My favorite catholic lore is that anyone can make holy water in a pinch but the church puts dumb restrictions on us like ‘do this only if someone needs their last rites’ like I WILL bless this McDonald’s sprite and I WILL enjoy the crispiness of our lord and savior
Another bit is that holy water cannot be diluted. When I went to the Vatican the tour guide was explaining this, if you put any amount of holy water into any amount of normal water, the whole bunch becomes holy. This is how they sell Pope Holy Water in the gift shop. This is how I’ve been drinking only holy water for two months now. I am immune to demons.
Homeopathic holy
It’s not actually any amount of holy water- according to the Church, the water has to be more than half holy water by volume. So if you take a half gallon+a few drops of holy water and a half gallon of secular water, you get one gallon of holy water, plus a few drops. You can then add a gallon of secular water to that and then you have two gallons of holy water. We’ve got a couple jugs of Pope Water in the linen closet at my parents’ house, because my mom used the heck out of this loophole after a trip to Italy in 2008. It was more than a decade ago at this point and we still have Pope Water. We no longer have that Pope, but by god do we have his water.
Here’s what a jug of Pope water looks like. Mom measured a fill line on them so that we never accidentally run out and just have old jugs of secular water lying around.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: we have two flavors of pope water now, Benedict XVI and Francis! My little sister who lives in Italy went to the Vatican last week and got my mom some Francis water.
Needless to say, I will be mixing the two of them to see what happens. (Answer: nothing will happen, but it’ll be extremely funny to me. Supercharged waters of the papacy.)
The fact that anti-abortion laws and anti-transgender laws are both being implemented en masse, at the *same* time, by the *same* people (who, it hardly needs to be remarked, are overwhelmingly neither women nor transgender) should be enough to convince any reasonable person that the narrative of conflict between and women’s and transgender is, first and foremost, a divide-and-conquer strategy by the far right.
Your survival is our survival. Our survival is your survival. Anyone who says different is a fed.
I’m sorry but you’re either for Ukraine or for russia. There is no middle ground. I don’t care what your normal politics are. This isn’t about politics. This is about people’s lives. About them not being taken over by a country that is not only bombing them but raping and torturing them.
If you don’t think we should do all we can possibly do to stop such evil, you are on the wrong side of history.
[Text ID: We are thought of as less than people. When every story about me broke, it was “porn star Stormy Daniels, real name X,” and they printed my real name everywhere. Every time you see Whoopi Goldberg’s name, or Nicolas Cage or Bruno Mars, they don’t put their real name in parentheses behind it. I had so many female journalists do it to me. And when I said something to them, [they’d say,] “Say her name. Say her name. Her name is Stephanie Clifford, say it! She’s not just porn star Stormy Daniels!” But they never paused to think that maybe that’s the name I wanted. And you just outed my family. I guarantee you wouldn’t misgender me, so why would you use a dead name? And they thought they were doing the right thing because they’re on their big high feminist fucking #MeToo horse and they never even stopped to do the most basic feminist thing, which is ask the woman in the center of the storm what she wants to be called. And nobody did it. /End ID]
Fun fact! When I was googling to find this citation to make it easier to add the text id, google auto-completed “Stormy Daniels” to “Stormy Daniels real name” with her full legal name in giant letters right below the question!
There’s also this very insightful bit from her right before the above passage:
“One of the things I want to do, because of what happened to me in court, is to use [my] platform to lobby to change the rule about being able to discriminate against sex workers. Because as a director, all these years in the business, I saw so many girls come in and not want to be stars. They just wanted to make money to go to school, and they didn’t buy purses, they didn’t do drugs, they didn’t party, they didn’t do anything fucking stupid, right? I really got to know these women on a personal level because I was directing at least once a month for 10 years. And so I saw these girls come in, do everything right, get a degree in nursing, leave the business—but then a year or two years later, they’d come back because they got fired over and over and over because they got recognized at work.
And when they came back, that’s when they were broken. That’s when they did drugs. That’s when they died. That’s when I saw them commit suicide, not the first time around. I can name 50 girls right now who have gotten fired because they used to do porn. And that’s got to change and [the rape shield carve-out] has to change. And what they did to me has to change. Because it’s bullshit. You don’t want us to do porn, but you won’t let us do anything else.”
Your Rad Fem Trash TM podcast only validates what a TERF you are. When you have to vilify trans women to practice your version of feminism you’re perpetuating misogyny. That same thing you’re screaming no one will listen to you about!
Stop trying to tell us TERF suddenly is a blanket term meaning hate and silence all cis women. It’s not. It infuriates me that this podcast brings up that one time they found a trans woman was an abuser!! But don’t bother talking about the overwhelming danger and violence of living as a trans person.
This is the perfect portrait of the cis women who refuse to recognize their privilege or see the world from someone else’s POV. Refuse to use empathy or common fucking sense. This rad fem rhetoric that trans women have been silencing cis women is fucking ridiculous because
CIS PRIVILEGE = POWER
JK, you are so tied up in old school women’s rights demands that you entirely miss the revolutionary concept that gender is a construct which is being broken. You’re too busy trying to play the victim when you’re actually being an oppressor! You should be using all that power you have as a famous cis woman to support trans rights. This is why we all went from loving you to hating you. You’re acting ignorant and instead of apologizing and correcting your behavior you create some trash podcast trying to demonize trans women. Fuck that shit!
No joke you guys NEED to get more comfortable blocking people. No more insulting people in public over different blorbo opinions no more making 2k long posts on how whatever ship you don’t like shouldn’t exist we’ve grown past that shit. Consistent posts about shit that make you uncomfortable? Block. Rancid blorbo opinions? Block. Is mildly annoying in your replies? Block. Pisses you off for reasons so petty you could never admit it publicly? Block. YOUR mental health will improve from not being upset 24/7, THEIR mental health will not be at risk of you lashing out because you happened to catch their posts on a bad day, and EVERYONE ELSE will benefit from not seeing the most embarrassing arguments known to man on their dash. “Oooh but they didn’t deserve it-” dude you’re presumably running a personal blog as a hobby not a public service. Who fucking cares.
Lemme tell you something about being transmasc and recovering from the abuse of a cis man. I’ve spent a majority of my adulthood running like hell from who my father was and seriously interrogating what I was taught about gender roles. You know what actually helped me most? No longer seeing my own masculinity as a cross to bear and something I must actively work against. I’m not responsible for my father’s choices, he is. Being a man isn’t why he made them, he made them because he’s him. To me, statements like “he’s a man and that’s what they do” lets him off the hook. No, that’s what abusers do.
every time you make a post talking abt men in a political or social sense i need u to go back, read it, and think “is this accurate to trans men’s’ experiences. is it still true if they are included in the definition of men”. and if the answer to either of those is anything but a hard yes then you need to go back and edit ur post to say CIS men. every single fucking post. i mean it
