Glauberg Dezember 2018 by janeway1973

National Geographic on Facebook: this is a facial reconstruction of a teenage girl who lived 9000 years ago based on her remains!

half the comments: men criticizing her looks and saying she’s unattractive and mannish

anyway this is the reconstruction and I always enjoy seeing the faces of prehistoric humans and how much we have in common over thousands of years despite how incredibly different our lives are. I support her and I think she looks wonderful.

everyone in the replies of this post saying “well I think she’s pretty!” missed the whole damn point lmao

I remember watching a documentary once where historians were trying to work out who a dead girl was and what her life was like. I’m pretty sure they dated the body back to the early Victorian era, and established pretty early on that she lived in poverty, died young, and was most certainly a prostitute.

The grand finale of the show was the reveal of her reconstructed face. Now, bare in mind that through their investigations they discovered that she had lived an awful life and died an agonizing death (syphilis iirc). So, you can imagine my disgust when the historians reacted with disappointment at the reveal of her ‘face’. This poor girl, who had suffered terribly, was obviously not the poor, tragic beauty they had been hoping for.

She was plain, maybe some would say she was ugly, but what was truly hideous was the fact that you could practically see the sympathy these historians had for this poor girl slip away as they looked at her ‘face’, and you could certainly hear it in their voices.

Even in death our value rests on the basis of our looks. Sympathy is conditional - based on where you fall on the looks scale.

Science: *gives us the miracle of seeing long-dead faces*

Men:

“In a game with no consequences, why are you still playing the ‘Good’ side?”

Because being mean makes me feel bad.

Because my no-consequences power fantasy is being able to help everyone.

human brain: sometimes we need to do boring things with no gratification or immediate benefit

monkey brain: absolutely not. die

Human brain: ok what if we eat chips while we do the boring thing

monkey brain: I’m suspicious but keep talking

Light always finds a way - @stianmklo

Don’t confuse my hatred of the hyperwealthy for jealousy over what they have. I don’t want a six figure sports car, or a 40 room mansion, or a gold leaf truffle wagyu steak dinner. I want redistribution of wealth that allows for infrastructural support of all citizens’ basic survival needs.

FREE THEM

I say this without a shred of irony:

pageant moms are abusive monsters.

a human that wants to feel good: oh time for me to do drugs or whatecer

an animal that wants to feel good: time to lay in the sun

in summary? animals been knowin where its at for 1000s of years…

I KEEP FORGETTING THEY’RE BIPEDAL 

A featherless biped?

Diogenes:

THEY ARE WHAT???

literally how hard would it have been for jkr to say something like “listen I was writing it in the 90s, I was inexperienced, I was writing from my own point of view, I didn’t realise how underrepresented a lot of people are, I wasn’t thinking about anything other than the plot, I accept that it’s a little sparse on the diversity front, I can try to be more self aware with my future works” etc etc instead of.. this nonsense

I was walking in the forest during winter, and saw a wendigo sitting under a tree. I asked it if it was going to kill me. It said, “No, this is just a dream.” So I sat next to it in the snow for a bit and then he said, “The anger in your heart warms you now, but will leave you cold in your grave.” And then I woke up.

Well SOMEONE’S third eye is wide fucking open

when ur mentally ill and having An Episode™ but u dont want anyone to know

Me when it is someone’s birthday but I decide to be the little shit I am

adulthood is a scam i want to be a crow

I’m not even an adult and I want to be a crow.

The desperation only grows with years

Be the crow you wish to see in the world

-Collect Shiny Things

-Hop happily down the street for no apparent reason

-Scream loudly when you see your friends 

What an incredibly inspiring addition thank you

Such a pleasure to walk through the pathless woods

© Nicchessa