told my 4 year old he can’t have ice cream cake after dinner if he doesn’t EAT his dinner and he came up to me immediately and said “can you give me a hug so I don’t cry?” and when I bent down for a hug he whispered “don’t ever say that to me ever again”
People who don’t watch Love Island are often surprised to hear that I do but only because they think it’s like The OC or something when really it’s like the Stanford prison experiment
If you don’t remember the way it felt when gay marriage was legalized, if you can’t name where you were and what you were doing when that decision dropped, then you should not speak on it. It is far too fresh for nonsense takes.
glad that my therapist unpacked this with me. family is a unit, you don't get to chose which parts to be good at. you cannot love your kids and be a terrible human to the person you had those kids with. also, a good father creates a healthy enviroment at home
Training boys to have no theory of mind for women is a core part of being socialized into patriarchy. Every time a little boy is told that girls are mysterious, another creep gets his wings
noticed i was overthinking so i went for a walk. then noticed i was overthinking so i made dinner. relaxed a little but then i started overthinking again so i did yoga and took the longest shower of my life. and now i’m overthinking again but i am also doing a face mask
a lot of queerphobia from poor non-queer americans is rooted in some kind of class antagonism. they think of gay ppl as gentrifiers and libbed up rich ppl who look down on them and the hardest part about confronting this is that they’re not entirely wrong.
In 2022 my stepdad who raised me took his own life, and then in 2023 my dad unexpectedly dropped dead… so I essentially experienced my dad dying twice in under two years. That does not, however, excuse the time I consoled someone else who’s dad died by asking: “first time?”
My dad was an extremely complicated individual and frankly a terrible father but after he lost his leg in an accident in 2008 he took a selfie in front of every IHOP he drove past so today I am choosing to think of that version of him