Challengers (2024)

The crazy thing is that the loudest “keep sex scenes out of movies!” screechers aren’t prudes at all—they’re porn addicts. Years of watching hardcore pornography has totally severed the connection between sex and love.

I struggle with feminist takes that make out that as women we are terrified 24/7. especially bc this comes from other white western women, idk I just don't relate to it. I've been sexually assaulted, I've been held at knife point by men but fear of men doesn't rule my entire life

Columbia doesn’t make applicants spin around and bend over for Roger Ailes so he can determine if theyre rapable enough. Most things dont work like your jobs

Challengers made me realise I don’t hate polyamory as a concept I just hate when ugly people do it

if an elderly Jewish woman asked me if I’m on ozempic, I would have the tact and couth to know it is a compliment and take it as such

why is there a woman under the influence inspired poster for freddy got fingered

Seeing people with brains that cannot form thoughts outside of success, image, reputation feels like seeing an animal eat it’s own excrement, complete oblivion to what is inherent to everyone else: conviction and care for things that fall out of the sphere of personal gain

Daily News, New York, September 7, 1925

Think about how fast this country sent hordes of riot police with tear gas, batons, and tasers to arrest anti-war students & their teachers.
Now think about every medical bill you've paid, every homeless person you've seen, every school that relies on bake sales to buy supplies.

the tl during succession sundays

weekend plans

one of those many incredibly unreal things about Britain is that it has an elite obsessed with productivity and forcing people to work paired with an economy that has basically no real jobs

Ireland from 1950s - early 90s:

- divorce was illegal
- marital rape was legal
- homosexuality was illegal
- The Troubles ongoing
- Magdalene Laundries height
- the peak of child sex abuse by the Catholic Church
- babies sold to Americans
- extremely poor
- emigration was high

The reason men don't 'get the ick' is because they never let go of their fantasy of u in favor of reality or your humanity ever even for a second

Having kids has really helped me understand how much and how deeply we learn and internalize a hatred and contempt of so many of the traits that children have, precisely because we vest our self-worth and self-respect in the conceit that we have grown up and shed them.