for why

I don't think it's wrong to identify a petit bourgeoisie in the "artist" profession in the imperial core, whatever you're defining this as, the labor and resources used in an artist-run 'small business' in California or something can be traced to the same supply chains as like, Walmart. Like those websites that let you make your own T shirts with your art on it? You know it's not you actually making the T shirt...? This is not a post trying to guilt trip people, just pointing out a division in labor. If you think i'm lying do explain the panic among 'small business' including arts regarding Trump's tariffs. It impacts access to labor and materials.

i just really don't understand why we're expecting people fresh out of high school to be excited about the process of trying hard and doing their best in college when it's more expensive than ever, guarantees less financial security than ever, and also if you are too loud about not liking genocide the people you are paying tens of thousands of dollars to "prepare you for the real world" will let the cops haul you away and/or deport you. i'm just trying desperately to request that maybe we could afford to have some basic compassion for the college students we're when trying to address the concerns of cheating in academia instead of essentially calling them brainless degenerates and trying to force bottom-up solutions via shame.

catholicism is like performance enhancing drugs for people with ocd btw

you've stripped him of so many of his qualities that it's no longer "he would not say that". it's "who the fuck even is that guy"

Not to be too lapsed Catholic on main here but I do chafe seeing non-Catholics talk about the appointment of the head of a two thousand year old oppressive institution like an actual woke option was possible but overlooked. “The new Pope covered up sexual abuse of minors” if they removed every cardinal that covered up sexual abuse of minors from the conclave the room would be empty.

there's a fine line between being wary of manipulation and becoming completely paranoid because you get very close to the realisation that pretty much all human interaction involves doing things we hope will lead to a result we like

this post is about a lot of things. it's about my ex saying it was manipulative to talk to them in a cute voice because that influenced their emotions. it's also about someone on this webbed site saying being funny is "engagement farming". like yeah every single conversation you have is going to be "manipulative" if your standard for that is "did something with the goal of eliciting a response". if that bothers you go live in a hut in the forest and speak only to the trees. I'll be over here manipulating my friends into being happy by giving them compliments

“Fatherless behavior” stop giving my DAD credit for all the work my MOM put into making me a terrible person!! Stop erasing women in history!!

legitimately my first feminist awakening as a ten year old child was realizing that girls were expected to respect “boy stuff” but boys were never expected to respect “girl stuff”

my science fair project in fifth grade was basically i had this printout of a bunch of toys that were stereotypically boy toys and girl toys, and i would have my classmates study the sheet for some short period of time, idr if it was like 30 seconds or a minute or whatever, then put it away and had them recall to me as many toys as they could remember. my hypothesis was officially that boys would remember more boy toys and girls would remember more girl toys, but secretly in my head i knew that girls would probably remember boy toys and girl toys relatively equally but boys would still remember mostly boy toys. and that ended up being the case. and i still remember this 20 years later because it hasn’t fucking stopped. and you know what they didn’t even like my project. participation ribbon. i was a fifth grade feminist theorist and no one cared

Sorry if I'm a misogynist for saying it but its so so so cringe and pathetic when a girl goes from liberal normie to a Traditional Catholic Homemaker And Wife Christian Nationalist because she started dating a racist guy. Like you are spineless and have no identity plus hes going to jack off to only fans models while you cook him a stupid as fuck eggs steak and 3 avocados pitbull birthday plate