a guy. Boring. Been there done that. Give me something new
Give me a guy who works in a slaughterhouse who swears on his life he’s killed the exact same cow every week for the past 6 months and every time it gets harder to pull the trigger as it looks him in the eyes like it knows him
you go over to your friend’s house and he cooks two chewy, bland, rectangular cuts of meat. Not pork, definitely not beef… maybe venison. In the morning you wake up and go to the kitchen to find he’s taken off the cover plate of the light switch by the sink and he’s carving out a neat rectangle of the flesh behind it.
Or how about “people keep disappearing but this food is really good”, HOWEVER the food in question isn’t anything resembling meat. If you can come up with a scenario where “eating a vegan salad” is somehow “consuming human flesh”, then you’ve earned the right to use that trope.
And I don’t mean “the plants were fertilized by human corpses”, that’s boring and also not really that horrific; I mean “somehow this cucumber slice is a genetic match to the third victim”.
i read the cutest reddit thread today where this 19 yo boy was “babysitting” his 15 yo little sister while his parents were away on vacation and she got this horrific period and needed to be taken to the ER.
and this sweet 19 yo boy was doing all he could to take care of her, giving her meds and water and then packing stuff up to go to the hospital once reddit was like “yeah if she’s soaking two tampons in an hour you should go” - but being only a little older than a child himself, he didn’t know what to pack, so he brought like three things, and one of them was SUNSCREEN.
lmao everyone on reddit was like “you’re a really good brother but sunscreen?? for the hospital??” lmao they are roasting him. also op’s sister changed his name in her phone to “spf” and their dad calls him “bananaboat” now. this guy is never living this down
(also his sister is ok and it turns out their family has some kind of genetic blood disorder)
the brother kind of reminds me of that post that’s been going around abt that abandoned five-week-old kitten that was taking care of a few two-week-old kittens that were somehow with him and he was just trying his best but he was so small
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