There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.

happy pride I'm glad I'm gay I'm glad you're gay I'm glad we're both gay and alive

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

i love when museums have near exact replicas of their displayed objects for you to buy. haha 15th century ceramic cup you are in my possession

Neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr downplay your accomplishments. A job is a job. A car is a car. A house is a house. Dear self, Be proud of yourself and what you have achieved no matter what. You have to build brick by brick.

it's scary the amount of people who wholeheartedly believe that men and women are fundamentally different creatures

americans love to be like "i don't know any minorities" while they have a phone in their hand

i get you can't chose if you're born somewhere with crazy amounts of historical racism and live somewhere with only white people. but if you recreate redlining on the internet i don't believe you're being racist because you don't know anyone nonwhite