By “nose-diving”, we mean, “having a standard second weekend drop, but just, y’know, in its third weekend because its second weekend was such a success.”
so blade never got off the ground, ironheart never got the respect it deserved. anthony mackie isn’t being pushed as our actual captain america, and kevin feige decides to pull the plug on wonderman— alrighty then
To be fair, the original works (Iliad and Oydssey) are internally aware that war is hell and that this stands in contrast with the culture of heroism and hounding glory.
In the Iliad, Hector visits his infant son one last time before going to fight Achilles, and as he is in full war gear, wearing a helmet, his baby boy is frightened by him and starts crying. By the wartime morals of ancient Greece, Hector is dressed and is acting nobly but the story makes it pretty clear that he is in a miserable position. He knows Troy will fall, his wife will be raped and enslaved, and his child will probably die. And he still goes, and fights, and loses, because running is unthinkable. And then, at the farewell, his boy cries upon seeing him because he does not recognize his father.
In the Odyssesy, when Odysseus meets Achilles in the underworld, he tells him that none of the glory was worth dying for. He laments that he would rather be a slave and alive, than the king of all the dead.
The fact that a culture glorifies war never meant that individuals - especially educated individuals - could not see it for what it is.
they ban them from social media and then ban them from going outside. the only thing they can still do is watch tv, except they'll probably ban that too
"the Republican Party is ideologically committed to impregnating as many teenage girls as possible" is an objectively true statement that is taboo to admit in mainstream politics
A friend of mine is a GP and recently told me that asking, "Do you know who the Prime Minister is?" has lost all value as a way of testing cognitive function.
sometimes I think about the study where men and women both were shown messy rooms, and they both rated them as equally messy.
but then when participants were told it belonged to "Jane," it was rated as messier than if they were told it belonged to "John."
"Parents should be able to control their kid's online experi--" THEY ALREADY CAN. STOP WORDING IT LIKE THEY CAN'T.
DO SOME RESEARCH. TAKE AWAY THE PHONE. GIVE THEM A DUMB PHONE. ENABLE PARENTAL CONTROLS. BLOCK WEBSITES VIA THE ROUTER. HAVE AN ONLINE SAFETY TALK.
BE A PARENT.
i know it gets said a lot but so many dystopias for straight people is just what governments have done/are doing to LGBTQ people. “what if it was illegal to be in a relationship and have sex?” wow i wonder if anyone has ever been in a situation like that before
When my friend started experiencing psychosis ppl got mad at me for meeting her where she was at in reality bc I was “feeding her delusions”
Bro we’re chatting with the trees calmly. She started to get upset at the thunderstorm that rolled in, saying Zeus was angry with her. I pointed at the sky and said “that’s Thor bro you’re chillin” and she was like oh you right thanks. Idk. Yall just be upsetting vulnerable people instead of actually looking at how they seem to be FEELING. 1/2