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I’m a feminist, but I’m not one of those hairless, man-loving, straight women. You know, despite its reputation for being all about equality for men, feminism can actually help women too.

tatzelwurming

listen i consider myself an empathic person but after a certain point i get sick of other people’s problems. my friend is always talking about how the jewel-eyed skull on their mantlepiece is tormenting them w its sinister beauty and im over it. like dude i don’t want to talk about this anymore. get rid of the fucking skull

e-102

you’ are biased against my skull

tatzelwurming

i’m not having this argument again man

leahgardner-art

blue hour on I-65

#art

self-loving-vampire

People talk about loud misogynist grifters online (Andrew Tate, for example) as if they're leaders who create and push sexism. Like if you just give boys better role models than Tate - role models that already exist and always have - that is going to solve the problem.

But rather that the source of the problem I see these manosphere grifters as being more like a symptom. They didn't invent the trends, they just profit from the existing social conditions, grievances, and cultural biases.

People like Andrew Tate would not have nearly as much of an audience in the first place if their ideas did not already broadly align with the existing attitudes that many people are raised with about how men and women are supposed to behave.

zoesupreme

well I think you odyssey a different movie

feastofsnakes

this is actually literally how every day felt in high school

egregore-engine

a lot of people did not graduate from the very basic lesson of "What is a social construct"

egregore-engine

Look. You're not obligated to understand the world around you. But if you don't, you will constantly stumble through the world, bewildered and confused.

communistkenobi

maybe this isn’t an interesting observation but I feel like people (myself included) equate the struggle/drudgery of writing with a failure to actually ‘do’ writing, instead of an extremely common and core component of writing. Like there’s an idealised sense that you’re only “doing writing” when you have these eureka moments that lead you to write like 3 pages in a single sitting. When realistically that is going to be a very small portion of your time actually spent writing. Thinking + reading + editing + struggling + zoning out + getting frustrated are all legitimate parts of “doing writing,” but even knowing that isn’t especially helpful. And it’s hard not to feel like a failure when this type of inspiration is absent because writing is idealised as a revelation-based activity. and that revelation can come in waves of course, where you feel like you’re on a roll for a while, but it’s not something that can be infinitely sustained, and the much more mundane reality is that revelation is not a common occurrence

phantomrose96

Hey kids, you need to start worrying a little less about getting “#mogged” and a little more about getting “#smogged”. This is an Air Quality Index public service announcement.