The More I Think About That Video Of The Guy Kicking The Anti-choice Woman To The Ground (presumably)

the more I think about that video of the guy kicking the anti-choice woman to the ground (presumably) the more disturbed and angry I become… I would never want a woman to be harmed by a man in the pursuit of women’s rights generally. that’s so backwards and not at all what feminism should stand for. everyone should be slamming that kind of behaviour lol

Has anyone watched Euphoria on HBO? Thoughts? I watched the first episode and while it is a deeply unsettling show, it portrays so much of the unique pressures gen Z is under. I'm aware it has a transgender girl in it, but I wondered what people's thoughts were on how both that and the the main character's drug addiction is portrayed and how it maybe even plays into the underlying factors that can contribute to dysphoria and drug dependence (as two separate issues).

Thoughts?

This post was regarding my experience in HIGH SCHOOL (louder for the people in the back).

@xentakneel I became aware of the goddamn unnecessary and harmful social pressures while I was getting my COLLEGE degree in Psychology. Do you want me to go back in time and tell high school me to stop conforming?

The point of the original post here was that teenage girls are exposed to a completely unrealistic standard of beauty and they for the most part often have no idea of the social pressure that makes them conform. They just want to fit in. In 2010, it was leggings and yoga pants and the invention of the jegging etc. Today, I watch most of the high school girls wear high waisted leggings and crop tops that leave the thinnest line of skin exposed, all beneath their winter coats and boots. My point was that "fitting in" clothing wise, is often more difficult for young women because of an industry that is so focused on beauty, it is always the first thought in the clothing design process of mass made products like coats and boots and leggings. Even if they're are warm leggings, why do guys get to wear jeans and sweatshirts and that counts as fitting in when girls have to continually push themselves into a cookie cutter mold of clothing style that is often not as warm as men's clothing and which sexualizes them far too early. And high school boys will simply never understand that pressure to dress in a way where they feel they owe the world beauty. So, yes it was fucking annoying when they made comments about us getting cold more easily. Yes they were just dumb kids who didn't know about invisible social and psychological pressures at force. That doesn't make it right and @bingobongosbunnie it doesn't make it any easier to change those standards when girls are called wimps for being cold in jeans or leggings.

So, yes I am fucking enlightened now. If I happen to find a time machine, I'll be sure to tell 16 year old me to stop conforming to all societal demands that have influenced her choices so she doesn't freeze in her skinny jeans when it's -20°F and the bus is 25 minutes late.

As someone who grew up in the coldest state in the midwest, literally nothing was more annoying than guys mocking us girls growing up for "being a wimp and getting cold so easily". Like, excuse me, but I would like to see a high school aged boy to try and survive a Minnesota January after shaving all the hair off their legs and underarms, while wearing a coat that is designed not with their warmth, but with the transparency of their figure, in mind, and wearing the thin black leggings from Target or Pink or wherever. Not to mention a lean figure has always been made to be the ideal over one for women.

The Guardian has cancelled their Person of the Year poll, because it was abundantly obvious partway through nominating/voting that the winner was going to be JK Rowling. Iconic.

Anyone who thinks North Korea is awesome needs to read Escape from Camp 14.

I finished watching a documentary called Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul that was about two ex-citizens of North Korea who had very different takes on their country than what we usually hear from popular defectors.

We all hear the stories of North Koreans starving during the famine but what we're hardly told is that the US wanted them to starve and made it worse by placing sanctions to destabilize the country. Even former president Jimmy Carter admits this yet we still wonder why North Koreans hate America so much.

Another thing talked about in the film was that many defectors are paid to lie and exaggerate their stories by South Korean intelligence agencies and American organizations. I am by no means a tankie but this made me question how much of the propaganda we see about North Korea is actually true. Here's the link if anyone's interested: Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in Seoul

The eleventh commandment should be to fact check what you read, especially if it looks like clickbait or if it looks like something very one-sided or black and white. Nothing, nothing, no issue political or societal can claim to be one hundred percent right, or correct, or ethical according to only one source. Always fact check. Always look at both sides of things if the sources are available.

Yes, because the other guy tried to overturn our democracy. Get a fucking grip.