Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

My child has established “stay whimsical, silly geese” as a gender-neutral way to depart from a group and I have secured their consent to steal it and make it available to anyone else who finds it useful

The #UK is a hellscape for #disabled people. I extend my deepest sympathies to all of you there. The US isn't much better but we tend to sublimate this stuff a little more.

This story is about UK elites tsk-tsking that disabled people in the UK are helping each other apply for benefits.

Fucking Brits, I tell ya.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/07/sickfluencers-tiktok-disability-sickness-benefits

I welcomed sinners, tax collectors and Samaritans, so yeah, I'm okay with diversity and inclusion.

To those who see greed as _the_ problem:

Like other evolved human traits that cause problems, we're stuck with the inclination, but we can manage it.

Smallish groups can manage it, eg, by ostracising gluttons & teaching chn to control it in the interests of belonging.

Very large groups need govts to share that job of fostering our best qualities & discouraging the worst.

Neoliberal govts do the opposite.

We keep voting for them against our best interests.

#Greed #Neoliberalism #USPol .

Speaking of, over and over and over and over again it is proven that private healthcare insurance is more expensive for the individual AND the state.

The ONLY argument that holds water for private health insurance is the pure "I refuse to pay for poor people's health" argument, aka "I am actually too selfish to function in society"

Trump, Musk, etc., are the natural result of a system based on conflating money with success. If you don’t like the fucking gods, maybe stop practicing the fucking religion.

#capitalism

@ChrisMayLA6 @ScotInTraining

95% of immigrants are actively recruited to the UK by British employers. So aren't taking any risk to get here. The problem is when they arrive. As one social care worker said to me, they come to Africa and bring us to Europe where we have to work for the boss who can treat us badly because they know if we lose the job we risk having to go back and that would all but destroy our lives. Europe has a tradition of going to Africa and bringing back workers to work in terrible conditions and do the jobs that no-one wants to do here, we'll not for the low pay.

It is very common for migrant workers to be told which shifts to work, they get no sick pay and no statutory sick pay, they often are not paid overtime or holiday pay, and racist abuse us a regular part of their work.

A very small number come here as refugees. Virtually all are from countries with very bad human rights records and the UK take a very small number compared to other countries. So they are not illegal and are not breaking any laws indeed the law says refugees can arrive this way.

Sorry for being pedantic but I think there is a lot of deliberate misinformation here and we need to challenge all assumptions.

“I have never understood why, when everyone on the planet is one accident or medical condition away from disability, many people seem to lack any empathy and do not attempt to understand how it must feel to be refused service because of a disability.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87x2p535wqo

as a "computers person" i do not know how to solve the problem correctly the first time, what i do have is an endless list of strange tactical maneuvers that might solve a problem and an ability to prioritise them

Why do Labour believe in private equity? https://youtu.be/R4YNFMhNiB4?si=EYyPxVok-nmmlgdl The logic of private equity capitalists is contrary to everything that it seems sound government, good governance, sensible pension fund planning and long term thinking should stand for. So why is Labour besotted with it?

This makes me want to scream and pull out my hair.

"Reduce your vocabulary by 10-20% to prove you're a human."

I was recently called a misandrist for the first time in my life. Why? Because I told a man that men needed to “behave better”. He screamed “not all men!” At me and then demanded I show more deference and acknowledgement that there are “good guys out there”.

This was someone I considered a friend - so I tried to explain that of course there are good guys - but we don’t know who they are. We have to approach EVERY man with caution because of the constant threat of rape and abuse.

I explained that’s why we say men have privilege - because they don’t have to move through life with that constant threat. They don’t have to be on guard ALL the time. They aren’t judged by what they wear, how many kids they have, how much they drink or how late they were out at night.

He proceeded to school me that he in fact experienced No benefit from being a man. He genuinely could not comprehend that I wasn’t saying he didn’t work hard or earn whatever he had - just that it would have been HARDER had he been a woman or marginalized in another way.

Nope. I was told I hate men and that we could no longer be friends.

guys - please don’t do this. I kept my cool and tried to gently explain where I was coming from only to get berated and repeatedly told that if I didn’t do exactly as he wanted - the friendship would be cut off.

This dude proved my point and couldn’t even see it.

We KNOW it’s not all men - but it’s too many men. And we DON’T know who the safe ones are.

I’m debating writing an article about this - especially considering disabled women are far more likely to experience abuse. I’m just not sure it “fits” with Disabled Ginger. Though reproductive health is certainly something I will be diving in to.

Thoughts? Is it too far removed from my normal topics?

#giselepelicot #notallmen #toomanymen #metoo #rape #abuse #misogyny #patriarchy #fuckthepatriarchy #shamemustchangesides #discrimination #womensrights #womenshealth #believewoman