No longer reacting to past trauma instead of the actual situation.
Not having to fight to earn love or suffer to prove worth.
No longer having to be in fight or flight/survival mode because you are safe.
I pray all black women reside in this forever.
🚨Zinedine Zidane on England’s draw against Ghana:
“I think some people expected England to walk onto the pitch and score three or four goals automatically. That’s not how football works, especially at a World Cup. What surprised me was not the result itself, but how uncomfortable England looked in the final third. There was plenty of possession, but not enough conviction when it mattered most.
You also have to give Ghana enormous credit. They came into the match with a well-organized defense, discipline, and absolutely no fear. They defended as a unit, stayed compact, and never allowed England to play with complete freedom. They looked like a team that fully believed in its game plan.
England controlled large parts of the ball, but possession means very little if you are not consistently testing the goalkeeper. Ghana remained focused, patient, and ready to compete for every moment of the match.
Now that the game has ended in a draw, I expect some fans to react the same way they reacted when Portugal drew against Congo. But football is about respecting your opponent. This result says as much about Ghana’s quality and organization as it does about England’s performance.”
Back in my day we had to keep our blazers on unless the teachers gave us permission to take them off. And if we were in a French lesson our teacher made us ask in French.
Heard a J Cole song today that featured this chorus and I was smiling so hard!
Now all that’s left is to have the video version of this song on Spotify…
@Footballtweet All this outrage is because Doku is a black man. Here I said it 👍🏽. They can't fathom his audacity. If De Bruyne asked same they'll shower love on him for being a family man
Today is World Sickle Cell Day & I’m reminded of 16yo Rebecca who received a bone marrow transplant from her sister Sayo to cure her of sickle cell. Their story captures exactly why people with sickle cell are true warriors & the importance of advocacy 💪🏾 https://t.co/2XflomowMo
So let me get this straight.
A woman in her young twenties, new to Los Angeles, agrees to meet a guy after talking online under the impression he’s roughly her age. Instead, a significantly older man, looking around 35 shows up having already misrepresented himself.
She immediately notices abnormal behavior, he walks into the bar scanning the room instead of engaging with her, hyper aware of his surroundings, acting visibly strange enough that alarm bells start going off.
Then, within minutes, he pivots into telling her he manages influencers and OnlyFans girls, which in practical terms often means acting as a pimp and then he starts aggressively pressuring a young woman he barely knows to start doing sex work, move to Miami with his help, and let him grow her brand.
So from her perspective
Lied about who he was.
Showed up significantly older than expected.
Displayed bizarre hyper vigilant behavior.
Immediately introduced sexualized financial exploitation.
Began attempting to recruit an isolated young woman new to a major city.
And your conclusion is,
“HAHA WOMEN SAY THEY’RE STRONG BUT THEY CRY.”
No, dipshit.
What you just watched was a woman recognizing, in hindsight, that she had likely just encountered a predator.
Women don’t spend their lives learning situational awareness because the world is full of good hearted entrepreneurial alpha males.
They do it because men like this exist.
And after escaping a high adrenaline situation, the nervous system processes the threat afterward. It’s called a delayed stress response. Fairly basic neurobiology, though admittedly concepts above a 7th grade reading level tend to struggle in manosphere circles.
What’s genuinely fascinating is how men who spend every waking hour screaming about protecting women are almost always the first ones mocking women for correctly identifying dangerous men.
Which tells us the quiet part out loud.
You don’t actually hate women being emotional.
You hate women recognizing predatory male behavior before men like that can benefit from it.
But sure, Richard. Tell us more about female irrationality while publicly demonstrating why women have to develop situational awareness in the first place.
Outstanding work.
🚨 Wayne Rooney on Declan Rice's set-pieces that inspired England's 4-2 victory:
🗣️ “For the whole of last season, people mocked Arsenal's set-pieces. They called them boring, said they were ruining football and claimed they could never win the biggest trophies playing that way.
Now look at England.
Declan Rice is delivering those same quality dead balls and they've played a huge part in a 4-2 win.
I've watched this World Cup closely and one thing stands out: Arsenal players have consistently produced dangerous set-pieces, with several leading directly to goals.
Maybe the issue was never the set-pieces.
Maybe people were simply frustrated because their own teams didn't have players capable of executing them at that level.
Football fans love effective set-pieces when they're winning games. They only complain when someone else is better at them.”
Noni Madueke wins the penalty before Harry Kane put England in front.
Declan Rice assisted from a corner to put England back in front.
Bukayo Saka comes off the bench and sets up Marcus Rashford to seal the win.
The Arsenal boys have done it for England.
It’s what they do. Easy. 🏴