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thinking about how gen z people online love to pat themselves on the back for being so media savvy and having learned soooo much from the way people like britney spears and anne hathaway and pam anderson were treated by the media and public during their day and then turn around and take part in the same kind of gleeful mass spectacles tearing apart women like amber heard and rachel zegler and like, forcing kate middleton to reveal her cancer diagnosis. and in each of these cases, when someone with power says “hey this is really fucked up,” the reaction is to… spin and blame their behavior on other people? “depp had a bot army,” “the palace publicity messed up!!!” yes but in every instance, YOU were the one making the choice to participate. at any moment you could’ve put your phone down and said “this feels morally wrong, i’m not going to do this.” but you didn’t, did you? we have free will to conduct ourselves better or worse in these situations and i’m sorry but there’s really no one you can blame for your choices

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The world as a heart. An unusual cordiform projection by the French cartographer Oronce Finé, 1531

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oh no cigarettes for me thanks i just wanted to be in this dank alleyway with you

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This album is about how two men broke her heart just months apart and how she was quite literally going through a mental breakdown while trying to put on a front while performing for millions of people on a world tour but you wouldn’t know that because you’re either so caught up in trying to figure out who each song is about or your so caught up in your hate for her that you’d rather make fun of her in her most vulnerable, raw, and honest state just to make yourself feel better

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MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE 2.01 Traffic Jam

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Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve Zoolander (2001) dir. Ben Stiller

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I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (1989) dir. Rob Reiner

#nobody understands this movie like i do

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In general I get the most mad when my fellow leftists deny the existence of misogyny and rampant violence against women. People on the left on will see any random women taking safety precautions for their own well-being and peace of mind and go “well look at that privileged evil poser bitch who is paranoid because she listens to too many true crime podcasts.” As a leftist, I too mourn the fact that there’s very little sense of community among people left, but this idea that it’s just women’s fault and that women taking safety precautions have single handedly killed class solidarity or something is such a transparently evil, malicious lie spread by the worst, most predatory guy in your local DIY scene. There was a post around here a while back proclaiming that “stranger danger is Reagan era propaganda” (on the news, the other night, I saw Ring doorbell footage of a 20 year old girl banging on a neighbor’s door and screaming for help until her assailant, who was also her kidnapper, picked her up and carted her away as she sobbed and screamed) I saw a young woman be dogpiled as a “liberal poser” on leftist Twitter and TikTok by other people who shared many of her political values because she talked about feeling unsafe when she was alone on a street with a man who was acting very erratic, screaming obscenities and sexually charged insults at her (of course she was smeared as some evil, privileged villain. “you evil bitch! he was clearly having a mental health crisis! why didn’t you try to HELP HIM?!” etc) I see so much rhetoric just focused on shaming women for taking any precaution whatsoever to avoid the risk of being sexually assaulted or otherwise victimized in any way. Women will do something as simple as carry pepper spray, or a rape whistle, and be accused of being the exact same as conservatives obsessed with Qanon conspiracy theories about sex trafficking. There is something so insidious about leftist men specifically telling women within their local subcultures that taking any measure to protect themselves against gendered or sexual violence is some heinous, capitalist crime against humanity. Ted Bundy was caught here in my hometown. There’s men walking around the streets of New York punching random women in broad daylight. A young woman was hit in the face with a brick in Chicago simply for turning down an offer to go on a date. That guy in your local leftist scene? Talk to any of his ex girlfriends. They’ll have stories. Keep protecting yourselves, women of the world. Especially trans women and WOC.

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ANYA TAYLOR-JOY via Instagram

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No it's over for real. Im not forgiving you for talking during fucking silent reading time

#amen #the way this healed my inner child

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in all seriousness it's very alienating knowing theres Something Wrong With You. like seeing your mental illness come through in your behaviour and thought processes and knowing it's irrational and unhealthy, knowing other people are reading you as weird or stupid, and not being able to do anything about it is such a lonely experience

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The past, the present and the future.

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A lot of criticism of Taylor Swift’s accolades within the music industry really reminds me of the backlash Donna Tartt received when she won the Pulitzer for her (damn near flawless) novel, The Goldfinch. These two women could not be more opposite of each in almost every conceivable way imaginable (including an almost foot long height difference), but the thing is, they are both women in a man’s world who create art that resonates overwhelmingly more with women. Swift, an accomplished lyricist, who writes and composes her own music and plays upwards of five instruments is brushed off as “just a manufactured pop star”, and Tartt, who was handpicked to attend a prestigious institution renowned for its writing program and for the magnitude and quality of the writers it has produced based on a single story she had written, are lauded in their respective industries for the work they have put into their crafts, and yet so much of their criticism is focused not on the substance or content of their work, but on whether or not they “deserved” it. And when asked who “deserved” their accolades and successes more, overwhelmingly the answer provided was a list of men who do the exact same thing as these women, but are inherently taken more seriously. If women resonate with your work more than cis men do, immediately the work you put out becomes seen as “lesser”.

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Here’s a Μάτι (“Evil Eye”) charm for your dash to help keep the bad energy at bay