It’s so unfair that the women who led the Temperance movement (which led to alcohol prohibition in the 1920s in the US) are painted as these joyless prudish nags who hated when others had fun, when really their issue was the fact that male failure to responsibly consume alcohol led to the rape, neglect, battery, and murder of their wives and children. They couldn’t stop male violence, but they did what they could to stop what exacerbated it.
I know we make fun of american politics a lot but I thought y’all should know that this Italian leader of a Conservative party is doing this thing where she appeals to weebs by reading manga and having people draw her as an anime character
Saw a post earlier that’s like “psych wards aren’t evil and scary! fearmongering does more harm than good” and it’s like have you spoken to literally anyone with a negative experience with institutionalization, of which there are Many
I spent all of a WEEK in a modern and fairly chill psych ward and still wanted to die bc it was like a minimum security prison minus weight benches and the opportunity to go outside. I was only allowed to leave bc I agreed to start taking medication for a condition I didn’t have.
Many people have had much worse experiences than that, including actual straight-up abusive conditions. Mental healthcare is desperately in need of reform so maybe let’s not embrace our Shiny Constructive CBT-Approved Outlook to the point where we ignore that lol
