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Petition to prevent octopus factory farming - anyone can sign.
(action.ciwf.org.uk)
Thank you so much!
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Yes it's come through, thank you so much!
I have spoken about the difficulties of accessing the food bank and lack of help from the authorities on here many times before. I don't really have the energy to type it all up again.
It's probably a huge house, much bigger than he needs. Even the advice columnist says he should downsize.
I spent most of my working life as a carer for the elderly. Most of the people I looked after had kids, but their kids didn't bother with them, visited them twice a year if they were lucky. Having kids is no guarantee of companionship in old age.
I read that it was normal for women to keep their body hair until razor companies started marketing ads towards women, making them think they'd be more beautiful hair-free. Soon porn started featuring mainly hair-free women, so more and more men grew up thinking this was normal. Eventually hair removal amongst women became the norm, to the extent that now a woman is considered ugly or unkempt if she doesn't remove her body hair. So the whole thing was just about making money.
So sorry this happened to you. IME finally accepting that you're disabled for life and that you can't do the things you used to any more, isn't the hard part. The hard part is how society treats you for being disabled, unemployed, a burden to society, etc. What country are you in? Some of us here might be able to give you tips and support with the disability benefit process and whatever other help you might need.
I'm biologically female, and I've had the same issue. I once had an elderly male acquaintance start loudly discussing my sexuality in a crowded cafe, announcing to the room that I must be a lesbian since I didn't have a romantic partner. He went on and on about it until everyone in the cafe was looking at me and laughing.
Thanks. I wish society in general felt this way but I've had all kinds of nasty comments from members of the public too. Due to my benefits being stopped and the difficulty of accessing the local food bank, I begged a Christian organisation for help, believing that Christians provide food aid. The Christians refused to help me, told me that I shouldn't even be getting benefits because "that's socialism," and one told me "Man up and sort your own problems out." I'm not even a man so I guess it wasn't a gender-based insult just letting me know I'm pathetic lazy trash in the eyes of working people.
I didn't think of it like this, but this does put it in perspective. Rishi Sunak spends £13K a year heating his private swimming pool but £12 a day to keep my pain and sickness levels lower is too much.
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DisabledAceSocialist
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Yes, I've read some of the previous parliamentary debate on this subject and didn't see anything like that. I'll contact ciwf and ask them about it.