pump up the jam

Do you think it’s possible to make art

we just don't know

That sounds like some conspiracy theory or something idk 😐

When people say "critical thinking" they actually just mean normal thinking and if you actually think critically about something they'll get mad and say something like "it's not that deep".

Brocialists when you pull actual dialectical thinking and use it in critical analysis instead of repeating bullshit straight outta breadtube

friend sent me an Instagram reel yesterday with 1000s of likes that was basically like "pride and prejudice is timeless actually because it's about an autism4autism romance 🥰" and then the creator proceeded to cite moments in the book and film where Lizzie and Darcy are "socially awkward" and....listen. I'm far from an Austen scholar, but I have taught Austen novels as an educator and this kind of psycho-pop analysis that views characters as individuals with autonomy over their actions, rather than tools in a story written at a particular time to say something about that time, pisses me off more than I can say without sounding like an asshole. I'm sorry but Darcy isn't rude and awkward and even cruel to Lizzie because he has autism, he says and does those things because he's a wealthy upper class land owning man raised to see a middle class woman from a large family with no male heirs like Elizabeth as inherently beneath him which he expresses to her multiple times because it is socially acceptable for him to do so in a society where someone like him is privileged above almost all others. He is "socially awkward" around her because of misogyny and classism (PREJUDICE) and she is "socially awkward" around him because a woman of her standing at that time simply wouldn't have had much to do with the gentry but to actually push back against the shit that Darcy says would be social suicide for her whole family so she protests the only way she can which is refusing his advances (PRIDE). not to be the "context collapse is the death of media literacy" guy. But this is the problem with the kind of head empty, let people enjoy things, if I can't relate to it what's the point type crowd. Youse think you're being so quirky justifying incoherent and anachronistic interpretations with your rampant individualism, ensuring that other people never confront anything that challenges them in these stories like patriarchal misogyny and classism. Pride and Prejudice becomes an "autism4autism romance", completely undermining the historical context of its status as one of the great social satires about the class and gender politics that Austen so expertly observed around her. This attitude is why we have nonsensical historical dramas that actively hate history like fucking edgy bdsm "Wuthering Heights", Bridgerton, The Buccaneers, and even a 2025 Frankenstein movie where the monster is just misunderstood and does no wrong uwu etc. because individual relatability and catharsis is king over anything actually saying anything about anything now. Everything is relatable and nothing is meaningful.

Your blorbo is a narrative tool, not a person, you dummy!

Train yourself to refer to “The World Cup” as “the Men’s World Cup”

It's silly boy nonsense, actually.

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

if you're coming on my post to let me know posthaste that you remove body hair for sensory reasons (and thus my post is offensive to you) you better be shaving your head and eyebrows too. you better be serious

And eyelashes too.

can't stop thinking about how everything's made out of plastic now. microplastics in our blood, microplastics in our brains. soon enough we'll all be shitting lego bricks 😭

If I actually came through my mother’s state of mind, does that make me a figment of her imagination?

OMG

Lmao

when you think you have a penis state of mind but you actually are a dick :o

Doctor, I don’t need an epidural, I am very open-minded.

I wasn’t in a vagina state of mind and that’s why I been to the hospital when there was blood coming out of me once a month. The doctors were very annoyed with me, for some reason. Don’t they know vagina is a state of mind?

You know, there's this cliché that teenage boys always eat massive amounts, but teenage girls really aren't that different if they're not suppressed by diet culture and body shaming. Like, I was a teenage girl who frankly just stopped bothering to fit into mainstream beauty ideals at some point, and I would regularly make myself just one big massive pot of pasta and devour it completely. This wasn't even stress eating or anything, I just genuinely needed the energy because you know, I was a teenager and my body was developing. I feel like so many teenage girls think they need to eat as little as possible to be petite and pretty, but the truth is that your body is developing just as intensely as teenage boys' bodies. Eat more, please, your body needs it.

I wish to god every single post about womanhood and girlhood and breaking down stereotypes wouldnt be co opted by fucking TIMs like no David it doesnt go double for you, stfu. This is a post about how young girls who are told to starve themselves for patriarchal pedophile beauty standards deserve to eat like their male counterparts do. This has nothing to do with anime pornbrained men in twirly skirts.