#you live in suburbia you're more likely to be killed by your spouse than by a random stranger

[magnetothemagnificent]

Just saw a video cross my Instagram feed of some woman who made an "in case I go missing" binder, and aside from it being absolutely unhealthy paranoid behaviour, it's also not gonna help you. She got a snip from the bottom of her hair like...... that's not gonna give you any DNA. You need hair with the follicle still attached, the rest of the strand might yield some mitochondrial DNA but only with a complicated expensive procedure that probably wouldn't be done for some nobody. Plus DNA degrades over time, if you get kidnapped or something twenty years from now, that binder won't help you even if your hair did have DNA 🙄

#also most of these women making these binders are white women like #you live in suburbia you're more likely to be killed by your spouse than by a random stranger #you want to be safe? #make a separate bank account #make sure you have a source of income outside of your spouse #track your finances #sighhhh #biological anthropology #genomics #white woman feminism