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[radicarian]

it is past time we jettisoned the useless false dichotomy of introversion vs. extroversion and just accepted that everybody has a minimum amount of social interaction, failing which, they get really weird. and everybody has a maximum amount of social interaction, exceeding which, they get really weird. these levels are different for everyone, for a variety of reasons, and have no moral dimension. and that is all.

[mjalti]

why would you come to this club and just shoot Myers & Briggs like this

[caffeinewitchcraft]

IMO, it’s healthier to conceptualize it this way. So instead of being like “why am I being so weird? I’m an introvert, I like being alone!” you say, “Ah, I must be supergluing googly eyes to my bathroom faucet because I haven’t met my minimum threshold of social interaction and I’m trying to fill that void with these tiny pieces of plastic. Maybe I should invite someone over for dinner. They sure will be surprised by all these eyes watching them while they poop.”

[barebittelitt]

Stephen Colbert twerking for voting. I love this man so much!

[apricitic]

on purpose!!! love people on purpose!!! find someone wonderful and love them and tell them it wasn’t an accident, you had a choice, you saw who they were and realized how lovely it would be to love them, and it is!!! i made a good decision! i love you on purpose!!!

[stability]

[awo]

sometimes self care is just telling yourself that you can always try again tomorrow

[bob-belcher]

[insomniac-arrest]

a graph based on my observations

[samayla]

I would like to apply a Dolly Parton quote to this most excellent graph.

[teratomarty]

YES.

[systlin]

I’ve reached that “30′s and don’t care and do it on purpose now” upward slope and it’s fantastic.

[thnkfilm]

“Love isn’t easy. That’s why they call it love.”

“I don’t really get that.”

“I know. I thought I could just start something, and something smart would come out.”

The Big Sick (2017) dir. Michael Showalter

[godfreyja]

Midnight in Paris (2011)

dir. Woody Allen

[julie-in-love]

[robertwire]

it is very important to have friends who unapologetically dislike the same things u dislike that other people like a lot so u can talk about it in private and avoid being a jackass in public.

[obstinatecondolement]

I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off. 

[keeveet-talks-deactivated201612]

Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?

[schumie]

When men decided they liked them.

[startrektrashface]

this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces - early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions - but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek

[changelinglili]

I propose we call this “mentrification”

[shiralipkin]

YES

[rosalarian]

MENTRIFICATION that’s genius

[roachpatrol]

by the way every single man i’ve ever explained this to is completely boggled to hear about it. they genuinely don’t fucking know. they’re always like ‘okay name a field this happened in’ and you’re like ‘beer. writing novels. gynecology. computers.’ and they’re completely fucking distraught. men didn’t invent beer???? men didn’t invent everything? 

[electricloveinc-deactivated2020]

We can also witness the reverse happening, where women move into a space and suddenly it is deemed weak or unimportant. Some examples are teaching, nursing, and psychology.

[hubblegleeflower]

…and any kind of clerical work.

[tzikeh]

Check out the history of film editing sometime. 

[thefrodiscaper]

T H I S

[the-last-girl-scout]

I wish that yankees could go like one day without forgetting that the South is full of people who are actively fighting against and suffering under all this stuff they just find distasteful

[the-last-girl-scout]

“They’re red states so we should just write them off”

I fucking live here

[the-last-girl-scout]

“The poor and oppressed deserve to die to pay for the crimes of their oppressors.”

–ancient yankee proverb

[transwrongs]

i wish more people could remember the amount of black people in the south lmao like…….

[the-last-girl-scout]

Mmhmm

The primary recipient of all this brutal unpleasantness as well as the primary force of positive social change in this region was, is, and remains the South’s very large Black population.

But y'all would rather just forget about all that if it means you get to have a convenient scapegoat for nationwide systemic issues & get to feel superior to The Poors.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

so do you want to educate yourself and others or do you derive pleasure from the idea of being ideologically superior to others?

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

do you actually want to better yourself and the world around you or do you just like one-upping people in ethical coversations?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[football-in-tuxedos]

In the 2019 film Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Pikachu repeats the phrase “Serenity Now” in a moment of stress. As this phrase first gained popularity from its appearance on the sitcom Seinfeld (Season 9, Episode 3, The Serenity Now) this indicates that Seinfeld exists in the Pokemon universe. However, evidence from the film indicates that it would be different in the Pokemon universe, including all of the main cast having personality appropriate Pokemon partners. In this essay I will identify which Pokemon suits each cast member the most using the following evidence. Number One-

[unadulteratedpiratepizza]

No, please, continue