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rodney-smith.bsky.social
The Mary Ellen Carter (Stan Rogers)
#stanrogers #maryellencarter #folk
January 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
flyaway.bsky.social
My opinion on the spanking issue (originally posted as a reply in a Twitter thread about 6 years ago):
The MaryEllenCarter @flyaway47 Replying to @DrStaceyPatton: When my daughter was 6 she said "How come you don't spank me, Mom?" Her friends had been discussing it. I told her hitting is wrong, and that being bigger and stronger, or in a position of authority over the other person, does not mean it's okay to hit. 2:14 AM - 11/22/18
January 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
jeffisontheroad.bsky.social
Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter

This song has always brought tears to my eyes as it will yours. Stan was a great Canadian hero and should not be forgotten.

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#StanRogers #MaryEllenCarter #RiseAgain #music #folk #Canada
Stan Rogers - The Mary Ellen Carter
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January 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
flyaway.bsky.social
Here's a link directly to the Mastodon post with the video – I think...?
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The MaryEllenCarter (@flyaway@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 video Had a great experience today! A half-grown fawn was racing around & around at top speed just for fun, while Mama watched. Then Junior disappeared into the bushes, while Mom waited p...
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September 30, 2023 at 11:02 PM
kindkaleidoscope.bsky.social
White women, southern ones in particular, have been inundated with propaganda that essentially says for women, codependency is our “natural state” and narcissism is normal in men. This is taught in all of the patriarchal denominations.

Patriarchal deities demand oppression.
maryellencarter Mar 10 i think the hill i'm going to die on here is that lasting anti-fascist activism begins and ends with unrestricted social services. protests are great. kind of indispensable right now. but in times when we can be less reactive, you want to know what you re protesting *for* , not just against. today i saw a post elseweb saying "why aren't white women fleeing maga? they have to know by now that tradwife means sex slave". ". and like... it's very simple. they can't leave because they would end up like me. they're, were, deliberately made unemployable so that we'll have to marry whatever mediocre white man picks us out. as it happened, i was unappealingly intersex, fat, butch, and autistic, so none of the mediocre white boys of my generation ever took a second look at me, but that didn't give me job skills or career connections. i knew multiple women whose husbands divorced them and took the house as part of their midlife crises. they had to send the kids to live with relatives and take dead-end jobs like bagging groceries because they were in their forties with zero job experience. if they'd rejected the worldview, if they'd alienated their families and what few friends didn't victim-blame them for the divorces, they'd have had nowhere to turn. it's been over twelve years since i got out. psychologically, medically, i'm healthier. but i've chased a fresh start through half a dozen states. i spent my inheritance getting a degree. none of it helped. there are no supports for abandoning (or being abandoned by) your support network. you won't defeat fascism until my people are free to leave the cult if they realize they want out. until we can access free housing to get away from financial abuse, free comprehensive job training and placement services to help us start careers, national healthcare so we can flee across state lines if necessary without losing any medical care we're lucky enough to have access to, protections for children and teens so they can flee without needing a parent's help... universal basic income would be really good but there are smaller steps that could help with financial independence. and it all has to be available to everybody, including people you think are "unworthy". people who hold the wrong opinions. drug addicts. people whose husbands or parents make too much money. people who aren't from around here. unrepentant bigots. if they want out, you have to give them a path out. minds can change later, once people are less scared and less pressured. (i'm ex-catholic. do you want to hear about what happens when you force people to profess certain beliefs in order to access basic assistance? i have two thousand years of examples.) "but if they really wanted out they'd do the Right Thing and leave without support!" Better to be one man's sex slave than turning tricks on the street. "staying just proves they're actually evil and there for the bigotry!" Live in your car for six months in 100°F heat, twice, and then talk to me again. There's no virtue in cutting yourself off from society just to prove some kind of moral point. All that does is get you dead or worse. ("JT, you're not dead" I'm a fucking cockroach. Most people would be dead by now. Survival bias goes both ways; we're not all the same model of airplane.)
March 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
sethimopapilio.bsky.social
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bacony-cakes
"op turned off reblogs but i wanted this on my blog so i screenshotted it"

maryellencarter
"I honestly think most of the blogs pushing those takes were Russian psyops again. We know they were in 2016. And we haven't seen anybody at all admit, hey, I was
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💬 91  🔁 12957  ❤️ 14928 · Unfortunately, I know no small number of the flesh-and-blood Americans who believe things like this. They like to read a lot of Chomsky.
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April 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM