men b like … I’m ugly so hot girls don’t want to fuck me 😔🤙
women b like… I’m ugly so my entire exsitstance is a joke and I spend 2 hours every morning ritually painting my face trying to use contour to change the bone structure of my face so I am seen as employable and worthy of having a life 🤭👰
Statues also Die is a good film for those interested in art and museums. Commissioned and partially paid by Présence Africaine it was released in 1953. The film shows how the treatement of African art (called Art Nègre at the time and considered simpler) and Colonialism erased African cultures and denied African and Black people the dignity of their past. It was forbidden as in the ‘50 French still had colonies in Africa, it was allowed on 1963.
You can watch it here in (French with English subtitles) [many scenes of colonial France and an animals suffering dying]
We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee by Redbone plays in the background of the Tik Tok.
White text starts at the top of the screen, displaying information. “The song you are hearing was not allowed to be played on U.S radio stations in 1970’s”.
The dancer makes hoops go from Eagle to Earth form.
“It created by a popular Native American band called Redbone and it hit number 1 charts all over Europe.”
“The song raised awareness about what happened at Wounded Knee”
They finish the Earth form, centering themself. “Let’s get it trending”.
Screen switches to the Tik Toker’s name and username, James Jones / @notoriouscree
Stop vilifying adults that live with their parents.
We’re still deep in one of the worst economic recessions of modern times. For many of us its not a choice but a requirement in order to survive. For many of us we have disabilities that make finding accommodation that suit our needs a lot harder and a lot more expensive.
Many of us pay into the household. Many of us are trapped in abusive households because we don’t have the means to leave. We aren’t moochers or afraid to leave the nest. The world simply isn’t built to support us anymore.
This is actually an incredibly western (and specifically American) thing. In a lot of other countries and cultures it’s NOT AT ALL uncommon for an adult to still live with their parents. As a second generation immigrant, it’s BEWILDERING to me. My cousin still lives with our grandmother; it’s important. She needs someone to watch after her, and she has the space… why wouldn’t he?
This obsession with “adults” being “fully independent” of their parents is a fully American, bizarrely capitalist notion and it needs to be stomped into the ground.
Reminder that in the U.S., multigenerational households were very common (if not the outright norm) until the 1950s. Young people living at home–and being raised in large households that included grandparents and cousins–was pretty damn normal until around then.
You know what happened in the U.S. in the 1950s?
A HUGE boom in consumerism.
Massive conservative backlash against the progress made by women’s rights, and by progressivism in general
After WWII (which the U.S. managed to make an enormous profit on), suddenly the country was full of people* with credit–which meant it was up to corporations to give them a place to spend it. Throw in the Baby Boom (lots of new couples getting married & having kids), the rise of highways & automobile culture, and the desire that a lot of powerful parties had to see a return to “traditional” gender roles, and you get the uniquely American product:
The Suburban Nuclear Family
It was brilliant, from a marketing and white male conservative perspective. What better way to convince all these newly lucrative consumers to part with their money than by selling them a house–and a complete set of household accoutrements to go inside it? Everything about 1950s media was aimed at convincing young couples to buy a house, buy a car, buy furniture, buy a sewing machine, buy a garage full of tools–and above all, don’t live with your parents & adult siblings, who probably already own many of these things. Don’t share resources–that’s Communism! And worse, it’s unAmerican.
Coincidentally, did Suburban Nuclear Family Culture also reenforce patriarchal power structures within the home, by isolating women in their own families & marriages (which drastically enables abuse), and giving children fewer adults (grandparents, aunts and uncles) to supervise their wellbeing? Did it cut off people who weren’t the “head” of the household from community resources? Did it enable domineering family men to control their families away from prying eyes–or encourage that sort of behavior in men who otherwise could have ended up being decent enough parents & spouses, with better cultural influences? Did it train generations of us to grow up into perfect little consumers, overworked and underpaid and struggling to afford independent households we can’t mantain? Did it permanently alter our definition of family & community in a way that decades later we have not recovered from?
Yes, but it also made a lot of businessmen very very wealthy. What’s more American than that.
Tags: #not a shitpost#long post#serious post#and when that model didn’t end up being sustainable–guess what?#many of us DID go back to living with other people.#except now it’s often with roommate and even complete strangers#or with parents with who we have an unhealthy relationship#(which is in many ways a direct inheritance of the shift to ‘traditional’ family values)#and now even those of us who of lucky enough to be living with family members we love and get along with#are constantly told to feel guilty about that bc how ‘lazy’. bc you aren’t ‘contributing’.#in a society where ‘contributing’ is very suspiciously synonymous with consuming andoverworking
Then so do their creators, because Chuck Palahniuk and Justin Roiland have flatly said outright that Tyler Durden and Rick Sanchez are not people to be emulated in any shape or fashion because they *are* the negative aspects of their own lives.
hey here have some alternatives to these jerkfaces
you want a nihilist? you want someone in constant existential despair, who believes everything he does is functionally meaningless?
bam. done
you want neurodivergence?
he’s worth idolizing
so’s she
so’s he
so’s he
heck, if you want mental illness, this guy canonically has schizophrenia and complex PTSD, and despite his…unique career choices, even he’s better than the Joker:
and you want hedonism? why aren’t you idolizing her?:
what i’m saying is, there are a lot of heroes we could be hanging out with if we could just kick our habit of adoring assholes
blm protesters are STILL in jail STILL facing charges STILL trying to recover from the abuse they endured after peacefully protesting. but god forbid these privileged white people get pushed a little for storming and breaking into the capitol.
GOP claims that they’re in fear for their lives to vote to impeach trump because of threats from their base. They’re afraid of the same people they incite when it’s time to gas immigrants, bomb the Middle East, or deny healthcare to people. The GOP needs to be destroyed.
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