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Being in my 20s I’ve wondered plenty of times when it became legal for me to do most of the things I’ve done in my adult life like: have a credit card and bank account in my name, live with my partner out of wedlock, buy my own car, take out my own loans, etc. And I never considered so many of the rights I have weren’t available to my great-grandmother.

And then, honestly, I never even considered those things could be taken from me until the Handmaid’s Tale came out and the entire premise of the show was women lost their rights slowly and then all at once.

I know, I know, I’m showing my white girl, US citizen privilege here. But honestly. I never considered these rights to be so new- only a few generations old. And I never considered how easily they could be lost.

Regardless of your option of RBG (she was far from perfect) you have to admit she helped pull women so far closer to equality than ever before. And it’s important to recognize that if we want to preserve our rights and keep pushing forward to be even more inclusive than RBG we have to wake up and reckon with the reality of not just our generation, but generations past and future. We can’t take our rights for granted and we can’t ignore those who are still suffering because they’re not afforded the same privilege as us.

theblackfemininesociety

#beyonce

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flawlessgentlemen

Jake Gyllenhaal photographed by Shayne Laverdière for GQ France (2018)

dailynarnia

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

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chekhov

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broitsablog

@indigopersei is the french language just always on the verge of getting someone accused of assault or..?

dammitperseus

my friend, if only you knew

randomfandomteacher

It’s a very dangerous language to learn

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Here’s an interesting thing about French! Everything needs to have an article in front of it. That’s why it’s “la chat” as opposed to just “chat”. So, for instance, you could say la fille for the girl, or jeune fille for young girl, but you can’t just say fille, because that means you are calling her a sex worker in a derogatory way.

The moral of the story is, if you want to make something rude in French, just take out the article in front of it. Yes, this works for nearly. every. word.

wine-dark-sea

#now I’m wondering how often my high school french teacher was silently screaming because of this little fact

Every year. Every year there’s that kid who forgets that you can’t translate “I am excited” to “Je suis excitée”. And every year Monsieur Jordan has to slam the brakes before that kid can finish his sentence and then tactfully ask him not to announce to the class that he is horny.