Queer as in Fuck You

Sometimes when an action makes NO sense to us ("he's like a stupid alien"), it's bc we are not understanding its true motivation/purpouse. If his goal was control, financial pressure and limiting her options due to lack of funds, it makes perfect sensie to buy the truck.

This is classic abuser behavior: maneuver the partner into a situation where they feel trapped and cannot escape. The timing on this is too perfect; he saw her gaining agency & power in the relationship and moved to short circuit that.

I am SO GLAD she got out.

If this happens to you, try reaching out to friends & family first. Chances are they've been watching your situation and are aching to help, but have felt powerless. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this scenario unfold. Ask. For. Help. Nobody will judge you, and they're probably waiting for you to make a move. People notice abuse and want to help.

if you feel truly alone, start out with some free online resources.

this is not life-threatening, but also who wants weeks of diarrhea and a fucking parasite in them lol. if you suspect you've already had this and it's passed, i would see a doctor. you might need an antiparasitic anyway. if you're actively sick, see a doctor and they might be able to prescribe medication to help you get over it faster.

try to avoid eating raw vegetables, scrub fruit with a produce brush and rinse thoroughly with water. again, don't bother with premade greens or bagged salads. if you buy lettuce, remove the outer 2-3 layers of leaves.

but i do really feel like (especially in my experience english-only) monolingualism is such a scourge. the homogenizing effect this has on culture and what there is to see and do is devastating.

i feel like, once i started actively speaking french again (a language i grew up with and had basically no use for as an adult except a couple easier college credits,) i returned to having such a richer inner world that i had forgotten was there.

the expectation that anyone coming to an international stage speak english to be able to interact with the english-only monolingual bloc makes me so mad, *and my other language is a mainstream western language.*

i just go completely insane thinking about how much is lost culturally. i think it's easy not to realize how rich things are if you don't expose yourself to the diversity that's really out there.

i just think it's so valuable to be in a position to restructure the building blocks of how you think and put yourself in the position of someone with a different perspective because the range of tools i have in english is not the same as i have in french and i often prefer one language or the other for certain expressions, certain topics, etc

i just feel like the great evil of society today is homogenization and assimilation, and i think we badly need more cultural focus on language education; imo classroom-setting/homework assignment teaching is not sufficient; more immersion programs and robust study abroad are vital i think.

It has come to my attention that some of you have never seen what I firmly believe to be the greatest music video of all time: Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart. It is the perfect marriage of a galactically bombastic power ballad and a writhing mass of 1980s video clichés, thrown into the path of a wind machine and blasted down a moodily lit corridor into the realm of legend.

In case you’re wondering what the heck they were thinking of when they made it, I remember Bonnie once explaining on TV that it’s about the dreams of a headmaster’s daughter, hence all the boys in (and out of) uniform. In retrospect, the whole shebang is quite fascinatingly female gaze-y, and I’m pretty sure it was a major formative influence on my pubescent imagination.

always cold

always hot

(whatever you consider hot or cold, not what colloquially is considered hot or cold temperatures.)

Meanwhile, in Egypt you have to be Muslim to play on the team at all. Copts, for example, who are an indigenous group, have no right to play.