Delta Quadrant Vogue

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[deadinparadice]

100 Reasons NOT To Kill Yourself

1. We would miss you. 2. It’s not worth the regret. Either by yourself if you failed or just simply left scars, or the regret everyone else feels by not doing enough to help you. 3. It does get better. Believe it or not it will eventually get better. Sometimes you have to go through the storm to get to the rainbow. 4. There’s so much you would miss out on doing. 5. There is always a reason to live. It might not be clear right now, but it is always there. 6. So many people care, and it would hurt them if you hurt yourself. 7. You ARE worth it. Don’t let anyone, especially yourself, tell you otherwise. 8. You are amazing. 9. A time will come, once you’ve battled the toughest times of your life and are in ease once again, where you will be so glad that you decided to keep on living. You will emerge stronger from this all, and won’t regret your choice to carry on with life. Because things always get better. 10. What about all the things you’ve always wanted to do? What about the things you’ve planned, but never got around to doing? You can’t do them when you’re dead. 11. I love you. Even if only one person loves you, that’s still a reason to stay alive. 12. You won’t be able to listen to music if you die. 13. Killing yourself is never worth it. You’ll hurt both yourself and all the people you care about. 14. There are so many people that would miss you, including me. 15. You’re preventing a future generation, YOUR KIDS, from even being born. 16. How do you think your family would feel? Would it improve their lives if you died? 17. You’re gorgeous, amazing, and to someone you are perfect. 18. Think about your favourite music artist, you’ll never hear their voice again… 19. You’ll never have the feeling of walking into a warm building on a cold day 20. Listening to incredibly loud music 21. Being alive is just really good. 22. Not being alive is really bad. 23. Finding your soulmate. 24. Red pandas 25. Going to diners at three in the morning. 26. Really soft pillows. 27. Eating pizza in New York City. 28. Proving people wrong with your success. 29. Watching the jerks that doubted you fail at life. 30. Seeing someone trip over a garbage can. 31. Being able to help other people. 32. Bonfires. 33. Sitting on rooftops. 34. Seeing every single country in the world. 35. Going on roadtrips. 36. You might win the lottery someday. 37. Listening to music on a record player. 38. Going to the top of the Eiffel Tower. 39. Taking really cool pictures. 40. Literally meeting thousands of new people. 41. Hearing crazy stories. 42. Telling crazy stories. 43. Eating ice cream on a hot day. 44. More Harry Potter books could come out, you never know. 45. Travelling to another planet someday. 46. Having an underwater house. 47. Randomly running into your hero on the street. 48. Having your own room at a fancy hotel. 49. Trampolines. 50. Think about your favourite movie, you’ll never watch it again. 51. Think about the feeling of laughing out loud in a public place because your best friend has just sent you an inside joke, 52. Your survival will make the world better, even if it’s for just one person or 20 or 100 or more. 53. People do care. 54. Treehouses 55. Hanging out with your soul mate in a treehouse 55. Snorting when you laugh and not caring who sees 56. I don’t even know you and I love you. 57. I don’t even know you and I care about you. 58. Because nobody is going to be like you ever, so embrace your uniqueness! 59. You won’t be here to experience the first cat world emperor. 60. WHAT ABOUT FOOD?! YOU’LL MISS CHOCOLATE AND ALL THE OTHER NOM THINGS! 61. Starbucks. 62. Hugs. 63. Stargazing. 64. You have a purpose, and it’s up to you to find out what it is. 65. You’ve changed somebody’s life. 66. Now you could change the world. 67. You will meet the person that’s perfect for you. 68. No matter how much or how little, you have your life ahead of you. 69. You have the chance to save somebody’s life. 70. If you end your life, you’re stopping yourself from achieving great things. 71. Making snow angels. 72. Making snowmen. 73. Snowball fights. 74. Life is what you make of it. 75. Everybody has a talent. 76. Laughing until you cry. 77. Having the ability to be sad means you have the ability to be happy. 78. The world would not be the same if you didn’t exist. 79. Its possible to turn frowns, upside down 80. Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive. 81. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. Be your own hero. 82. Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections. 83. One day your smile will be real. 84. Having a really hot, relaxing bath after a stressful day. 85. Lying on grass and laughing at the clouds. 86. Getting completely smashed with your best friends. 87. Eating crazy food. 88. Staying up all night watching your favourite films with a loved one. 89. Sleeping in all day. 90. Creating something you’re proud of. 91. You can look back on yourself 70 years later and being proud you didn’t commit 92. Being able to meet your Internet friends. 93. Tea / Coffee / Hot Chocolate 94. Sherlock season three. 95. Cuddling under the stars. 96. Being stupid in public because you just can. 97. If you are reading this then you are alive! Is there any more reason to smile? 98. being able to hug that one person you havent seen in years 99. People care enough about you and your future to come up with 100 reasons for you not to do this. 100. But, the final and most important one is, just, being able to experience life. Because even if your life doesn’t seem so great right now, literally anything could happen

IF that isn’t enough:

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[brain3at3r]

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[thewaywardvalkyrie]

I’m always here if you ever need a friend to talk to. 💜💜💜

[son-of-bajor-deactivated2022022]

The cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Artist: https://moodybeatlegirl.deviantart.com

[sjflkansdfljaslsd-deactivated20]

whats-a-leonard-nimoy:

“I got a fan letter from a young lady. It was a suicide note.

So I called her, and I said, “Hey, this is Jimmy Doohan. Scotty, from Star Trek.” I said, “I’m doing a convention in Indianapolis. I wanna see you there.”

I saw her — boy, I’m telling you, I couldn’t believe what I saw. It was definitely suicide. Somebody had to help her, somehow. And obviously she wasn’t going to the right people.

I said to her, “I’m doing a convention two weeks from now in St. Louis.” And two weeks from then, in somewhere else, you know? She also came to New York - she was able to afford to got to these places. That went on for two or three years, maybe eighteen times. And all I did was talk positive things to her.

And then all of the sudden — nothing. I didn’t hear anything. I had no idea what had happened to her because I never really saved her address.

Eight years later, I get a letter saying, “I do want to thank you so much for what you did for me, because I just got my Master’s degree in electronic engineering.”

That’s…to me, the best thing I’ve ever done in my life.

[inkyosa]

I cry every time.

[overfathomsdeep-deactivated2015]

The look on his face in the last one. He is just glowing he is so proud.

[realpsycho]

You never know how you can help someone.

[startrekker-runner]

reblogged this at warp 10…wow

[fragmentsofhope]

This will always get reblogged.

[kiwianaroha]

“So what can we learn from this study? On the data side, we see that everything is proceeding as planned. Nobody’s paying $50 for a burger at McDonald’s, or $16 for a can of tuna at Safeway. Employers wish their profits were higher, and workers are glad they got a raise, but they wish they made more money. Three years after Seattle started down the road to $15, everything is as it should be. Those apocalyptic claims of destruction and business closures haven’t been proven true. One thing the study didn’t explain was why the sky didn’t fall as promised. Why weren’t workers laid off in droves, or replaced with robots? Why didn’t prices skyrocket? Why does Seattle have more restaurants now than at any point in its history? It’s because those workers who saw a raise now have more money to spend in the city around them. Those restaurant workers are eating in more restaurants. They’re buying more groceries. They’re buying more clothes and cars. That increased consumer demand is creating jobs, and more than paying for the increased minimum wage. The $15 minimum wage established a positive feedback loop that created growth in Seattle by including more people in the economy. In other words, it worked exactly as intended.”

— Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Experiment Is a Success (via allthecanadianpolitics)

[kamikaze-kumquat]

I’m gonna leave this right here.

[willowofthehearth]

When you give consumers money, they spend it. When you give old, rich, white men money, they hoard it.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

i just wanna say that…there is a special spot in hell reserved for people who go to places where poverty stricken families are likely to show up…like say, the food bank, or the food stamp office…and leave religious tracts disguised as 100 dollar bills on the ground. 

God’s not going to reward you for taunting and shaming the poor. In fact I’m pretty certain being uncharitable is one of those things that got you smite’d in the old testament. 

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

hey an update to this, you also go to hell if you leave these as tips for your servers. It counts as deception, defrauding, dishonesty, being uncharitable, being high-minded (haughty, arrogant), withholding the truth, and if we wanted to get real deep at the soul, HYPOCRISY, because you’re chastising them for a “love of money” when you love and hoard your money so hard you couldn’t even part with a dollar tip and instead left fake money to trick them while you make your escape you shifty fuck.

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Hey actually I have one MORE thing to say and that’s this: If you’re dropping this specific tract at places where poor families are likely to be, that adds an extra layer of shittiness to an already shitty thing to do. Like on top of the fact that you’re raunting poor people with fake money, the fact that you have the absolute gall to use Christs words about the rich is utterly fucking appalling, because you dropped it in a place you know no rich people are gonna be. The people that pick these up aren’t rich, and you know it. They don’t pick them up out of greed, and you know it. That’s WHY you dropped them in the parking lot of a food stamp office, a grocery store in a poor part of town, a food bank, the free clinic. It was to ensure someone who desperately needs money would see it and pick it up, so you could then chastise them for greed. You’d better haul ass to Church buddy because every time you drop one of these you wrack up a receipt of sins longer than my arm.

[princess-has-a-pen-deactivated2]

I hate these things.

I hate the people who make ‘em.

And especially those who do shit like this.

[obeekris]

A friend of my got revenge on a church that did this. He used to work at a Denny’s in a tiny little town. And every Sunday after church, they’d have families coming in to eat. And leaving these shitty things around, instead of tips. Only the church was leaving their information on them, church name, address, etc. So my friend gathered a whole bunch of these up from other servers who had gotten them. And one Sunday, he went to services at the church, and left them all in the offering plate when it came around.

[mookybear12404]

Can we please please normalize subtitles? 

[mookybear12404]

Subtitles are:

1. A necessity for deaf people

2. REALLY helpful for those who are partially deaf, have APD (like me and my sister) or any other hearing problem

3. really helpful for those who can’t focus well, especially for those with ADD/ADHD (like me)

4. Is incredibly helpful for people learning a second language, or for bilingual people who can read better than they can hear 

5. Even if you aren’t into learning the language, there are countless amazing foreign movies and songs you really can’t enjoy without subtitles!

6. Can help people (like my sister) who have reading comprehension 

7. Can help when you’re having a party and you don’t want to pause every time someone wants to make a comment/joke

8. Can help when the characters in the show have a heavy accent (especially in period shows) 

9. Let’s be honest subtitles can really add to the humor of the show! (”sobs mathematically”, “screeches loudly”, “angrily fixes bowtie”)

10. Can let people watch content without headphones, or in areas of loud noises. 

11. Alternatively, If someone has sensitive hearing or is triggered by loud noises, they can turn the volume down low and still be able to enjoy the content

12. The last bit is VERY true for movies where they switch between soft speaking and LOUD BOOMING NOISES (I’m looking at you hunger games)

13. Very good for helping young kids recognize and associate words and learn to read faster!

14. Really good when you’re eating chips/crunchy candy and can’t hear the movie

15. IS A NECESSITY FOR DEAF PEOPLE!!!

I can’t even tell you how many of my friends made fun of me for needing subtitles, to the point of where I just don’t bother with them anymore. Asking for subtitles at an event is the scariest thing I can imagine. People often complain that it “gets in the way” of their movie. Watching shows (especially in loud areas or with people who talk a lot) is incredibly frustrating for me. People often think I’m stupid for not understanding a show or needing to rewind when someone talks. Most Youtube users don’t bother to create subtitles for their videos (and auto-generated subtitles are crap). I just wish people were nicer to people who need subtitles, and that they were more accessible on other platforms. 

[autasticanna]

Oh my god you guys last semester some guy in my film history class was whining like a kindergartener about how we opted for subtitles on a film that was in English and I went OFF

[13faeinapenguinsuit]

I rarely, rarely, reblog things I have already reblogged. But this is SO DAMN important.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Subtitles are super helpful for me when following a story <3

[fuckyeahjaneway]

Honestly, try it. Subtitles are great. I hate watching stuff without subtitles, But yeah for people who are deaf it’s a necessity and honestly shouldn’t bother the rest of us at all to make things a little better for others in small ways like this.

[barbarjinks]

a moment in my life where oprah is exactly me

[jackthebard]

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

[sourcedumal]

[shuttersmiley]

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

[foxsan-deactivated20140515]

Isaac Asimov.

[sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205]

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

[cryptovalid]

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

[gunthatshootsennui]

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

[deathcomes4u]

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

[velocigrey-deactivated20160825]

You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

[geekinlibrariansclothing]

Got that?

[bettieleetwo]

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

[la-knight]

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

[athenadark]

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

[thepsychicclam]

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

[ladynorbert]

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

[fragments-of-sappho]

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

[alarajrogers]

Today the entire fiction industry is holding on solely because women read books. Male fiction consumption of written words is apparently vastly lower than female.

Also, since language is transmitted parent to child, it’s pretty much impossible to realistically imagine that men invented it. Men didn’t historically have contact with infants in the ancestral environment; a man who created language would have had no one to transmit it to.

[fuckyeahjaneway]

S6 Ep11 “Fairhaven” Janeway loves a holo-suitor. And of course he loves her back bc she’s a goddess. Plus she looks pretty good in her holo-costume. Odd that given the opportunity to do and be anything he wants in Fairhaven, the Doctor chooses to be a priest. Just odd that’s all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ This episode and the Fairhaven follow up a few eps later bring up a lot of questions for me. In this episode Janeway has a convo with the Doctor about how & why she could have feelings for a hologram. Which is silly considering we’ve established the Doctor to be a full fledged sentient individual with thoughts, feelings, emotions, needs...He’s been in love. Kind of callous for her to act like that about a hologram to her friend who is a hologram. But hey whatever. Good casting of Fintan McKeown as Michael. You can totally tell they are using the same set for Fairhaven as for The Killing Game but it looks good. I have a lot of feelings & opinions about Voyager crew and the way they treat the holodeck hologram characters. But I might wait for the Fairhaven follow-up “Spirit Folk” I’m distracted bc I’ve been watching DS9 all the way through for the first time. I have no idea why I resisted it for so long. It’s SO good. I love Nog and Rom and Garak. It’s so much fun to see a different side of this universe that I love.

[fuckyeahjaneway]

S6Ep15 “Tsunkatse” Seven of Nine kicks everyone’s ass in this episode and The Rock makes a guest appearance. How late 90s. This forced fighting league had great outfits though and it’s always fun to see Seven in different costumes. Interesting that we get to see the remnants of her Borg implants on her arms. Love details like that.

[fuckyeahjaneway]

S6Ep16 “Collective” or “WTF happened to that Borg baby?” I always enjoy Borg costumes and they are especially creepy on kids. Im not sure these come close to Seven of Nine’s Borg costume but they get the job done. I’m glad we got rid of that one that was a jerk. No one needs that kind of energy onboard Voyager. But why would the Collective bother sending a response to the message if they deemed them irrelevant and expendable? Anyway, they clean up nice and end up being totally normal looking kids. Mezoti’s dress is the same one that creepy Isabella wore in TNG “Imaginary Friend” ......So. Where is that Borg baby? A google search reveals all sorts of speculation but Brannon Braga said during an interview that they just dropped it off at its home planet. We just didn’t see it. 🤔okay I guess I will take that explanation but it feels like maybe they just forgot to wrap that up. They could have just thrown some line in there like “Boy, Borg Baby’s family sure was happy when we brought their kid back” but hey whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I liked the cold open. Fun Borg reveal.

[fuckyeahjaneway]

S6Ep8 “One Small Step” I appreciate that in Voyager they actually acknowledge the fact that in space you generally need spacesuits. In TNG they don’t do a lot of space walking but it’s not all hospitable class M planets out there guys. Regardless of that, Seven of Nine obviously looks pretty badass in a space suit but really I just wanted to talk about this episode which was half beautiful and half disturbing AF. Dying alone slowly in space sounds pretty terrible but Lt. Kelly does it pretty heroically, making sure to record till the last possible minute. Though he can never bring it back, he finds the first proof of other life in space when he sees an alien vessel with him in the mass. This actor does a really great job. He has a cool Trek pedigree, having been a Starfleet cadet in “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock”,a Klingon bodyguard in the DS9 episode "Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places", and a Jem'Hadar soldier in the DS9 episode "Rocks and Shoals". Interesting also that his first Trek role was as one of the creepy town kids in the TOS episode “Miri”. My favorite part of this episode is that by exploring the ship and listening to Lt. Kelly’s logs, Seven begins to understand the spirit of exploration that drives everyone else around her. She feels a kinship to Lt. Kelly and she brings his remains back to Voyager so they can give him a Starfleet funeral. It’s really pretty moving. Also Robert Picardo directed this episode which is cool.

[fuckyeahjaneway]

S5Ep20 “Think Tank” or “George Costanza tries to steal Seven of Nine” Trekcore & Memory Alpha make reference to Jason Alexander being funny on set. The costume he wore as Kurros was later auctioned off on eBay which is cool, but I would rather have Fennim’s costume. All those weird little boxes? Interesting. I would want to recruit Seven. She’s easily the most valuable crew member besides Janeway & maybe B’Elanna.I suppose everyone might have a different opinion about that. All of them totally valid, but Seven of Nine is brilliant and has all the knowledge of the Borg till she was liberated. She knows all the species and everything about them. Her neural transceivers can pick up subspace messages from the future?! Come on. It really comes in handy. Not to mention that she is endearing and funny and obviously extremely beautiful. Only downsides are that sometimes things like vinculums make her glitch out a little or she might accidentally make transporter Borg baby with the Doctor’s holo-emitter. Sometimes she gets drunk from synthehol champagne but that’s really just cute so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ No wonder Janeway wants to keep her around. .

[fuckyeahjaneway]

S6Ep3 “Barge of the Dead” or “B’Elanna works through some mom issues” In the process we get to see her dressed in Klingon regalia, which has happened at least once that I can think of but is still fun to see. Also I appreciate that they didn’t include the lady Klingon boob window like many of the female Klingons in TNG. Nothing wrong with it, just doesn’t seem like that would be B’Elanna’s style. She looks badass. So did this all actually happen? Did she really save her mom from hell? Why did she get to come back? Is her mom really dead? I think I will just go ahead & rewatch. Still have some questions. One thing I did love about the episode was at the end when she wakes up & Janeway is there & she immediately hugs her. It was sweet & I love how their relationship has evolved. ❤️

[angrywarrior69]

@the star trek voyager fandom

I love you

[fuckyeahjaneway]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🖖

[fuckyeahjaneway]

S6Ep6 “Riddles” or “Tuvok gets a head injury that makes him super nice and good at baking” What does a stylish convalescing Vulcan wear? A very comfy looking velour tunic & pj pants. He looks great! He also looks great smiling, even if it is a little alarming to see Tuvok smile. This is not the Tuvok we know but it’s kind of sad when they figure out how to restore “our” Tuvok. He seemed kinda happy hanging out with Neelix making desserts all day but alas. Tuvok made a full recovery. This episode was directed by Roxanne Dawson. She did a good job! I thought both Tim Russ and Ethan Phillips turned in great performances in this episode. Tuvok is the best. I could use more Tuvok episodes. Also those matching aprons 😍

[matchingvnecks]

[teachingwithcoffee]

It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol

[bigbutterandeggman-deactivated2]

Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s. 

So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem. 

BUT! Let’s look closer! 

“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.

See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.

Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.

So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.

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