If you hate yourself, Don't pHave Kids. That shit bleeds through. If you can't love yourself, you won't be able to love them all the way. If there are parts of you that you hate and can't accept, your children will face them too, and you will face them in your children. If you can't accept those parts of yourself even in your child, they will suffer immensely from your rejection, and it will create division between you, and within them.
To the people who find it impossible to believe that Hamas invaded Israel just to kill Jews or people allied with Jews, I must ask: When was the last time you read Jewish history? When was the last time you learned about how half of our holidays have to do with attempted or near-successful genocides against us? When was the last time you learned about how we’ve been kicked out of almost every land we’ve settled in during the diaspora? When was the last time you thought that maybe, just maybe… history is repeating itself for the umpteenth time.
shiv was not being altruistic nor intellectually self-interested when she voted against kendall. that was pure raw visceral desperation to maintain some semblance of dignity that she felt kendall being ceo would shred her of. sometimes people do not act in other people’s best interests or their own best interests. sometimes people do the wrong thing for the wrong reasons just because it feels like the right, the only, thing to do. shiv could not let kendall be ceo. she just couldn’t. not because she wanted to sacrifice herself to “stop the cycle,” not because she made a calculation and decided tom was her best interest — because the thought of kendall being ceo and acting like That the rest of their lives when shiv earned that job, she fucking earned it, that was too much to fucking bear. watching him sit in dad’s chair, conduct that vote, grin with entitlement and cockiness and certainty — seeing that elicited a visceral painful all-consuming sensation not dissimilar to overwhelming nausea that, summed up in two words, would simply be: fuck. no. she couldn’t live with that. she just couldn’t. it’s not kind. it’s not smart. it’s just human. painfully, destructively human. because sometimes, that’s all there is to it. not just for shiv, but for everyone. god knows roman and kendall have had those same feelings, made those same self-destructing yet necessary-feeling decisions throughout the show. why does it have to be different for shiv? why can’t she be painfully destructively human, prone to impulsive ill-conceived viscerally felt actions, like everyone else? why are we incapable of allotting her the same nuance and humanity (the good and the bad), the same trauma-informed self-destructive life-ruining hamartias, as we do her brothers? why can’t we fit a whole woman in our heads?