Author: kirkwallhellmouth

Sole Survivor Ask Meme – Send me numbers to answer!

apocalyptic-comedown:

  1. What
    is their name? Do they go by the same name they did pre-war?
  2. What
    was their relationship like with their spouse?
  3. What
    are other people likely to notice about them first?
  4. Are they
    introverted or extroverted?
  5. Describe
    their voice
  6. Describe their most fond pre-war memory
  7. Describe
    their smile
  8. Describe their general appearance, post a screenshot or draw them
  9. What were
    their hobbies pre-war?
  10. What
    is their weapon of choice?
  11. Do they get attached to their
    weapons sentimentally, give them names etc?
  12. What is their
    sexual orientation?
  13. What
    kind of situations are they likely to avoid?
  14. Do they have any
    fears or phobias?
  15. Describe their morality. Is it black & white
    or are there grey areas?
  16. Which
    faction/group(s) are they affiliated with, and why?
  17. Which
    faction/group(s) do they dislike, and why?
  18. Did they find
    romance in the commonwealth? Who are they with?
  19. What do they
    love the most about their romantic partner(s)?
  20. Do they suffer
    from any mental health issues?
  21. Do they partake in anything
    that could be considered escapism?
  22. Do they have any memories
    that make them physically cringe with embarrassment?
  23. Describe
    their butt. You heard me.
  24. What are their insecurities?
  25. What
    boosts their confidence?
  26. What
    makes them angry?
  27. Do they cry easily? What’s likely to set off
    the waterworks?
  28. How do they cheer themselves up, or how would
    other characters cheer them up?
  29. What do
    they miss the most about pre-war life?
  30. Who is their bff
    post-war?
  31. Has the post-war commonwealth changed them
    physically?
  32. Has the post-war commonwealth changed them
    mentally?
  33. How
    do they react to being humiliated, intentionally or otherwise?
  34. Do
    they/did they dance? Describe their funky moves.
  35. How do they
    feel about ghouls?
  36. How do they feel about synths?
  37. They’re
    in a bar fight. Did they start the fight, are they getting beaten on,
    or are they trying to break it up?
  38. What ’S.P.E.C.I.A.L’ stats
    do they value/embody?
  39. When the going gets tough, your sole survivor….
  40. Who
    do they think is indisputably the most important person in Vault 101:
    He who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic wasteland, and to
    whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?

The UN Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.

stfuprolifers:

The United States continues to embarrass.

The delegates were appalled by the lack of gender equality in America. They found the U.S. to be lagging far behind international human rights standards in a number of areas, including its 23 percent gender pay gap, maternity leave, affordable child care and the treatment of female migrants in detention centers.

The most telling moment of the trip, the women told reporters on Friday, was when they visited an abortion clinic in Alabama and experienced the hostile political climate around women’s reproductive rights.

“We were harassed. There were two vigilante men waiting to insult us,” said Frances Raday, the delegate from the U.K. The men repeatedly shouted, “You’re murdering children!” at them as soon as they neared the clinic, even though Raday said they are clearly past childbearing age.

“It’s a kind of terrorism,” added Eleonora Zielinska, the delegate from Poland. “To us, it was shocking.”

In most European countries, she explained, abortions are performed at general doctors’ offices and hospitals that offer all kinds of other health services, so there aren’t protesters waiting to heckle the women who enter.

The women discovered during their visit that women in the United States have “missing rights” compared to the rest of the world. For instance, the U.S. is one of three countries in the world that does not guarantee women paid maternity leave. The U.N. suggests that countries guarantee at least 14 weeks of paid parental leave. Some countries go further – Iceland requires five months paid leave for each parent, and an additional two months to be shared between them.

“The lack of accommodation in the workplace to women’s pregnancy, birth and post-natal needs is shocking,” Raday said. “Unthinkable in any society, and certainly one of the richest societies in the world.”

Another main area of concern for the delegation is violence against women – particularly gun violence. Women are 11 times more likely to be killed by a gun in the United States than in other high-income countries, and most of those murdersare perpetrated by an intimate partner. While the Obama administration has talked a lot about combatting violence against women, its efforts have been frustrated by Congress’ inability to pass new federal gun restrictions.

The UN Sent 3 Foreign Women To The U.S. To Assess Gender Equality. They Were Horrified.

Things that piss me off: when people blame the Affordable Care Act and/or Obama when their insurance company–which basically has a monopoly in the state–hikes rates up like the greedy capitalist corporate asshole it is. Because how dare it be forced to cover people who cost it money ( like me). Also, said company pisses me off with its feel-good “we’re the good guys” tv ads which only ever feature things it is possible to recover from–never chronic conditions or mental illness. Because they can’t “fix” those and they like to be shitty about those supplies and medications, so those wouldn’t make good PR tv spots.

This has been a rant brought to you by dealing with insurance companies and forgetting the “never read the comments” rule.