one of the reasons i HAVE to be proper rich is so I can heavily fund the arts.
libraries, theatres, craft stores, galleries, book clubs, studios, etc. EYE will be there with my purse.
“But men are not allowed to express themselves.”
Yet y’all express your lust, horniness, and need to control women very strongly. But showing empathy is where the line is crossed for y’all, smh.
the way people romanticize these scenes is so perfectly ironic and on brand with the movie’s message about the feminine shadow. make no mistake, this story is a cautionary tale against the divine feminine becoming trapped in the male gaze. it’s quite literally about a woman’s slow descent into madness as she makes herself less than human in the pursue of validation.
the entire love witch persona relies on elaine no longer presenting herself as a human being with needs/flaws/vulnerabilities, all in the name of embodying an archetype of male desire. she spends most of the movie believing that doing so will get her to be loved by men, and that this love will both save and heal her. she isn’t tapped into her actual divine power, she is operating from lack and suppressing her feminine rage. her identity becomes a role she must maintain, and so she starts losing her goddamn mind.
her personhood becomes so enlaced with the performance and the need for male validation, it puts her in a state of delusion that has her killing the men who disrupt that very fantasy. violence becomes her transmutator, her decompression mechanism, a vehicle for her rage. the men couldn’t make her feel any less empty because masculine validation will not fill your vessel as a divine feminine — it will corrupt it. the message here is that performance will psychologically fracture you and entrap your soul, not that you should aspire to be the embodiment of said male fantasy. when you suppress your darker emotions, they will erupt very destructively.
But inside, you’re holding everything together
with threads that are thinning every day.
My therapist said:
“When someone says they’re not suicidal,
but they feel themselves slipping,
it means their hope is tired, not gone.”
"If having sex with a girl who is black out drunk considered rape, then almost every man is a rapist."
YOU. ARE. SO. FUCKING. CLOSE. TO. GETTING. THE. POINT. YOU. PUMPKIN. SPICE. SCENTED. TRASH. BAG.
what makes multo by cup of joe so hard is how universal it is. it can be about a lover you lost, a version of yourself you outgrew or a choice you wish you made differently. it captures that specific adult sadness... the realization that not everything gets closure and some things just stay with you. no wonder why it gets deeper every listen!!!
I'd like to share a little tip: if you see a cat that's all matted and dirty-looking, it means the poor thing is dehydrated, okay? Because normally, cats lick themselves clean all the time. If it's got that old, grimy matted look like this, it means they haven't had any water to drink at all and just let themselves get filthy. Please keep this in mind, thanks!
thinking about how in barbie land where everything is perfect for women, men still aren't suffering. they aren't in servitude, they aren't being objectified or harassed. they are just not the main characters. but in a world run by and for men, women are NEVER safe. that's the difference between feminists and misogynists. women just want to be left alone, while men don't see us as humans.
One of the first missions of the Chinese government after the founding of the PRC was to save all the women from brothels, cure their diseases, and teach them how to work for a living, in an attempt to truly liberate women, while decades later, we continue to see true utterly disgusting exploitation and torment of women and children in the so-called "civilised, democratic, and free nation" known as the USA.
"Stand up, sisters!" was a film made in China in 1951, just two years after the PRC was established. It depicted the horrifying sexual exploitation of women in the brothels and how money could buy and destroy dignity. Some of the actresses were former prostitutes who were rescued by the Chinese government and assisted in finding work.
The movie was based on true events. At the time of its founding, the PRC had the abolition of prostitution and the emancipation of all women as its overarching objective. Even though China was a weak and impoverished nation back then, its government nevertheless spent a pretty penny on treating the STD of the formerly prostitutes, giving them literacy classes, and preparing them for the workforce.
Chen Yi, the then-mayor of Shanghai, once stated, "No matter how much money it costs, we must cure their [prostitutes'] diseases. We can save money on other things, but money needs to be spent on saving and helping them. And once we treat their sicknesses, we need to provide them with jobs, and their employers are responsible for assisting them in finding a nice marriage."
For the first time in their lives, prostitutes felt dignified; many of them went on to become workers, and others even became cadres.
This is why the Chinese women are now "holding half of the sky".
That is why Chinese social media is shocked by what is happening in the United States, and how the rich can trample on the dignity of the poor, treating people like toys. That is well beyond our imagination.
That is just evil.
Romance itself is dying because of illiteracy. When you read letters from the Civil War era, men were shockingly lyrical because they had heads full of poetry. Literacy fuels passion. Beauty, wisdom, empathy, passion are vanishing from the world because people don’t read.