...and a Better Life

“we need more platonic relationships in media” your inability to turn off your shipping brain is a You problem

“oh but we never get to SEE them be friends” you people can squeeze romance out of a rock, but you can’t extrapolate the platonic devotion and motivation behind an action or character arc? okay.

“but we never see them treated with the same importance as romance” your inability to consume anything other than ya novels is also a You problem

One weird niche that exists is the ex weird little girl who is now a weird adult and has somehow come to the conclusion that no girl liked traditionally feminine or girly things and that anything which is aimed at traditionally feminine interests is somehow inherently misguided because they wouldn’t’ve wanted it when they were 9.

This was prompted by me being remembering that post that had someone make a comic about the Lego Friends line and talking about how pointless and dumb and sexist a line aimed specifically at girls was because she didn’t like “girly” stuff as a kid. But like the line she was criticizing is super over the top successful and popular. And like some of y’all really don’t get that some little girls really do just like horses and pink and fashion and shit and you’re not fighting sexism saying that toy companies shouldn’t make that kinda stuff.

the impulse to hide what I'm doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I'm literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I'll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans