Cure is a bad concept

mommy-cuteella:

josiahd:

It gets conflated all over the place, between these sorts of things:

  • Real actual medical treatments that can be considered on their own individual merits in real situations for real people
  • Some abstraction that’s about replacing undesirable people with acceptable people
  • Some abstraction that’s about forcibly making people real
  • Something else I don’t understand but I know it’s there

And those are not the same. Cure has absolutely nothing to do with medicine, with medical treatment. Because medical treatment is *not* an abstraction, and it’s not hypothetical, it’s *real* and *already exists*.

I take medication. I am considering some forms of therapy. None of these things are cure. No matter what the effects are. And if the people I can get them from think they are cure, I will run like hell in the opposite direction, because people who think that things are cure can destroy you. Which is why I fought like hell to stay out of the medical system as a teenager, when people were trying to fix me.

There’s all this weird abstraction about cure that has nothing to do with anything real, but which people get broken over. Like that post about whether you’d want a hypothetical abstracted treatment, as though treatments aren’t a thing, as though it’s possible to have an opinion on the desirability of a treatment that doesn’t exist or have any specific attributes. 

And… medicine doesn’t work that way. Not even for conditions that are unequivocally bad.

And everyone needs to stop conflating cure with medicine, with things that are real. Especially the curbies. Medicine is not a magic wand, and cure talk makes actually useful medicine next to impossible.

And I have more to say, but I can’t figure out how to say it. Maybe tomorrow.

PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT THINGS ARE CURE CAN DESTROY YOU.

This phoenix wants all y’all to know that is a very, very important statement.

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sempiterna:

BLACK AND BROWN PEOPLE IN LONDON (partic visibly muslim people South London/Woolwich area)

Please stay safe.  If you live in Woolwich, please avoid going out if you can. The English Defence League are calling their members in all parts of the country to take to the streets and they are throwing missiles at police around the Woolwich area.

Please keep updated via Twitter or the EDL facebook feed.

Stay safe everyone.  xx

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alexandraerin: strugglingtobeheard: girljanitor: canikon-bokeh: fuckyeahphonesexoperators: realist4hire: Damn… Just… Damn… Rocko is my phone sex idol.  I want to make a listing where all I say is “oh baby oh baby oh baby” in an Australian accent.   wtf how were these cartoons allowed? lol seriously, when i think back on it, i don’t even know. I should watch them again and see if it holds up. Lol sweet. Wut? I looooved rocko but never remembered this being his job. Plus how often you get portrayals of guy sex workers? It was part of a montage of different jobs he tried, if I recall. They implied he quit after Mrs. Bighead dialed in and they recognized each other’s voices.
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alexandraerin:

strugglingtobeheard:

girljanitor:

canikon-bokeh:

fuckyeahphonesexoperators:

realist4hire:

Damn… Just… Damn…

Rocko is my phone sex idol.  I want to make a listing where all I say is “oh baby oh baby oh baby” in an Australian accent.  

wtf how were these cartoons allowed? lol

seriously, when i think back on it, i don’t even know. I should watch them again and see if it holds up.

Lol sweet. Wut? I looooved rocko but never remembered this being his job. Plus how often you get portrayals of guy sex workers?

It was part of a montage of different jobs he tried, if I recall. They implied he quit after Mrs. Bighead dialed in and they recognized each other’s voices.

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alexandraerin:

zoomine:

Casa Caracol is the most unique house on Isla Mujeres, and one of the most artistic home in the world. It consists of two houses: The Baby Shell and The Shell House.

Look at this stuff. Isn’t it neat?

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ihatepeterandthewolf:

often i feel like some men think that identifying as feminist or being a member of the feminist movement, no matter how vocally, is an intrinsically selfless act that deserves reward in itself due to that fact that feminism is a movement centred around women. therefore they should get automatic props for caring about something that doesn’t immediately prioritise them. not that they would ever say so explicitly - just the smug little reminders of ‘we’re your allies!’ but then these men are so often the self-same ones that insist on pushing men’s issues forwards, or speaking over women’s experiences.  i guess it doesn’t really feel very genuine? i don’t know.

i really like being a member of the university feminist society and engaging with the things people post there. but you do get this vibe from some of the guys on there that they’re doing everyone a huge favour by deigning to identify as feminist. i dunno, there’s just something kind of uncomfortable about how they put forwards this really right-on front but then derail every single discussion with ‘..but doesn’t this affect men too?’ and they all seem to take each other more seriously than anyone else. it’s a weird feeling to think that someone would take you more seriously if you weren’t female when posting on the feminist society page. which is a shame because i want men as part of my feminism. i want everyone as a part of my feminism. but not so they can treat the identifier of ‘feminist’ as a shiny badge to pin to their chest and use to deflect criticism of shitty views.

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ryanpanos:

Ball House: 1928 via Retronaut

“The Ball House, Dresden, was the first spherical building in the world. It had six levels and a lift. Described by Nazi press as “degenerate art to be destroyed” and “un-German”, It was demolished in 1938.” - Wikipedia

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