whether you see it or not is irrelevant

As if the misogyny of these men is somehow unique. As if their fathers and grandfathers didn’t hold exactly the same opinions when they were teens and probably still do.

There is a perception that young men are backsliding from their previously held progressive values, but I think that young men were never progressive or feminist in the first place, even over the last ten years. They pretended to have those values so they could consider themselves good people, but as soon as large internet personalities showed them that misogyny is still considered acceptable all they had to do was remove the mask.

Sabrina Carpenter

No wonder we’re all rushing when there’s this time limit.

If you stop planning for children, you have all the time in the world to get your degree, get your license, fall in love, make mistakes, etc. I’m just now realizing how this pressure to have kids is at the core of youth obsession, the aging out of women from certain spaces (especially beauty/aspirational type spaces), and just the overall timeline obsession we have.

The problem with that is that it encourages countries to send in non-offensive pop music in order to appeal to the professional jury, most of which will be very mediocre and boring to watch. If the people didn't get a vote, we wouldn't see entries like Finland or Croatia, and that's bullshit! Those kinds of performances are what people watch eurovision for! Nobody wants to see a non-offensive pop music contest. We want originality! We want fun! We want the professional jury to go fuck themselves!