gothic renaissance goes so hard when you don't have illiterate twitter mfs in your ear telling you that sensitive portrayals of upsetting & taboo subjects are an endorsement of said taboos, nor the other illiterate twitter mfs saying that romanticizing them is harmless #nuance
It can be traced to how boys are raised around food. Always being catered to, with no expectations of reciprocity makes them grow into inconsiderate men.
Food and cooking have been treated as something a man deserves and has a right to which fosters a sense of entitlement.
There’s a peculiar arrogance in holding others to standards you privately violate. You don’t actually hate "immorality" but what you hate seeing other people do openly what you do in secret. Insecurity dressed up as moral superiority.
When you're chronically ill it's socially acceptable for folks to interrogate about your diet, how much yoga you do, and whether you sacrified your soul to the correct god. But if you ask someone to wear a mask to try to prevent their 4th COVID infection, you've crossed a line
“It’s just a cold” I don’t want that either, thanks
“It’s just the flu” I don’t want that either, thanks
“It’s just norovirus” I don’t want that either, thanks
Just because you think your sickness is no big deal doesn’t mean it isn’t one for others.
not to get corny but I think the perpetual girlhood trend (girl math, girl dinner, I’m just a girl, he should pay for XYZ) comes from a real and genuine distain for adult women. it’s very embarrassing.