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I’ve removed the paywall from all my articles. I was putting it off for way too long because I was under the (admittedly baseless) impression that I’d have to manually demonetize them one at a time, but it was actually insanely easy & quick. So there ya go.
Curious. Has anyone here ever flipped through Ace by Angela Chen? I’d otherwise have genuine interest in reading an examination of asexuality as seemingly in-depth as this book—but since the back blurb is explicitly some “A in LGBTQIA” shit, I struggle to trust that
I can deal with a “there’s some goofy shit you can just mentally cross out & the rest of the text is pretty much the same” book but ideally would like to be aware of the bullshit ratio prior to jumping in lol.
i don't actually give a fuck whether fatness is an indicator of health because health shouldn't indicate a moral high ground. being healthy isn't some pinnacle of human achievement, it's not morally superior. and being unhealthy isn't a moral failing and shouldn't mean you're less worthy of kindness, justice, and a good life. signed, a chronically ill person who will never be "healthy" at any weight.
soooo many people are rbing this with tags like "yeah! weight is not an indicator of health!" my friends, i beg you to actually read the post.
it does not MATTER if weight is an indicator of health! health isn't an indicator of morality! even if being fat was unhealthy, it wouldn't matter! being unhealthy isn't wrong! and being healthy isn't the most correct, moral, peak state of human existence!
"you can be healthy and fat" rhetoric is exactly what this post is arguing against.
I am fat and unhealthy. I will always be unhealthy. I have lupus and that means that I will never be healthy. It is not an indicator of my morality
Hello gays. Kravitz just signed a lease.
Hello again gays. Kravitz is unable to move forward with the apartment he signed a whole lease for.
Hello gays. Kravitz just signed a lease.
happy late birthday !! 🎉🎉🎉🎉
^_^
Yesterday was Kravitz day BTW
Popping out from my cave to recommend the socialist feminist author Lynne Segal to like, everybody. I have yet to get to her post-2000 works (apparently she also has a new title dropping this November), but I have read & enjoyed the following:
Content warning for Straight Sex: Within the last third of the book there are a tiny handful (like, less than 5 total) of dismissive comments regarding transfeminine medical transition, which will certainly inspire an eye roll but are neither antagonistic (it’s really just “wow people do that” cis person of the 90s-core) nor relevant to any of her actual talking points (which, to me, remain incredibly valuable otherwise).
If anyone is particularly curious, I read them in the following order: Slow Motion, Straight Sex, Sex Exposed, Is the Future Female? But I don’t think that’s particularly important.
Rejoicing!! 💕💜💙
Hell yeah B)
Bisexy week is upon us yet again. Rejoice!
I don’t know how long these stickers have been here, but I can now enjoy the awareness of their presence. So can you.
Also, if you’re some sort of local super-sleuth who can tell where I took this image, turn around & make an immediate right. Non-zero chance I’m smoking weed there.
I have been mildly curious about eventually learning how to create a Neocities thing, but I’m not sure what I’d use it for if I’m to share it with people who know me as Kravitz, because for the most part I’m done with the thing I set out to do when I made this blog. I have little interest in getting back in the saddle. I’ve reached every destination I aimed to.
Not sure how to reconcile the assumed reputation I’ve garnered from my writing with wanting to just being a dude on the internet, since for anonymity’s sake (though I’ve certainly slipped several times) I’ve often refrained from sharing certain personal details, beliefs, interests, etc. Tumblr’s the only place I even type like this.
The idea of forming new connections with people from this corner of the internet is theoretically appealing, largely because it’s quite hard trying to establish a Brand New presence on the internet completely from scratch, but I reckon holistically I’m quite a different person than what people who just know me from reading my Tumblr posts see. The “mildly respectable essay guy” has some layers that would probably be unsavory to most people who enjoy the mildly respectable essay guy—it’s not like I’m publicly active anywhere anyway, so logically the actual consequences should be relatively minimal given none of you know me offline (presumably), but paranoia is quirky.
For now I remain a vague onion occasionally tapping the glass of his enclosure. Mrow.
That reminds me, I discovered that I’m actually pretty decent at meowing. I just never really tried it until recently, but now I have a very small talent. My profile picture was actually foreshadowing the entire time.
An update for those who care: Still homeless (shocking!). I hope to secure actual housing, or at least be able to relocate to a new shelter, by the end of September because that’s when I’m required to leave my current one. I’m really in crunch time now, which is stressful.
In the better-case scenario where I have a real apartment in the fall, I can focus on rebuilding my personhood again—being in survival mode all the time frustratingly leaves little room for much else.
While I still disagree with most projects to assign or peddle a personal “asexual” identity onto children as if child sexuality is one-to-one equivalent with adult sexuality, I also no longer agree with the bulk of the ways I argue against it in my essay on the subject, so I’m heavily considering taking that piece down because I’m no longer satisfied by it. A bit worried that it’ll be interpreted as a cheap route to take instead of Making a Statement About It, but also who cares.
In other news, I logged into Medium for the first time in months (I was just unable to do so for a long time) & I come back to 69 notifications. Nice.
The second Spiderverse movie was so good. Need to see it again immediately
Happy birthday to bisexuals everywhere
Kravitz might stop being homeless this month like for realsies this time 😏 keep me in your thoughts gays. If you want
Nope :/
“we need to stop the stigma towards drug users and addicts” and “we need to challenge the idea that being sober makes you boring” and “we need to stop acting like binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage is fun and normal for young people” are all ideas that can and should coexist.
just so we’re clear, the threshold for “binge drinking to the extent you’re doing medical damage” is waaaay lower than you think.
I work in an obstetrician and gynaecologist’s office. we have to tell patients on a regular basis that they are binge drinking weekly when they think they are simply consuming a normal amount of alcohol on the weekends.
having more than 3 drinks in a single sitting if you have an estrogen based endocrine system is a binge that is medically significant.
having more than 5 in a sitting is a medically significant binge for someone with a testosterone based endocrine system.
every time you do this, it significantly impacts your risk of getting breast cancer, and damages your liver. it takes time to recover from that liver damage. if you’re having a 3-5 or more drink binge on a weekly basis, you are an alcoholic, medically speaking, and your liver is not recovering.
again: the bar for what binge drinking is, medically, is so much lower than what you think it is.
alcohol is a really toxic substance and not something you should fuck around with.
again: if you have an estrogenized hormone system (common for most women), then 3 drinks is a binge. if you have a testosteronized hormone system (common for most men), then 5 drinks is a binge.
anything above that number, consumed as frequently as weekly or more, and you’re medically a binge drinking alcoholic.
also, if you’re drinking any quantity of alcohol 6 days a week or more, that’s another threshold at which, medically speaking, you meet the definition of alcoholism. your liver needs more days without alcohol in your system than just one a week to recover and be healthy.
I don’t say any of this to shame anyone—to me, alcoholism or substance use disorders aren’t a sign of weakness or moral failing. and most of us genuinely don’t know this stuff.
rather—I point this out because it’s important to reduce harm, and find ways to live healthier, happier lives. there is a life outside of constant binge drinking. it’s not always easy to find it. but it’s out there. you deserve a life where your emotional needs are met by something other than alcohol, and a life in which your liver is healthy, and the ways you cope and celebrate and find joy don’t put you at increased risk of cancer.
also–even if alcohol is the only way you can self-medicate, or if you choose to go on with your alcohol usage anyway regardless of other options–you still deserve to know what it’s doing to your body.
information is key. you don’t have to stop drinking, but the utter lack of education on alcohol + the normalization of binge drinking in current society leads to many people drinking without any idea of what it’s doing to their bodies.
addicts deserve accurate medical information regardless of what they decide to do with it. for some people, losing liver function is worth the benefits they get from binge drinking, but they can’t make that choice if they don’t know what the consequences are to begin with.
Kravitz might stop being homeless this month like for realsies this time 😏 keep me in your thoughts gays. If you want
I just want to get dicked down again =/
