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Ceausescu’s children (Wendell Steavenson, The Guardian, Dec 10 2014)

“When he came to power in 1966, Ceaușescu had grand plans for Romania.

The country had industrialised late, after the second world war, and its birthrate was low.

Ceaușescu borrowed the 1930s Stalinist dogma that population growth would fuel economic growth and fused this idea with the conservatism of his rural childhood.

In the first year of his rule, his government issued Decree 770, which outlawed abortion for women under 40 with fewer than four children.

“The foetus is the property of the entire society,” Ceaușescu announced.

“Anyone who avoids having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.”

The birth rate soon doubled, but then the rate of increase slowed as Romanian women resorted to homemade illegal abortions, often with catastrophic results.

In 1977 all childless persons, regardless of sex or martial status, were made to pay an additional monthly tax.

In the 1980s condoms and the pill, although prohibitively expensive, began to become available in Romania – so they were banned altogether.

Motherhood became a state duty. The system was ruthlessly enforced by the secret police, the securitate.

Doctors who performed abortions were imprisoned, women were examined every three months in their workplaces for signs of pregnancy.

If they were found to be pregnant and didn’t subsequently give birth, they could face prosecution. Fertility had become an instrument of state control.

This policy, coupled with Romania’s poverty, meant that more and more unwanted children were abandoned to state care.

No one knows how many. Estimates for the number of children in orphanages in 1989 start at 100,000 and go up from there.”

i hate hate HATE the impossible beauty standards in the trans community i hate people especially cis people (but even other trans people are guilty of this) sharing pictures of the same conventionally attractive trans models as "proof" that we can look "normal" (read: not only cis-passing but also extremely conventionally attractive) why the fuck do you need trans people to be supermodels and nothing less for you to respect us. why.

cis ppl can rb just dont add any stupid shit

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i don’t think people understand that people can ‘love’ you and not actually love you

like my grandmother ‘loved’ me, but she also was always trying to change me.  she tried to take me away from my (catholic bisexual) mother.  she made me wear dresses when i was there.  she always tried to get me to go to church and was always asking me if i was dating a boy yet

i spent years feeling guilty that i wasn’t what she wanted me to be until my mom told me one day “she never bothered to know the real you”

and it’s true.  any time i tried to show her something about myself, even cook for her, it would be dismissed, and a replacement would be offered.  even northern food was somehow a sin.  

she loved me what she thought i should be, she never loved me.  

bc people who love you, they love you for all the stuff that makes you you.  they never consider that it makes you inconvenient.

It's even more fitting that the Mars 2020 rover is named Perseverance considering everything that's been going on in the world

Gimme more Indian LGBTQ+

Gimme my trans guys lounging in their binders and lungis with chai and biscuits

Gimme my NB peeps wearing jhumkas and bangles with their jeans and printed tees

Gimme my software engineer coming home to her wife

Gimme my girl hiding her wife’s name in the mehendi on one hand and her husband’s on the other

Gimme my aroace dude who doesn’t wanna get married rejecting all his rishte

Gimme husbands who create startups together

Gimme larger than life parades for our larger than life personalities

Gimme two dolis or two baraats

Gimme more Indian LGBTQ+

Im kinda afraid to ask but... jace loving cells?

oh someone sent the full quote to me hang on a sec

Hey, unpopular opinion, apparently. But people don’t just “have pain for no reason” doctors say this all the time (especially to women and chronically ill people) and the truth is, Thats literally not possible. Even if your pains are psychosomatic (a word I hesitate to even use because of the way its used so often) there is a reason you are having those pains whether its mental illness, abuse, etc. If your doctor consistently tells you that “well some people just have pain for no reason” get a new doctor. That’s a doctor who is not going to give a shit what your actual symptoms or experiences are.

there’s a popular post on tumblr that says INTJs have two “modes”: one that has no qualms using social masks to achieve goals and one that doesn’t see a reason to be anything but honest.

1. how does having a social mask that goes against their true values affect low Fi types?

2. these “modes” are present for all types, aren’t they?

Sounds like “This INTJ is an Enneagram 3″ vs “every other INTJ.” ;)

Healthy TJs typically have strong beliefs based in a few areas (things of personal importance to them that they work hard toward) but high Te knows you get more flies with honey than vinegar. To succeed in business, for example, being likable, presenting oneself as competent, and proving self worth through reliability and the ability to work with people is how you earn their respect and cooperation. That is earnest, sincere, pragmatic, and not a “mask.”

3s on the other hand can “adapt” to be whatever the situation requires of them – for example, keeping their mouth shut on something when they know to bring it up in their current group would cause unnecessary friction and prevent them from accomplishing a goal, or that it might prevent them from GETTING the job they want. (IE, not supporting 100% everything a business, individual, church, group, etc represents, but being able to “appear” in such a form that they assume you are “one of them” without being one of them.) But even 3-core INTJs do have something they believe in and are working toward.

So… yeah, on this issue I’d say 3-core/fixed vs. not-3-core/fixed (non-adaptable) is the factor. And yeah, the same goes for every other type.

- ENFP Mod