Neither Freedom nor Loneliness are ours to choose

There are too many forced ass ads on this site to make it fun to use. This app is terrible

“how was ur day?” “how are u?” “i missed u today” “call me when u get home” “im proud of you”

do you ever think about how in the 90s and 00s, collecting luxury shoes was seen as not only a Woman Thing but like, the height of Feminine Foolishness? at least in mainstream white american culture, it was a focus of misogyny that women buy a lot of nice shoes and men don't, and men are smarter and more practical for it. anyway now luxury sneakers are a major part of popular masculinity, Fake Jordans is a meme, shoes are for men now. that happened in my lifetime. like it's one thing to read about how the makers of gender are fluid and cultural, it's another to experience it myself.

i think this illustrates just how much ideas of gender are shaped by the forces of consumerism