A little over 8 years ago, a friend of mine, L (name redacted)
was hit by her scum-bucket boyfriend. It
wasn’t the first time he’d hit her, but it was the first time he’d hit her in
front of her best friend J. (name also redacted.) J objected to the abuse, you might say she
objected violently to the abuse (which is one of the reasons why the names are
redacted even if the statute of limitations should be up.)
After scum-bucket had fled the scene, J decided that L needed some more support, so she called every women she knew. Everyone available showed up to L’s apartment
with weapons and booze. Imagine if you will, around 30 women stuffed into a one-bedroom apartment comforting L and
passing around the drinks when someone spots scum-bucket’s car pulling into the
parking lot.
It was decided that a few ladies would stay in the apartment
with L while the rest of us when downstairs to confront scum-bucket and prevent
him from entering the building.
Now all of us ladies at that time happened to belong to the same theater group that
specialized in swashbuckling plays, lots of sword fights and the like. So, when I say we brought weapons, I mean we
brought things like broadswords, battleaxes, crossbows, rapiers and like.
So, scum-bucket gets out of his car and starts walking
across the parking lot only to spot 25 or so heavily armed women marching out
of the building, raising their weapons and charging at him while screeching
like furies.
Scum-bucket had a pretty good sense of self-preservation and
the sight of us was inspiring. He ran
back to the car and peeled out of the parking light like the hounds of hell
were at his heels and I suppose we were.
Anyhow, L never heard from him again. Eventually, she and J started dating and they’ll
have been married for 5 years next September.
i’m not a doctor or a nutritionist, but sometimes i hear women talking about their diets and it takes all i have to not be like “this is not normal. you have an eating disorder and you are in a cult.”
saw a magazine article yesterday called something like “how i lost 3 stone without setting foot in a gym” and when i read it i discovered that the secret to her weight loss was… eating under 500 calories a day. girl that’s not a diet that’s just anorexia
and everyone’s like “why are so many girls nowadays developing eating disorders” as if diet culture isn’t an entire industry specifically designed to profit off women’s misery and dysmorphia and self-hatred. this is the bad place!!!!!
My niece had wanted to see the puppies tonight but I had to explain that they were still at home because they had tummy aches (white lie). And she wanted to know why.
@wolfchanw : Well, they went to the doctor today to have surgery to remove their testicles and now they have tummy aches
Niece: *thinking hard* Sometimes, when I go to the doctor and he removes MY testicles I get a tummy ache too!
When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on"
When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“
Love that we’ve elevated the conversation to such a degree that, if you’re going to be grimdark nihilistic in fiction, you need to argue philosophically against 4 seasons of The Good Place.
23rd April 2024
Reblogged From astudyinfreewill
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