I miss when journalism wasnโt designed to generate a comments section
I miss when journalism wasnโt designed to generate a comments section
Me in 2005: โwow 2nd wave feminism was so crazy for saying you canโt be straight and a feministโ
Me in 2026, looking around at the straights: โโฆ. They may have been onto somethingโ
Feminism isnโt your man acknowledging that youโre smarter and wiser and more mature and more capable and carrying all the responsibility - feminism is respecting yourself enough to be with someone whoโs on your fucking level.
The best place for a Nazi is in three different dumpsters
A good thing to remember at museums is that, when something is really a gift, you donโt insist on it being labeled as โgift from meโ forever.
Rich people donโt understand gifts.
Wow Iโm really glad Suzanne Collinsโ work had such a broad reaching impact and got so many children familiar with the basic mechanics of oppression & resistance
However I would also like you, an adult, to please ffs stop saying โOmg itโs just like hunger gamesโ and read a real history book
People keep being like โbc of autism I thought people were serious when they said โletโs get coffeeโ but it turns out nobody means thatโ
My guy we most definitely do mean it. Allistic people arent just handing out fake invitations as a matter of course. Those people are called โassholes.โ
I hope we can all admit to ourselves that if all weโre doing is yapping about what should or shouldnโt happen, then what weโve really decided to do is wait and see what happens.
When white people refer to colonial powers as โwe,โ as in โwhen we took over the continent,โ itโs always worth asking:
Who is โwe?โ Are they taking care of you?
White people donโt know what community is because of we did, we would immediately stop thinking of whiteness as our community.
IMO calling in sick to work is part of interviewing your boss. Do it early.
If they:
- push you to come in anyway
- imply youโre lying / need extra proof
- point out what an inconvenience it is for them
- try to use it to turn your coworkers against you
โฆ begin your exit.
Protect the dolls means maintain line of sight on the dolls. Place yourself between strangers and the dolls. Notice what makes the dolls uncomfortable, keep them from having to deal with it. Accompany the dolls into cis spaces, leave when they want to leave.
You have an aura of privilege. Aim it.
Itโs good to periodically look around and ask yourself how many of your friends would fight a cop for you
Especially now
But if there was a man in my bed where would my breakfast go
Whatโs actually gonna happen is 1,000 years from now a trans archaeologist will dig up your bones and cry because itโs the most profound moment in her life
You live in a society that produces people who just donโt see anything wrong with murder. They want to do it. It feels cool.
The state seeks those people, and gives them tools and permission to murder, when it is useful to the state.
That is who weโre dealing with.
The officer took Prettiโs gun and fired it into the ground.
This will be reframed in court as evidence that Pretti fired shots.
This was not an accident.
These dogs are not untrained.
It is not about needing a different president anymore.
The movement using him as a figurehead has a paramilitary force of their own now, that your government is allowing to patrol the streets and execute dissenters.
These boys will not snap out of it once he stops telling them to do this.
Donโt let your loneliness lower your bar. Itโs better to have empty chairs around your table than to fill them with people who donโt get you. Your people will find you, and you want to have room for them when they do.
I gotta say I am about done with fantasy fictionโs obsession with royalty.
Everybody always has to be Princess this and Duke that and The Last of the Noble Line of whatever
I donโt care about these prissy rich people give me a laundry wench and give her a dragon
Me: Yeah Iโm gonna have to do this thing thatโs gonna be really hard and dangerous - if you freak out and dump all your anxiety about it onto me, I canโt really handle that as well, so Iโm gonna frame it as a fun silly little time
โOmg youโre so adventurous!โ ๐ค
Me: Good itโs working
Listen it is kind of annoying when men see you doing something difficult and assume you need help
But it is 100x more annoying when men see you struggling and just stand there and hit on you while youโre obviously busy
You live in a country that killed a revolutionary leader and then gave you the day off school about it
I love it when libertarians say โtaxation is theftโ and then I say โdoes Hobbesโ Leviathan really apply here though?โ And then they gape at me like I uttered a wizardโs curse because you actually canโt be a libertarian if youโve Googled your catchphrases
A boycott is not an individual choice. It is an organized collective action.
You are not boycotting Amazon if you donโt know which organization asked you to boycott Amazon, nor the status of their negotiations with Amazon.
Hope this helps.
Thereโs no such thing as an ethical diamond because if you can afford diamonds youโre hoarding wealth.
That is literally the point of fine jewelry. Stop pretending youโre not rich.
Truly my reddest flag in dating is someone who canโt pick friends
What do you mean youโre cool and smart and kind and funny and hot but you hang out with people who treat you like shit? And you expect ME to hang out with them? Absolutely not
Target is the fae realm. 10 minutes inside Target is 3 hours in real life.
I know weโre not supporting Target right now I just wanted to let everyone know this also applies when all youโre doing is peeing.
The dazed, leisurely pace of rich tourists at a busy truck stop bathroom has made me realize rich people probably donโt normally pee and theyโre just trying it out while theyโre on vacation
Excellent banjo player, this guy. Will be putting him on even heavier rotation now.
Just so weโre clear, even if we buy the ICE narrative: the way to neutralize a threat when theyโre driving a vehicle toward you is not to shoot and kill the driver. Thatโs a great way to make the problem immediately worse.
Nazis are always stupid. Remember this.