A middle school in Achille, Oklahoma is closed following violent threats by parents on social media against Maddie, a 12-year-old transgender student who identifies as female and used the girls’ bathroom.
Maddie had been using the staff bathroom at her old school but used the girls’ bathroom at the new school because she wasn’t sure where the staff bathroom was. She was then accused of peeping under a bathroom stall. Her mother said it was probably because she “leans very far forward to use the bathroom.”
Then the threats began on a private parents’ Facebook group for the school. The parents called Maddie “it” and “thing”, suggested that her genitalia be mutilated to make her female (“a good sharp knife will do the job real quick”). One said it was “hunting season on them kind” and said there was “no bag limit.”
Maddie’s mother Brandy Rose said she fears for her life: “These are adults making threats– I don’t understand it. She’s an awesome kid. To see any fear in her, I can’t explain how bad that hurts me for them to hurt her.”
KXII reports: “The sheriff said the mother filed a protective order against one parent but no other arrests have been made, however several agencies including the FBI are stepping in to see if any comments constitute a hate crime.”
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Sorry to say this but if we have to think about whether or not threatening to cut a 12 year old child is a hate crime means there is no hope for us. What has this nation become when it’s citizens feel they have a right to threaten minorities with no fear of repercussion. The only ringing heard now is the death knell of freedom..
Two years after the closures, researchers found that the number of Texas women’s-health program served was cut in half — and low-income women in particular had more unwanted pregnancies and more babies. What’s more, a survey conducted in 2015 found that, since the closures, an estimated 100,000 women in Texas have attempted to self-induce abortion.
This is horrifying and unacceptable.
This is what anti-choicers want. This is not a bug, it’s an intended feature. We’ve been telling them that this would happen for decades. They know.
these are getting a ton of attention on twitter so here for tumblr too, really cute fat girls from an advertisement for anti chafe cream
holy shit can we talk about these for a hot second here, they are so pure
these are cute (!!!), realistically proportioned, non-sexualized depictions of fat women’s bodies, in a recognizably standard anime style
these characters have big arms, round faces with double chins, wide frames (that don’t conform to the hourglass huge-hip/tiny-waist/enormous-boobs “acceptable fat” model), and are presented in poses that read as happy, excited, fun-loving, and even flirty (but again, not overtly sexual – these are obviously characters, not simply bodies for consumption)
and they still look like they could be right at home on the pages of a shoujo manga
so i don’t ever wanna hear anybody say again that they can’t draw fat people because they don’t fit your “style” or you think they can’t be cute or pretty or non-fetishized. that’s a load of fatphobic crap and you need to do better. learn from this.
It’s a lot harder to counteract propaganda than it is to spread it. Try seeing the insane looks you get when you tell people that prohibition in America worked. It successfully reduced overall alcohol consumption, and the apparent rise in organised crime was attributable in hindsight to other factors, such as urbanisation, not the illegality of alcohol. Its re-legalisation was driven by the desire for increased state revenue from taxes. All of this is well-supported by the evidence, but the received belief is stronger than the unexpected truth.
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