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sailermoon

this is how new yorkers @ mamdani

I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.

dietspam16

if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this

dittography-direwolf

Totally normal for a legitimate for-profit company to refuse to reclaim or stop running their products even after they're no longer being paid to do so. I'm sure it's very normal to just keep running your service for free when your contract's been terminated. Spending money to continue running cameras that supposedly no one is looking at is definitely not an indicator they are just run by the federal government to spy on everyone and only a wacko conspiracy theorist would think so.

unconventiononthelawofthesea

atheist quarterback throws a hail darwin

akindlyowl

agnostic quarterback throws a hail maybe

atwoodsfemalefantasy

no one else believes me, but i SWEAR The Giving Tree is misogynistic propaganda. you're telling me a female described tree loves a boy so much she gives him everything. and the little boy asks for everything she has, and she gives it all until she has nothing left. and the boy is never grateful until the very end when the tree is just a stump, and even then the boy sees nothing wrong with what he's done. and this is a message we're supposed to read to children????? that men can take and take and take from women until we have nothing left and it's somehow wholesome?

i remember being read The Giving Tree as a little girl. i remember the little boys thinking it was a great story, while me and my friends, all girls, were left shocked. we had expected some message at the end about how taking and taking from someone while giving nothing in return is wrong. it was like pages had been ripped from the book. the little boys saw nothing wrong, but we understood that the book was saying we were supposed to give and give and give until we had nothing left, and it was a happy ending. because the boy got everything he could ever want, and the tree got the boys attention for an hour or two.

The Giving Tree should really have been called The Taking Boy. i still can't believe we read this to children.

marbleguard

this post has unearthed a deep forgotten memory of having this book read to me by my mother as a very young child, and crying inconsolably at the end of it. Like you say, I think because the story feels like it's missing a part where the tree receives some mutual care in return, and you wait and wait as the pages turn for this to happen, but it just never does, and the tree essentially dies as it watches the boy (now and old man) teach his grandson to plant a new tree... presumably to exploit in the same way.

I remember my mother telling me "Why are you crying? The tree was happy! It's a story about love. The tree gave itself because it loved the boy," and not knowing how to articulate what upset me so deeply about the book. It may sound dramatic to say but I felt deeply scarred by this book just from the few times it was read to me, and I think that's because even if we cannot put it into words at that age, even very small female children have some sort of subconscious awareness the book is about their mothers, and by extension about our own future as women, and about the unfairness and cruelty we will experience which will be treated as a virtuous expectation.

atwoodsfemalefantasy

i want to bounce off this reblog because it's so great and i also thought of another point i didn't touch totally on in the OG post that relates to this response :)

i remember, as a little girl, hearing all these stories about "sacrifice". "she sacrificed everything for me, she's the best mom" or "my mom sacrificed her whole life to help me" or even our own mothers saying that "love is sacrifice" and how she was happy to give up her dreams or goals because she loved her husband and her kids. The Giving Tree is about our mothers that gave everything to this world, to their husbands, to their children, and it's called love. it's romanticized. it feels like the best thing a woman can be is someone who gives everything up, sacrifices everything, until she's not even a real person but a driving force in someone else's life. we watched our moms in relationships where she gave and gave for so little in return, and called it love. kids pick up on that, especially daughters. The Giving Tree is our mothers.

marbleguard

What you describe is something I have noticed over and over in TV and documentary interviews where adult children are asked to speak about their mothers. Both men and women will mention appreciating how their mothers sacrificed for them, but almost without fail, this will be the only thing the men have to say about who their mothers were. Women will often speak about her sense of humor, her style, her favorite hobbies, her talents unrelated to care-giving, but the men almost never mention a single thing about their mothers aside from what she did for them. To them, their mother's greatest achievement is having given up everything to make them a successful man.

In the male mind, women are not their own people with their own lives, but vessels that carry and sacrifice to make and support the people with actual lives... men.

blizzardofjj

philcollinsenjoyer

Thank you divorce for all you've done for music

prettyboyhere

sister post to this

captain-price-returns

linguist-in-a-blanket

Challenge for Shakespearean men (level impossible): believe your wife over some random dude/your own intrusive thoughts.

This happened at least FOUR fucking times!

We stan Macbeth and Benedick in this house. They would never.

snack-size-shakespeare

Iago: “I lay with Cassio lately”- *Proceeds to describe a totally fake but DETAILED fantasy of Cassio. dry-humping and making out with him

Othello: *never questions any of this* “This is clear proof they have done the deed! Cassio must die!”

Audience: “Hold on, Iago, do you desperately want to screw Cassio? Seems like you put a lot of time and detail into that little erotic fantasy. Can we talk about that before we get into the wife-beating?

legotwink08

i actually ADORE studying shakespeare and i get that its not for everyone but jesus CHRIST is it so FUN!!!!!!!! i am a firm believer that shakespeare was never meant to be read but to be watched, but i really just love to unpack everything. theres something about the fact that these words, which were spoken to crowds of poor and illiterate people, words which were simply meant to entertain, have held up for so many centuries, and the fact that all these years later, we can still find meaning and value in them, because thats the THING with the english language. it doesnt die, and it holds up and it holds MEANING, because words are so important and they mean so much. the fact that i was 13 studying romeo and juliet and 14 studying macbeth and now im 17 studying othello and next year ill be 18 studying king richard, these are all texts but more than that, stories, stories about people and life and the world, stories that a man took the time to craft and weave and that actors took the time to learn and perform at the globe and now i am taking the time to pick apart and find meaning and value in it. shakespeare means so much to me, the man and his work and everything his work stands for, everything it means for literature and the english language and the way we engage in society and understand ourselves and our methods of communicating and what life MEANS. at the end of the day shakespeare is about what life, this futile, minute little thing that we are given, what it means and what we can do with it. and good god, i will enjoy every second of it.

shortestlovesong

seen a lot of hate for sarah in obsession but i think she’s an excellent representation of the ways that women can perpetuate misogyny for men and yet become collateral because in the end they are still women