Lonely cat ladies have always been a male psyop to make women afraid of being single. I’m sure some exist, but for the most part, cat ladies are baddies with options.
Not trying to flex but even I had a bunch of people throw their hat into the ring when I announced I’m in my single era. I was surprised until I started talking to other divorced women, even ladies in their 50s and 60s have their “pick of the litter” so to speak. Many CHOOSE to live alone even if they’re dating because they’re done being the household manager. Others don’t date at all, but aren’t lonely because they have time for friends, hobbies and activism.
Meanwhile, when men are lonely, it’s a damn “epidemic.” They’re on Diary of CEO comparing male loneliness to cancer and demanding government intervention as if lack of pussy is killing people
There are two pastors currently in the public eye for allegedly murdering their wives, JP Miller and Caleb Flynn. Where is the culture war campaign to strip men of their voting rights and ban them from leadership roles?? They are clearly too emotional to have decision making power
Christian conservatives will look at the increasing number of family annihilators and still tell kids stupid shit like “everything you need to know about parenting is in your DNA” and “motherhood is a woman’s purpose.”
Economic stress is the biggest predictor of familicide. Couple that with the lack of help since a large portion of this country thinks “post partum depression/psychosis isn’t real, God provides for all his children 🤪” and you have millions of parents in a pressure cooker situation.
Until the structural issues with child welfare and post partum care in this country are addressed, people are just gonna keep murdering their families. Unfortunately for the kids currently growing up, most people would rather performatively whine about abortion than advocate for real children.
Conservative PACs spend so much on advertising via influencers because the outcomes of “traditional” marriages speak for themselves. At every economic level:
*Elizabeth Siders married into a religious family at 15 and has been pregnant every year since. Her 16 “homeschooled” kids were recently taken into state custody for neglect. Instead of providing, God passed the buck onto Vinton County, Ohio, which is literally going bankrupt from absorbing the cost of 16 severely delayed kids & 2 grandparents with medical issues.
*Charlie Kirk was murdered and a few weeks later his dry-eyed wife is running around in leather pants and flirting with other men. She’s working at Toilet Paper USA while someone else raises the Kirk children.
*Whether Mitch McConnell died or is fighting for his life, his wife didn’t visit him. She completed her work trip in China, then returned and immediately started renovating their marital home. These people are the authority on family values and get to decide how the rest of us live.
Christian Nationalists demand women exit the workforce entirely, and men are to support their family without any formal education. You’re supposed to “give your womb to the Lord,” homeschool your kids, grow your own food, and pray over illnesses until they go away. Be self-sufficient. Isolated.
So what happens when these families fail, like the Siders? Do the churches and degree-holding politicians who told them “God provides for all his children” step in to help? Nope, churches won’t even give out baby formula anymore. Nat C politicians shrug and say they clearly weren’t true believers.
Once the surviving children (because family annihilation is tied to economic stress) are taken into foster care, they go to school. They get medical treatment. Adults are signed up for all the help there is. In the Siders’ case, the grandfather had so many health issues the county jail couldn’t afford to hold him; they let him go so Medicaid would be billed instead.
It’s the rest of us who participate in society who foot the bill and absorb the cost of caring for entire families. “Traditional” families talk a lot about being self-sufficient and how much they hate government systems, like food assistance and healthcare, but they ultimately end up being the largest drain on those resources.
I believe this is an intentional move by Christian Nationalist elite, who ultimately want to gut these “ineffective” systems entirely. It doesn’t matter if generations of families suffer and die, there will always be more babies for the trafficking pipeline.
Excerpt from "Why Does He Do That?" by Lundy Bancroft
“The following dynamics are typical of a relationship with Mr. Sensitive and may help explain your feeling that something has gone awry:
You seem to be hurting his feelings constantly, though you aren't sure why, and he expects your attention to be focused endlessly on his emotional injuries. If you are in a bad mood one day and say something unfair or insensitive, it won't be enough for you to give him a sincere apology and accept responsibility. He'll go on and on about it, expecting you to grovel as if you had treated him with profound cruelty. (Notice the twist here: This is just what an abuser accuses his partner of doing to him, when all she is really looking for is a heartfelt "I'm sorry.")
When your feelings are hurt, on the other hand, he will insist on brushing over it quickly. He may give you a stream of pop psychology language ("Just let the feelings go through you, don't hold on to them so much," or "It's all in the attitude you take toward life," or "No one can hurt you unless you let them") to substitute for genuine support for your feelings, especially if you are upset about something he did. None of these philosophies applies when you upset him, however.
With the passing of time, he increasingly casts the blame on to you for anything he is dissatisfied with in his own life; your burden of guilt keeps growing.
He starts to exhibit a mean side that no one else ever sees and may even become threatening or intimidating.
Mr. Sensitive has the potential to turn physically frightening, as any style of abuser can, no matter how much he may preach nonviolence. After an aggressive incident, he will speak of his actions as "anger" rather than as "abuse," as though there were no difference between the two. He blames his assaultive behavior on you or on his emotional "issues," saying that his feelings were so deeply wounded that he had no other choice.”
Randomly remembered being an undiagnosed autistic girl and telling people the loud was hurting my ears, only for adults to scream in my ear and get other kids to do the same like it was the funniest thing in the worst. Was I “difficult” or were you bitches insane?
My mom had to explain what drag was to me when I was 12 after I earnestly mentioned that it's weird you never see the actress who plays Madea doing interviews to promote her movies
So far 🍄 eyelid theatre has been colorful shapes, a wiggling 90s arcade carpet I watch until I fall asleep. But last night after I put my sleep mask on, I was seeing faces in the darkness. They were warping like Wish Nikki in Obsession.
The depth of the darkness didn’t make sense because I sleep in 80% darkness but this was like 120%. I was scared at first, peeking out from my sleep mask to make sure the power didn’t go out for real.
Then I felt safe in the “advanced darkness.” As a child I would plunge into it before sleep, day or night. I could easily be absorbed in it. I had totally forgotten.
I’m curious to see if it comes back. I kind of hope it does. I didn’t have a nightmare, although the dream was stressful.
"The school became aware of a second incident involving a Floyd County Schools bus driver in March, and Gearheart said school officials deliberately excluded him from an investigation into the incident, giving the bus driver an opportunity to delete evidence from his phone before police became involved, Gearheart said in his lawsuit." [...]
"A team of local and federal authorities, including Prestonsburg PD arrested three men in a child exploitation and sexual assault sting earlier this week. Andrew Lewis, 40, of Prestonsburg, was employed by the district as a bus driver when police said he created or shared child sexual abuse material and abused children under his care."
The purpose of "school safety officers" is terrorizing low SES kids and funneling them into the legal system. In Floyd County they will straight up fire you for reporting child sexual abuse.
https://archive.ph/iAgA1
I feel responsible/guilty for my ex wife's mental health despite knowing I did everything I could. I saw our vows through until the end. She left because of MY mental health; I was allegedly making her miserable. She is still miserable. When she left she said "Don't call me for help because I won't answer," but she has called me for help multiple times🙃
She apologized in a non specific way but still seems oblivious to the suffering she caused me. My therapist thinks her brain literally can't handle it, hence the projection, deflection and denial. I'm never going to get the apology I want from her. It is what it is. She wallows in misery, but at the same time, cannot sit with discomfort for even a second. She hands it to me to deal with.
I gave friendship an honest try, but she blew right past my boundaries about her MH. She also hit on me (then backtracked) and said I could set up a house on their property. WHAT? After I just spent $4,000 rebuilding my life and we fought about housework all the time?? I was flabbergasted. I guess we are no contact now, I don't have her blocked but I told her I can't do this.
I've told her to seek professional help a million times but there is always a bullshit reason. While we were married she owed her psychiatrist $75 for a missed appointment and didn't want to pay it on principle, but going somewhere else would be hard, so she went to the pharmacy each month and paid $300 for an emergency medication refill. Then she'd come home and bitch about how the pharmacist told her to become an established patient somewhere, the same thing I told her. Clearly the pharmacist and I were conspiring against her wellbeing.
Literally what else am I supposed to do? There is not a reality where we are friends and she doesn't make me responsible for her mental health. Eventually she is going to threaten to hurt herself again and my only options would be to ignore an armed suicidal person, call the cops on a trans woman, or cave and do what she wants. I refuse to do any of that so i'm just not going to put myself in that position.
I’m trying to grow out my right eyebrow so I have an inscrutable expression rn. I look like the “have you seen this man” guy (who I won’t post bc he freaks me out)
My heart hurts when the media refers to Celeste as a “young woman.” D4vid started talking to her when she was 11 and murdered her when she was 14. She was a CHILD
It’s Scammin’ Summer so here’s what dating coaches don’t want you to know. You don’t have to be sexy or smart to find a provider, just copy what the worst people you know do. This works regardless of gender.
Find a target with devastatingly low self esteem. The greener the better
Lovebomb tf out of them
Manufacture an emergency and make an outrageous financial ask. Guilt trip them hard, bring up your kids if you have them.
If they cave, now you’ve found your mark. Keep asking for more and more and threaten to hurt yourself/others if they refuse.
Make sure you’re talking romantically to other people through all this so that when Mark #1 gets tired of you, Mark #2 is ready to feel like the hero
Are you going to be happy? No. Is your quality of life going to be good? No. Are your kids going to talk to you as adults? No.
But this parasitic mindset is the only one I’ve seen consistently work. That’s the secret behind everyone you see and wonder how they date at all, nonetheless have everything paid for
From the party of “protect the kids”
“Ohio will continue to allow child marriage after lawmakers almost passed a law that would’ve ended the practice in the state, but failed to advance it before legislators went on their summer break, outraging reform advocates. […]
Still, campaigners and lawmakers said it was “mind-boggling” that the bill has not progressed. “It’s just unbelievable that a bipartisan common sense bill that has no opposition from the public, that costs nothing, it has a $0 price tag...it harms no one except creepy men who prey on teenage girls,” Fraidy Reiss, founder of the non-profit Unchained At Last, which campaigns against child marriage, told the Ohio Capital Journal.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ohio-child-marriage-bill-fails-b2996137.html
I know Andy Beshear’s “aww shucks” shtick is marketing, but I’m inspired to write a story about a simple county boy who runs for local office and gets wrapped up in an international conspiracy
Here are my theories as to who Bon is:
*Jack is Bon. Either he killed himself and Felix somehow turned him into Bon to cover it up, or Felix murdered Jack and Jack’s repressed grief turned him into Bon.
*Bon is a trickster demon who convinced Jack he could have his family back by becoming Bon and bringing them all to Wonderland. Maybe Bon and Felix have been working together this whole time.
