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i noticed my horrible patterns! i think the process stops there

it’s really interesting how the guys that fight against paying child support the hardest are the ones that could afford to do it. these dudes will quit their well paying salaried job with benefits just to avoid their pay getting docked and potentially going to reimburse the mother of their child for buying their kid new shoes. they’ll leave their child without health insurance and work under the table jobs because they really hate their child and former S/O that much.

men who have been conditioned to believe that having kids and caring for them is somehow emasculating

they swear it is a man’s role to provide and protect but they’re going out of their way to deprive and endanger

They believe that their role is to provide and protect the ones they choose to; it's not a responsibility (though they'll frame it like it is to sound better), but a power that they hold over others. Child support is emasculating because they see it as being forced to provide for someone who isn't "theirs" any more. They don't see it as supporting a child that they have ongoing responsibility for because they believe that they should have the right to withdraw that responsibility at any time, that unconditional responsibility for a child is the woman's role. They see it as being financially cucked.

#these men like the power that being a provider gives#they like the idea that you are dependent on them and that they could take it away from you at any moment#but mandatory child support doesn't really give you that choice or any power over the child/ex#you can't leverage it the same way to get what you want

you know it's really funny how of all the White Boys fandoms become obsessed with, steve harrington really is the most valid one and every good thing about his character came about entirely 100% by accident

he was written in the pilot to be a shitty one-dimensional asshole who gets killed by the monster but the creators liked the actor so much they did a complete 180 and decided he was an actual sweetheart who was just in with the wrong crowd. after the one bad thing he does he decides to go apologize to the boy he thinks his gf is cheating on him with and gets dragged into supernatural shenanigans at the LITERAL last minute but decides to go in there swinging anyway. when making season two the writers had no idea what to do with him so they stuck him with dustin solely bc they had nobody for dustin to bounce scenes off of and it ended up becoming one of the best brotps in television. the rest of the show steve's character is "babysitter." they were gonna give him a love interest but three episodes in the actors said "hey we're not feeling the romance and kinda just feeling platonic. can we make her gay" and so then this shitty 80s jock became the #1 lesbian ally. like literally everything they did with him was completely on accident and it just WORKED

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

This made me smile. Maybe you need a smile today too.

kids were roleplaying with minecraft figurines and one of them had their figure go up to the other and say “i’m in love with you” and the other one replied “sword slash to the chest. and you’re on fire”

Reblog if sword slash to the chest. Also you're on fire.

Genuinely evil and dark-sided to put the periods between the letters in "milf" and "dilf." Like what is M.I.L.F. that is a supervillain organization composed entirely of cougars. Whoa that's a great idea actually post canceled hold on