Gilmore Girls

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The people we look up to, sometimes they let us down.

Let us fall.

We looked up to them for all of their amazing qualities and then they slip up and show us they are not the people we believed them to be.

So we may feel a little lost.

Or maybe we think we are stupid for not seeing through their lies.

But here’s the thing…

All of those qualities we associated with the people who let us down, they’re still qualities that we believe in, probably qualities we have ourselves.

And even if we don’t have that certain quality, we still recognize it as an exemplary one to have and attain.

Remember, it’s not the qualities that are ruined, and it’s not us who are stupid.

We should look up to people who put others before themselves, look up to people who value education, who believe in equality and fight for it, and to people who are genuinely good people.

Because if we stop looking up to people who we deem as good, then we may not try as hard to be more like who we think they are.

And I guess when it comes down to it, the entire premise of looking up to someone isn’t about that person being who we think they are, it’s about us holding ourselves to a standard we think is above the one we are currently reaching.

We look up to someone because we view them as having a quality or strength that we also wish to have and maybe even strive to learn.

So it doesn’t really matter if the qualities we value actually exists within the person we look up to, as long as, in the long run, we are really looking up to the strengths and values a person is perceived to have and not the literal person themselves.

MB

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The few who are somehow given the ability to create legislation, uphold it, and question it, when it does not defend them how they intended it would, are too afraid to recognize everyone deserves the same rights as them because they believe it will somehow lessen the amount of power they currently hold. It’s people like Trump who exacerbate the problem. People like him only like the Bill of Rights when it defends their own rights and jeopardizes others’. The moment when others utilize the Bill of Rights to protect themselves and to speak their truths, individuals like Trump try to discredit their words. They call these freedom and equality seekers inexcusable profane slurs and declare them criminals. When in fact, the only criminals in the scenario are the ones infringing upon others’ right to the freedom of speech, right to (peaceful) protest, right to being treated equal, and each and every other right given to citizens in the United States by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

MB

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I look at you and my lips defy gravity.

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My introverted ass when I have no plans.

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I want to add to my life by subtracting what’s detrimental to it.

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An actual sneak peak into the Healthcare plan Republicans tried to pass.

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The emotional pain you cause me lacerates my heart like a verbally serrated knife.

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Them: I just don’t get why we have a women’s day and not a men’s day.

Me: Because men don’t need a fucking day devoted to them, they’ve literally had centuries.

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If only our POTUS was an Anthropologist.

“The purpose of Anthropology is to is to make the world safe for human differences.” -Ruth Benedict

“We won’t have a society is we destroy the environment.” -Margaret Mead

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.” -Margaret Mead

“Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.” -Margaret Mead

The one’s that are enough to think they can change the world, are the ones that do.“ Margaret Mead

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that has ever has.” -Margaret Mead

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” -Margaret Mead

“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.” -Alfred L. Kroeber

“An ideal culture is one in which there is a place for every human gift.” -Margaret Mead

“The one real calamity, the one fatal flaw, which can affect a human group and prevent it from achieving fulfillment is to be alone.” -Claude Lévi-Strauss

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There are many questions in the world I will never be able to answer. But I will say this (someone has to for the people in the back of the room). Even though there are people who have completely different views (political or otherwise) than I have, I can’t not listen when they speak. I can’t just think that what they say doesn’t matter. Because my views aren’t correct simply because I believe them. I wasn’t raised that way. I didn’t raise MYSELF that way. Each person has the right to their own truths and beliefs, who am I to challenge that? Who am I to tell them their beliefs are incorrect, especially if the only evidence I have are the beliefs I consider truths? Correction: Who am I to tell them their beliefs are incorrect when their beliefs are not hurtful towards another person or group of people? How could my words be any greater than someone else’s simply because they were spoken from my mouth? And how could I treat any person any less human just because their way of life doesn’t match up to mine? Love the neighbor, right? I get it. I just don’t understand why my ‘neighbors’ don’t get it too.

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It’s not always the person running with scissors who gets cut by the blades.

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Science isn’t witchcraft, but if you do enough experiments, you’ll see some magical things.

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I listen when others speak because I’m used to not being heard.

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Donald Trump is many things. He’s the kid in school that I avoided in the hallways. The one I made sure to never meet eyes with. He’s the kid who cheated off me in 5th grade. He’s the same kid that I got stuck doing a group project with in seventh grade, where I was stuck doing all the work. He’s the teacher that didn’t listen to my friend and didn’t care to meet with them for extra help after class. He’s the employer that belittles women when talking with the guys but claims he is not sexist. He’s the guy who says he has no problem with ‘colored people’ but just by the way he says it you can tell he does. He’s the guy that you wonder if they really mean what they say because what they are speaking is so awful. He’s the adult that got mad when I asked about something I didn’t understand. The same guy who was ready to challenge everything I said because they had a problem with being incorrect. He’s the man who sexually assaulted my friend and somehow didn’t get jail time. He’s the guy I’m afraid of because their ways of thinking is how wars begin. He’s the man I would never want a daughter of mine to marry. He’s the man I would try to teach my son to never be. He is nothing but a bully. He’s the guy that is showing that the U.S. is not free and can in fact be bought. He’s everything I would never want myself nor my country to be.

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I have so many words but they’re stuck in my throat, It’s amazing to me how some people choose to spend their vote. I cannot image voting for a thief and not a scholar, Racists people with narrow minds taking precedent over someone who should be president. It’s not foolishness it’s mindsets that were raised throughout hate, Generations of hate make it difficult for young children to get unbiased views straight. It’s downright humiliating that other countries see the United States as a melting pot when that analogy is more accurate as the pot calling the kettle black. We are not a country ahead of the times, we’re a country with their heads in journal times or the sentinel, our only prerogative is believing lies while there are people who die because of the gender of the person they lie down beside at night; while others are getting called ugly and are dying due to pigmentation on their skin. Is there ever going to be a time that we let love win? If this is what the rest of the world is going to change to then this world is NOT for me.

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When you show up to lecture for an exam and there are students you’ve never seen before.