hot take: the capitalist cultural construction of “humans are naturally greedy and self-centered” is just an attenuated version of the feudal christian construction of “humans are inherently sinful”; both are designed to make people internalize cultural problems and externalize morality.
building off that hot take: western individualism (the American Dream, meritocracy, “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality) is actually a hopelessly sentimental cultural fantasy that stems from this toxic capitalist conceit, and it’s high time we start admitting in our personal lives and in our public policy that humans actually live in dynamic and overlapping webs of inter-dependency
it’s this capitalist mindset that makes my struggling with disabilities ten times worse.
“you’re a parasite for needing assistance, why don’t you just work harder? you don’t deserve help.”
capitalism kills, externally and internally
all of these attitudes are quite deeply rooted in our protestant and puritanical origins in America
Honestly about 150% of our current problems can be traced back to the Protestants and puritans.
You shouldn’t be be giving out medical advice with no qualification like this. I worry very much about your followers health if they are avoiding medical treatment and instead doing whatever herbal remedy you suggest. Usually what you say is fairly harmless provided that person goes to a medical professional if it’s not working, but telling someone to douche with vinegar sounds potentially very harmful. I’m not going to be spraying something really acidic that I use as a cleaner up there! D:
And vinegar, just FYI, particularly diluted, is not ‘really acidic’. It’s a mild acid at best. It’s what makes it safe to use as a cleaning product.
A dilute vinegar and water solution, interestingly, selectively inhibits candidiasis yeast (which causes yeast infections) as well as the bacteria that cause bacterial vaginal infections, while not seeming to harm the lactobacilli that are integral to a healthy vagina.
Hi, I am a actualfact lab tech with a master in human biology and a microbiology speciality. Systlin is 100% correct.
Vinegar works because Lactobacilli thrive in a acidic environnement, as they produce lactic acid. This is why a vagina is considered self-cleaning: because the acidity from lactobacilli makes it so other bacteria and fugi cannot grow properly. Yeast infection are often secondary to other things that reduce the amoung of lactobacilli (and other beneficial bacteria) in the vagina, like dryness, natural variation because of the menstrual cycle, and age (older and younger vagina owners have a bigger variety of bacteria).
tldr: take it from someone with a diploma in human body, vinegar douche would indeed be beneficial and alleviate the worse of the symptoms, even if they shouldn’t completely remplace an actual antifungal traitement.
amazing how America (and the West in general) spent over half a century orchestrating anti-Communist hysteria and, more recently, have been
mass-producing neoliberal propaganda and
invaded Iraq under completely false pretences, but it took everyone’s least favourite aunts sharing Breitbart articles on Facebook to whip up concern over “post-truth politics”
y’all think I’m kidding but I hate hate that mimes have gotten such a bad rap in pretty much ALL media cause like
telling stories without words is amazing and people love seeing that shit but if they hear the word mime or see anything that makes them think mime their brain has been trained to go “MIME BAD” so they don’t go any further
also I was really good at pantomime in theatre school and I coulda pursued it >=[
