i hate how "being a girl's girl" has replaced feminism. I hate that enforced conformity has replaced genuine compassion for and solidarity with other women. I hate how women call each other "pick me's" for not conforming to femininity or for daring to critique something other women like. I hate how we just keep finding new socially acceptable ways to bully other women for being unattractive or outspoken or difficult or complicated or weird or ambitious or for not performing femininity. I hate those front facing camera "comedians" whose whole thing is making up a straw-woman to make fun of. I hate the obsession with "girlhood" and clinging to being a girl instead of a woman. i hate "the girl version of the roman empire" and "girlhood" and it's just consumerism and I hate the characterisation of girlhood as passivity, niceness, sweetness, helplessness and frivolity and I hate the revival of gender essentialism even as a joke!!!

Thinking of yourself as a smol bean baby is a way of tapping out and expecting other people to fight on your behalf. It also makes you a more pliant consumer. Social media is awash with the idea that ‘it’s valid not to be productive’, as though productivity were the only manifestation of capitalism and streaming Disney+ all day is a form of resistance. It’s much rarer to encounter the idea that we have a responsibility about what we consume, or that satisfying our own desires whenever we want is not always a good thing: it’s like “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” has morphed into “there is no unethical consumption under capitalism”.

Riverdale doing what no other teen drama had the courage to do and just solving the ship war first with polyamory and then with all of the characters tragically drifting apart…there has never been another show like this and there never will be again

i unironically love riverdales dialogue. why is it that when succession does unrealistic shakespeare-esque dialogue its treated as an actual stylistic choice but when riverdale does it it must be some wacky writing quirk that cant be taken seriously and is only attributable to poor writing ability. other than the fact that one is riverdale and the other is succession i mean. i love intentionally unrealistic dialogue. the writers knew that nobody uses the word demimonde or alliteration ("mobsters and molls," "belly up to the bar with the big boys") in real life-- anyone who is familiar with the word "demimonde" also knows that its an archaic term from 19th century france-- but using it in veronicas monologue added to the effect of creating a 50s mafia movie/old-school dynastic drama atmosphere inherent to the lodges. im not even here to defend the artistic value of riverdale i just get really passionate about defending "unrealistic" dialogue because it can be such an interesting stylistic choice and the point of fiction isnt to create a world identical to reality

If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram "Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay." It would be at her doorstep in two hours.

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they're adapting the game of sudoku into a netflix original series. i hear kj apa is in talks to play the number eight.