Savannah 💭

PhD @Duke_English • @MountHolyoke alumna • Women’s lit, OLP, Poetics.

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

Did you know congress passed a bipartisan national daycare bill in 1971 but it was vetoed by Richard Nixon? seems almost worse than Watergate and yet practically no one under 60 knows about it anymore.

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

@crollyson Ah, so frustrating! Well I eagerly await it

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@spiccarella The Hours, Michael Cunningham

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@Likolako2628 @BeckyTheChicken

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Soooo frustrating when someone you hate gets the things you want most like what do I do with that

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@wlscarah I’m an alum and “uncommon women” was Mount Holyoke’s tagline at the time which makes c much funnier

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

Came to the library to work and did not bring a single writing utensil. I cannot believe this of myself.

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

I wish I was stupid

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@AdamLaneSmith Just as a point of interest no one took care of me as a child and we hardly ever had enough food in the house so I also feel exceptionally grateful for when my fiancé makes me food. Despite my being a woman and all.

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

@IanMion @AdamLaneSmith It’s degrading when you’re forced to do it and no one appreciates you

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Men once again proving that most of them love each other and only want women around if they’re fuckable. Homosociality is peak masculinity.

[Mike “The Vacuum” Baggarty @TheBigVacuum97]

Is there a single non-sexual activity that is more fun with a girl than with your friends?

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

We need to start failing people I’m so serious

[Steve McGuire @sfmcguire79]

A Berkeley history professor said he’s gone from assigning 100 pages of reading per week to 35.

Another “said the earliest version of the…course he taught required seven full books, while his most recent iteration exclusively consisted of excerpts.”

“We are now reaching a crisis point where if the number (of pages) goes down further, it’s unclear to me whether my discipline of history can really be taught,” the first one said.

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

Let’s use critical thinking skills…fuel prices are at an all-time high, globally. The fishing boat, the plane, the truck that get the fish to the store all need fuel. The CSB is also a deep water fish caught off the coat of Antarctica so catching it is difficult and dangerous!!

[The Black Ginger 👨🏽‍🦰👨🏽‍🦰👨🏽‍🦰 @gingrsnapz]

So I been on this fish kick, fresh. I went to get some from whole foods not paying attention to the price vs weight ratio and just pointed at the two pieces I wanted. Got to the check out and I’m sick bc how is this SEA-BASS THIS MUCH? Did it fly first class from Chile this morning?

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

“we’re more skeptical on what we waste our money on since the future we were promised as kids doesn’t really exist anymore.”

This is the most millennial statement but our answer was to get blackout drunk. Also sacrificing fun for youthful skin isn’t a good thing but u do u

[Q @quionie]

As an older gen z, I find this to be especially true.

Partying was a thing my friends and I did from about 16 to 22. It was fun, it was social, it was just “what everyone did”.

What changed it for me was watching the effects on my older peers and friends. Seeing people a few years ahead of me visibly degraded from that lifestyle was a real wake up call imo. The skin, energy, and health issues showing up way too early. For some reason, I find my generation caring about this stuff a lot more.

Club culture itself also just stopped being appealing. Everything started looking sloppy + dirty.

But the shift is probably bigger than personal preference:

→ we grew up on the internet w/ full access to what alcohol actually does to your body and your overall health.

→ everything is filmed now. every night out is documented on someone’s phone so the cost of being sloppy became permanent evidence.

→ going out got absurdly expensive. a single night at a club can run hundreds, meanwhile a gym membership is $50+/month and a run club is mostly free.

→ the pandemic forced everyone to stop going out & a lot of people realized they didn’t miss it.

→ mental health awareness got REALLY normalized for our generation. Therapy, self care, etc.

→ aspirational content shifted. The coolest thing on social media used to be bottle service/ club photos. Now it’s gym progress, run clubs, morning routines, clean girl aesthetics, wellness.

→ Dating apps replaced bars. You don’t need to go to a club to meet people anymore.

Overall just think our generation collectively realized that taking care of yourself isn’t boring, and we’re more skeptical on what we waste our money on since the future we were promised as kids doesn’t really exist anymore.

[The Point Magazine @the_point_mag]

“Yes, the Brontës’ implied reader was educated, English and at least bourgeois, but the BookToker’s implied reader is exclusionary, too,” writes @writingenjoyer.“The reader whose affective register is foreign to the book’s finds nothing in it.”
https://t.co/CxD3zcWdRx

[Qais Alamdar @Qaisalamdar]

''Girls are being raped. Not metaphorically. Not as legal shorthand. The day their bodies bleed for the first time, they will be made pregnant by a man four, five, or six times their age, and their small bodies tell the rest. Thirty-two per cent of deaths for Afghan girls aged 15 to 19 are pregnancy-related and Afghanistan's maternal mortality rate is among the world's highest, 521 deaths per 100,000 live births.'' - Writes @NasimiShabnam

https://t.co/JP2QCCzYkI

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

Imagine saying this about a poem by Pulitzer-prize winning, Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. 😵‍💫😂

She does not need your approval she is doing just fine thanks.

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Remember when you’d have to read garbage like this in class

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

@merrydevo It could have to do with the fact that breast feeding rates were at their lowest in the 1960s/early 1970s, so a lot of Boomer women probably never did it, or only for a few months. That generation has a real squeamishness around bodies more generally!

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

@VibeCzar don't get me STARTED on the fees

[Savannah 💭 @savs_thoughts]

Duke closing the lily library for over a year is going to be the last straw for me. Literally the entire collection of philosophy books are now just UNAVAILABLE. guess I will p*rate everything bc fuck grad students who need books right?????