Four things that I would be totally fine with if they disappeared forever: group chats, smartphones, lip filler and tattoos.
I personally blame Angelina Jolie for popularizing tattoos on women and for lip filler. Angelina’s lips are natural but everyone was attempting to look like her and instead they look like ducks. She was also one of the first well-known women in the modern era to have a lot of tattoos. And she spread that mind virus, damn her.
Tell us: what is the nicest thing anyone has done for you?
When I was hanging out my now-dead friend so much that we were nearly conjoined twins, a group of the popular high school kids came up to her. One said, “You know, you could be pretty cool if you would just stop hanging out with that total loser.” Referring, of course, to me.
She told them that she was quite happy hanging out this “loser” who treated her better than they ever had or could, and that she had no plans to change who she associated with. Not a single person outside of my family had ever stuck up for me in my entire life before that. I was awed by and grateful for her kindness and strength. I barely even knew what to say later.
That is the single nicest thing anyone has ever done for me. And she did it without a moment’s thought. I still cannot believe how incredibly kind she was or that she is dead.
What double standard in society goes generally unnoticed or without being called out?
Part of the thread is about attractive/pretty privilege and yep, that is a real thing. Found out myself in the last few years. In the before times, prior to me being all buff and considered hot, I’d go to a hotel to check in and would be treated with mild disdain often or just ignored.
Now, if the counter attendant is a woman I’m greeted extremely warmly and often when it comes time to show ID, the reaction is, “ID? Tee-hee! Who needs THAT?” or something similar. It’s disturbing coming from how I know I would’ve been treated 5-6 years ago. It bothers me because until you stray into that land you don’t know just how much better attractive people get treated. And I know how indifferently I would’ve been treated not that long ago.
That reminds me, I was hanging out one time with an extremely conventionally attractive woman friend who’d gotten a traffic ticket of some kind and had to go to court. As we were kicking it, she was checking that the judge was a man and I asked her why. She said, “Because if I dress hot and act stupid in court, I’ll probably get out of this ticket. But not too hot. Not slutty hot but business hot.”
And sure enough, she texted me a couple of days later and said, “Got out of the ticket. Don’t have to pay $250!”
Pretty privilege in action. I don’t blame her for weaponizing it but damn.
What double standard in society goes generally unnoticed or without being called out?
If you’re fit and attractive, it’s assumed you didn’t work for it and were just magically born that way. (Hint: Most people are not.)
However, if you are seen putting any effort at all into working out or improving yourself a lot of people (mostly Ian Welshian liberal types, but not just them) see it as “cheating” for some inexplicable reason.
Makes no motherfucking sense.
We closed the mental institutions and now all those people are on public transportation. Which is why I avoid it.
I don’t need to come up on charges because I accidentally kill some clown who threatened me on a bus.
We do. Part of Horkheimer’s and Adorno’s larger thesis in Dialectic of Englightenment is that “scientific” practices and facts become de facto religious doctrine.
Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.
The first ten on today’s playlist:
