Toni Morrison said that some of us “have been taught to read very badly.”
Trained to read books “as resolutions and solutions and then to put them to uses that are nefarious, as though they are reading a ‘How To’ column. They go to a book the way you go to a medicine cabinet.”
Most of the time we aren’t asking to “be saved.” We’re asking for someone to hold our hands and offer support while it sucks. “You have to do it yourself.” Yeah, I get that. I’ve always gotten that. But doing it myself is completely different from doing it ALONE and ISOLATED.
Impatient people never realize how their hastiness can ruin SO much! It comes thru in almost every interaction. Not letting ppl finish speaking, expecting closeness to come with new ppl right away, rushing through necessary intimacy, plowing through delicate conversations -
@boywaif Collaborating with rapists and fascists is kinda strange but as long as she’s capable of describing the general experience of human empathy then I guess it’s okay
something i learned from my last two relationships is if you are someone who has a lot of friends and is comfortable with themselves, an insecure man with no friends will make you feel horrible for it
Jesse Eisenberg says he sometimes "experiments with AI" to see if it's good at writing:
"I’m totally paranoid. I sometimes experiment with AI to see whether it’s good at writing. And it’s still not. I’m paranoid, so I check and it still isn’t. Thank God. I say, 'Write a scene like this.' I’m just testing it to make sure it’s bad, and it’s still bad. So I’m relieved, but, like, how far away is it from being good? How far are we from a kid putting on a pair of goggles and saying, 'I want to watch a movie about me where I rob a bank and then kiss the girl I’m in love with at school. Here are pictures of her, here are pictures of me' and then they press play? I’m paranoid about that."
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I think ppl get offended when you aren't ashamed of things that they were taught to be ashamed of. They resent you for not caring what everybody thinks.
This is so true. The reality is ppl are going to be more inclined to side with abusers bc victims are disruptive. They're dysregulated, intrusive, disturbing, & ask something of others, even if just to empathize. Abusers do not & want your peace preserved by you ignoring victims.
a lot of people ask what evangelion is about and it’s about a lot of things but this is really one of the main things evangelion is about even if it didn’t have the data at the time just the vibe