I visited a family member in a nursing home and they had pictures on the wall of WWII stuff and black and white movie stars. Like they were meant to provide familiarity to residents that have all died by now. Update your stuff to the 50s and early 60s, people. That's who's living there now.
Because sure society says ‘oh naughty naughty bad man’ but the dialogue is
Why didn’t you leave
Was it that bad
Well he didn’t hit her
Some woman just go on and on and i can see why the man breaks (my father)
I didn’t really like her much
Well you make your bed
Why didn’t she tell anyone
The weight of the shame because you found yourself having a relationship and then trying to leave an abusive man is Phenomenal Like SERIOUSLY PHENOMENAL
it never goes away
The weight of the shame because you found yourself having a relationship and then trying to leave an abusive man is Phenomenal Like SERIOUSLY PHENOMENAL
it never goes away
Abuse is about control
This society tells men they are allowed control, life should go there way
And this society diminishes corners belittles scorns and bastardises not only the right of every woman to have agency but her means of communicating that want
She is expected to get what she is givin
If you ask me in a month how to make pretzels I will have forgotten 99% of it, but by chance I just watched an episode of Bake-Off where the technical challenge was pretzels and I felt so fkn smug about how much I knew compared to the contestants
Posters in Melbourne mocking Australia's richest woman, mining magnate Gina Rinehart.
The posters feature a painting of Rinehart by indigenous artist Vincent Namatjira. Rinehart recently tried to pressure the National Gallery of Australia to remove the painting from display
I find that when dealing with a sensitive situation that needs caution and care it is not my lived experience of mental illness, domestic abuse or motherhood that steers me best
Its my many years serving beer from behind the bar
I keep thinking about how women and children are supposed to be ‘the first on the lifeboat’….
Why? Whats the point?
It smacks of right wing lifers who want to ‘protect’ the foetus but care nothing about the lives lived
Little Baby got into Tina’s Proud Mary but went cold for Fleetwoods Rhiana and Carols moving earth but I tell ya people should have seen her go nuts for Abba’s gimme gimme gimme
