Catholic All Girls School. Grew up with 30,000 sisters and female au pairs and nannies. Rarely encountered a boy. We were quietly taught that men were much smarter than us and more rational and capable, and so we should treat them with deference and trust. This belief lasted until I was ten and saw a boy called George stick an entire eraser up his nostril to kill the ant that walked up there
Housing *is* the economy. The more I study anything to do with economics, it all comes back to housing. Its actually insane how much an abundance of housing of good quality with services and infrastructure dictates your standard of living nationally
I have a phenomenal optimism about the left in America. We are approaching a juncture just as we are maturing, chastised by our recent failures and invigorated by our recent successes. I see us ready to develop hegemony at the exact moment we are becoming capable of it.
A more helpful version of this is that it's impossible to be mentally healthy while lacking stable finances or a support network. These will not "fix" your mental health, but they are a pre-requisite to being healthy.
I suppose it's funny that "writing a popular book" is arguably one of the most ethical ways you could ever become a billionaire and JK Rowling still ended up a crusader for child abusers and fascists anyway.
Epstein class solidarity remains rock solid.
"trans women are women" continues to be an extremely radical stance, even among those who claim to be allies, even among those who claim to have the most advanced line of feminist analyses, even among *ourselves*
What if instead of getting pathetically envious that men are "allowed" to be fat and ugly and gross you learned to love yourself enough to allow women that same grace
I think the neuroses that society inflicted on you are a form of patriarchal violence, but it's on you to unlearn that shit instead of expecting everyone else to live in the prison you keep yourself in
@harumichiis Amen. I am almost 41, I grew up on the 90’s/early August and I cannot express the difference it would have made to me seeing models in magazine and mannequins in stores of all shapes and sizes like there are now. We are not going back, our little girls deserve better.