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.
worst part of the literacy crisis is that you canโt use hyperbole or be dramatic anymore without some dumb fucking idiot thinking that you sincerely believe whatever exaggeration you said
the pitt fans on twitter will have me defending a man like this and it pisses me off. like would you prefer a show with no conflict?? these characters are stunningly complex and i cant understand why that goes over everyoneโs heads
my most hated tv character of all time? probably the extremely talented emergency room doctor who saves lives every episode while suffering from suicidal ideation and ptsd from decades of compounding daily trauma. yeah, he was very nasty to his coworkers like 4 times
"Why did they portray anti-vaxxers and freebirthers so badly on The Pitt?"
BECAUSE NOT VACCINATING OR NOT GETTING PRENATAL CARE IS BAD AND AND THEY DON'T NEED MORE CODDLING.
and this is why education is important because the republican party under donald trump and the republican party under abraham lincoln are two very different things
even if there werenโt issues with rebooting harry potter, this looks so bad. why is color grading in modern media always so blue/gray toned. like, this is a show about magic and youth with the lighting ofโฆa serious, cold drama?
Americans realizing thier gov has been illegally taxing their groceries for over a year and pedophile billionaires are getting the refund instead of them
anyway @TeamUSA@usahockey do you have anything to say about the scene in your menโs teamโs locker room where the womenโs team who made history in multiple ways and delivered you a gold medal was insulted and mocked and turned into a misogynistic punch line?
bunch of grown ass millionaire men huddled up around a phone smiling ear to ear giggling their butts off at a pedophile making corny ass sexist jokes about their peers it does not get much lamer than this
Iโm not one to be like โoh something was wrong with the iceโ when my fav messes up but like it was almost every single athlete after they zambonied the ice