a lot of people will say "women from such and such culture were respected and powerful within the household" and mean it in the same way stupid chuds think their family is a matriarchy because their grandmother was in charge of sunday lunch
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
The Satrapi discourse is sad to me. is it not a really wicked indictment of the state of the world that some of the only meaningful physical resistance against imperialism is from a conservative theocracy? shouldn't we be bummed out by that? im bummed out by that.
“How did people write essays before ChatGPT?”
You all are young, but there was this thing called doing research, staring at a blank Word document, thinking, writing, rewriting, suffering, and persevering.
“Mountain Dew” is actually a staggeringly beautiful phrase that the soda has totally normified and almost bastardized but if you really focus on it alone, wow. that’s powerful.
There was a handsome jock in my high school who was super funny and nice to everyone. Even the super bitter goth kids admitted he was cool.
Top of his class, too.
Last semester, teacher asks him where he's applied to college.
"Nowhere," he said. "Gonna work on my dad's farm