This explains a lot about some of the men I've ~~met~~ smelled. tbph it's mostly the ones that think that wiping / washing their own anus is gay. Gender roles have ruined society.

~~one more report and~~ I'm locking this whole mf thread

I'm not reading my way through 200 comments but I'm locking this so I can keep up with whatever you all report.

My Original Comments:

#YouCanPutYourDickInThatIfYouReallyWantTo

I always joke that nature is almost as yonic as human architecture is phallic. I'm not sure what that says philosophically, but it's funny to look at.

Oh I'm already having to piece together what the doctor actually said from the surrounding context and what words sound similar and I don't even live in the UK.

This was my other contender for something to post.

That occurred to me actually, yeah. Same with the cat from another commenter.

omg I do love Strange Planet but idt so

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I understand the analogy it's just a bad one. It references a second set of moral values that are largely unrelated but that people can also have strong yet varied opinions on. That muddles the meaning significantly for most people.

The point being made is that people can't appreciate the progress of someone's journey towards peace with their own physical body -> even though they have very little to do with the messy internal parts of the process -> because they find the entire concept morally objectionable.

Which isn't actually wrong; that is what's happening. People are letting their very narrow and rigid set of morals interfere with being able to see the beauty of the metamorphosis in front of them. They're too stuck on whether or not the concept itself relates to what somebody told them the bible means in Sunday School at 8 years old instead of critically evaluating... anything and everything? about those beliefs and how they relate to the well-being of the humans they actually share the world with.

I've met annoying vegans and I've met annoying "carnivores," but I've also met a lot of other people who are annoying for a lot of different reasons and it doesn't really benefit this discussion.

Or to hide away at home so that they don't have to explain to their children that sometimes other people do stuff that isn't your business.

Yeah right now we're mostly either letting them freeze to death on the street or just putting them in jail or prison and letting the COs beat them to death or use restraints unsafely. I do doubt, however, that the people they hire to staff these places and the facilities they give them to work in will be all that much safer.

The problem with the deinstitutionalization movement under Reagan was that the primary motive was saving money. While community care is significantly less expensive in the long term, if its your primary purpose for its own sake they wind up getting neglected due to lack of funding on the community end.

There's also the fact that a lot of these people need long term occupational and vocational rehab to return to the community because we've destroyed their ability to live outside of 'The System' and a lot of people attribute that to some inherent moral failing as opposed to a niche and self-reinforcing form of PTSD.

What we really need to pour money into is intermediate / stepdown psych care like crisis stabilization and rehab, and long term residential care with a focus on community reintegration like group homes where they might have a central gathering area where they do targeted therapeutic activities, but they're also encouraged to go out to community events.

Which also brings in the point that there are thre major social points that I think would solve like 80% of the American mental health crisis:

• something to fix food insecurity but I haven't decided what yet.

• heavy, HEAVY taxes on any real estate that the owner does not personally occupy for 30-50% or more of the year.

• reinstate the idea of the commons where there's lots of public spaces including both natural spaces like parks but also structured meeting and activity spaces (more public libraries could be a great option). And with at least a few publicly funded event organizers who plan regular festivals and volunteer events.

Actually you could combine that last with the food thing and have large public cafeterias where there's a couple cheap food options daily.