also whenever you feel bad for enjoying life despite the news & state of the world right now remember the dan savage quote — "during the darkest days of the aids crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon. and we danced all night. the dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. it didn't look like we were going to win then and we did. it doesn't feel like were going to win now but we could. keep fighting, keep dancing."

unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe

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Today is the only day you can summon the energy to reblog this.

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.