When I was young I really thought things were bad because solutions were complicated
Now that I'm old and realize things are bad because solutions are simple but will inconvenience affluent people (or those who aspire to be) and the religious fanatics.
She is right. The educated middle class should stop intellectualising the poor's problems. Stop dismissing poor people's lived experiences simply because you have a theory about what is happening.
capitalism is just like “okay hear me out. what if instead of living in a nice safe world where everyone's basic needs are met, we live in a bad dangerous world where most people can barely feed themselves but two people have like 500 yachts”
yk fifa banned south africa from international football for 40 years bc of its racist apartheid policies but now it’s “fifa cannot solve geopolitical problems”
Elle a été mariée de force à 12 ans, a eu ses premiers jumeaux à 13 et est tombée enceinte quasiment sans interruption depuis. Y’a des situations où être une femme ressemble vraiment à une malédiction.
Being part of a generation that was told “Wikipedia is not a source” makes it genuinely baffling to me that jobs are now telling people to just use ChatGPT for everything.
Loneliness, when experienced by women, is treated like a joke. The stereotypical image of the crazy cat lady has been mocked for centuries. Warning other women not to be too selective or too0 demanding, or else you'll end up like her. But when men are "lonely" (when women refuse to engage with certain men) suddenly it's an epidemic and a crisis requiring analysis by psychologists and hundreds of articles telling why these poor men are so lonely.
Une femme qui pratique sa propre césarienne c’est pas une héroïne, c’est une femme qu’on a abandonnée. Arrêtez de romantiser la souffrance des femmes et aidez-les pour que ça ne se reproduise plus jamais.
The parent who is home at 4pm.
The real question is: when did feeding your own children become a gender debate instead of basic parenting? If the kids are hungry and you’re already home, get off social media, enter the kitchen, and act like a parent.