My (weird) Ex Keeps Being Weird On Tiktok Which Is Like, All Things Considered, The Worst Social Media

i love being sensitive but i should also be killed

Belgians must be stopped

op is a necromancer apologist

bodies should never ever hurt when i’m trying to sleep. like girl literally just turn off. that’s enough

Look closely at the center of this image. You probably noticed the bright spot in the center, the central protostar. But did you notice the dark band in front of it? That’s the protostar’s accretion disk, created as material swirls around it. The material within this disk can sometimes clump up, forming the beginnings of planets. But the protostar will absorb many of these before they can mature. When the protostar becomes a full-fledged star, any remaining material from the disk will form stable planets, creating a whole new solar system. #NASAWebb #UnfoldTheUniverse #JWST #STScI #protostar #hourglass Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI; J. DePasquale, A. Pagan, and A. Koekemoer (STScI).

A recently published study by John Pachankis and Mark Hatzenbuehler has substantiated what’s called the “Best Little Girl in the World” hypothesis, first put forward in 1973 in a book by Andrew Tobias, then writing under a pseudonym. It’s the idea that young, closeted women deflect attention from their sexuality by investing in recognized markers of success: good grades, athletic achievement, elite employment and so on. Overcompensating in competitive arenas affords these women a sense of self-worth that their concealment diminishes.

…Deriving self-worth from achievement-related domains, like Ivy League admissions, is a common strategy among closeted women seeking to maintain self-esteem while hiding their stigma. The strategy is an effort to compensate for romantic isolation and countless suppressed enthusiasms. And it requires time-consuming study and practice, which conveniently provide an excuse for not dating.

Best of all, it distracts: “What love life? Look at my report card!”

…But the study does show that the longer a young woman conceals her sexual orientation, the more heavily she invests in external measures of success, potentially leading to undue stress and social isolation

Another of the study’s findings is that girls who grow up in more stigmatizing environments are more likely to seek self-worth through competition. I spent my first 18 years in a rural, religious town in North Carolina, a state that recently passed a constitutional amendment barring same-sex unions by a wide margin. Now here I am, a metal detector scanning for golden prizes. That’s no coincidence, the research suggests.

Good evening I hope I am not just a mutual to you but someone you would get coffee with if we were ever in the same town