Yeah alot of people identity as both. I don’t think it matters too much which label someone identifies with more in the grand scheme of things.
But yeah pan fits under bi because both experience biphobia.
Bi = someone who is attracted to two different genders, pan = someone who is attracted to multiple genders or to whom gender doesn’t matter. There’s overlap, but they aren’t quite the same.
has anyone ever before been so comprehensively torn to shreds in their life tho
My favorite part about that line is that it implies that Gilderoy Lockhart was a more competent teacher than Dolores Umbridge. And that may be the biggest insult in the entire series.
Minerva left no fucking survivors with that one.
I mean, the man was an idiot, but he at least sorta attempted to teach things sometimes. He wasn’t actively sabotaging anything.
In a footnote to a May 10, 2005, memorandum from the Office of Legal Council, the Bush attorney general’s office argued that restricting the caloric intake of terrorist suspects to 1000 calories a day was medically safe because people in the United States were dieting along those lines voluntarily.
“While detainees subject to dietary manipulation are obviously situated differently from individuals who voluntarily engage in commercial weight-loss programs, we note that widely available commercial weight-loss programs in the United States employ diets of 1000 kcal/day for sustain periods of weeks or longer without requiring medical supervision,” read the footnote. “While we do not equate commercial weight loss programs and this interrogation technique, the fact that these calorie levels are used in the weight-loss programs, in our view, is instructive in evaluating the medical safety of the interrogation technique.”
Another another friendly reminder that the Minnesota Starvation Experiment subjected adult men who were VOLUNTEERS to 1,560 calorie diets and the psychological effects were so profound that one volunteer cut three of his own fingers off and could not remember why.
These men were volunteers who knew exactly what they would be going through and when it would end, and who believed they were doing it for a good and moral reason (the research was used to help rehabilitate victims of starvation and famine at the end of WWII).
And these are the things we are expected to engage in FOREVER to stay at a “healthy” weight.
Reading about the Minnesota Starvation experiment was my wake-up call. It was what kicked me out of my eating disorder. The guy missing three fingers, whatever his name was, he was the last straw for me.
Scared me so fucking bad I stopped restricting my food that day, and never went back to it.
Just bringin’ this back around like I sometimes do.
Wow. This really hit me hard.
EAT
Fun fact– calorie restriction exacerbates symptoms of pretty much *every* mental illness.
Anorexia has ~16% mortality rate, slightly higher than acted upon suicidal ideation. It’s more lethal than actively trying to kill oneself and this is why.
This puts my entire culture’s “Eat something” into an entirely different context.
i love experiencing how my classmates work to avoid misgendering me. for instance, today one classmate greeted the rest of our small group: “All right ladies and gentlemen — and Avery”
another time a classmate went: “Pardon me, ma’am — uh, sir, uh….esteemed one”
and, my absolute fave: “Hey ladies! — and gentleThem”
i love these moments both because they’re humorous and because they show how hard these folks are trying! it’s not about getting it right every time at first, but consistently correcting yourself!
It’s not about getting it right every time at first, but consistently correcting yourself!
“Around sundown, an adult Scorpio and several adolescents came trundling into our camp and attempted to communicate, clumsily. After we got the xenoanthropologist in to help translate for us, we discovered that they were attempting to initiate a trade for supplies. Pictured, research assistant Max haggling for a crude hand-axe.
It seemed rude to turn them down.
The hand-axe was purchased for a single protein bar after we ensured that it contained no ingredients that posed any threat to the Scorpio, and they left with their bounty, satisfied.”
Alright, this is adorable. Might not have much use for a hand axe, but isn’t that a cool souvenir? “oh, yeah, I traded a snack to a member of a sapient alien species for that.”
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