Honestly if you’re female and you’re called for jury duty and during the elimination process you’re asked if you’ve ever had any adverse experience with a man (harrassment or rape or any other male violence) just fuckin lie and say no. Then vote that fucker guilty
Women survivors are barred from serving on a jury but rapists are not even questioned. There can be no doubt that this is a major reason rapists walk free. Men have never played fair. It is time for women to start beating them at their own game. Our lives depend on it.
Hands up if you’re still mad that Christianity took over most of the world, displacing the ancient local religions and destroying records of them so we’ll never know the details about them
My favorite was Rocketman, and once it was a no-breaks chapter, and the bad guy stuck him in a car on a mountain road and knocked him out and welded the door shut and tore out the brakes and started him to his death, and he woke up and tried to steer and tried to get out, but the car went off a cliff before he could escape. And it crashed and burned and I was so upset and excited! And the next week, you better believe I was first in line, and they always start with the end of the last week. And there was Rocketman, trying to get out, and here comes the cliff, and just before the car went off the cliff, he jumped free! And all the kids cheered! But I didn’t cheer. I stood right up and started shouting, this isn’t what happened this week! Have you all got amnesia?! They just cheated us! This isn’t fair! HE DIDN’T GET OUT OF THE COCKADOODIE CAR!
Many Asian cultures used to eat only brown rice, which has a lot more health benefits, until westerners started insisting on white rice because it weighed less and was less “dirty”, so we took a cultural norm and changed a food that was a daily staple for many people to make it more convenient for us. And in return we gave them a food that was less nutritious and a sharp increase in diabetes.
Yay us.
I can only imagine how many more we’ve likewise harmed due to western culture’s similar insistence on white bread; which has less flavor, less nutrition, and way too much sugar… but looks “pure”.
Stripping grain’s most nutritious part off is so foolish, but hey, “purity”. The right is always so obsessed with the west’s “legacy”. Well? There it is. Malnutrition, starvation.
So yeah, yay us.
I mean this is absolutely, absolutely a pattern with imperialism. White people did this to indigenous people all over the world. Literally all over the world. If you look at the history of countless indigenous populations, they’re healthy and well until white people come and force western lifestyles upon them. There is a set of diseases known rather grossly as the “diseases of civilization” or “western diseases”, and they appear after western eating habits are forced upon indigenous people.
If you look at doctors treating people living in these areas of the world, they note that these diseases are absolutely non-existent until they’re forced to westernize. They’re told that the food that they’re eating is unhealthy, and even that it’s healthier to feed their babies Coca Cola. We make their traditional way of eating next to impossible and sell them refined wheat, rice, and sugar. Within a decade, cavities develop. Then comes heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, osteoporosis, autoimmune disease, and even cancer. These things were either non-existent or next to non-existent.
It’s not a coincidence. Imperialism is one of the greatest horrors ever committed by man for more reasons we can even count.
