lady_scarecrow

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[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think there were any bad intentions on OP's end, but the highlighted claim that a person is female and therefore has this or that genitalia is indeed transphobic.

Someone's probably going to show up and say "but it says 'female', not 'woman'!" Well, "female" as an adjective referring to people already means woman. A female doctor is a doctor who is a woman. And "female" as a noun (e.g., "the females") is a terrible way to refer to people, to begin with.

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That phrase comes from people who are either stuck in the closet, or in denial about their own sexuality. It is just one of the many byproducts of a society that still insists on considering that being straight is the only "normal" way of being.

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For the last time, girls don't do this stuff for attention. People keep saying that because they don't take sapphic relationships seriously.

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Who cares about poetry.
/s obviously

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's depressing that the original one was changed in the first place -- our existence can't even be acknowledged in a video game without people collectively freaking out... Well, at least they fixed it now.

 

I can't help but think at night
Of that which never was, but might.

I've faced the demons deep inside
And found the answers that they hide.
But if I'd known it all back then,
Just think how much it could've changed...

It took so long to find the way
That most are trailing every day,
And now they seem so far ahead.
I miss the past I've never had,
Where all I took so long to see
Were always clear, and I'd be free.

How can I catch up with the rest?
How can I make up for the past?
Is it too late to change my fate?
Have I missed the train of luck?
Has life gone by while I was stuck?

-- Lady Scarecrow

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could be the chaos activist but my bed is soooo comfy

 

When I was born, so was a ghost.
When anyone would look at me,
It was the ghost they'd really see.

I was a child, and couldn't tell.
I thought I was that ghost as well.
But, slowly, truth would start to show.
And when at last I let them know...

...They turned their heads and sought the ghost.
The ghost was all they wished to see.
The ghost was who they loved the most.
The ghost of who they thought me to be.

It's been so long, and still they yearn
What's only lived inside their minds.
I wonder if they'll ever learn
That while they seek what none can find,
And fail to let me into their hearts,
We both end hurt, and drift apart.

-- Lady Scarecrow

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Except neither study is talking about the most the most common form of suicide. They're both reporting higher rates of suicide among gun owners.

Me owning a gun doesn’t increase my likelihood to die

That's literally what both studies are saying. From the first one:

Men who owned handguns were eight times more likely than men who didn’t to die of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Women who owned handguns were more than 35 times more likely than women who didn't to kill themselves with a gun.

From the second one:

in Wyoming, where 63 percent of households reported owning guns—rates of suicide were higher. The inverse was also true: where gun ownership was less common, suicide rates were also lower.

Also from the second source,

Studies show that most attempters act on impulse, in moments of panic or despair. Once the acute feelings ease, 90 percent do not go on to die by suicide.

[–] lady_scarecrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 5 months ago (18 children)

People who own guns are at a much higher risk of suicide. Guns might make you feel safe, but in reality the most likely person to die from your gun is yourself.