Your mother is problematic. Your father is problematic. Your son is problematic. Your aunt is problematic. The cashier at the local Tesco is problematic. You've probably bought a cookie from a bakery made by hands that have done unspeakable things. Every chocolate bar you've ever eaten has probably killed a 7 year old child slave in Cameroon. The gas that drives your car is fueled by engines of death. Every person who has ever smiled at you in the streets has committed some act that if you knew about it, would make you profoundly dislike them.
We have all been bad, small, petty, unlikeable, cruel, downright mean. Authors are not special "problematic" beings, they're just more public. Part of being an adult is recognizing that without mercy for our fellow human beings, and ourselves, we'd all be condemned to death. Reading fiction should help us understand that we're all irreparably tainted with evil, every system is corrupted, every line is broken.
And like, that's okay. That's what it means to be alive.
Rachel Zegler’s “Evita” will feature a different balcony sequence when the revival hits Broadway:
“When we started discussing a New York production, it became apparent that our Palladium staging of ‘Don’t Cry for Me Argentina’ would not be possible,” Director Jamie Lloyd said. “I am really excited to explore a new idea, made especially for Broadway.”
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There’s a TikTok of a girl videoing her bf sweating/looking nervous bc he was about to propose and all these comments from other women about how nervous their men were are absolutely FRYING me 😭
There’s a TikTok of a girl videoing her bf sweating/looking nervous bc he was about to propose and all these comments from other women about how nervous their men were are absolutely FRYING me 😭