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i was at a mall the other day and there was a lululemon store i have never been to one but ik that they are a very popular brand among influencers and i was like let me go in for a sec bc i want to feel their leggings bc i know they’re like $100+ and i’m curious what they actually feel like so i go into the store and the leggings were like whatever to me i don’t wear or like leggings (in fact my mom loves to wear leggings that is basically the one pants she wears so she used to make me wear them as a child all the time and i HATED them lmfao) but anyway the main thing i noticed is that there were only a couple more ppl in the store and they were all girls like 10-12 and their moms 😭 it is the same thing w sephora how these preteen girls are obsessed w these brand that tiktok influencers peddle and then it spreads among these middle school girls that you HAVE to wear this clothing/makeup to fit in. it really gets to me tho bc these girls really should be playing w toys still like i’m sorry you are a child…..and yet these girls on their christmas lists are asking for these beauty products for adults or $100 clothing from lululemon that they’re going to grow out of quickly or a few yrs ago stanley cups like genuinely wtf. like we had trendy items when i was a kid like webkinz or silly bandz (what was up w the zs in the mid to late 00s…….) but these were still for kids……even when ppl were obsessed w the eos egg shaped chapsticks it was still a chapstick. but these days genuine little girls are buying all these expensive products that are made for adult women ????? but it’s like at the same time they also want those squishy toys that are so popular rn bc they are still children 😭 i think it is a really terrible time to be growing up as a little girl fr like it has never been good but the impact of tiktok and influencer culture and influencer marketing on young girls is genuinely really awful. like yes there has always been a grooming of young girls into adult activities (like makeup or encouraging them to dress like adult women or even making girls shave right out of puberty etc) but now these young girls are directly witnessing marketing to adult women rather than all of this being filtered through children’s content like when i was a kid at that age we were all watching disney channel. so they are being shown ads to adults from influencers as children vs like. ads meant to market at preteens. there are genuinely girls even younger than preteens that are like this. it is just very sad to see little girls being stripped of their childhoods more and more as time goes on. girls are being groomed into being women younger and younger & it is just terrible.

i think abt it often…..best scene in cw supergirl 100% was the scene in 4x20 where kara goes to tell lena she is supergirl and stands behind her w her hands on her hips while lena goes on abt how much it means to her that kara is so honest w her and then kara slowly puts her glasses back on……i remember watching that live like literally shaking…….a moment in herstory frrrrr who is doing it like supercorp i’d like names 🤲 (there are none)

sorry to all my fans for neglecting my tumblr i have been pulling a double shift between studying for the bar and watching big brother live feeds so i do not have any space in my brain for the thoughts that lead me to make a tumblr post. i am taking the bar in 10 days and i am basically brain dead at this point from doing 300 hrs of studying since the end of may i can barely put a thought together that is not smth along the lines of [trauma dumping legal jargon]

finally going to see the supergirl movie today will report back

obvs i have been waiting on the big supreme court cases to drop and while i am glad that the birthright citizenship case came out how it did bc it is quite literally written in the 14th amendment that there is birthright citizenship it does deeply deeply bother me that 3 of the justices (i say 3 bc kavanaugh concurred in judgement even tho he dissented in part so he ultimately did agree that birthright citizenship should be upheld that is not me giving him a pat on the back btw it is just relevant to my point) dissented in that judgement considering the fact that it is a blatant plain meaning of the 14th amendment. how is alito going to say that we cannot read abortion into the constitution not even as an equal protection issue bc when the 14th amendment was written there was no history & tradition of abortion being legal but he is going to look us all in the face and say well it would be ok to strike birthright citizenship even though the 14th amendment explicitly states “all persons born or naturalized in the us” i’m sorry do we not see the text “all” w 0 exceptions whatsoever? suddenly we are no longer interested in textualism or original meaning? very convenient how it no longer applies when you want to promote your political agenda. if the writers of the 14th amendment wanted to exclude certain ppl from birthright citizenship they would have done so by not saying “all people.” they can write as long of dissents as they want but this does not negate the fact that whatever they claim to justify their dissents is not included in the original text of the 14th amendment which is exactly what they argued abt abortion lmfao. it concerns me bc i am so sick of the blatant political influence on the court. this is a non issue. this should have been a unanimous opinion full stop. the thing is that when you see liberal justices making politicized decisions it is always abt interpreting the constitution to better encompass the rights of ppl who were not considered at the time when the constitution or its amendments were made and applying the principals in the constitution to our modern concepts of society. whereas conservatives are always trying to draw back ppl’s rights and to even go so far as to try to see how much they can wiggle around constitutional rights to promote their agendas. it is similar to how in texas they have passed rules in the school board to include bible passages as part of the curriculum which is a blatant violation of the first amendment’s establishment clause. literally claiming that the bible is fundamentally tied to american history like fuck off. it is so ridiculous. terrible behavior from politicians but justices on the supreme court having such blatant disrespect for not only the constitution but the citizens of the country that they are meant to serve (even if they are children of immigrants what a terrible thought! 🙄) is truly a disgusting abuse of power. we are honestly in dire times when the high court that is supposed to be unbiased cannot set aside its political ties for common sense. it is embarrassing. trump and his cronies can claim all they want to be protecting and celebrating america but the founding fathers (and i say this w no love to them trust you will not catch me behaving like they wrote the constitution w divine intervention like some ppl) would be ashamed of the state of american “democracy” today. the irony of a man who wishes to be king being the president during the 250 yr celebration of the us as a “free” country is not lost on me!!!