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“so how you doin’?”

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This meme I found on twitter describes survivorship bias in politics better than I could

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What we learned from the response to that Gillette commercial

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yikes…”wife material” sounds like a bad job opportunity

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hey, @bunjywunjy - this might be your jam (and any other dinosaur enthusiasts, it’s a heck of a read)

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I hate Freud. His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.

He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers. 

At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed. 

But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.

So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged. Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.

By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.

And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.

And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.

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I just really miss him.

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me trying to think of a comeback:

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Just be your beautiful self! 😘

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And for the moments the boys on set, with their silly crushes, became tiresome, Brown could turn to Winona Ryder. “I would just go to her like, ‘Ugh, the boys are getting on my nerves today!’ And she’d be like, ‘Got it — come sit.’ And we’d eat cheese.“

- Millie Bobby Brown for W Magazine (quote)

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oh my god i really don’t wanna be the person to do this because i love uptown funk but it’s actually really really problematic…. like it’s awful and idk I feel so bad for liking it. I can’t really explain it that well but here is a detailed explanation. idk why we can’t just have nice things

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One Year Short Story Challenge

If you write one short story a week, it’s guaranteed improvement. Short stories can be anywhere from 1,000 to 30,000 words, but for the sake of sanity, the stories I write will be under 10,000 with a cap of around 7,500. Here’s some ideas!

1. Write entirely in second person. Someone is instructing your character to do something they’ll regret.

2. Write a first person story from the point of view of an inanimate object.

3. Write about a character trapped in the body of a kid about to start kindergarten.

4. Write about a high schooler trying to run away from a dangerous situation.

5. Write about a witch trying to find her lost familiar.

6. Write about a detective who uses questionable methods but always gets the right answer.

7. Write about a marching band who decided to block traffic for one whole day. Why?

8. Write about a character from the future. They aren’t trying to save anyone, they just want to live in a better time.

9. Write about a character with depression who’s desperate to help their friend, who suffers from the same thing.

10. Write about a middle school student going on their first date.

11. Write about a student who was trying to work at a coffee shop when a super villain attacks. Superpowers weren’t supposed to be real.

12. Pick a meme song and write a story based on it.

13. Look at your favorite old emo music and select the angstiest lyric you can find. Go wild.

14. Write with one oddly specific color in mind. Lavender. Fuschia. Carolina blue.

15. Write a story from the villain’s point of view, at the final battle.

16. Write about a character who plays music at a street corner and what they witness.

17. Write about a student who falls asleep in class and wakes up in a sterilized room.

18. Write about an elementary school ‘breakup’ between two fifth graders.

19. Write about two people who live in an RV and travel the country. They hate each other.

20. Write about a person who can talk to food. How do they eat?

21. Write about someone who breaks animals out of zoos.

22. Write about someone who can jump into books, and why they stay in normal life.

23. Write about someone who can’t go a week without almost dying, and what happens when they have their first quiet week.

24. Write a high school scenario that you heard about through gossip, or a scenario you overheard in real life or from a job. Dramatize it.

25. Write about a werecat who takes pleasure in being endlessly pampered by humans.

26. Write about a superhero who’s only power is making anything last forever. Their phone never breaks, and their toilet paper never runs out. Neither does their ammunition.

27. Write about two twins, one who’s a superhero and one who’s a super villain.

28. Write about a thief who hangs out with rich people but never steals their stuff.

29. Write about someone who can fly, but is too scared of heights to have ever tried it.

30. Write about a friendship about to break apart after ten years. Why?

31. Write about a sentient city, and how it helps out travelers and lost tourists.

32. Write about children running an actual rat race for fun.

33. Write from a zombie’s point of view of the zombie apocalypse.

34. Write about the skeleton inside you. It’s completely sentient. Watch out.

35. Write about a boy who has actually weaponized Axe, and sells it to people as a replacement pepper spray.

36. Write about a villain who can manipulate ice. They stab people and the weapon melts, leaving no fingerprints. How do you stop them?

37. Write about a student who decides to do anything except study before exams, and ends up bungee jumping and skydiving the day of.

38. Write about an invisible hitchhiker. They travel the country for free, by climbing into people’s cars at gas stations.

39. Write about a child who lives inside an amusement park, but never gets noticed. Another kid sees her. It’s the first time she’s been seen.

40. Write about a weredog touring a city in human form and trying their absolute hardest not to pee on the poles.

41. Write about a student who goes cold turkey on coffee the week before final exams.

42. Write about a pet turkey on Thanksgiving. They’re horrified.

43. Write about your phone, which is sentient. It finally decides to notify you in hopes you stop watching the exact same vine compilation at 2 in the morning every day.

44. Write about a girl who lives in the woods—30 minutes away from a huge city.

45. Write about someone trying to steal a giant monument, such as the giant peach in South Carolina or the world’s largest rubber band ball.

46. Write about cartoon characters suddenly faced with realistic risks from their actions.

47. Write about a warlock whose curse backfired on them—on their job interview at a respectable company.

48. Write about the sentient Chuck E Cheese costume that lives at the store, and whether it truly loves children.

49. Write about a dead forest, and the arsonist who caused it that visits every week.

50. Write about a couple that meets after they get in a street fight over a dropped twenty dollar bill. They’re actually perfect for each other.

51. Write about a genie trapped in a bottle of Axe.

52. Write about the craziest thing that ever happened to you.

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story prompt: demonstrate your dominance by bodyslamming into the lap of someone who steals your seat. slam your butt where your seat is, even when their legs are in the way. T-pose to block their view of the horizon.

they cannot see. they cannot get up.

this was your seat. now they are your seat.

power move.

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THE MOMENT JIMIN REALIZED JUNGKOOK WAS CRYING 

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