Here’s the thing about body-shaming: you can’t do it on an individual basis. You can never body-shame only one person. If you make fun of a physical feature of someone you hate, it’s going to affect everyone who shares that feature, regardless of whether they share the trait that made you want to mock them in the first place.
If you make fun of a racist actress’s lips, you are implying that that feature is bad, and then anyone who shares that physical feature is going to be hit by that, regardless of whether they are racist themselves.
If you make fun of an evil politician’s body type, anyone who shares that body type will be hit by that.
When you body-shame, you are tying personality traits or evil actions to physical traits. You are tying racism to fatness. You are tying misogyny to big noses. You’re taking morally neutral traits–physical ones–and attaching unnecessary moral weight to them. Attractiveness is not synonymous with goodness. Unattractiveness is not synonymous with evil.
Suddenly being fat isn’t just a physical trait–it’s an indicator of moral worth.
It doesn’t matter if someone “deserves” to be body-shamed or not. There is no way to mock their appearance without it also hurting innocent people who happen to share features with that person.
When people say, for example, “stop fat-shaming Donald Trump” they’re not saying “you’re being so mean to Trump and he doesn’t deserve it.” They’re saying “you are inadvertently hurting people other than Trump, including some people who are already hurt by Trump himself.”
MyHealthRecord is an online medical record database designed to help doctors access health records even if they’ve never treated you before. The idea is to help reduce medication mismanagement.
It was originally launched under the name of Personally Controlled Electronic Health Record.
PCHR had many technical issues and a low opt-in rate and as such wasn’t used much by doctors. My Health Record is meant to have better engagement and be a more helpful version of the idea.
The My Health Record website says that data “cannot be used solely for commercial and non-health-related purposes” and that “solely” is a semantic point of contention for some, saying that could be used as a loophole for a commercial company that works for Australian healthcare services. Naturally the government says the data will not be sold. There are options for what your data can be used for in secondary purposes, like research.
The previous system, PCHR, was not breached in the 5 years of operating though.
For those who don’t know and don’t want to click thru to find out: Jonas Salk is the reason we in North America no longer live in terror of polio. He also refused to patent or profit from his vaccine. He also spent the last years of his life researching a vaccine for AIDS, long before that was cool and back when a lot of people were secretly hoping it really would just kill all the gays. So you’re damn right people applauded and gave free upgrades.
Reblogging again because this time I did click through, and because of the times in which we live: Jonas Salk was Jewish, and the child of immigrants.
How could you forget all the cool heavy metal ladies!? The metal scene of Botswana is NOT just a boys club
Anyone know any of the names of these individual’s groups? I love metal music and I’m always looking for new bands to listen to.
Wrust is my fave. Overthrust, Gunsmoke, and Demon are also good.
PS in Botswana metal heads are called Marok, and lady metalheads call themselves Queens and give themselves badass nicknames like Phoenix Death Serpent.
I opened the door and only Arthur came inside. It’s raining. I couldn’t find the other cat. She’s usually the first to come through the door, so I got slightly worried.
Until
That cat is the coziest it’s ever been and it’s not leaving except for food.
Thoughtfulfangirling 