if you want to protect kids you have to come to terms with the fact that it's just expected that kids will experience a baseline level of gaslighting every day of their lives. children are just straight-up not trusted as narrators of their own lives and experiences, and it's taken for granted that nothing they say will be true without the verification of an adult. of fucking course kids are so vulnerable. who is gonna believe them.
Common Frank Bidart banger (from "In the Ruins," in Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016)
had a dream that someone suggested the best gender neutral form of address would be Mþ (pronounced Myth) and i immediately said "mith me with that gay shit HEYOOO" and woke up at 4:30am hanging sideways off of my bed
jane eyre should’ve ended with jane and rochester getting married and then jane locking him in the attic for prolonged periods of time while the novel framed her as righteous and romanticized it
can't get the phrase "ask me if I give a fuck" out of my head. it's playing on loop in there
any discourse about boys boys boys in elementary school need more time to run around! it's in their nature! boys boys boys!! drives me insane. ALL CHILDREN need to run and play!!! like oh so most little girls have already been alienated from their own bodies and successfully sublimated their primal desire to move and jump and play and take physical risk by the time they get to kindergarten?? and they can just sit quietly while boys need to connect with their bodies and energy and strength?? we live in hell!!!!
if i was an angel i'd tweet "if humans have free will then why do they use it to make so many bad decisions? are they stupid?" then get sucked into a jet engine and die
Nope + seeing/being seen
you think you're 'the most fuckable person at the grocery store' and those people aren't thinking about you at all. they're just getting groceries. nothing is about you
so we know that humans share 50% of their dna with bananas. and also, they say one in four humans are related to genghis khan. using this information, we can determine that genghis khan was 200% banana