It's amazing to me that people are arguing that a person shouldn't be able to get an abortion in cases where carrying the pregnancy to term might kill them because they think the fetus has personhood.
Like, you don't get to commandeer my lung to save your own life.
(And yes, I actually think abortion should be legal and easily available for anyone who wants one, regardless of whether their life is at stake. But I'm astonished that this argument is being made for cases where the mother's life IS at stake.)
Like, at BEST, they frame this argument as "we don't get to choose to value one life over the other." (I'd argue that they are, by default, valuing the fetus over the mother, but, again, at BEST.)
But, like, we're not talking about two equally situated people where you can only save one and OMG WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE?
I'm not a doctor, but I'm pretty sure in most cases where pregnancy is likely to kill the mother, chances aren't great for the fetus either.
But more to the point, outside of forcing people to carry dangerous pregnancies to term, we don't actually let the survival needs of one party override the bodily autonomy of the other.
Hell, ORGAN DONATION is opt-in. Corpses have more bodily autonomy than pregnant women.
yes, everyone, thank you, I'm aware that anti-choicers don't actually give a shit about women
I'm addressing the argument we seem to be letting them get away with
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Welp, Paizo just fired their two most senior customer service people (one a woman, one a POC) for apparently being too willing to push back on abusive management.
Of course, this also means that the last person they might retaliate against for me airing dirty laundry is gone.
Featuring such hits as The White Woman Fighting Diversity Efforts But Claiming Credit When POC Manage To Do Them Anyway, The Time Paizo Was In Debt To The Mob, The Executive Who Sexually Harassed A Senior Woman Out Of The Company, and more.
Also, attempts to force workers to return to the office before it’s safe, managers lying about what their reports told them to pretend there’s support for it, demoting women for being too troublesome, the plan to “milk” demonizing mental illness until they couldn’t anymore, etc.
Like, Paizo just pawned off community management on him for years, which he did gracefully and skillfully. Management complained that his management style was too kind to the workers, despite not giving him a title, raise, or management authority, which ought to tell you how much
His coworkers looked to him as a leader. He wrote and developed incredible content.
Yeah, the idea that if a teen gets a crush on someone older, that someone older must be “grooming” them is basically the same as blaming women for men being attracted to them.
Someone can have a crush on you without you even knowing they exist. You’re not to blame.
Well, ran out to get lunch, my car’s service lights came on, I limped it to the dealership, they can’t look at it until tomorrow, and they have no loaners available, and I leave on Thursday to go back to WI for my sister’s wedding, if you’d like to know how 5782’s going so far.
I pay for so many different warranties/services/insurances/whatever that are supposed to provide loaners. How am I stranded here.
This is what I get for ever leaving my house.
Welp I called the salesman I bought it from directly and was tearful and he’s supposedly coming to the Starbucks I wandered to to pick me up and put me in a car.
Which is good because I wore flip-flops to go grab lunch and I did not want to walk 2 miles to Enterprise.
Toward the end of the Yom Kippur service, there's the following reading:
You are our Beacon;
we are Your burden.
You are our Enigma;
we are Your frustration.
You are our Call to Conscience;
we are Your critics.
You are our Touchstone;
we are Your loyal opposition.
And I appreciate how the liturgy gives space to anger at God, and when it moves us on, it's not to "you're wrong to be angry, and actually God is right."
It's to having compassion *for God*, which sometimes feels like a radical concept.
Good morning, people who aren't Jewish! Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, starts this evening. Antisemites/messianic "Jews"/etc. tend to ramp up their harassment of Jews on our major holidays, so please, if you have bandwidth, be on the lookout to report. Thanks!
Also reminder: if you're thinking of how to do some sort of Christian Rosh Hashanah thing: don't.
Not only is it appropriative and gross, it's also theologically unsound! Your religion has a whole different system (Jesus) for dealing with repentance/renewal.
Like maybe you're wondering, if you're Christian, hey, we've got Easter in place of Passover, we've got Pentecost in place of Shavuot, we have the whole Christmas season in place of Hanukkah, why don't we have anything for the Jewish High Holidays?