"Some of the [historic] strategies used by the system to exercise violence are sterilization, incarceration or even murder. These strategies have evolved as the capitalist system has evolved. These strategies arise from the need of capitalism to create and promote the idea of an efficient body, capable of producing maximum economic and social benefit. Since industrialization, what prevailed was the body understood as a source of labor. The efficiency of the body, linked to health standards set by medicine, looked for the body’s functionality. The medical standard defined the expected efficiency of the body, and thereby linked bodily health to economic productivity.
With consumer capitalism, production becomes so consumer-driven, that advertising, visual and aesthetic ideals take precedence. Social success, therefore, gets linked to the physical, and social ascent, will reflect how well your body conforms to aesthetic ideals, to the norm…Medicine under consumer capitalism will be responsible for promoting health linked to the aesthetic field, bodies that resemble the idea of consumer beauty will be considered healthy. Which in turn leads medicine to standardize bodies in order to achieve both health and beauty, creating the ideal of healthy, beautiful, good, slim bodies. Bodies will be adapted to fit this standard, which legitimizes the non-genuine."
- Itxi Guerra, The Fight Against Ableism, article from a fanzine, translated from Spanish 5/9/23.
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Feels weird, I got good food I love but I feel like an old pillow, I want to confront some people but its impossible. You know how you feel minority stress? Yea I understand it now, these basic level thinking of people that they never, I was listening to an explicitly communist podcast but one of the hosts went “I was using cream to make my skin beautiful but I realized oh no capitalism has commodified this good desire of mine and other” like you fuck what’s good about making your skin beautiful? You wanna do it just go ahead and do it, far more important things are commodified like a fucking wheelchair you stupid fuck. What people consider virtuous matters because why is being fit kore virtuous? Why is beauty virtuous? What’s beauty? What’s health?
Mood.
But in all seriousness, people will always have these moments when they say something really weird like this ^ so if you feel like the rest of the podcast is any good, maybe it might be worth sticking around for. Either way, it’s such a weird thing to say
Yes it’s a really good podcast generally but hosts are three cis het men so it suffers from usual deficits of cis het men
Ended up taking a mental health day/vto today. Woke up with some kind of anxiety shit that was making me feel physically ill. Kinda wish we lived in a society that allowed for days off of work without feeling guilt and worrying about next week’s paycheck.
Know that you deserve the day off because you needed it. At least for today, tell capitalism to suck it up, it’s not relevant right now. Hope you’ll feel better soon roux
Cherries are ripe. Is this too early for cherries to be ripe? Not gonna worry about that, I’m gonna eat my body weight in cherries
help I ate my body weight in cherries
You better call an ambulance and stop eating cherries, or I will stop talking to you
Were they good?
Okay now im eating serviceberries and redcurrants.
They were great. Very sweet, very tender. I’m considering grabbing some tomorrow and doing some sort of fruit parfait thing.
Just a heads up, I won’t be as active this week due to the ‘holiday’ and stuff going on irl. Hang in there, loves, we’ll get through another week before you know it
You’ll be dearly missed comrade, hope you have a good time or at least a tolerable time
Life is just getting too hard. I don’t know how much more I can take. I have tried to hold on for the dog’s sake but another 10 years of this? I’m in pain every day and it’s getting worse with increased migraines due to summer and everyone wearing perfume and crap, it’s wafting into the house from outside constantly, my mobility issues getting worse instead of better, my walking will clearly never improve and my left arm gets weaker and more useless all the time, I’m always exhausted and sleepy due to being unable to sleep at night because of my high thyroxine dose, the doctors say I’m at increased risk of another stroke, I’ll always be fighting disability claims and appeals to get a pittance, always in debt, and now mutual aid has dried up I can’t even get food or other basics I need. I don’t even have a single friend in real life because no-one can be bothered with a sick, virtually housebound person who is no fun. Seriously, what is the point of this? I can’t even enjoy basic hobbies like reading as I no longer have the mental energy or concentration, I can’t even afford to rent a film or anything like that. So I don’t even have a distraction, lack of sleep means I can’t even get a break for a few hours, every day I’m just constantly filled with worries and pain.
I am thankfully not sick like that anymore all the time but I am mostly housebound as well which is why I don’t have many friends either, I can read but I seriously don’t have will to enjoy anything and these people ALL the time saying “enjoy this” “enjoy that” like mf I can’t I barely have any outlets of joy and I can’t take on anything new, you know why? Because I am exhausted.
doctor told me to try going outside more
okay man, never thought of that one before
Have you tried a positive attitude, getting a hobby or getting some exercise
Driving lessons are messing me up. There’s too much happening around me and too much to pay attention to. I really don’t like it. Would much rather rely on public transit but that’s not an option where I live :)))))
Meanwhile my useless hack of a mom went the “fuck you, you’ll be the unemployed pawn I keep at home and slurp SSI off of and be the thing I constantly yell at” path.
She’ll get the nursing home with horrific abuse allegations treatment. Then again I’d feel bad subjecting abusive nursed to her. My vindictiveness has limits.
I hate med testing! Let me just be disabled and incurable, I don’t want to test increasingly more side effect inducing medicine anymore!!!
It sucks so hard. Going through “withdrawal” and having new side effects at the same time.
Just heard life expectancy for non-cognitively disabling (if anyone takes issue with this terminology feel free to specify something better as it feels off although I have seen it used a lot to distinguish between people with severe genetic disorders that include autism (RIP my cousin) & the more manageable kind) autism is literally 16 years. This cannot possibly be true & I’m asking you before checking as I do not consider my own brain among my specialities, & I don’t want to believe it. True?
This is called task delegation & it’s just one of my many, powerful social skills. Thank you!
It’s true but mostly due to factors like suicide and poverty rather than it being a genetic thing
Famicide is probably also a factor.
That makes perfect sense but I would have spitballed, idk, six years, not that it matters because I have no basis in the first place. That’s kind of my problem though, been subjected to the discourse for years, it’s just completely rotten & split between something indescribably annoying + mostly harmless & Nazis who have a fascination with it akin to the eugenics + philosemitism white supremacy DLC. Never heard them bring this shit up! Or the stomach issues! It’s all about interiority without substance, giving people the wrong directions for their social lives & alternately flattering/beating them down
Also, while I’m here, I’ll pass on another piece of elite ball knowledge I got from the same person: gabapentin fixes the rizz issue. I am well past that point so make use of that information
gabapentin does nothing for me but give me diarrhea this some bullshit
Hmmm I should ask if they meant gabapentin abuse actually, in which case I rescind my recommendation. I find it very funny as the only experience I have with the US psychiatric system is getting sent to a psych by a relative (landlord tried to ruin my life & I was all freaked, not important rn) who works in medicine & having them immediately try to prescribe it to me without any real info to work with, which really freaked me out. I guess maybe I should have taken them up on the flagrant pill-pushing
What ACTUALLY works and makes your life better is tianeptine but you guys turned it into gas station dick pills when it was unregulated so noe it’s banned. People got serotonin syndrome or some shit because they thought it would be no worse than their 1000mg caffeine habit. Bad call
*LOWER by 16 years 😭 not quite that bad
