Hey so this is all kinds of fucked up. They are already choosing who to prioritize, and it’s not those with chronic illnesses. They literally put in the letter that she is a sacrifice.
@thebibliosphere have you seen this?
“You’re overreacting,” people said when I called out the eugenicist based arguments online.
“Actual eugenics will never happen,” they said.
“You’re just being paranoid,” they said.
When women used to be depressed or were not “taking care of their men” properly their husbands could send them to the psych ward for attitude adjustments. This was part of conditioning them to always wear a smile. They believed that if a woman saw herself smiling that it would become natural practice and that she would be “cured”. This often went along with shock therapies.
This gives a whole new level of creepiness to when random men tell you to smile.
People who talk about the 50s like they were this golden Era frighten me
My dad used to threaten me with “an attitude adjustment” all the time, but for him that meant a belt, branch, or paddle. I always wondered where the term came from though.
(via sigmabunny)