Depends on how far out you go.

They probably have a chauffer drive them out of the city to a smaller airport while their personal assistant makes sure they get everything else done on the car on the way.

That’s pretty fucking funny actually.

I mean a better analogy would be single / limited-use items considering it can’t really be used after it comes out of the recipient. There’s a different joke about capitalism in there somewhere but I’m getting sleepy so good night!

Fuck no they’re not doing it in my body they can have the uterus though. I specifically said I can appreciate that miracle of life shit when it’s not in MY body.

Oh it’s super high risk (that’s why it can only be done when the doctors are allowed to do what they have to to keep the mother safe) and they actually take it back out when they’re done!

But she and her husband had received a crushing diagnosis: Their baby’s brain was not developing properly, upending their wanted pregnancy. Medical experts warned moving forward would likely mean her son would know only pain and suffering. The Minnesota couple wasn’t going to take that chance.

Yeah so it turns out most people don’t get 6 months into ultrasounds and painting nurseries and making lists of names and planning showers and gender reveal parties then suddenly just decide “…nah!” It’s usually a woman you’re making carry around a dead baby that’s also probably a threat to her life by way of hemorrhage or sepsis

Weirdly enough I only had my tubes taken out instead of my whole uterus because I thought it would maybe be cool to offer it to some other woman (I can appreciate the “beauty of life” or whatever happening in somebody else’s body). But that kind of program (and those programs do exist, there have been live births from transplanted uteri!) can only exist if the doctors and their patients have full decision-making power over what happens during the process. No doctor in their right mind is going to start that kind of process if there’s a possibility that when something goes wrong (and things always go wrong) the government will just step in and tell them it’ll strip their license for saving moms life (especially since without mom, there’s almost definitely no baby anyway). So it was a nice thought, but I guess I’m keeping it unless my IUD punctures it or something (I just got cramps again tonight for the first time in months too, and preventing them is the main reason I kept the IUD!).

Not military, but a lot of nurses have been sharing advice on what to do if ICE shows up

I mean you’re not… literally wrong. There’s a lot about the use of the US military that is fucked. But there’s a lot else they currently do or even could be doing if some reforms happened that would be more helpful than the shitty things they do. But most importantly, your bringing it up here only serves to derail a different discussion that is important in its own right, and that this thread was created to discuss. The most important thing is that you’re not helping.

One of the cooks downstairs went on a rant the other day about how they’re willing to risk their lives to defend their country why can’t everybody just shut up and let them do it. Hyped up the whole damn cafeteria talking about their lgbt loved ones and how if you can’t even bring yourself to love someone how they are you at least need to mind your business. t’s nice hearing some ranting in that direction for once.

I once saw a guys breathing rate shoot to 36 while in ambulatories after about a week in the chair. Don’t get me wrong he needed that amount of restraint he was so manic he was screaming incomprehensibly and trying to ram his head into walls so hard it shook the unit 24/7 despite getting sedatives that should have taken down a horse but the entire night shift staff had been telling dayshift he needed a chest xray for almost that entire time (standalone psych hospital, radiology wasn’t there overnight). Every once in a while his breathing just sounded… chunky. We didn’t like it but the lead psychiatrist dgaf.

Anyway he lived without any long term complications but only because we caught it the second it happened and we got him on oxygen and airlifted to the university right away (this was up in the mountains). And I shit you not afterwards a coworker said they still thought he was exaggerating like the University would have admitted an extremely violent psych patient to ICU without radiologic confirmation. Somebody said something similar about a patient who stroked out on me and that personally I watched them give tpa to right there on the CT table after confirmation of ischemia when I briefly worked a COVID psych unit.

And this was psych where people at least slightly care about the patients. I get so many correctional offers (that first one was actually a forensic psych unit) and I love love LOVE that patient population but I could barely handle how the psych unit treated those people I don’t think I could handle corrections. Even just that one guy my hair almost started falling out watching him breathe for a week straight. I was still a technician at the time so I was just there sitting 1:1 with him for hours at a time retaking his respiratory rate every 15 minutes and also every time it sounded chunky again and again and again (when you do care, they burn you out).

When your trade war results in having to keep your own garbage 😬

My mother blamed calling it a “spontaneous abortion” for the “confusion” that led my neighbors health insurance company to deny coverage for her miscarriage. Now that I’m older I’m just like no the insurance company just didn’t want to pay and found a reason that would hopefully traumatize a woman out of fighting them on it and were backed by a wider society that just hates women in general. Like I’ve heard people say it’s more humane to call it a spontaneous abortion because “miscarriage” implies the woman did something wrong and idt the wording is actually going to manage to make the experience that much less awful but regardless I also don’t think the wording was actually the issue in that situation. And the word abortion wouldn’t be that stigmatized either if we didn’t consider pregnancy as a punishment for sex that must be meted out no matter the circumstances of the sex itself or the physical, emotional, or social safety of the resulting pregnancy.

That being said, these people were clearly unwell, punishing them for the horrors brought forth by their poor decisions seems gratuitous.

Prostitution and sex trafficking are also pretty common among substance using women. The lower rate of homelessness among women is mostly just because a brothel has a roof. If we were just housing and feeding them in livable conditions and having them attend outpatient treatment while offering birth control you wouldn’t see this nearly as much. Birth control is pretty critical to giving a woman the immediate safety needed to exit any kind of abusive relationship whether it’s a domestic partner or a pimp / madam. Food and housing don’t hurt either, and if you can get them to break the addiction and not need drug money you’ve done pretty much everything possible to help them break the cycle. It’s actually pretty rewarding to see how many people can figure it out with the right supports in place.

Oh this reminded me of this short (trigger warning for extremely dark / gross nurse humor).

The real big one is arctic / cold water distance swimming. Women have a higher % body fat on average meaning they float better and are better insulated. Ultramarathon events overall seem to be pretty evenly matched for the most part, but that specific subset has been pretty women dominated. The g force thing applies more specifically to people who are smaller and in particular shorter, which women are on average so in that one weights being equal, no.

Well, and this what men are getting to when they get upset about men’s rights and bring up the draft right? It’s genuinely something they should be mad about they’re just misdirecting their anger.

I’ve thought about this one a lot; there’s several fanfics I’ve written that touch on this; one is an alternate of historical fictions and the other involves the Drow from the forgotten realms. There’s this tendency (especially in erotic media) for matriarchal societies to have women act more masculine and sexually aggressive and have men crawling around on the floor in excrement and it always bugs me. There’s so many existing negative stereotypes of men and positive stereotypes of women that could just be inversely accentuated to create that kind of society. I could talk for days about that one, LOL.

I feel like it’s less about putting people in power (although it may do that to a certain extent) and more about reinforcing the role of poor and minority men as disposable tools. War is a means for the rich and powerful to squabble over resources, but it’s also a way for them to exert their control over a large population of men. One of my bigger feminist sticking points on the topic of how patriarchy hurts men is that its not just about controlling women, its also about creating a class of men who are disposable by convincing them that it’s either for the benefit of women and / or to help them control women too (which it does a little, it’s just that most of that power is still going to a small subset of men).

This is especially wild when you consider that some of the sports / feats women are often if not usually better at include shooting, distance / endurance events, and withstanding high g-forces without losing consciousness, which are way more useful in a modern military than the high jump or javelin throwing.

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