Aye, love. Love!

Come with me 🫴 you need to enrol to vote before october 25 to make this a one term govt in november

At the local hamburger shop and they said yelled out “order 167!” And three middle school age kids yelled in perfect unison “ 6 7!” Life is sometimes so beautiful

If you reference 67 you deserve to be executed on the spot tbh

If I was king for a day the first thing I would do would be to sentence you to a life full of love and understanding.

if you're ever beating yourself up for 'missing the obvious hints' that someone is romantically interested in you, know this: i once met a guy who asked out a girl after she sent him nude pictures of herself in the bath and she said she wasn't interested. it is never obvious

Annoys the fuck out of me when mansophere types try to say the current beauty standards are based on biology because tits and hips indicate fertility. As if fertility is a significant measure of species fitness in humans. The species with famously long gestation periods and famously useless juveniles and famously difficult births due to its janky transition to an upright posture. Like girl we didn't proliferate across the entire planet and start terraforming it because of fertility we're one of the most successful species of all time because of tool use, bipedalism, and sociality. If beauty standards were based on species fitness we would all be jerking it to smooth-talking joggers holding power tools 😭

No other species has permanent breasts like ours and no other primate, including all extinct human species, has a protruding chin like homo sapiens. Not having these things does not negatively impact other species. These are sexually selected traits, quite literally fetishes that got hard-baked into our genes to the point that they are defining features of the species. There's definitely a genetic component to sexual attraction but to say that attraction is necessarily tied to one particular beneficial trait is flat out pseudoscience. There are simply far far too many factors to human survival for sexual selection to encourage only one. In fact if there was an actual biologically wired universal beauty standard, we would be kind of fucked. A diversity of sexual desire (or lack thereof) is in itself an aspect of species fitness.

And like to be clear there's nothing wrong with having these common genetically-encouraged fetishes or just saying that attraction is influenced by evolution, because that's true. The aggravating part is when people attempt to valorize those fetishes in order to shut down discussions of socially constructed beauty standards as a function of misogyny. When someone says that the modern beauty standard for women is genetically-based the unspoken implication is "evolution is good, therefore the beauty standard is good and natural, therefore it is fine to objectify women and hold them to this standard." And this argument is honestly kind of hard to logically rebut if you're not knowledgeable on evolutionary biology. But if you dismiss it as the nonsequitur it is, the person who put the argument forward can just keep looping back and getting the discussion stuck there. Thus, I think it's very important to understand the role genetics and evolution play in common expressions of sexuality. Also that while evolution does play a role, beauty is a socially-constructed idea, and genetics are not the end-all be-all of sexual desire. Social pressures can easily override or alter innate urges.

there's this weird thing people fall into online a lot, where people assume that if the [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged then people will, naturally, do [perceived-to-be-superior] version of [activity] instead. When really it's just as (or more) likely that if [perceived-to-be-inferior] version of [activity] is discouraged people just won't do it at all.

audiobook listeners are not necessarily people who would otherwise do a lot of traditional reading if audiobooks did not exist, many are people who simply would experience zero books. Booktok romance readers would not necessarily be reading the classics if booktok did not exist, many of them would simply not read. Fanfiction writers would not necessarily be novelists if fanfic wasn't an option, many would just be people who didn't write. You know?

I hate what AI has done to the sparkle emoji. Give it back