vintageburn

[vintageburn]

this is like the democrat version of when republicans see a long line at the food pantry and are like "this is what america would look like under communism"

#it takes 2 armed cops to subdue a professor

[vintageburn]

"Angel", he calls me, does he know that I'm falling from a precipice that I tripped off long ago?

"You're so pure", he says, does he know I'm forsaken?

[vintageburn]

[vintageburn]

[vintageburn]

Lil Nas X did a cover of Jolene and Dolly Parton responded to it on twitter

Image descriptions under the cut

[ID: Screenshots of two tweets. The first one is by Dolly Parton and it says "I was so excited when someone told me that Lil Nas X had done my song #Jolene. I had to find it and listen to it immediately…and it's really good. Of course, I love him anyway. I was surprised and I'm honored and flattered. I hope he does good for both of us. Thank you @LilNasX". The second tweet is Lil Nas X responding to the Dolly Parton tweet by simply saying "HOLY SHIT" in all caps. End of ID.]

[vintageburn]

[vintageburn]

[vintageburn]

[vintageburn]

everyone's doomed by the narrative bitch let's get you some fruit

[vintageburn]

Ok now do NYT columnists

[vintageburn]

[vintageburn]

somewhere, i hope there is a pregnant person preparing to do a pregnancy reveal on the objectively funniest day of the year to do that

[vintageburn]

you guys wanna see the most accurate and blasphemous representation of the words ‘catholic shaming’?

[vintageburn]

[vintageburn]

I’m just so fucking pissed off man if they can surgically airstrike international volunteer food workers three consecutive times to ensure their operation is wiped out completely what the fuck is left for anyone to say

[vintageburn]

Democratic Liberal baby boomers have not gotten enough shit

[vintageburn]

I have a lot of feelings about the whole Ruby Franke thing obv, primarily that she is an awful mother and deeply sick/irresponsible individual, but I find some irony in the way people are talking about her in the sense that she did the things she did because she's just pure "evil". And I get that a lot of times when we're faced with these situations where we can't even fathom how and why someone would do something, sometimes there just aren't a lot of words that feel fitting enough for the situation.

I'll also say that I think Ruby and Jodi both have some serious mental health issues that contributed to all this (morality OCD for Ruby on top of.... many other things) and that their religion alone didn't contribute to their actions. But it did introduce the black and white perspective that life is primarily a struggle between good evil whose outcome will affect where your soul is for eternity.

And you can hear in that clip that that's exactly where Ruby's thinking was/is in regards to the situation with her kids. People are comparing her a lot to Lori Vallow bc they were both Mormons who got into the fringe areas of the religion, which is very frustrating as someone who can name at least 5 similar situations that involve other flavors of Christian, it is *not* an exclusively Mormon issue, it is conservative Christian issue.

And it just really feels like we're missing the point if we boil Ruby down to just being "evil" and ignore all of the influences in her life that made her what she was, like being a part of a religion that gives little attention or care to: 1. children's individuality and autonomy 2. mental health 3. nuanced conversations regarding morality.

So I just feel like we'll all benefit from having a deeper conversation about why and how this happens as opposed to just writing Ruby off as a one off evil mother, because she absolutely is not a one off. And children can't stop being mistreated in this way until we understand how these parents actually come about in the first place.