dont tell anyone i'm a/b testing
adults every generation when the children that were born 10 years ago don't know what was going on 15 years ago
"my 10 year old doesn't know what CDs are!"
have you told her what a CD is? do you use CDs? has she ever seen one? then how the fuck is she going to know what a CD is. are you fucking stupid. im going to kill you
"my son tried to introduce me to Green Day's music after finding it out on youtube" he knew about Green Day for one day and immediately told you about it but you let that young boy reach puberty without telling him about the best worst pop punk band of all time. i am on his side.
can someone tell Jacqueline Durran that the issue with the wuthering heights costumes isn't even that they're historically inaccurate. it's that they're fugly
I think it's important to remember that every single religion can be twisted for violence and oppression and abuse and control. Yes, including the one that you think can't be. But quickly, before anti-theists start saying that religion is an inherently evil violence accelerant, remember that this is true for any ideology, including anti-theism. Violence and oppression and abuse and control happens wherever there are people who think that those things will help them get what they want.
if your partner doesn't want you to take hormones or get surgery, you should break up with them or divorce them. your body is yours alone.
absolutely that too. as a mobility aid using trans person myself; do not let a partner hold you back from doing what you require to be able to be stable and healthy within your body and how you interact with the outside world. i promise you they are not worth it.
hey you ever think about how the Cullen's love-bombing eventually replaced Bella's personality?
She mentions multiple times in the books that she despises expensive gifts, and the ones that actually leave an impact on are her Chevy and the wooden wolf bracelet Jacob gives her. The Chevy is second-hand from Billy, and the bracelet was carved by Jacob. They hold value to her because they have personality; they speak to her tastes and were given to her with those tastes in mind.
She loves her Chevy, but it is eventually replaced with a sleek, expensive designer car gifted to her by the Cullens. She adores the bracelet but Edward puts an designer charm on it to remind her of him.
Even her clothes, which she insists are fine and suit her, are replaced with branded sweaters, dresses and heels.
She hates the idea of any kind of marriage but Edward holds vampirism over her head to get what he wants. Even when she agrees to marry him (against her will) she wants to keep it simple, wanting to simply drive to Texas and get married via a drive thru- Alice begs Bella to allow her to plan the wedding and it's easily more ostentacious and expensive than her birthday party in New Moon, which she describes as "a hundred times worse than I'd imagined"
They get rid of her preferred aesthetics in hopes that their consumerist one will stick, and one of the last things they do to her is literally strip her of her humanity.
She becomes a cold, perfect creature and as a result, is no longer allowed to have ties to her father, mother, her best friend or the interests she had before. She's converted into a Cullen and this shit is supposed to be romantic.
Reblogging for consumerist Cullens.
I'm remembering a literary fiction debut from a couple years ago that was nonlinear and about family and forgiveness which is all whatever but what pissed me off was that the main character was a biologist and it may have done the absolute laziest job of realizing that outside of action movies where scientists are just white labcoat eggheads looking at goo in tubes. How do biologists spend their time? Traveling to give talks and attending fancy galas, in this book. What motivates biologists? Who cares. Do biologists get paid well & have job security and lots of free time? Apparently yes!! The author had these little poetical, metaphorical interludes about whales and how they represented the human condition. But they ended up as such garbled soundbites ("it took millions of years for whales to learn to be themselves" .... "whales have enormous hearts") that it was laughable a scientist could ever be anywhere near this story. And worse, the story just clearly didn't give a shit about whales as they exist themselves, what questions a researcher would be asking, and all the interesting things that make them different from humans. It's not just about getting the details wrong—I don't care if someone has an ecologist doing Western blots or whatever—it was the total lack of curiosity about the character's life and the natural world.
“There is a cyborg hierarchy. They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us Deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the Hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our language, abandon our culture, and consider ourselves cured. They like exoskeletons, which none of us use. They don’t count as cyborgs those of us who wear pacemakers or go to dialysis. Nor do they count those of us kept alive by machines, those of us made ambulatory by wheelchairs, those of us on biologics or antidepressants. They want us shiny and metallic and in their image.”
― Alice Wong, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
