MOTHER FATHER CHINESE DENTIST!
Situationists never die, they’re just remixed.
I’m basically in the position that I’m driving a car from 1999, and when it finally dies, I’ll either be resigned to riding the bus or finding another aged used car without all this absolute bullshit in it.
Maybe it really is time for the Free Open Source Vehicle.
Xfce is such a great interface.
Sounds like everyone should have listened to Pearl Jam thirty years ago when Tickermaster wasn’t a complete monopoly.
He was with us for such a short time, but what he produced in that time was legendary.
Wasn’t this a Mitch Hedburg joke?
Fuck, maybe I watch too much Dr. Katz. Nah, no such thing, I need my Jon Benjamin fix.
This guy gets it. Chiropractors are a scam, but scammers are drawn to people who “fall through the cracks” because they’re treated like their problems don’t actually exist. Finally, they meet someone who takes their pain seriously. It’s too bad the person who takes it “seriously” is a fucking charlatan.
It falls harder on women, who have more instances of pain that are ignored by the medical community, partially from the history mentioned above, claiming women must be experiencing “hysteria.”
It absolutely happens because of the failings of the medical community.
Even though this is top comment, this is an underrated answer.
I want to live in a world where no one feels they are struggling so much that they need to turn to selling their body for sex.
However, I don’t live in that world, so in the meantime I support sex workers, because sex work is work.
The men who use their services? That’s a tougher nut to crack.
My partners brother is heavily mentally disabled and pushing 40, he’s still very much like a child, but obviously does not have a child’s libido. This man has never had an intimate interaction with a woman. He might never get the chance, he struggles to talk to women, even women who have similar issues as himself. I think sex workers could be beneficial for him, in the right context, for giving him intimacy he may otherwise never experience. I don’t think he would ever think/know to pursue a sex worker, but I could be wrong. There’s also the issue of his emotions began to be involved, which leads me to…
I’d be more worried about him finding OnlyFans and blowing through all his disability money each month instead of realizing he’s not actually getting much out of such a “relationship.” He’s the kind of person who a parasocial relationship like that could really damage their already troubling mental health. The same thing could happen with a prostitute, but they are less likely to hang the relationships on fake social cues that say they care about you. He’s not quite advanced enough to understand that these women are being paid to pretend to care, I don’t think.
Also, there’s other types of men who use these services I’m sure aren’t a net positive. There are plenty of conservative men who already view a standard relationship as a sexual transaction (I take care of girl = she give me sex), so they’re not far from viewing everything women with transactional already. Secondly, not only do the already view it as transactional, many of these conservative men turn to prostitutes because average women simply don’t want to date them because of their horrible, outdated views on women’s bodily autonomy. They are already angsty and moody because of women not wanting to date them, and they often are willing to take out their frustrations on the woman they paid to serve them. I see these men as not respecting and hurting the women they turn to for sex work.
Anyway, just some quick thoughts on the subject.
I abandoned them, so whatever. I do appreciate the kind words but I don’t blame them.
I stopped talking to my friends because they all started seeming really annoyed hearing about my struggles with cancer. I know they’re going through their own problems as well, but it certainly made me feel like I was just a burden on them. I suppose I was right, because it’s been over six months and no one has reached out, including my oldest friend who just never responded to me when I told them I had cancer.
I am dead weight, but that’s because of a sick fucking economic system that doesn’t care if I live or die.
The only oc memes i have involve self hate (very icky).
Oh I live for those because they speak to me and my self hate.
Basically, no dark patterns built to keep you scrolling.
Gosh, if only American Criminal Lunatics were still this way!
I like the sounds of the tines! It’s basically just a tuning fork, so wild.
My fursona is a homo sapien. Am I doing this right?
(This joke isn’t meant to denigrate furries at all, rather it is a joke pointing out that humans are animals, too. That’s all)
Like Han Solo in Star Wars. The “ancient” religion of the Jedi was like… when he was a kid or something.