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a lot going on in the tags
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I was leafing through Toxic by Sarah Ditum (about how female celebrities were treated in the 2000s) and, having been a tween/teen at the time, it’s surreal to remember the tone of the media coverage. I found a lot of pop culture really alienating back then—mean-spirited, materialistic, very sexualized in an objectifying way, hostile to any woman who wasn’t the exact right degree of skinny—so I kind of checked out from it for a long time. So I didn’t have actively warm feelings about many celebrities in general. But I would hear or see people saying nasty stuff about, say, female celebrities who got upskirted by paparazzi, and sometimes I would be like “yeah, it’s polite and practical to wear panties if you have on a short skirt, but why are these people taking and distributing these pictures? Isn’t that the bigger problem? If it’s so awful and tasteless to accidentally flash your business for a few seconds getting into a car, why call more attention to it by having endless talk show segments about it?” And people would act like I was not only wrong or a feminist buzzkill, but also a soft-minded fool who was naively failing to appreciate the abject skankitude of the celebrities.
#it was really weird coming from my feminist mom in particular#I guess she could’ve been worried about me emulating celebutante shenanigans#but you have to understand that I spent my adolescence in a series of plain black men’s hoodies#and listened to mostly broadway musicals and early sixties pop#I barely wore makeup until age 24
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I had a job interview yesterday (virtual) and the interviewer was so incredibly unpleasant that I was literally looking at the clock wondering how soon I could wrap that thing up. I don’t think she’s a bad person and she probably is really good at her job, but I would never ever want to work for her. I was irradiated by her bad vibes and also she said a lot of stuff indicating that the work environment was terrible.
And. Like. I just fucking hate when interviewers mock you for being polite and presenting things in a positive light. I can be a blunt, cocky, negative bitch, but who the fuck shows up like that to a job interview? I’ve only had two interviewers do that to me, luckily, but it annoys me so much.
I kind of get that approach with this lady more, because it was a field where you’d have to bust some major balls. The guy who acted like this with me years ago was NOT interviewing for that kind of position. He was just on a pointless power trip.
I had a job interview yesterday (virtual) and the interviewer was so incredibly unpleasant that I was literally looking at the clock wondering how soon I could wrap that thing up. I don’t think she’s a bad person and she probably is really good at her job, but I would never ever want to work for her. I was irradiated by her bad vibes and also she said a lot of stuff indicating that the work environment was terrible.
And. Like. I just fucking hate when interviewers mock you for being polite and presenting things in a positive light. I can be a blunt, cocky, negative bitch, but who the fuck shows up like that to a job interview? I’ve only had two interviewers do that to me, luckily, but it annoys me so much.
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Solitaire - Card Back #10
“How are we gonna plan our coup?”
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maybe im being too sensitive or something but why is it not universal online etiquette to not talk about your hatred or disinterest in something on someone's fanwork? if i spend an hour on a gifset the last thing i want to see is half the tags saying they couldn't care about the media unless a twink is in it or how you've given up on it but "this is cool i guess". yall have got to learn to stop being so backhanded
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TICHINA ARNOLD, MICHELLE WEEKS and TISHA CAMPBELL as Crystal, Ronette and Chiffon LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1986)
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Me, watching my kitten hold still for a suspiciously long time: Ollie, are you peeing on my floor?
Ollie: Not
Me: Are you sure?
Ollie, grunting through time and space to push out a chocolate mcmuffin wider than he is tall: Not
Me, helpless, arms full of hot chili: Ollie, no! Ollie no! No, Ollie! God, Jesus, Ollie! Ollie, nooo!!
Ollie:
Artist's recreation of incident
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when i was a kid my parents bought me an inflatable doll of the Scream by Edvard Munch (??) that was significantly taller than i was at the time and i used to slow-dance with it and pretend it was my boyfriend. It had its hands attached to its head obviously so it felt like he was always a bit horrified to be forced to dance with me
i didn't need no imaginary friends i had Screaming Joe right here !
I love this website I love it when people tell us what's wrong with them
Sometimes I still think about the Cold Case episode where the detectives go up to a feminist professor who used to be a popular mean girl in the early sixties and tell her “you had a motive to kill the victim because he revealed to the class that your ponytail was an extension.” And the professor is like “well, I was mad at the time, but that moment sparked my feminist awakening” instead of “I’m sorry, what???”
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telling a joke on tumblr is fun but watch out! if it gets over 1000 notes your joke is automatically exposed to people who have never once heard a joke in their life.
"why would you say that" because it was funny. "but that isn't true" it's the funniest way to express that sentiment. "why would you do that" because it's a joke.
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extrovert privilege is being able to post pics of your poop or like you with your balls out online as a joke and its still weird but everyones like “yeah hes a joker. hes wild” but if an introvert posts his poop and balls online all of the sudden its like “oh what a sick fuck”
shewasborninabottlerocket1929
because why would an introvert feel comfortable doing that unless the aim was to make people uncomfortable lol js
so the extrovert just gets a pass to parade his balls and poop around? meanwhile introverts are left by the wayside. taht seems fair to you?
shewasborninabottlerocket1929
it’s about intentions tbh. that’s what causes the difference in reaction (not that anyone?? is doing that?)
what if the introvert just wanted to cut loose for once and show off his poop and balls
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Francisco, that is really inappropriate!