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Open ThreadWeekly Open Thread - Rants, Raves, Rambles, Reflections, etc
How are you? Got anything on your mind? Not sure you want to make a post about it?
Comment here! New threads starts on Sunday (usually).
I've been in denial since November, and I guess today I've been forced to accept this is really happening. I'm so scared for the next four years. In 2020 I was basically crippled by my anxiety, obviously primarily because of the pandemic but also because of the wear and tear on my soul after the first four years of Trump. Are we - we meaning American women or we meaning America or we meaning the world, depending on how horribly America fucks things up - even going to survive and be salvageable in 2028?
Take the long view - humans have been suffering for thousands of years, due to the callousness and sometimes, simple ignorance, of other humans. Besides all the natural disasters, climate change, population pressures, and diseases thrown in for good measures.
It's always been this horrible, somewhere on Earth, for somebody.
Here's your question, from the long view:
"Are we - we meaning (----) or we meaning (----) or we meaning the (----), depending on how horribly (----) fucks things up - even going to survive and be salvageable in (----)?"
Might not be a comfort to you, but it is to me. I'm sick to my stomach about people so egregiously stupid having control of the US military and the White House.
Son is home for the day (but daughter still has school).
He never is home when I'm off work except for sick days. So he got a surprise when there was no TV and catering to his every need today.
Instead, he got to see what mama (and Papa -- who works from home, and does have work today) does on a normal Monday.
Shocked. Stunned.
I do do chores in front of him, but I also do most chores on Mondays.
I'm trying to promote HIM initiating chores. "Ok let's look around the room. Is there anything that isn't where its supposed to be?" And he if can't answer "hmm is this ball supposed to be here? Where is is supposed to be?"
I'm hoping this will help him grow into a husband that contributes to the household without his wife having to "make a list."
About to pick up daughter (2) and watch her tear up everything we cleaned up. Lol
01/20/2025. Ugh.
Let’s instead celebrate MLK day and the amazing accomplishments and important works of black women during the Civil Rights movement.
Same. Scared WW3 is coming.
Yep. He's besties with Russia and North Korea, so whatever happens... We're fucked.
He may be starting to percieve Russia as a "loser," and see an opportunity to get back at Putin in the most petty way possible...with thousands, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of lives at stake. Also US defense industry wants to keep pumping out weaponry to send to Ukraine. So hopefully they'll have his ear. Trump's too stupid and venal to listen to generals, but he'll listen to the corporate types.
Lucky me. Every 4 years, I get a new shitty president for my birthday.
(I hat BOTH parties equally, NEITHER represent me).
Men and handmaids all over women's health forums getting pissed because research doesn't take men into account. Men cannot have polycystic ovarian syndrome, they cannot have endometriosis, and they can't have periods.
How fuck does that even need to be said?!
I’m getting all my photos off of Facebook and Instagram, so I can delete my accounts this week. I’m getting rid of Messenger as well. I encourage every woman here who can to do so, too.
My childhood cat passed this last Friday, and I'm still struggling with not having her at my parents as the constant loving presence purring at your side for a lap to sit on and pets.
I got especially pissed off, because I sent a quick message to a group chat with some friends that I had told when she got diagnosed with an aggressive stomach cancer the week or so before. I sent a picture of her and just said "[cats name] passed, I wanted to let everyone know since I mentioned she was sick earlier". One person I'm not super close with but leave in the chat since it's not worth the drama to remove responded with "they looked cute". For some reason the shoving a 'they' there just drove me fucking insane when I'm already grieving, can people not shove their stupid gender feelz everywhere when I specifically have said 10x over 'she' and whatever else other stupid 'indicators' they decide they need?
I know it's stupid but I'm heartbroken over losing my baby and don't have the headspace to entertain a fucking idiot hulking man who decided he's feminine and can therefore dictate my fucking late cat's "gender" for me.
in light of the obsequious proclamations I'm seeing from TRAs today on social media, I will not be lifting a finger to shill for trans ideology. I wasn't doing that in the first place, but I'm certainly not going to start now despite how much TRAs are freaking out about everything.
it's just... cringeworthy when I see others ~virtue twerking about twanz~ online. it must be noted that the current goings on politically are absolutely feeding TIPs' and TRAs' persecution complex.
I have extremely mixed feelings about the anti-trans policies/legislation/rhetoric that we'll see coming from conservatives, since yes it is pushing back on trans ideology, but it's not due to gender critical feminist motivations.
On Wednesday when I was doing my pull-up exercises and stretches, I got an awful tickle in my throat that made me cough so hard I nearly threw up a couple times, so I had to abandon the rest of my workout. Now it's day 5 of no exercise and I'm exhausted and miserable. I'ma try to bike to the store today for some groceries and maybe that'll help, but the constant internal monologue of "you're a worthless lazy lump for not exercising" is really disheartening. /ramble
I am sorry you are sick. Nigel and I got sick before Christmas and this is the first week I haven't been coughing. Go easy on yourself, OK? I think feeling sick physically does nothing for our mental health. I am also one of those who feels a lot better mentally if I have at least gone for a 30 min walk in a day, but more optimal if I've worked out. Take care.
Found out my hairstylist is a TERF. Always good to find one in the wild.