Spinning Yarns

"You can't love others/nobody else can love you until you love yourself" isn't strictly true, but people say it because the thing they're getting at that IS true -- which you can roughly summarize as, "if you commit to being a complete unchecked void of self-loathing, you will inevitably alienate people who love you" -- sounds even meaner.

Migraine sufferers will be like "it's not like I'm disabled or anything, it's just that if I do any of these normal everyday things other people do all the time, my head explodes. But I'm fine honestly, as long as I avoid doing anything ever and my environment and the weather never changes, then my head explodes a little less"

why go to the grocery store or to a restaurant when you can just get food delivered why go to the mall when you can get same day shipping on amazon why go to the library when you have kindle why make art when there’s ai why go to the cinema when you can stay at home and watch netflix. we are in a loneliness epidemic btw

the loneliness epidemic was invented by BIG SHIT to sell you more SHIT

Also… caring about being the hottest person anywhere is sooo vapid and uninspirational to me. why are you surveying yourself like that? how are you caged when you have the key??? Time 2 Open That Cell Girl. Free Yourself…

like john berger said “a woman must continually watch herself. she is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. from earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. and so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. she has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another....one might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. men look at women. women watch themselves being looked at. this determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. the surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”

You know how we call things "pseudoscience"... the media analysis that's being done on twitter and tumblr should be pseudohumanities

i like to see men from the 19th century in a situation