Perfectly Average Blog

i’m the normalest guy on the planet btw. #normalboy #normalcore #boynormal #normalguythings

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

If you haven't lived around a specific type of Mexican or Italian or other generationally Catholic community I have no idea how to explain to people who haven't seen it like... Yes many of my peers are Catholic. No they are not Catholic. No I mean like they're VERY Catholic. No they're not even a LITTLE bit Catholic. Yes they do Catholic things. No they don't do any Catholic things. They're debilitatingly Catholic, yes. No, I don't think anyone could reasonably call them Catholic

"No I don't believe in God, no I don't believe in Heaven or Hell, that's ridiculous. I have no time for any of that. Church? On a Sunday? I get two days off a week and you want me to spend one of those days in a stuffy building and give away the money I spent five days earning? Ridiculous. Now please shut up so I can pray to the Virgin to give me the strength to not kill my coworker as well as to St. Cabrini so I can find a good parking spot behind the CVS tonight"

i really do not think it can be overstated how much hatred against trans men on this site is driven by people finding trans men Just Kind Of Annoying. people have pipelined themselves into posting on the daily about how tmes should be raped to death because 6 years ago a teenage trans boy was somewhat overexuberant on a fandom post, and other such minor irritations. finding someone (and therefore their entire segment of the population) Just Kind Of Annoying is a direct line, especially on the internet, to completely unpersoning them. nothing one of those people ever says or does should be taken seriously, even if it's a matter of life and death. because they were kind of annoying :/

I feel like in my experience, a ton of the people in question certainly don't identify as neoliberals.

"Jews stole from SWANA culture and turned it into slop to make money" is literally Nazi rhetoric but with "SWANA" instead of "Western".

listen i dont believe in gd or an afterlife but I am starting to, if only to not lose my mind and know that they will face some sort of justice

Is NYMag the kind of publication where we can write to the editor and complain about (if nothing else) the shitty editing job on this piece? Mamdani (African-born American) is Middle Eastern, but people whose families have been in the Middle East for 3000 years aren't because they're Jewish? Come on.

I think for a lot of people “I am completely helpless and powerless” and “I am completely powerful and in control” are both basically comforting fantasies because most of us live our lives in an in between place where we have enough agency to be responsible for our actions but not enough agency to have true control over our lives and the tension between power and powerlessness in the day to day is psychologically wearing and exhausting

and if they don't feel in control, they at least have a scapegoat they can blame for their misfortunes! Scapegoating does wonders for the ego, 10/10, would recommend. Also great for socializing since Misery Loves Company!

"This fic is literally just porn, why do you care about the quality of the editing" unfortunately, both my brain and my dick have strong opinions about verb tenses.

You severely underestimate the effect of typos and incorrect tenses on my libido

omg the number of times I desperately want to make love with a post and have its children but there's a typo it's pure hell

One thing I’m still pissed at Bernie Sanders about is turning a generation against the Democratic Party. Every piece of social progress in the last 80 years, from Social Security to Medicaid to Medicare to integration to the Civil Rights Act to Title IX to Roe v. Wade to labor rights to environmental protections to public health protections to Obamacare to Obergefell, all of it directly or indirectly powered by the engine of change that is the Democratic Party. And then Sanders comes and says this whole apparatus, which he had no hand in building, is corrupt and needs to be completely replaced. Now we have countless young people who think Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the same partly because they were told that an engine of change and an anchor of stagnation and oppression are equally bad because they were fed the lie that no one in the Democratic Party does anything to improve their lives.

original date of posting: 2016

It’s been a decade and they’ve still not learned a damned thing. There’s just too many perverse-incentives to make it worth their while.

I really, really hope what sank her is that word salad about "proximity to whiteness" and making different decisions that basically amounts to "I regret having my son because he's proof I used to be a bad leftist."

The way the "Free Palestine" movement pissed away the ceasefire hating Jews when they could have been pushing for disarming and rebuilding will never not be a travesty and hopefully it will not yet be a tragedy. But, regardless, it is more of the seemingly endless proof of the lack of care and regard for Gazans even from those who claim to be 'on their side', feh.