Belinda Sacco

author, editor, and energy worker from Baltimore, MD

[Owen @Owennfa]

BOOMER: "Nobody wants to work anymore."

YOU: "I work 50 hours a week."

BOOMER: "Doing what, on a computer?"

YOU: "Yes. It pays $58,000."

BOOMER: "I made $18,000 and owned a house."

YOU: "That's the whole point."

BOOMER: "We didn't complain, we just worked."

YOU: "You worked one job and got a pension. I work one job and get a 401k match if I'm lucky."

BOOMER: "Nobody handed me anything."

YOU: "College was $600 a year. Your first house was 2x your salary. Your employer covered your family's health insurance."

BOOMER: "That was normal back then."

YOU: "Exactly. It was normal. Now it's impossible."

BOOMER: "So what do you want, a handout?"

YOU: "I want what was normal."

BOOMER: *silent*

You didn't outwork us.

You just lived in the version of the country where working was enough.

[Belinda Sacco @ShadowmeX]

@AntMess97 @Zarish5062 If they're lying and sleeping around behind people's backs, yeah, but otherwise if there's clear communication between all parties and respect for boundaries, they're essentially just practicing polyamory. 🤷‍♀️

[ash🍊 @ashmatics]

i die a little inside when someone irl suggests i use chatgpt for literally anything

[Dashy™️🦥 @Dashytwo]

I’m never deleting Instagram 😭😭

[Belinda Sacco @ShadowmeX]

@ZainabSana2622 @Zarish5062 Sounds like the perfect dinner to me

[♡⃝ @wine_x13]

Man in my comments: "If that's sexual harassment, then every woman I know has been sexually harassed!"

Yea dude... you are SO close to getting the point, yet SO far away at the same time🫠

[Belinda Sacco @ShadowmeX]

The secret

[Ashe!! @cindermage]

i started dating a guy with my deadname and my parents suddenly got really good at referring to me correctly.

[introvert @introvertsmemes]

yeah

[Belinda Sacco @ShadowmeX]

@foreverimbetter Yo, fuck off 🤣

[jm @jeaneri]

just a reminder ladies and gentlemen

[Belinda Sacco @ShadowmeX]

@speakinghouston @ZainabSana2622 WhoooA

[‏ً @itsnwts]

Hot take: Normalize telling boys the stories of what the women in their families endured.

Too often, boys grow up hearing, “Grandma made the best turkey,” while girls hear, “Grandma was married at 14.”

Tell the boys the full story, too. Let them know the cost behind the meals they cherish, the sacrifices that shaped their family, and the resilience of the women who came before them.

[Belinda Sacco @ShadowmeX]

@polen_ball The amount of times Ive noticed this when using "girl" as a term of endearment for guys...

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

Pregnancy wasn't 50/50.
Birth wasn't 50/50.
Breastfeeding wasn't 50/50.
The mental load wasn't 50/50.
Postpartum recovery wasn't 50/50.
The sleepless nights weren't 50/50.
The physical changes weren't 50/50.
By the time the bills came, she had already paid in ways a man never could.

[‏ً @itsnwts]

A gentle reminder that a man who goes to work to “provide for his family” is actually sacrificing NOTHING and would still have to work if he didn’t have a family.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

If male staff are in any way distracted by children's knees, I don't think they should be allowed anywhere near a school, to be honest.

[cessi 🥤 @ceciiii07]

Women are lonely, too. But people don’t care because lonely women don’t murder, they go to grad school or get a rescue dog.

[Belinda Sacco @ShadowmeX]

@upshine3 Not me holding my grad school degree to sleep at night 😂