bi-privilege:

bi-privilege:

i would just like to point out that the recent conversation surrounding the male birth control trials isn’t just “lol weak men can’t deal with side effects” it’s the fact that when they were testing hormonal birth control for women in the 50s & 60s, the side effects were much worse, and the women who participated in them, mostly in puerto rico, were not told about the side effects or that the drug was experimental

and THEN when women dropped out, they started using incarcerated women as their guinea pigs, and then despite the fact that some scientists who participated in the original trials were like “uh i don’t think this is actually good, it’s making a lot of these women sick,” the pharmaceutical industry & fda were like  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and approved it for the general population anyways, without really warning women about the potential for all these negative side effects

and THEN researchers basically ceased to do any type of research on side effects like depression and decreased libido for 50 years, despite the fact that women were still complaining about them, and because there was no “hard evidence” of these side effects, a lot of doctors basically just assumed women were exaggerating or making it up. and that continued until the first major study of depression in women who take hormonal contraceptives was released just. this. year.

so yeah, the patriarchy. *waves flag*

further reading:

• the puerto rico pill trials
  
• the racist & sexist history of keeping side effects of birth controls secret
  
• “it’s not in your head” striking new study links birth control to depression
  
• the side effects of male birth control stopping drug trials reveals a disturbing sexism
• male birth control shot prevents pregnancy, researchers call for further study to reduce risk of depression, other side effects

oh, and fun fact: even after this new study was released, a lot of the scientific community is still being like “but can we PROVE these women aren’t just depressed because they’re LOVESICK?”

werpiper:

ghettablasta:

For more than two years, Clarise Coleman faithfully attended every track practice and every cross-country meet for her son, Chase.

A few weeks ago, Chase, who is a nearly nonverbal autistic child, was running in a meet in Rochester, New York, with his team from Corcoran High School - was assaulted by a stranger in the middle of a race.

Coleman was waiting for him at a part of the course where runners would come down a hill but he didn’t appear and she went looking for him. She was shouting his name and then she started to meet people who pointed in the direction of her son. One of them said:

“I see a grown man, who is quite tall and fairly heavy … exit the vehicle and give this young man a shove that puts him back 10 feet and flat on his butt. Like, just shoved him across the road. The kid didn’t seem to be doing anything but standing there, obviously had nothing in his hands and weighed all of 130 pounds. This guy was easily twice that.”

This tall white guy was a 57-year-old man named Martin MacDonald who told the police that the reason he attacked the Black kid was he thought Chase was going to mug his wife and take her purse.

“My son is a minor. [MacDonald is] a grown man,” Coleman said she told police. “He put his hands on my son. Of course I want to press charges.”

However the police was deaf and on Oct. 21, Rochester City Court Judge Caroline Morrison sent a letter to the Colemans that shocked them: 

She had denied their warrant application, and MacDonald would not be charged for second-degree harassment.

Now the autistic Black boy refused to go to practices and skipped running in his last meet of the season. He turned his running uniform in to his coach, who gently encouraged him to change his mind. Chase refused.

“We just keep telling him, ‘You didn’t do anything wrong. Chase is good. There are mean people and there are nice people and this person was just a mean person,’ ” Coleman said. “We just keep apologizing to him that happened. Especially me. I kept apologizing to him that I couldn’t keep him safe.” 

The attack deeply traumatized him and he lost one of the few things that gave him a sense of pride and belonging.

Please, make a shout out to this outrageous accident! The white man still didn’t receive any punishment for ruining life of the Black boy. THIS IS HELL!

#StayWoke #BlackChildrenMatter #WhitePrivilege

this is the saddest :(

kingalistairtheirin:

ourqueenfelinefatale:

808s-and-d1sco-face:

808s-and-d1sco-face:

808s-and-d1sco-face:

There’s a video of Benedict cumberbatch as doctor strange diagnosing MCU characters injuries from civil war and when T'Challa scratches bucky, white ass Benedict Cumberbatch says bucky should “check for rabies”

Because hahaha, like dr. Strange and cumberbatch weren’t racist enough, they want to imply that T'Challa is an actual animal. Carrying diseases.

They joked that the king of Wakanda, an African man and amazing character, is an animal that possibly gave Bucky rabies.

Fuck that movie. Fuck benedict cumberbatch and his alien looking ass. Fuck everyone involved and everyone who supports it.

He literally said bucky should check for rabies after being scratched by T'Challa like…you can’t make this shit up…I’m losing my mind someone actually approved that and let that video be posted because yall are so fucking dull that you have no insight to how fucking racist you are and how fucking dumb you sound

The video is on the marvel studios Facebook page btw

video is here in case anyone wants to check for themselves, it’s at about 0:25

fuck bandysnatch cobbetwlathc

Buddy, I have family in law enforcement too, but I am able to see that there are shitty cops. Implicit bias exists. Institutional racism exists.

Full and complete and transparent investigation!! Fucking when???