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washing machine has decided that it doesn't do spin cycle anymore so every garment pulled from it is completely impossibly sopping wet and splatters liters of water all over the floor because the dryer is Directly Above the top-loading washer, on a shelf, so you have to pull things up and out and further up to get them in there smfh

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yes i do the cooking yes i do the cleaning

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adding to this that ballet is Very white. there are obviously ballet dancers of color, but they're relatively few compared to other specialty performing arts fields like opera, broadway-style dance, etc.

so combine this with the immense stress of dancing professionally (a single injury can fuck your whole career over like you're a racehorse, as can a pregnancy or scare, your hormones doing anything weird to your weight or appearance, etc.) where these very young, often white, women are being heavily pressured in such a way where their body is everything, where their value is a 1:1 with how they look and how they can physically perform. they know it's not fair. they know it's cruel. but ballet dancers don't go into it for money or fame, they do it because they Gotta dance or they'll just die.

"how does that connect to whiteness though," you might wonder. and that's where it starts getting really rancid, because the (very real) unfairness of the professional dance world leads to some very ugly complexes surrounding not only looks but also "I have to grab onto what I love as if it's the last one in the world, the last there'll ever be." everything they are (on a personal level) cannot be taken as good enough. and surrounded by others like them, they're not seeing the privilege that allows them to be considered the "default" that's obvious from the outside. so in all-too-common WW fashion they see the marginalized celebrate themselves and each other and take that to mean "AHAAAAAA, so THEY get to be loved and celebrated, but what about ME?? what about the work I do??"

which is myopic as shit. but going nose to grindstone on one thing 24/7 from literal early childhood well into early adulthood is going to breed that exact myopia. both sheltered by whiteness and wealth and left out to dry by the brutality of the field, they're primed to be DESPERATELY attached to the first man they fall in love with.

and the kind of men who like to date ballerinas are, too often, the types who know exactly how neurotic the job makes them. they're all too happy to hold their love up as a carrot with a stick in the other hand. and their (the ballerina's) whiteness makes them an even more appealing trophy wife for racists who want a pet woman to crank out white babies for them. ballet is a great career for the tradwife because it's inherently temporary. and once it's over he's got her full time and she has little else to fall back on because to excel in ballet often necessitates neglecting other things. and because ballerinas have to have ambition or they can't survive, really it's no wonder the side hustle of "influencer" holds temptation, especially because it allows them to soothe the fears of "what if I get ugly or fat or old and my husband leaves me for his secretary" by showing an audience of thousands "that's right I'm #goals, I'm hot and competent, because I work." every hand-sewn egg apron or homemade sourdough or weird raw milk recipe is a chance to prove that competence and sense of class, beauty, and fitting into the role that ballet, such as it currently is, forces them to fill.

the ballerina to tradwife pipeline must be studied

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some of you aren’t even perverts you just have normal sexual desires that you are ashamed of

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me: i wanna talk about my ocs

someone: ok tell me about your ocs

me, suddenly convinced that every single thing about my ocs is stupid and cringy and probably offensive: i. have them

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okay imma say it now, those soju memes are insane because I just drank a whole bottle like it's a beer and while I am definitely drunk I'm also fine and not feeling crazy, and I Don't drink often. like I think I've had one (1) drink in the past two and a half months and it was this lmao

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You gotta think about what your OC sleeps in. YOU GOTTA IT TELLS SO MUCH ABOUT THEM

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i stopped the dental technician while he was applying fluoride to ask what the fuck the flavour was supposed to be. And he was like oh I was wondering that too. It says it's walterberry.

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i just think more 30-40 year old men should be more whorish. act your age for once.

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literally any upper middle class tiktok self-identified ‘that girl’ in a pastel workout set with a thirteen step skincare routine and a green juice is a million times closer to being patrick bateman irl than any self-identified sigma film bro

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me watching 'gratuitous' sex and violence and ''problematic representation'' in my shows and movies made for adults

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i just got this wrong number text and was like “that can’t possibly be a real name” and i googled it and was led to bobbi babalooney’s website which autoplays the single best and most ridiculous jingle i have ever heard and it drove me to actual tears please go listen to it and have your whole life changed by bobbi babalooney’s hype man

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All of the Beatles dying in a glue trap

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"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

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I am disheartened by the way westerners talk about Iran. Even some of the pro Palestinian ones. Many talk about Iran as a force of resistance against the west being “under attack” by Israel. Which is true but more importantly, hundreds of innocent civilians were slaughtered by Israel (and the US by proxy). My grief is as it’s always been indescribable.