I have 2 female gliders both ~6y/o. Yesterday one of them came out during the day & was looking for food. I cut her up a fresh black berry, she ate & she crawled back into the pouch for the rest of the day.
Today she came out for a longer period of time & was looking for food, I gave her a little treat & she went back to her pouch. It’s now a couple hours later & she is out again looking for food.
Is this normal behavior for older gliders or should I be concerned? I’ve never had this happen before.
For context, their cage is in a room that gets sunlight throughout the day. I feed them around 8pm every day & they have multiple feeding & water stations in their cage. I shut the door to the room at night so my cats don’t bother them while they’re out. I’ll also hang out with them once they come out at night. My glider looks her usual healthy self, & clearly still has an appetite, I just can’t wrap my head around the change in sleep schedule. She just went back to her pouch but it seems like she’s been wide awake during the day for the last 2 days.

I am really unsure and I don’t know how to proceed. I think I want to transition MtF I was amab but I don’t feel gender dysphoria as far as I know. I just think I am faking it because I don’t look in the mirror and feel like that isn’t me or Hating my beard or my body hair. I just feel like I can’t be trans because I don’t have those feelings. The one thing I hate is being included in a meal stereotype. I just want to be seen as a human and not hear that is a guy/ girl thing to do.
But on the other hand I remember wanting to be in relationship as a woman with a woman. And I like the thought of having female anatomy and a female wardrobe. I even tried she / her pronouns and that felt good and being called a good girl on egg_irl
The thing that confuses me the most is that I also want to be in a relationship with man as man. I like the thought of it too. But I dislike masculine things. Like 90% of it.
I just don’t know the vocabulary to say what I am feeling. Please HELP!

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About 7 months ago we rescued a little female calico kitten (named asajj) that was thrown out of a car on my way home from work, she's been very sweet and all things considering relatively quite and calm. Fast forward to this past week when we rescued another male cat (named revan) probably around 6months - a year old. Fate would have it Asajj has decided to go into heat for the first time when he showed up! We have them separated for the time being (his appointment to get fixed is in 3 days and hers is in june) but asajj has decided she hates being kept from the love of her life and has been "howling" almost non stop for him. I was just seeing if anyone had any tips on how to help her quite down until he gets fixed and they can hang out again, thank you in advance!

I have a ten (almost 11) year old female Siberian. She was in good health but needed some dental work (her breath has been bad). Took her to the vet and they insisted on vaccinations before they will even allow the dental work to be schedule. She was given the first of two required distemper vaccines (it requires a booster and they also require a rabies vaccine that hasn’t been given yet). She did not have any immediate reactions in the couple of days following the vaccination, seemed her usual peppy involved self, but a week later, she suddenly became very lethargic, lost interest in food, play, etc. - she just wanted to sleep. Took her back to the vet; they said it could not be related to the vaccine because it didn’t happen right away. But she had a fever, and some elevated numbers indicating a possible infection of some sort. They have her an antibiotics shot and fluids (sub-q) and sent us home. She has slowly regained her appetite, but she is like a different cat - no interest in play or engaging with us much, whereas she had generally been very engaged with us from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed - she had very specific routines throughout the day and that’s all gone (mostly). Seems a little wobbly. Acting like a much older cat. Her fever is gone but I’m like, did the vaccine break my cat somehow??? I want my amazing, energetic, hyper-involved-with-her-people cat back. And she’s supposed to go back for the booster next week. I don’t know what to do and would welcome thoughts/advice/notes on similar experiences from other cat parents - thank you!

Hi guys, I downloaded an anatomy textbook that was ONLY labelled diagrams on one page and the page directly after that was the diagram without the labels & instead were blank lines so that you could fill them in yourself. My iCloud didn’t save it and I don’t remember the name. I only got past the first few diagrams which were the vertebrae specifically the vertebral column. I don’t remember the name if anyone can please assist! This is the only way I can visually learn! Thank you.

Hello! I’m up to my wits ends with my 2 younger female cats. I have 4 cats in the house; 2 males(brothers) that are 11 this year, and 2 females(sisters) that will be 5 in October.
Here’s my problem-both females are “marking” the couch where the one male cat sleeps. I literally just spent $3000 on new couches and installed them Sunday. Had to throw my decent sectional out because I thought it would help the marking stop. Then last night there was a piss spot from both girls. I know which one did what, because I put a camera in the living room. They have been to the vet, and this appears to be strictly territorial behavior. They are currently locked in a room at home while Im at work (full food, water, litter box and toys) Has anyone been in this position and succeeded and getting cats to stop being territorial?? I’m so stressed and to the point of considering rehomming for the females but I love them so much 😢 Any suggestions at all that anyone has, please send my way!

Cat hasn't been having a good time since we have had our kids/ dog. She needs to be a solo cat. Had her for 5 years now. But very scared of kids and other animals cats included. Needs a nice quiet place to live and not be bothered by kids and our dog. White and grey female fixed.

Hello!
I just got a new male kitten (~3 months old). I also have a 4 year old female cat. It's been about a month since I got the kitten and I've recently began letting then interact face to face. My 4 year old cat goes between playing with him and then growling/hissing and hitting him with her paw. I know this is normal but am not sure how much of her doing this is too much. I don't want to ruin their relationship. Usually when she's hissing her tail is still swinging fast which I have heard is her playing so that confuses me too. Is this normal? Should I be doing it differently? Hes very curious of her and is constantly following her and trying to play. Any advice would be appreciated! Thank you very much!

TLDR: Ember (male) refuses to stop being physically aggressive to Mamba (female) regardless of what we try.
My fiancé and her cat moved in with my two cats and two dogs over a year ago. Her cat, Ember (male), is still extremely aggressive to one of my cats, Mamba (female). We introduced everyone very slowly using many techniques to ensure they'd get acclimated in a healthy way. Ember was at first very confrontational with all of the animals but none of them were reactive to his threats and attacks so things simmered down quickly. He now accepts the dogs and will even speak. rub noses and cuddle with my big orange cat, Olly.
Mamba has definitely been defensive and hissy with him from the start but has never gone out of her way to be aggressive. Ember on the other hand, will actively stalk her around corners, display aggressive body-language and attack her when she's completely unaware. I definitely think their dynamic has to do without they both act towards each other but I know for a fact that if Ember wasn't so aggressive there wouldn't be a single issue. Ember has pushed so many physical altercations with Mamba that we've had to ensure both of their nails are always trimmed so Ember doesn't keep ending up with minor injuries. He keeps LOSING fights he causes and it somehow bolsters his ornery behavior.
I should mention Ember has FLUTD, which makes him a lot more ornery than a normal cat.
We have tried so many different techniques for dealing with this, none of which have worked at all. We've given Ember and Mamba Gabapentin prior to giving them a chance to interact. Ember has been on Amitriptyline for his overall anxiety - hasn't done jack for his aggressive behavior.
We've tried separating both Ember and Mamba in our adjacent MIL suite for a week at a time and re-introducing them. It has helped Mamba be much less reactive and hissy to his presence... it has done nothing but make Ember more aggressive since he senses less resistance from her.
There are times when both Ember and Mamba will be in the living room and neither even so much as hisses. They both keep to their own space - but that's still very rare.

Hi, everyone! I'm a 20 year old female living in Florida. My parents are both German, but I was born here and never got the chance to travel out of state.
I've always wanted to go to Europe and I think I've found the perfect opportunity. There is a program to travel abroad to Norway. The college is in a little seaside town outside Oslo and you can even go to the far north with a certain course. Since I've discovered it, I've been so excited and planning (in my head lol).
I'll have to save up for at least a year since it's expensive, but it would be my absolute dream come true. I just feel like I need to explore and find myself.
The thing is that my parents have been divorced for 20 years and I'm an only child. That means I'll have to leave my mom who I live with alone with 2 dogs and 3 cats. She doesn't particularly care for the cats, and only has the dogs because of me (though she admitted she really loves them.)
Being abroad means I'll be gone for a month, and I've never been away from home for longer than a day or so, so I'd feel really guilty about it. We hang out every day. I keep picturing her alone on her couch like 'oh, I'm so sad that there's no one else here.' and 'oh, I have all these cats I have to care for, and I don't even like them!!'
She doesn't have friends except for a couple neighbors she chats with occasionally and her old friend from Germany she video calls with. Would I be selfish to go away for a month to study in Norway?

Let me share my 3000h of modded wisdom with you, my fellow vanilla comrades. My attempt here is to provide you with as many as possible improvements to the base game while keeping the style, balance, and content as vanilla as possible. As they say, when it works the best is when you don't realize it is there. I guarantee you that after playing a few dozen hours with these, you will no longer be able to tell what's vanilla and what's not.
I decided to cut my recommendations onto different types of lists, so it's easier for you. The most purists players can stick with QoL only. Or, even if you're a psychopath purist who doesn't any QoL improvement, you can still use the performance list.
Mandatory mods: Harmony and Huglibs. Something, something, libraries. They do nothing on their own, but most mods require them. While fewer, a lot of mods also require Vanilla Framework Expanded. And this one actually does cool things on its own, like automatically loading new factions without having to start a new game, so I would recommend subscribing to that one as well.
Performance

• Dub performance analyzer. Enable the optimizations and override options, you can ignore everything else. If you want to disable alerts, use rocketman.
• Rocketman. By default, it should be good enough. This mod also allows to disable alerts you may don't care about, like, dunno, tattered apparel or unhappy nudity. It is recommended to run adaptive move occasionally (in stat cache settings).
• Performance Optimizer. More hacker magic. If you don't like the UI changes, you can disable them in the options. This mod does more performance stuff aside from that, so use it anyway!
• Performance Fish. You will have to install this mod manually, since it's not available in the workshop. You will also need to install its dependencies, Fishery and Prepatcher. Please, be aware that at the present there's an issue in which linking storage crashes the game. However, this is solved by disabling "TryFindBestBetterStoreCellFor" in the options.

Quality of life

• Optimization Meats. Unless you really want dozens of different meat types for some weird role-play reason, this mod reduces meat micromanagement. It can also improve performance a bit.
• Animal Tab
• BetterInfoCard
• Bionic icons
• Conduit Deconstruct
• Disable Automatically Select Travel Supplies
• Dubs Mint Menus
• Improved Need Indicator
• Map Preview. You can preview and reroll the map until you get something with a shape you like.
• Prepare Landing. You can search tiles matching your conditions.
• Medical Tab
• More Harvest Designators!
• ModDiff
• Pharmacist Temporary Update.
• Smart Turret Covering. Fixes an issue with turret covers.
• PawnTargetFix. Pawns prioritize the closest target.
• Poisoned Food Stack Fix (Fix). Fixes an issue with meal stacks.
• Priority Treatment Ressurected. Doctors will finally prioritize keeping your pawns alive over taking a nap. Disable the X option, it can cause issues.
• QualityBuilder. You can set up a target level for furniture, and your pawns will reconstruct it until it's achieved. If I remember correctly, it's enabled by default for all furniture? Disable that in options.
• RPG Style Inventory Revamped. Much better looking inventory.
• Replace Stuff. Allows to directly replace buildings, without having to deconstruct first.
• Research Tree. A better research tree, if you ask me.
• RimHUD. The best mod of the whole list.
• RimSaves. Overhaul of the save menu.
• Show Known Techprints on the trade screen.
• Show mechanoid weapons
• Smarter Construction. No more babysitting pawns when building walls.
• Stack gap
• Sun Lamp Honesty
• Trait and Backstory Icons
• Trade Ships Drop Spot
• Trading Options
• WVC. More work modes for the mechanitor.
• XML Extensions. You won't be able to access the options of some menus without this mod.
• Save Settings
• No Max Bills
• Better ground-penetrating scanner
• Colored deep resources
• Common Sense

Minor changes

• Almostthere1.5
• Stepping Stones. A more realistic research path.
• Animals Logic
• Non uno Pinata (don't drop items)
• Beautiful Jade
• Bulk Smelting
• Stonecutting Extended
• Electric Stonecutting Table
• Faster Smoothing
• Do Your F****** Research. You can order pawns to research.
• Go the Fork to Sleep. You can order pawns to sleep.
• Dubs Break Mod
• Gene Trader
• Fists Aren't Made of Steel. Reduces the unarmed melee damage, making prison breaks and tantrums much less frustrating.
• Just Put It Over There
• Meal Radius
• No Burn Metal
• Prisoners Should Fear Turrets
• Realistic Rooms Rewritten. Allows to tweak how pawns perceive room sizes.
• Ugh You Got Me
• Smarter Visitors. Visitors will leave if things get dangerous.
• Better Gene Inheritance
• Better Pawn Control
• Better Pyromania
• Death Acidifiest
• Memorable Auroras (Continued)
• Custom Guilt Duration
• Death Rattle + Biosculpter Patch + Life Support
• Dress Patients
• Way Better Romance
• Enemy Self Preservation
• No One Left Behind
• Hunters Use Melee!
• Injured Carry
• Mortar Accuracy
• Deep Storage + Simple Storage
• Not My Fault
• Pick Up And Haul. Improved hauling.
• While You're Up. Complement for the previous mod.
• RunAndGun.
• Snap Out!
• Vanilla Genes Rebalanced
• Trading Spot
• Better Camp Loot
• Graze up
• Vanilla Base Generation Expanded

Mayor changes

• Dubs Bad Hygiene
• Dynamic Flooding
• Some Things Float
• Layered Wall Destruction
• Vanilla Temperature Expanded
• Yayo's Combat 3 (Continued)

Visual/atmospheric changes

• Better Explosions
• Better Vanilla Masking
• Graphic Chair Overhaul 2
• Not Overhead Meal
• Graphics Settings+
• Graying Hair
• Show Hair With Hats or Hide All Hats
• Gunplay
• Blood Animations
• Childrens Drawings
• Cuter Biotech Cat/Dog Ear Replacer. If you don't like the meat-colored animal ears from Biotech, this is for you!
• Geological Landforms. New map shapes!
• Biome Transitions
• Interaction Bubbles
• SpeakUp
• More Mini-Horns
• More Vanilla Textures
• Muzzle Flash
• My Little Planet
• Sand Castles. Like snowmen, but for sand.
• Spectacular Skullspike. You can rotate them now.
• ReGrowth. Overhaul of biomes and much more!
• Sandstorms
• Vanilla Races Expanded - Custom Icons. For Biotech.
• Yayo's Animation (Continued)

Retextures

• Parka Retexture
• Retextured Apparel
• Retextured Sculptures
• Vanilla Beards Retextured
• Vanilla Hair Retextured
• Vanilla Pawns Retextured
• Marbled Marble
• Essentials: Stone (the stat changes won't work)
• Vanilla Textures Expanded - Variations
• Vanilla Textures Expanded
• I Hate Daylilies
• Biotech Mechanoid Retexture
• Tastier Vanilla Clothes
• Van's Steel
• Glowing Healroot

Audio

• Ambient Rim. New sound effects.
• Realistic Human Sounds. Pawns make sounds when hurt.
• Actually Vanilla Music Expansion. New music.
• P-Music. New music.

Hairs

• Erin's Hairstyles 2
• Hard Times
• Rimsenal - Hair pack + Retextured
• Roo's HD Hairstyles
• Roo's HD Royalty Hairstyles
• The Vanity Project - Female Hair
• Won hair_men + Retextured
• Won hair_women + Retextured

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Ideology:

• More Ideological Words
• More Religious Origins
• Peer Pressure
• Persistent Precepts
• Style Change Anytime
• Conversion and Recruitment
• Icons and Symbols
• Relics and Artifacts

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Bonus: artists! For fun comics, and the occasional animation, check the profiles of u/daleksdeservevictory , u/AzulCrescent , u/AetherealVanguard , u/Senseless0 , u/ATTF , u/Aelanna , srgrafo, u/Fonzawa , u/Ivancmedia , u/zyll3 , u/meto30 , u/AeolysScribbles , u/cavalier753 , u/GABESTFY , u/VectorData , u/arxian , u/Nguyenanh2132 , u/sorrowful_dance , u/meto30 , u/-desdinova- , u/truffli

Edit: If you are going to comment on the length of this post, please don't. This is not a simple snark but rather an actual critical think piece about feminism and Taylor Swift.

Introduction

Pertaining to Taylor Swift, "Female Rage" has deviated from its intended meaning after Swift debuted a new performance of The Tortured Poets Department during the Eras Tour. Now, according to Swift's use of the phrase, female rage is interpreted as public backlash against Swift's dating choices rather than as a response to the broader injustices against women and women's rights. This post examines Taylor Swift's flawed feminism, philanthropy, branding, and the controversial trademark petition for the phrase "Female Rage: The Musical". Swift's background as an entertainer, indeterminate politics, and alignment with capitalism over feminism pervades her legacy, again threatening her public tolerance as not just an individual but as a brand.

Once Upon a Female Rage...

If you were cognizant in the early 2010's, you've heard countless jabs at Taylor Swift in the media. Magazines, radio, or online. Music critics did not take her seriously as a songwriter; parents put a woman on an unrealistic pedestal as the ideal role model for their children; she dated too much and used men as lyrical fodder. No matter the story, it inevitably spread, conjoined with everyone's respective opinions, and you'd be left to wonder, "Why does everyone hate this girl so much?"
Taylor's target demographic has always been young or adolescent girls, more so when Swift herself was one. She made music that spoke to the awkward misfit, cultivating a para-social relationship with fans on MySpace, then later twitter, Instagram, and YouTube, where Taylor posted relatable vlogs showcasing the life of a homegrown American girl. Taylor had a delayed public "growing up" and, compared to her female pop contemporaries, Swift never "gratuitously sexualized her image and seems pathologically averse to controversy" (and, apparently, never even had a sip of alcohol until she turned 21). She was more than happy to spin this narrative to allude to an inherent moral superiority above other women in the industry (Better Than Revenge, heard of it?), engaging in the very slut-shaming that she herself endured (the Madonna and Whore archetypes). The victim complex arose with the need to prove Taylor as a different type of pop girl. Based upon her holy and clean image, Swift had been dubbed "a feminist's nightmare", and that "[To Swift] other girls are obstacles; undeserving enemies who steal Taylor’s soulmates with their bewitching good looks and sexual availability." Feminism and Tennessee-Christian country values don't exactly mix, it seems.
Years later, Swift befriended Lena Dunham and thus experienced white feminism osmosis, where Dunham taught Swift that real feminists defend rapists, makes insensitive jokes about rape and abortion, and prioritize all-white casts. Swift then declared herself a feminist in 2014, saying,

"Becoming friends with Lena – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realize that I’ve been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so."

I suppose the male-centric songwriting subject that permeates Swift's discography contained covert feminism and that we just didn't see that. Perhaps, the "Bad Blood" song and music video were written only in jest and not about poor Katy Perry, for Swift, as a feminist, would "never make it a girl fight" or tear other women down (though all Katy did was date your terrible ex-boyfriend and allegedly steal three backup dancers from your tour). In 2013, Swift said, in response to Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's joke towards her serial dating, "There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
There was that time in 2015 Taylor said that Nicki Minaj was "invited to any stage [she is] on" (as if Taylor expects to have access to every stage, award, and platform that Nicki might not otherwise have as a black female artist...yikes!) in response to Nicki's criticism of the white + thin VMA nominations. Later, Nicki responded with confusion, as Swift continued, "It’s unlike you to pit women against each other. Maybe one of the men took your slot..". Of course, this 'beef' was 'squashed' when Nicki performed with Taylor at the VMAs, with Nicki quite literally only having 38 seconds of stage time without Taylor. Maybe all that parading around with a legion of famous white women - similar to the way Taylor might've done with her numerous 1989-era handbags - was in fact a stance against gender inequality, and that this display of "girl power" should be enough to constitute Swift as a feminist icon.
Even while Swift says that Dunham informed her feminist outlook, she dances around the exact contents of those beliefs: "what she believes, what she says, what she stands for" is not exactly insightful towards what beliefs Swift might have inherited. Taylor never broaches women's rights topics such femicide, FGM, forced pregnancy & marriage, sex trafficking, women in slavery, women's financial and political oppression, women's educational rights, women's health, or women's autonomy, so we can assume she only gives a fuck about "girls supporting girls" (whatever that fucking means).
Despite some questionable (and sometimes vindictive) behavior, Taylor as a young woman did not deserve every media lashing that she received. We cannot deny that most headlines and criticisms perpetuated a misogynistic rhetoric which has plagued Swift for a majority of her career. Acknowledging events such as the development of her ED, her sexual assault trial, "Famous" lyric and MV depiction of Taylor, and the explicit Twitter deepfakes, for example, as both disgusting and unfortunate things that happened to a young woman in Hollywood does not negate the fact that Taylor is mostly a performative feminist.

Get Your Fucking Ass Up and Be a Philanthropist, It Seems Like Nobody Wants to Be a Philanthropist These Days

In 2013, Taylor Swift cut the ribbon at the grand opening of the Taylor Swift Education Center at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. The donation amount - $4 million - was the largest individual artist gift ever donated to the Country Music Hall of Fame, which is, of course, mentioned on Swift's website. The two-story facility features three classrooms, an instrument room, and an interactive children's exhibit gallery. Swift also performed at "All for the Hall" charity shows and has donated numerous artifacts from her career (such as notable guitars, tour costumes, etc) to the museum.
This was over 11 years ago, and it is still the only notable philanthropic contribution Taylor Swift has made.
For a woman of her net worth and stature, and a woman who recognizes the difficulties for women in film and music, you would think that Taylor Swift might establish a scholarship program for women to study the arts or something. Perhaps Swift might even consider becoming a member of organizations that support female artists, or one that supports LGBTQ+ causes (since she is now proudly an ally), yet she remains superficial with her graces. Broader philanthropy, such as donating relief aid to Palestinian women or women impacted by violence and discrimination will probably never receive any financial support from Miss Swift because then she'd be using her money towards philanthropies involving anyone but white entertainers.
She even says herself in Miss Americana, "My entire moral code as a kid and now is a need to be thought of as 'good'." Well, she's certainly thought of as good, though her actions say otherwise. She's more than happy to do a vaguely altruistic song and dance for a clip-worthy interview quote and mass appeasement, then fuck off to one of her mansions on a 20 minute private jet flight, rather than actually contribute to anything pertaining to the causes she has endorsed. Yet, far too many people continue to give a woman such as her their money, time, and energy, and she hoards these resources to herself.

I Like Some of the Taylor's Songs, But What the Fuck Does She Know About Feminism?

Swift continued with her self-proclaimed feminist campaign, positioning herself as a political activist and LGBTQ+ ally in the Miss Americana documentary. The primary focus of the documentary consists of the sexual assault trial, Andrea Swift's cancer diagnosis, Taylor's ED and body dysmorphia, media scrutiny, and, largely, finally speaking up about her politics publicly, mostly her opposition to the 2018 Tennessee Republican senate candidate, Marsha Blackburn, and Blackburn's beliefs. Swift says, following a scene discussing her experience during the trial,

"I just couldn't really stop thinking about it. And I just thought to myself, next time there is any opportunity to change anything, you had better know what you stand for and what you want to say."

We must ask ourselves, though: when has Swift ever spoken up to change anything? Okay, pulling her entire catalogue from Spotify because they didn't pay their artists enough and similarly pulling her catalogue from Apple Music are changes that she leveraged due to her revenue potential and power, but they are not pertinent to the average woman's rights. Moreover, these are issues that directly impacted Taylor's income, which was enough reason for her to protest in the first place. Swift has sold the most units for a female artist in first week sales, is the first female artist with 100k monthly Spotify listeners, is the first female artist to win the Album of the Year Grammy 4 times, and is the first female artist to do X, Y, and Z, all while being inoffensive and family-friendly to boot. The actual Taylor Swift seems unwilling to compromise the brand of Taylor Swift by contributing in meaningful ways to feminist causes, especially if it is for women outside of America and Hollywood.
The reason political anthems such as "The Man" and "Only the Young" of the Lover era feel disingenuous and corporate is because, well, it is. Taylor has taken every opportunity to advance her career or public image at the expense of other women. What is truly genuine to Taylor's outlook on other women is vying for male attention, taking down female competition, and vocalizing feminist injustices only if they directly impact her and her money. Some will argue that it's satisfactory for a woman with such a huge platform to even TALK about feminism, but that just isn't enough. It's even less impressive when you candidly look at the scope of her feminist lens: "If I was the man, then I'd be THE MAN", or "I really resent the ‘Be careful, buddy, she’s going to write a song about you’ angle, because it trivialises what I do", and, of course, "We all got crowns". Feminism, but only when it happens to me. It gets worse when you look at Taylor's track record of copying other famous women and removing other female artists as potential threats to her pop prowess.
It's good for PR to align yourself with certain blanket feminist and political beliefs, therefore good for branding, therefore good for ticketing and merchandise sales, therefore good for business. And Taylor Swift is a business.
She's not a feminist. Taylor Swift is a capitalist.

I Can't Pay Those Sweatshop Workers a Livable Wage or Benefits! How Else Would I Make My Billions?

Recently, Taylor's team filed to trademark the phrase "Female Rage: The Musical" after Taylor said during Paris N1 of the Eras Tour,

"So you were the first ones to see The Tortured Poets at the Eras Tour...or as I like to call it, 'Female Rage: The Musical'."

This trademark petition was filed last week on Saturday, and news comes about just as numerous unofficial fan-made merch designs have cropped up with this phrase plastered on Fruit of the Loom basics. I'm of the opinion Swift's team motioned for a trademark so that they can send out cease & desists to all those that make knockoff merch, which disrupts potential sales for Bravado, UMG's choice merchandising company; however, since it was filed earlier, perhaps Swift has bigger plans with the bizarre use of the gendered phrase. One Swiftie referred to the phrase "female rage" as "a funny Eras Tour joke". Could it be a possible fourth version of the Eras Tour Movie? Whatever the reason, the motion to capitalize off of such a concept is disgusting, but not unsurprising, for a woman that profits on her vain feminism.
Swift, through her company, TAS Rights Managements, has also trademarked over 200 phrases, including "1989", where she owns the property rights to this calendar year on keychains, phone cases, sunglasses, stationary, bags, beverage ware, clothing, entertainment services, your subconscious, and, of course, Christmas ornaments.
The vapid consumerism in Swiftie culture is, frankly, disgusting. Bravado's sustainability statement is non-existent, the quality control is abysmal, and the materials they use are horrible. The materials, such as acrylic and polyester, are made from petrochemicals. This means they are non-renewable, shed microplastics, and are quite toxic in production. The manufacturing process to make all of those lazy-rushed Eras Tour logo graphic tees is a huge blow to environmental well-being. Apparently, though, Swifties don't give a fuck. They sell out products in seconds and either have to face the manufactured scarcity or buy from a scalper that resells for 200% of the already ridiculous retail price. This doesn't include the environmental impact of vinyl records, CD, and cassette production, of which Taylor produces many variants that sell unsustainable amounts.
If we're talking about women's rights violations, why is no one acknowledging the women that work in the inhumane sweatshop conditions that have to pump out fugly t-shirts and hats? The millions of plastic microfiber dander they are inhaling, or the toxic dyes that touch their bare skin? Are they being compensated fairly for their skilled labour and are they in safe working environments? Do these women have minimal bargaining power, and do they have authority over their worker's rights? Is Taylor Swift female raging at their injustices? Does Taylor Swift ever feels bad that her wealth was built on the backs of women of color, disadvantaged by the demands of the global economy and garment industry? Do you think she ever says a little white feminist prayer for them before she goes to sleep at night?
What's even crazier is not that Taylor herself doesn't care, it's that Swifties don't care. There CANNOT BE ethical billionaires. You only make a billion dollars if you are exploiting other human beings for capital gain. Based on public perception of the possible "Female Rage: The Musical" trademark, it seems like Swifties are already asking for merch with this phrase. "If Taylor made it, I'd buy it." Oh, cool. So not only do you champion Miss Swift's avarice and billionaire status, but you also are unashamed to admit to your blind consumption of her music and merchandise, no matter where they might originate in production or sincerity. Just as Swift takes and takes and takes, Swifties' consumerism of Taylor Swift cannot be quelled.
The tortured artist's most vulnerable and sincere poetry...available now in 21 different versions!

I Am Tortured Poet, Hear Me Whinge

Look - even if Taylor's intention is to characterize TTPD as more "tortured" and "angry", the main thread of the album is "I was ghosted by my decade-long situationship with a controversial indie boy and my fucking stupid fans wrote a 'Speak Up Now' open letter prompting me to drop him" anger, which is adequately expressed in the lyrics and performances. The extent of Taylor's "female rage" on TTPD is on tracks such as "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?", which contends with relentless media scrutiny; "But Daddy I Love Him", where Swift firmly states she'll date whoever she likes no matter how "Sarahs and Hannahs" may react; and "The Albatross", a track mythologizing her reputation and the consequences of dating her. Of course, these coincide with deep psychological wounds that formed during Swift's early years in the media, and so, from her feminist perspective, these subjects tackle the misogyny and double standards that she faced.
Yet Taylor Swift still has no grounds to be claiming that TTPD best exemplifies female rage and therefore she, in the context of this album, is female rage incarnate. As the daughter of a stock broker and mutual fund marketing executive, Taylor was born into wealth and allowed privileges like trips and subsequent relocation to Nashville all so that she might get a record deal. Her father even invested at least $120,000 into the then-fledgling label, Big Machine Records, which ensured Taylor's place with Borchetta after leaving her dead-end development deal with Sony. The fact that her parents were able to buy her a fucking brand new guitar for Christmas and pay for music lessons says so much about the financial security and safety of her childhood.
Money is privilege and protection, and despite Swift's experiences with misogyny and loser boyfriends, she does not know what female rage is.
Her rage is derived from her frustrations with her obsessive fans pulling the moral superiority card on Taylor in response to her rebound with Matty Healy. That's literally it. She's just pissed that the monster she created is no longer obediant, it's become a feral, sovereign entity that depletes the world of its natural resources and thinks it is more intelligent than it actually is because it's mommy has started to talk to it with big words. Apparently, 'illicit', 'elegy', 'nonchalant', and 'precocious' are considerably big words for the oafish monster, and I find it strange that this level of literacy is present in a group of fans that allegedly have GPAs of 3.5 or higher, but I digress.
Taylor Swift has never been one paycheck away from destitution. Taylor Swift has never experienced racial discrimination. She may have instances of gender discrimination, but she possesses the ideal white, blonde American beauty standard and therefore reaps the benefits of being a conventionally attractive woman. Taylor Swift has sufficient social capital. Taylor Swift is a billionaire woman prolonging her victimhood though she, as a woman, has mostly had control over her image and music (unlike her contemporaries). Taylor Swift is NOT entitled to be championed for her "female rage", nor should she be. Taylor Swift has never even been the struggling artist, for fuck's sake. I don't give a fuck if she's trying to fill the empty lunch tables of her past. Taylor Swift purporting herself, her unpolished album, and her lukewarm feminism as a musical bleeding with female rage is asinine.

Sigh Try and Come For My Job, Poors

Out there in the world right now is a 23-year-old woman, a recent college grad, who works as a barista. She has to wake up and get ready to go into a minimum wage job because she cannot get a job in her field. She doesn't have healthcare benefits or sick time, so she has to go into work no matter how she's feeling. All day long she is berated by vicious customers and creepy men, and, exhausted from being on her feet, she knows she has to go home to her shitty roommate that never does the dishes and her roommate's shitty dog. To comfort herself, she considers getting a treat, but thinks against it when she remembers that matcha lattes cost $15 and they taste like milky dirt. She knows that she needs to buy groceries this week, and so the woman resolves to go home, but notices that her gas tank is low. She goes to put gas in the car, but the pump stops at $27.86 because that's all that she has in her checking account. The woman, bereft and reeling, sinks into the driver's seat. "Well," she thinks, her head in her hands, "at least I don't have Taylor Swift's job. I just couldn't imagine."
Fame is somewhat of a choice. If at any moment Taylor feels that she is misunderstood, misconstrued, or overwhelmed by public opinion, she can LEAVE the public eye - Lord knows she has the retirement fund and residuals to do so. In "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart", the TTPD song about meeting the demands of your career-zenith mega-tour while in the relationship trenches, Taylor ends the song by rambling,

"You know you're good when you can even do it with a broken heart...you know you're good...and I'm good, cause I'm miserable, and no one even knows!...try and come for my job."

Yeah, obviously we wouldn't know, you recently passed the billionaire threshold and are the most famous and in-demand performer in the world right now. Taylor Swift makes an estimated $10 to $13 million dollars A NIGHT on the Eras Tour. Furthermore, the Eras Tour movie grossed $261.6 million globally, (which, as the producer, Taylor takes home 57% of the ticket sales) not counting the streaming revenue from Amazon Prime Video and the estimated $75 million deal that Disney paid to have it on Disney+. We're not even considering the income from cheap plastic popcorn buckets and drink cups plastered with colored squares in her Era-specific likeness.
It's funny. Taylor Swift often said that being famous wasn't hard, that she "isn't complaining". I'm sure it is difficult to always have to present in a good mood, else you'll end up misrepresented in the media, and I'm sure it's invasive to virtually have no privacy or semblance of anonymity. Still, Taylor Swift shows up each night of tour and performs. For a majority of her career, she has penned her sad songs while on the road. Most of "Red", her breakup album, was written in the thick of the Speak Now World tour. Now, some Swifties say they almost "feel bad" for attending the Eras Tour with Swift's revelations in this song, that they have had a 'dimmed experience' upon hearing Taylor's misery whilst performing. Despite the fact that Taylor said that "this was the happiest she's ever been" at Gilette Stadium in May, the lyrics "boohoo, woe is me, smile for the cameras and make the fans happy!!!" are jarring for Eras attendees.
While Taylor Swift was making double-digit millions a night in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and feeling miserable, Ana Clara Benevides Machado passed away due to heat exposure. The concert promoters, Time For Fun, are now the subject of a criminal investigation due to their lack of adequate hydration and safety. Taylor Swift cancelled the Sunday show that was to follow and offered VIP tent tickets to Benevides Marchado's family, which was a kind gesture, but perhaps incongruous to the incident of which they were offered as consolation. Everyone grieves differently, of course, but I'm not sure attending the very show at the very same venue that my daughter or sister passed away in two days prior, where the singer CONTINUED the show despite her death, would be healthy for closure.
There was no female rage at the show as Swift never saw Benevides Machado pass out. There was no female rage towards the disregard for fans as humans while Swift elected to proceed with her Brazil tour dates despite the country being in historic heatwaves (at risk of overheatting herself). If Taylor Swift was so shaken by touring with a broken heart or a fan's passing, she wouldn't have added an additional North American leg of Eras just two months after the Matty breakup. She's brokenhearted but willing to mend the cracks with your money and move onward with her worldwide female rage induced pillaging.
No matter what happens, even if you die at a Taylor Swift concert, Taylor collects a big fat check and flies away. She doesn't know you as anything other than a conversion rate or earning potential despite what her nearly 20-year long parasocial relationship with fans might otherwise indicate. She knows that, while some Swifties are without disposable income, they feel obligated to spend on a "48 Hours Only!" exclusive vinyl variant instead of necessities because they are so entrenched in Taylor Swift's intoxicating celebrity, they'll prioritize materialistic fandom before their needs. This is good enough for her because this means she can expand her real estate portfolio and finance her cat's lavish lifestyles. They're worth an estimated $100 million dollars. Her three cats could pool their net worth and solve world hunger.
While you and I might be denied bereavement leave and barely surviving the current political and economic climate, Taylor Swift has to, instead of gets to, perform for stadiums at full attendance for three nights in a row across the globe. You and I might be replaced by AI at our longtime jobs, but Taylor Swift is threatened with losing more and more money each time you listen to a "Stolen Version" of her songs. If we don't buy every variant of all of her albums, then who is going to pay for the fucking cats?
It is tone deaf to spend as she spends and lives as she lives in this economy, but this is her reality. She was able to donate $100,000 to all of her tour truck drivers, and that's wonderful, but it leads me to wonder about the ethos of the 2020s where one woman can hoard such life-changing amounts of money. Remember in 2014 when she gave a fan $90 ($120 in today's money) to get Chipotle because she had no fucking clue how much it cost? This is a 34-year-old woman who is increasingly out of touch with the reality for working class people and women in general. Normal everyday adults must wake up and go to their thankless jobs, and yet Taylor Swift, despite all her riches, incessantly references the lows of her life and career as a public figure and entertainer to farm sympathy and drive sales. And still, the corporate women have latched onto "I cry a lot, but I am so productive! It's an art!" as their cubicle battle cry.
Do you think that, from up in her private jet, Taylor Swift gazes at the world through her poetic, tortured eyes, and thinks, "All the little people, in their cars, walking, going about their lives...all those girls that don't support girls...do they know that I've made an album about female rage?"

Conclusion/TLDR

Thank you for reading. I would love to hear your critical insights towards this entire ordeal: TTPD, the trademark, the implications of it all.
TLDR: Taylor Swift is a bad feminist and is delusional to think that the TTPD eras set exemplifies female rage at women's injustice.

I am a 31 year old female, about 140 lbs. Medications I take are: Lexapro, Seroquel, Ritalin, Gabapentin.
I was bitten and scratched by one of my outdoor cats earlier while trying to break up a fight. I am not worried about rabies as they are vaccinated. I have been hospitalized before for a cat bite infection, the bite went into my finger tendon and I did not wash it for about an hour after I was bitten. That said, I am ultra paranoid and do not want to spend days on an IV drip if I can avoid it.
Here are photos of the wound and here is what I did to care for the wound:
https://imgur.com/6Wre1zH https://imgur.com/WywQGeR https://imgur.com/iLYID7h
Immediately after the bite I came inside and ran hot water over the wound and used Hibiclens surgical scrub to clean it. I made sure the soap was inside the wounds and washed for about 5 minutes straight. Then I used antiseptic wipes to clean it even further, even squeezing the solution into the wounds. Then I used an alcohol prep pad to do one more wipe over everything before covering everything with neosporin. Then I wrapped it in gauze and soft tape to keep it covered. I also took 500mg of amoxicillin since I had a bottle from a dentist appointment I never used.
SO, do I need to go to the hospital or urgent care still?

Hi there, I'm an 18 year old female living in midwest USA. I'm looking to meet new people, whether it is to end up romantic or not. I have a part time job and I am living at home with my parents. I also have 2 silly cats! Some things I am quite passionate about are music, animals, nature, and video games. Please do not be older than 25 and do not be weird. I have free time for the next few hours so if you would like to message me and see this within 4 hours I should reply quickly and we can have a chat :) Thank you and have a good day ~ P.S. Tagged "Relationship", but looking for friends as well :)

I’m on a waitlist for a breeder having a final litter. I wanted female, well they were just born last week and all five little boys.
My concern is housebreaking, I know to take them out every twenty minutes after eating playing or sleeping. I know to use positive reinforcement and never be angry. I already have pet urine cleaner for my cats and I know male or female the first year is full of accidents and oops.
But I fear vertical marking, whether it’s hormone or territorial or something. In my past even neutering doesn’t stop this 100%.
I’ve never owned cavalier or cavapoo though. Are they more clean? Easier to train?
Or should I find a different breeder?

Last night, I decided to have a go at active imagination (I have done so before, but only very vague images have come from it), and not long into it, I found myself talking to a man, who was somewhat of a father-figure from my childhood.
I won't go into too much detail, but he spoke to me about the anima and grief. He also said I should reflect on the (good and bad) characteristics I have developed from my Mother, because it will help me understand my anima.
Unfortunately he didn't finish everything he had to say, as my cat came in through my bedroom window and broke my concentration.
Then, before bed, I did what I was told and started to reflect on the negative aspects of my anima, by contemplating on the negative characteristics I had developed from my Mother.
Then I drifted off to sleep, and started dreaming that I was with one of my younger sisters (the daughter of the man I spoke to during active imagination). We were in my Mother's house, no words were spoken that I can recall, but there was music playing in the background (Starlight by Slash, a great song that I have not heard in many years). Then all of a sudden, the music slowly starts to fade, until everything goes dead silent, and I am alone.
As I looked around me, I noticed I was surrounded by complete darkness, I was no longer with my sister and no longer at my Mother's house, and I was staring into complete darkness. Although I couldn't see, I could feel someone standing infront of me, that had a presence that left me feeling cold and afraid. Because I have been delving into Jung's work recently, in the dream I was somewhat aware that I was facing my shadow. However, strangely enough I had the strange sense that it was a woman. As I became almost certain of it's female presence, I felt the urge to embrace it lovingly, but as I did, I was soon struck with a deep sense of fear and woke up in a fright.
I'm usually quite good at making out what my dreams mean, but I've never experienced anything like this before, it felt so intense and real. I know it has something to do with my shadow, and that it's linked to the things I was reflecting on before bed, but I truly don't know what to make of this.
Edit: Because of how aware I appeared to be in the dream (i.e. recognising the darkness as my shadow), I'm starting to think it's possible I may have been lucid dreaming, but I can't know for sure, as that would be a first for me.

My 7 month old female cat is struggling to pee rest there are no other symptoms , keeping in mind that cats actually don't tend to drink water so I keep her water intake balanced by adding it to her wet food .. But still I don't get the possible reason of her struggle to pee know this has to be taken a vet visit.. but right now my vet isn't available until tomorrow so until then what could be done if any idea or remedies . PS : she's peeing little little everywhere around

My partner and I have had a tumultuous up and down on and off relationship over the past decade. Oftentimes I feel like we are just not compatible and I can’t give him the affection or attention he requires. I do genuinely love and care for him, but he completely overwhelms me and I try to take it until I inevitably freak out. An example of this is repeatedly getting in my physical space, constant groping and slapping of my breasts, groin, and bum in a way that hurts, tickling, poking me in the neck painfully, distracting me while I’m trying to do things like prepare dinner or while I’m working, purposefully irritating me, jump scaring me when I’m immersed in something (I work from home so it’s frequently while I’m at the computer focused) and then getting upset with me when I ask him (repeatedly) to stop. I don’t like a lot of physical contact. I don’t mind cuddling and intimacy and what not but I don’t enjoy having my body parts pulled and hit, and I LOATHE tickling. I’ve told him it feels like a physical violation, and explained this multiple times but he says it’s just how he shows affection.
We have a very active intimate life, at least once per day. Usually in the morning and in the evening. So he is getting plenty of that type of affection which he states is the most important to him.
Lately he’s started recording me as I go about my day to day tasks like cleaning or whatever, and I’ve noticed he’s started recording me during intimate moments as well which I object to and push the camera away. I told him I don’t like that, it makes me feel weird. He keeps trying to show me the videos which also makes me mad cause I didn’t agree to that. He says he just thinks I’m beautiful, but I feel like….something nefarious about it in my gut.
I’m feeling extremely physically violated. I have a hard time expressing my feelings, and to be honest I don’t have an easy time even feeling anything. Like period. But I get angry and resentful and it just kind of simmers until it spills over.
This has become a pattern where I get more and more overwhelmed, then I act out in some way and it causes a huge fight. He berates me and screams at me and leaves, refusing to speak to me for days. Usually about 1 week. I am not innocent in this, because I usually do something he hates. In the moment I don’t realize this and it’s always afterwards with self reflection I can see it. I can’t seem to get ahead of the build up, or maybe I try to but I’m not effectively communicating how annoyed and overwhelmed I am. I always feel so bad after. I feel so stupid and emotionally incompetent.
We got into an argument yesterday and I’m realizing this is such a pattern. My cat got hurt and my brother came with me to take him to the vet. My partner flipped out on me so bad for going with my brother. He accused me of hanging out with guys and was acting like I made the whole thing up. Called me a liar. I messaged him with an update on the cat and he didn’t reply. I will add, I don’t ever hang out with men that aren’t blood related to me. Meaning my little brother and my father. I have exclusively female friends. I find this accusation particularly offensive, because it makes me think that he’s the one off spending time with other women if that’s his knee jerk response to me asking for some emotional support while my pet is injured. My brother doesn’t like him so I suppose that could be it.
I feel so disconnected from my feelings and my body. I’m logically trying to figure this out. Am I imagining things? Is the way he’s constantly in my physical space normal? Is it wrong for me to ask for space and have that respected? Am I a bad partner for not giving enough?
Just needed to get that off my chest. I don’t feel comfortable speaking to my friends and family due to our complicated history.

Hey everyone
I remember stumbling upon a short (1:50~? no more than 3 minutes long) song on Youtube couple of years ago (2021 i think). It was... I'd call this indie style? But in a sense that it was just made by a person singing by themselves? Not like indie rock indie? Idk, but I think it was played on a usual acoustic guitar with a simple mic
It had female-sounding vocals and it was pretty gloom; I rememeber the general reformulated lyrics summary as a "I'm rotting in my room, insects will eat my body, but I won't feel sad about it, at least it will be of help to them", the tone of the voice was relaxed and moreso nostalgic-feeling and bitterly hopeful than emotionless or sad
Somehow, I clearly remember the song mentioning either ants or spiders, or both; at some point it seemed that the song wasn't sung from a human side of view, but of some small animal, ie cat
Visually, it had a black-ish-teal-smth moody low-light background for the first part of it and then, for the long(ish) wordless part in the end it has some nature (beach?) backroll stylised as an old footage
Stumbled upon it purely by accident and haven't seen it since then, but I wish I could find it now; I don't remember any concrete lyrics verbatim, only what's mentioned above