Live and Love under Patooties' peculiar light
The Orthodox Jew who became a gender-reassignment surgeon →
“I’m at synagogue on Saturdays, but if my pager goes off, I drive in to the hospital, because saving a life supersedes the Sabbath. Many people I meet believe that my faith is at odds with my career. But my work allows me to practise the medicine that interests me while helping a marginalized community. I deal with patients who, by and large, have had negative experiences with hospitals and the health care system, and I give them the care they deserve. That is very much in line with my religious practice.”
“And that is the real source of discomfort: many Orthodox people see gender-affirming surgery as an admission that God made a mistake. They see me as calling God out on that mistake by correcting it. Which is odd: nobody’s accusing God of screwing up someone’s pancreas when they have diabetes or suggesting it’s a sin to inject insulin.”
(via maybeiwasserious)
#272 - Disgust
R: “When I said I wanted to make new friends, I didn’t mean with you.”
W: “Me? With you? I think I’d rather die than be seen anywhere near you, trash.”
B: “Could you not bother me while I’m reading? Or ever, for that matter?”
Y: “Huh? You want me to make a joke? Don’t need to; I’m looking at the biggest one in the world right now.”
(via der-stein)
A Kalku or Calcu, in Mapuche mythology, is a sorcerer or witch who works with black magic and negative powers or forces. The essentially benevolent shamans are referred to as machi, to avoid confusion with the malevolent kalku.
The kalku is a semi-mythical character that has the power of working with wekufe, “spirits or wicked creatures”. The kalku also have as servants other beings such as the Anchimayen, or the Chonchon.
A mapuche kalku is usually an inherited role, although it could be a machi that is interested in lucrative ends, or a less powerful, frustrated machi who ignores the laws of the admapu (the rules of the Mapuches).
