ok yeah I thought it was just me. "Everyone I see is rapidly shrinking." Really, everyone? Everyone you see on the bus? Cashiers at CVS? Or just like, Olivia Wilde and Demi Moore?
Part of feminism is admitting that you’re a bird about certain shit and working to unlearn it. All of us got a lil chirpy chirp you just gotta rage against the birdness
a little sexual tension between friends is chic, it just means youre both bad; steel sharpens steel type shit. youre gonna wanna go ahead and never do anything about it tho. very tacky behavior
i despise when men blame shallowness or lustfulness on “their nature” … like do you seriously view yourself as an animal with no free will to choose to be different? absolutely pathetic
Sometimes your decisions aren’t on the morally right side. Sometimes they’re neutral. Or even bad. And I wish people would just own that rather than twisting themselves into Gordion knots about why the unethical thing they’re doing is actually the right thing.
some people love imagining themselves as some anomalous consciousness, self-created beings who arrived at every conclusion through pure independent thought all while being just another person shaped by the dominant intellectual climate of their time.
the disappointment i feel after being vulnerable is not rooted in the act of opening up but in the realization that sincerity is often received with far less care than it takes to offer it. there is something profoundly disorienting about exposing the most fragile parts of yourself only to discover that the person listening did not hold them with the same gravity you carried them with.
it’s very worrying how many people using social media don’t seem to know the difference between a real trend in society and the algorithm showing you content that it believes to will (or has seen you) engage with, whether negatively or positively
“People know exactly what they’re doing”
Until it’s you. Then suddenly, your intentions matter. Everyone wants grace for themselves, but rarely wants to extend it to others.
People on TikTok are like “If someone you don’t know says hi to you as you pass them on a sidewalk, they’re engaging in a manipulation tactic called ‘boundary-bombing’—here’s 5 signs to look out for” and then their next post is “The Village Theory” about how people need community