Misanthropy For Lunch

Daily adventures as a misanthrope

[bibliophile-06]

THE ONLY WALL THAT DESERVES ATTENTION GOING INTO 2019

[kibblesandbitch]

Here’s something to chew on.

[coldasaslab]

about me.jpg

[whistlenotes]

honestly

[poesieplease-deactivated2020061]

In case you wanna read the article this quote is from: http://rolereboot.org/culture-and-politics/details/2016-05-daughter-know-ok-angry/

[cygnaut]

Adaptable girls find socially acceptable ways to internalize or channel their discomfort and ire, sometimes at great personal cost. Passive aggressive behavior, anxiety, and depression are common effects. Sarcasm, apathy, and meanness have all been linked to suppressed rage. Troublesome behaviors, such as lying, skipping school, bullying other people, even being socially awkward are often signs that a teenager is dealing with anger that they are unable to name as anger.

Girls, taught to ignore their anger, become disassociated from themselves.

Anger is so successfully sublimated that girls lose the ability to understand what it feels and looks like. Is her heart racing? Does she feel flushed or shaky? Does she clench her jaws at night? Is she breaking out in hives? Does she cry for no reason? Laugh inappropriately during difficult conversations? Fly off the handle over something that seems inconsequential? You can see where I’m going here…those crazy girl hormones, right? Better to just think of it as a phase.

For too many women, however, the phase never ends. It’s lives spent never expressing anger at all and believing that they don’t have the right or ability to do so without great risk.

[gimmeur-tots]

Ok this is important. I feel like this all the time.

[imfemalewarrior]

To quote Anansi from American Gods:  “Anger is good. Anger gets shit done.” 

-FemaleWarrior 

[gahdamnpunk]

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

[knitmeapony]

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

[thesaltofcarthage]

the sheer amount of Fucks Not Given in these photos is creating a Black Hole Of Ungiven Fucks, sucking in all the bullshit over the Fuck You event horizon and trapping it so the bullshit can’t escape. It’s gorgeous. 

[batbitequeen]

40 y/o white guy: Hey kid, ever hear about Rage Against the Machine? They really told it like it is! Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!

me: Zack de la Rocha is Mexican Tom Morello is black Brad Wilk is jewish

40 y/o white guy: blue lives matter

[batbitequeen]

RATM: Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses

40 y/o white guy that claims he likes RATM: blue lives matter

[lenins-and-things]

Was it Paul Ryan that claimed to be a RATM fan? Like, nationally? In public? On TV? And then RATM came out and shut him down?

[batbitequeen]

:)

[batbitequeen]

🙏✊🔥🙏

[mccoppinscrapyard]

Also I totally remembered this exchange:

[erevshelshoshanim]

Growing up fat, you get made fun of for everything you do, even basic shit like eating and laughing and breathing are funny when you do it because youre fat! And its so hard to not carry that with you as you get older, like I’m still embarassed to eat or dance in front of people or smile in pictures and its ridiculous and I hate it and I wish I was treated with more humanity

[erevshelshoshanim]

Thin people can reblog this btw

[neopetsuser-deactivated20210119]

they wont tho lmao

[kropotkhristian-deactivated2019]

Mark Zuckerberg lost $119 Billion dollars on the stock market today (7/26/18). This is the largest loss of wealth in a single day in modern stock history.

This will literally not change his lifestyle or effect his livelihood at all. He is still a multi-billionaire.

If I worked every single day, for the rest of my life, at $15/hr - which is more than twice the national minimum wage - I would never make even 1/1000th the amount of just the money that Zuckerberg lost today.

If I worked every single day, for the entirety of the time that anatomically modern humans have existed (200,000 years) - at $15/hr - I would still not make one tenth of the amount of just the money he lost today.

And he is still a billionaire and will lose literally zero luxury or well-being from what happened today.

You want to know how absolutely grotesque modern wealth inequality is?

There you go.

[asapscience]

But have you seen a shoebill?? [@badsciencejokes]

[hadassahgrace]

Ruined Women Poem by Hadassah Grace Music by Ira Zema Directed by Audrey Baldwin Cinematography by Martin Sagadin

[misanthropyforlunch]

This is so badass. I’ve been friends with Hadassah for approximately one million years and she is fucking amazing.

[kestrel-tree]

Reverse paleo diet: only eat things with 10+ ingredients cave men never tasted so you can truly appreciate how far society has come.

[misanthropyforlunch]

My jalapeno Cheetos and sour gummy candy diet is finally getting traction.

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[argumate]

dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page

[soundssimpleright]

that is honestly really awesome

[misanthropyforlunch]

Fucking badass.

[worldssmallesttrampoline]

[tattooedarm-deactivated20180130]

This says a lot about people.

[misanthropyforlunch]

If a woman falls asleep on me it’s cute and we are two sisters united against the world. If a man falls asleep on me he’s creepy. 

I don’t make the rules I just... no wait. I make the rules because it’s my body and my personal space.

[hotcommunist-deactivated2019032]

WOODY ALLEN DIE BITCH

[misanthropyforlunch]

Bro, you already ARE the poster boy of the #MeToo movement. 

[creedencebuegwaterrevival-deact]

[misanthropyforlunch]

I want to submit my dad’s photo to this but I don’t want to doxx myself.

[scrotus-potus]

Important thread highlighting the connection between misogyny and violence. Who’s at fault? Half the world’s population, or toxic masculinity that blames others for its violence? 

[chicks1023]

[allmalepanels]

On Polish TV - Debate on abortion

[writing-while-female]

Opinion | If male authors described men in literature the way they describe women

You're welcome?

Some highlights

Raymond Chandler Marlowe was the kind of brunette who would make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window, and only half the hole would be from heterosexual panic. The other half would be that look he gave you, under his hat brim, the kind of look you thought maybe you could cash in later in a cheap hotel room, before you saw the headache sticking out of his hip pocket.

George R.R. Martin Jon Snow’s abs moved imperceptibly beneath his tunic, firm and hard and pale like winter apples that had been harvested, sliced carefully and arrayed in rows.

John Updike He peed, but he had no idea how, because inside his body was anatomy that was impossible to understand.

The Terminator Large but delicately framed, with a pinprick red eye that lights up when he enters a room. He stops the party when he walks into a room (by killing the party with his mechanized weaponry) but you wonder what lurks under that steely exterior.

Jaws Wearing nothing at all, the shark emerges from the water. We can’t help but be fixated on this toothsome vision of beauty. Our eyes are drawn first to his mouth, large and sensuous, full of even, white teeth. But then they’re drawn along his body’s sleek curves — a body that throbs with raw sensuality and hunger, like an automobile that throbs with raw sensuality and hunger.