a former child influencer tells me about the cost of a life lived online – the first menstrual period turned into a sponsored post, the pressure to appear perfect, the endless work, the confusion of what was real and what wasn't
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@Cosmopolitan
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I can't tell if the most exciting person to ever come out as trans is actually about to come out as trans or if I'm just on very specific corners of the internet
Emerald Fennel, the kind of filmmaker that makes the actors wear devil horns and Angel wings to portray which character is good and which is character evil.
Taylor Swift on re-recording her old albums: “I’m collecting horcruxes. I’m collecting infinity stones. Gandalf’s voice is in my head every time I put out a new one. For me, it is a movie now”
so the platform incentivizes parents to post embarrassing/sensational videos of their kids because they get engagement (including engagement from people criticizing), and as long as you don't cross the line into outright illegal abuse, you can just keep posting
How the fuck are we supposed to see a tweet about drama between 2 people we’ve never heard of and go to their likes to find out who they’re subtweeting
*obviously transitioning person who hasn't publicly addressed it yet*
the social media comments: I love when men aren't afraid to be androgynous! You look so ethereal and magical. Im transmasc and this is gender envy fr
Going back to 1994 and talking about President George “H.W.” Bush would kinda be on the same level of horror as going back to 1920 and talking about “World War I”
I follow Brian Jordan Alvarez on instagram and I would always skip his instagram stories that looked like this (?!?!) and I know now... that was a HUGE mistake
I. Don't. Support. Either. Side. Politically. Not the left, not the right. Im about supporting people and restoring local communities.
Now, go breath some fresh air and relax. Please? :) I'm not worth obsessing over, I promise. Go spend time with your loved ones.
i know fruity has become accepted slang for "lesbian/bisexual woman" and I can't fight that but this really takes the cake... i'm becoming a prescriptivist asshole
I hate my reaction sorry! but in my mind "fruity" is synonymous with "effete", "indulgent", "risque", things like that, and this is a German woman with no makeup, sitting seriously, wearing combat boots. it's almost like the antithesis of fruity.
When a trans woman is like “can you believe someone misgendered me when I look like this” and people come out of the woodwork to remind her that actually a lot of trans men look like that or something
Ultimately the idea that 'if you Really weren't transphobic you wouldn't have dysphoria because you'd accept that your body can look like anything while still being your gender' is a Deeply transphobic one
doordashing coffee in particular is baffling to me because there are already so many shortcuts to coffee. there's instant coffee, keurig, nespresso, bottled coffee, etc. and they're all already more expensive than using a drip machine but still drastically cheaper than delivery
Before this gets more likes I want to clarify that HRT brain fog is mild, only associated with certain types of spiro, and more often HRT has the opposite effect. The joke is that it doesn’t cause dementia like symptoms. That would be absurd. Transitioning is good
@thiccmatisse
oh yeah when she said there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t support women. I don’t even remember the jokes they made so she got the last laugh
I like how the quotes are all “Gen Z have become sheltered puritanical crybabies”. so I’m free to be like “Millennials are incapable of understanding bait tweets”
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson responds to people criticizing his wax figure at the Grévin museum.
“For the record, I’m going to have my team reach out to our friends at the Grevin Museum, (…), so we can work at “updating” some important details - starting with my skin color.”
i feel so stupid for even writing this sentence about this movie but why would Jenny Slate be clearly uncomfortable with Justin Baldoni if it was a Blake Lively problem
@GalliumGD
@JustinWhang
Well playing devil’s advocate on my own post… this is social psychology which is a famously unreplicable field. But idk if the studies are suspicious
we can't gatekeep or control semantic drift.... I can just mourn the loss of a specific word. although it wasn't that great to begin with it was kind of rude