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ok firstly I’m traumatized, not crazy, so jot that down

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“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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More cute animals here!

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millennials realizing that gen z can’t vote yet and we gotta step up and show up to the primaries this year in droves to keep the movement alive

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If men stopped working…the world would continue on.

If women stopped working, then things would get ugly.

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I just left my husband alone with our two children for sixteen days. I was not worried about anything regarding the house, their food, or their wellbeing. I put all the appointments in the family calendar and my husband checked it and kept them. I literally did not worry about them. I missed them, and I was sad that they missed me, but I didn’t worry about them AT ALL. I need to impress upon you all that I missed their company, but was not worried for their welfare.

I also did no meal prep. I don’t even think I went shopping right before I left.

This is not about apples and oranges. This isn’t even about my husband. This is about the fact that this is apparently WEIRD.

Another mum at my daughter’s school is leaving for ten days. She’s taking her youngest (who is a very small baby) and leaving her husband with their two girls. She has been cooking for days preparing freezer meals. She’s panicking and deputizing her six year old to remind him how to make school lunches. AND I AM APPALLED.

A) He is definitely not helpless. (He’s a doctor or something.) What gendered bullshit. B) THAT LITTLE GIRL IS NOT OLD ENOUGH TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR HER AND HER SISTER’S WELLBEING. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. C) Why is she married to this person and creating children with him if he’s this big of an idiot?

While she was laughingly recounting this, the other mums were nodding and smiling sympathetically, like oh yes, I too have my caveman at home!! Such managing required! I was the only one who was like “Dude, he’ll be fine. Literally. He will be fine.” I said it a lot. She was not convinced. She kept bringing up her older daughter. She’ll be like a little mum!

NO.

NO NO NO NO.

NO.

Straight women, don’t do this shit. It’s gross. Don’t infantilize your husbands and then expect your daughters to pick up the slack. So fucking gross. So. So. GROSS.

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“I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”

— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

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“First admit that you are unhappy. Then admit why. Then understand you need to let go. Allow yourself a moment. Breathe in the moment deeply. Then the healing will begin.”

— Nikita Gill, How to Start Healing

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Moss Graffiti: A How To Guide

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"I can't drown fast enough in this bottle of Whisky... the air bubbles of self loathing and sadness that is my way-side is pouring out of my mouth like silent screams; coming from the deep pits of my soul. Their bubbling to the top, racing to expose my exterior for all the world to shatter, and ridicule, and label. I try and open my throat as wide as it will go to let the liquid of anger and hatred pour down to my stomach, for it to turn it into the very bile that has destroyed me once before..

The cycle is important. I guess. At least that's what I've told myself for all these years."-KR

#poetry #tryingsomethingnew

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“Hey, heart. Are you listening? You and I are officially at war.”

— Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

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“Don’t settle for him because he thinks you’re beautiful and you think no one else will find you beautiful.”

— Warsan Shire