Author: suchasinistergame

doryexplory:

lady-kaede:

fleamontpotter:

when will the media stop pretending that every single girl has dreamt of her wedding since she was a little girl

I never imagined a wedding as a child and I felt like there was something wrong with me every time they would say something to the effect of “every girl has a dream wedding when she’s a kid!!” because I sincerely did not care

I have a feeling that this is one of those American phenomenons because I don’t know anyone here in Iceland who had dreams about their wedding day in childhood. We also generally don’t make a big deal about weddings. Most of the time people have been together for years, lived together for years, even had 2-3 kids before they start talking about getting married. 😛

I have a vivid memory from when I was about 7 of telling my parents I didn’t want to get married, because I didn’t want to have children – hadn’t even reached the age of knowing where babies came from, but I already knew I didn’t want them lol. Not much has changed >.> 

undocumentedny:

ivyaura:

ratchetier:

feministxibalba:

ivyaura:

“Money doesn’t buy happiness” ok and poverty buys what exactly

where is the lie

Out of poverty creates strength and compassion. It’s weird how that works.

i sure wasn’t feeling the strength when i was skipping class because i was too weak to walk there after going 2-3 days without food, and i definitely wasn’t compassionate when i was checking every time i walked home to see if there was an eviction notice on the door. stop trying to fucking make it seem like a good thing.

Poverty is not a virtue.  It doesn’t make you a better person.  Poverty doesn’t make you “strong and compassionate” it makes you insecure and stressed the fuck out.  Poverty makes it so you can’t live your life without the everything being undercut by fear.  It makes you hard and angry.  We need to do away with the bullshit myth that being poor is somehow better for you as a person.  You know who wants you to believe that?  Rich people, so you don’t question them.

Wait wait wait. I’ve seen this before, but the context I see the phrase “money doesn’t buy you happiness” in most often is people who are rich/famous – often suddenly, such as lottery winners or people who find fame overnight – but don’t feel happy and fulfilled. It seems to me that decrying the phrase “money doesn’t buy you happiness” is saying to those people, “suck it up rich boy, you have no right to be unhappy because poor people have it so much worse”, which is a fucking terrible thing to say! Depression, anxiety and other mental health problems aren’t exclusive to people who don’t have a lot of money. Just because you have money, doesn’t mean you have nothing to worry about. Frankly I’m disturbed that somehow this phrase has got twisted around by people who I’d really expect to know better. 

It occurs to me that maybe McLaren improving isn’t that bad a thing, because maybe Jenson will be swayed more towards staying there instead of potentially moving to Williams, who have had some worrying struggles recently Like, ofc I don’t want to see Felipe in a struggling car, BUT if he stayed another year at Williams and they weren’t doing as well maybe it’d be easier to see him leave F1? : 

Things I think about, idek