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Barbie + hitting a little too close to home

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me, a feminist: it’s important to support m/f ships where she is smarter and overall more badass than him yet he supports her and loves her for her capabilities and not despite them throwing toxic masculinity right out the window.

also me, a known gay: but wouldn’t it just be great if she had an equally intelligent and badass girlfriend instead?

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When people tell stories about how their parents beat them, it’s always interesting to see their face change because they expected me to say “me too lol” but I instead say “I’m really sorry. You didn’t deserve that” Last time a co worker who also has West Indian parents was telling me in a joking way how he remembers being beaten with a belt because lied about his report card. As he was laughing it off and saying he deserved it, I just said “wow that’s awful hun. You didn’t deserve that.” And his whole face changed. Like it hadn’t occurred to him that it’s messed up that a part of remembering his childhood is remembering how badly it hurt to be beaten so badly at such a young age. Another time I had a friend, non West Indian parents, who talked about how she made a mess on a dress that her parents got her. It was really expensive apparently and she spilled red juice on it. She talked about how she was ordered to take the dress of and was beaten with a belt too without any clothes on. And she was laughing and said “I was a bad ass kid lol” and I said “no hun you were just a kid”. And she looked at me and immediately stopped laughing and just sat there like “yea…I was just a kid. I don’t know why they did that to me” My mom was raised in a household where she was beaten so badly….I just don’t understand how she is so loving now growing up in a home where she got so little love. They called it discipline, but once she became a social worker she began to see that it was abuse. That she grew up terrified of her parents, although they thought it was respect that my mom felt. It was fear. We have to get comfortable challenging what is often seen as cultural norms. We have to be a generation of people who are not ashamed to say “I would never beat my child”.

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One of my favorite things about Daria is that the books she reads are actual books we too can read. Sometimes her jokes are references to the books she’s read and if you haven’t read the book you might not be in on the joke! Here is a list of the books you can purchase that have been featured/mentioned on Daria:

The Divine Comedy / Dante’s Inferno - Dante Alighieri*

Sense and Sensibility  - Jane Austen

City of Glass - Paul Auster 

Rule of the Bone - Russell Banks

How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

The Red Badge of Courage - by Stephen Crane

Fifth Business - Robertson Davies

A Journal of the Plague Year - Daniel Defoe

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The House of the Dead - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

On Moral Fiction - John Gardner

The Life and Complete Work of Francisco Goya - Pierre Gassier*

Howl and Other Poems - Allen Ginsberg*

The Chess Garden - Brooks Hansen

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

The Iliad - Homer*

Daisy Miller - Henry James

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant

The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey*

Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence

Death in Venice - Thomas Mann

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West - Cormac McCarthy

Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller

1984 - George Orwell*

Animal Farm - George Orwell*

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath*

The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe*

Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

Black Beauty - Anna Sewell

Hamlet - William Shakespeare*

Macbeth - William Shakespeare*

Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare*

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli*

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Angle of Repose - Wallace Stegner

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Our American Cousin - Tom Taylor

Walden - Henry David Thoreau*

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Henry & Glenn Forever - Igloo Tornado

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain*

The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain

The Art of War - Sun Tzu

Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut

The Island of Dr. Moreau - H.G.Wells

Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton

(I put an * by all the ones I’ve personally read)

source for all the books here

-sicksad-dariadiaries

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Helpful Websites To Learn Languages

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[SCAN] MAMAMOO ‘White Wind’ Photobook ©

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Damn.

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Vida 1x04 The last scene

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where is the lie

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today is the only day you can reblog this ever

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reblog if ur a cryptid gen z-millennial like me (born between 1994-2003)

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not to sure what’s going on here 

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“Cut to my mom. Someone should cut to my mom right now.”

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Bonus: 

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