i think of it as feminist because it’s about women who loudly experience ugly feelings, are largely self-centered, are at times nasty to one another and others in their lives, yet are also funny, charming, lovable, and vulnerable in moments (aka women allowed to be human)
fascinated by the downwardly mobile 27-34 year old guy who experienced an early win but struck out and never recovered. he has a bachelor's degree, professional upper-middle class parents and aspires beyond a 9-5 but can't build any momentum and is actively struggling
"nothing, as a parent, is more narcotic than the sound of them snapping into sync: giggling, tumbling on top of each other, yelling back and forth in ever greater hilarity." ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/svHj5WWKIH
When Europeans first settled the Great Plains, so many of them developed mental issues that "Prairie Madness" was coined.
Severe isolation combined with the flattest land, lack of trees, and extremely bipolar weather literally broke many of them.
turning reports of sexual violence into spectacles of debate serves misogynists two ways. they get the cruel pleasure of retraumatising people and it establishes a kind of assumed-cost for people reporting their violence. hard to imagine they don't know what they're doing.
I almost never go to Starbucks these days, but when I do it is a surreal experience standing in an empty store and watching the barista make a bunch of drinks for people who are not yet in the store before making yours
@yummy___cookies@mattbencole also - "sparing a thought" is exactly what led nhj down the journey she describes. and it appears she has been sparing thoughts about those kids, the system that fails them, and her own choice, every day for 10 years.
maddie kowalski was raped but i still need people to understand that she also wouldnt deserve to have her life ruined even if she had sex with multiple people consensually
There is a corner of the internet I had never heard of before I started reporting this story.
It’s called the “burnerverse”: a sprawling network of anonymous college-sports accounts that can look, at first glance, like ordinary shitposting.
Then I started looking closer. And what I found was a highly coordinated network of hundreds of anon accounts, dedicated to doxxing girls and ruining their lives.
My investigation for @WIRED — including some of the men allegedly behind some of these accounts — is out now. https://t.co/4t3XESCOND
haven’t seen anyone share what susan sontag wrote this year which seems to be a sign of a tonal shift. or at least a change in the way people want to think - and feel - about the attacks this year.
despite being 24 years old this is somehow the first time in my life i actually sat down and looked at 9/11 as a day that people lived through instead of like. a thing that happened that sparked a political response. i think this might be the first time ive seen both planes hit