As many of you know I used to work in a residential psychiatric facility as the manager for female foster youth. My own mental health took a serious toll due to the toxic work environment caused by the administration… And 3 months ago I took my own health into my hands and found another job and left. God kept me in several lives of the girls I worked with and 2 weeks ago a social worker reached out to me to see if I would take a rapid placement of one of them… Without hesitation, 4 days later, my family became hers… We went this weekend to introduce her to my dad… They had a great time and were whooped coming back. God continues to show me new and exciting paths that He has for me and I am ever so humbled and thankful.
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oh darling, you are so powerful
and you don’t even realize it.
on the edges of your fingertips,
ripples a power within you
that is aching to be released.
you are creation -
creating all that lives and breathes in this world.
you are wild -
living on your own accord.
you are discomfort -
bringing men down to their knees.
you are the unknown -
yet to be discovered by those you let enter.
you are violence -
taking those that wish you pain, down into the dark depths of hell.
you are beauty -
a sight to behold.
you are chaos yet beautiful all the same.
-dark feminine
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A new global gender divide is emerging (John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, Jan 26 2024)
"In the US, Gallup data shows that after decades where the sexes were each spread roughly equally across liberal and conservative world views, women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries.
That gap took just six years to open up.
Germany also now shows a 30-point gap between increasingly conservative young men and progressive female contemporaries, and in the UK the gap is 25 points.
In Poland last year, almost half of men aged 18-21 backed the hard-right Confederation party, compared to just a sixth of young women of the same age.
Outside the west, there are even more stark divisions.
In South Korea there is now a yawning chasm between young men and women, and it’s a similar situation in China.
In Africa, Tunisia shows the same pattern.
Notably, in every country this dramatic split is either exclusive to the younger generation or far more pronounced there than among men and women in their thirties and upwards.
The #MeToo movement was the key trigger, giving rise to fiercely feminist values among young women who felt empowered to speak out against long-running injustices.
That spark found especially dry tinder in South Korea, where gender inequality remains stark, and outright misogyny is common.
In the country’s 2022 presidential election, while older men and women voted in lockstep, young men swung heavily behind the right-wing People Power party, and young women backed the liberal Democratic party in almost equal and opposite numbers.
Korea’s is an extreme situation, but it serves as a warning to other countries of what can happen when young men and women part ways.
Its society is riven in two. Its marriage rate has plummeted, and birth rate has fallen precipitously, dropping to 0.78 births per woman in 2022, the lowest of any country in the world. (…)
It would be easy to say this is all a phase that will pass, but the ideology gaps are only growing, and data shows that people’s formative political experiences are hard to shake off.
All of this is exacerbated by the fact that the proliferation of smartphones and social media mean that young men and women now increasingly inhabit separate spaces and experience separate cultures.
Too often young people’s views are overlooked owing to their low rates of political participation, but this shift could leave ripples for generations to come, impacting far more than vote counts."
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The Best News of Last Week - November 28, 2023
🐑 - Why did Fiona the sheep become a mountaineer? She was tired of the "baa-d" jokes at sea level!
1. Pope Francis dines with transgender women for Vatican luncheon
Pope Francis hosted a group of transgender women — many of whom are sex workers or migrants from Latin America — to a Vatican luncheon for the Catholic Church's "World Day of the Poor" last week.
The pontiff and the transgender women have formed a close relationship since the pope came to their aid during the COVID-19 pandemic, when they were unable to work. Now, they meet monthly for VIP visits with the pope and receive medicine, money and shampoo any day, according to The Associated Press.
2. New York just installed its first offshore wind turbine
The first wind turbine installation at South Fork Wind, New York State’s first offshore wind farm, is complete.
The 130-megawatt (MW) South Fork Wind will be the US’s first completed utility-scale wind farm in federal waters.
3. Anonymous businessman donates $800k to struggling food bank
But this Thanksgiving, a longtime prayer of food bank leaders was finally answered: an anonymous benefactor donated the full $800,000 they needed to move out of a facility they've long outgrown. That benefactor, however, preferred to stay anonymous.
"Very private company, really don't want attention," said Debbie Christian, executive director of the Auburn Food Bank. "It's a goodhearted person that just wants to see the work here continue, wants to see it expand."
4. Empowering woman saving hopes and mental health of suffering Ukrainian kids
Kenza Hadij-Brahim is at the forefront of promoting Circle of Toys
Hadj-Brahim is helping to launch the Circle of Toys initiative. A project that provides Ukrainian children in need of some normality with preloved toys. This new initiative connects people with old toys they might otherwise throw away, with Ukrainian families in need who want to provide some comfort to their children in this distressing time.
Find Refuge said : “The endeavour is driven by a sincere purpose: spark joy, foster play, and bring a hint of normalcy back to the young lives in Ukraine.”
5. TWO LOST CITIES HIDDEN FOR CENTURIES WERE JUST DISCOVERED IN BOLIVIA
Researchers have found these areas not only housed structures and pyramids but it has been uncovered that there were advanced irrigation systems, earthworks, large towns, causeways, and canals that cover miles.
Dr. Heiko Prümers from the German Archaeological Institute, who was also involved in the study comments that “this indicated a relatively dense settlement in pre-Hispanic times. Our goal was to conduct basic research and trace the settlements and life there. The research sheds light on the sheer magnitude and magnificence of the civic-ceremonial centers found buried in the forest”.
6. Sheep dubbed Fiona rescued from cliff in Scotland where she was stuck for more than 2 years
And at last, some positive climate news:
7. Three positive climate developments
Heating
When the Paris Agreement was adopted, the global reliance on fossil fuels placed the world on a path towards a 3.5C rise in temperature by 2100. Eight years on, country commitments to reduce their carbon footprints have pulled that down slightly, putting the world on a path for a 2.5C to 2.9C by the end of the century.
Peak emissions
Annual greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change have risen roughly nine percent since COP21, according to UN data. But the rate of the increase has slowed significantly. Recent estimates by the Climate Analytics institute find global emissions could peak by 2024
Rising renewables
Three technologies—solar, wind and electric vehicles—are largely behind the improved global warming estimates since 2015.
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Did you boyfriend ever try to push your head down on his cock during a BJ? Did he ever try to make you do anal? Did he coerce you into sex by saying he had blue balls? Did he ever put his hand around your throat because he saw it once in porn? Did he jerk off to women who didn’t look like you? Did you go along with it because you felt this was the only way in which sex could proceed? Because you felt empowered?
I think feminists who decry the anti porn movement need to get their heads out of the sand. Maybe 20 yrs ago when the hardest shit you could find on the internet was a grainy bootlegged copy of The Italian Stalion, porn use may have been a vice but not egregious. Not like it is today. Young women of today are facing a generation of men who grew up on ultra HD porn of every possible tag they could hope for. They’ve been watching REAL women be slapped, kicked, abused, and degraded on screen for upwards of a decade by the time they lose their virginity and pass the trauma onto another woman.
Personally, this has affected me in every relationship I have had since high school, even the last one which was almost perfect; where I almost married him. He was a caring boyfriend, he did everything and was everything to me. But— when I asked him what he wanted for his birthday, and he confessed, it’s like I wasn’t even in the 20th century as far as human rights abuse goes. He confessed he wanted to choke me, fuck me in the ass, to spit on me, ALL WHILE broadcasting porn on three screens he was going to drag into the bedroom. He wanted to hurt me while he watched other women get hurt.
I searched his phone later and found that he’d been on several subreddits dedicated to a new fetish, a fetish of porn itself. I won’t link them here but know that these men LIKE that porn hurts women, that they are hurting their partners, themselves, and perpetuating the actresses’ suffering. It is part of the appeal of porn to these men. The captions encouraged users to waste their lives looking at porn, to marry it, leave their wives and children over it, and commenters imagined a dystopian world where women of ALL ages are meant to be used. Where porn and violence is the everyday.
I ask any pro-porn feminist to reconcile the above information with their perspective. How can you? Don’t you know that in the 21st century, as women seek equal footing to men, that they will continue to supposedly “put us in our places” by reminding us that this is what they think of us? There is no engaging with a recovering addict at this end because they show their hand which is misogyny.
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