#Agree Or Disagree

[reality-detective]

It’s time for me to have another rant! 👇

Buckle up!!! ⚔️🛡️

The State of America:

I am angry. As an American, I am sick and tired of what this country has become. I do probably curse more than I should, but I am pissed off.

Our schools: Children are being indoctrinated by school teachers about sexual activity rather than things they should be learning about. You know, like civics, math, real history and science? What grown ass adult wants to discuss sexual intercourse with a minor? I’ll tell you, a social deviant fucking pervert. That’s who. I will not expose any child to that madness ever.

Our military: Our military is the weakest it has ever been. I have friends that are still in the military and they cannot wait to get out. Not because of their lack of service to this country, but the lack of leadership. The good ones are tired of getting slammed with “woke” PowerPoints on shit that doesn’t even matter to military readiness. It’s dumb. And our adversaries are laughing at us. I can’t even recommend someone to join the military until it is returned to its rightful place as the strongest military in the world.

Our southern border: The southern border is a dumpster fire. More illegal aliens and fentanyl are pouring through the border at record rates. The saddest part about this is the Democrats are wanting ILLEGALS to vote for any and all elections. Democrats only use their party for votes to continue their reign of power, while their own districts are literal shit-holes. Republicans are not safe from this and they really aren't much better. If they wanted the border shut down they would too. Always remember that Americans being murdered was never enough to shut the border down.

Joe Biden: I will never accept the thought that Joe Biden got 81 million votes. You cannot make me believe that the alleged President of the United States of America got the most votes in American history, then was kicked out from running by his own party. Give me a fucking break.

Kamala Harris: This Indian American woman locked up more black men than I have ever seen in my life. She doesn’t care about black people. Never has and never will. She just wants your vote.

Mainstream Media: These retards have been fed so much propaganda that they actually think Donald Trump will incite a civil war if he doesn’t win the 2024 election. You all have an extra chromosome if you truly believe that. There are some that are just gaslighting but a large portion of the population is too stupid to vote if they can’t decipher this.

Speaking of Donald Trump: This man has been given more bullshit to a public servant that I have ever seen in my life. For crying out loud, it has been over 2 weeks since the Deep State almost took his life and no one has been held truly accountable. They are all behind it until proven otherwise. Imagine if that was the other way around. Democrats would want to put the nation on lockdown like they did during COVID.

National debt: As of today the United States is at $35,000,000,000,000.00 in debt. How irresponsible of adults. I will never be gaslit to send money overseas anymore especially since Americans are struggling to put food on their table. How outrageously treasonous.

And to top all of this off. I am a white male that was in the military and now I'm considered a domestic terrorist by some. How unbelievable is this? The same ones that are backing the Military Industrial Complex. The same “elected leaders” that I served, don’t have our backs when we return home. The military are the ones that uphold and defend the Constitution, not them.

This is not what America should be about. This is not the country I served. Not anymore.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!! 🤔

God Bless America. 🇺🇸

[mysicklove]

i think bakugou is a masochist. i think gojo asks you to peg him first. i think shouto is a brat. i think levi likes to be worshipped by his dom. i think yuuta is into cnc. i think giyuu is a pillow prince. i think izuku is a slut. i think bachira likes getting his hair pulled. i think sukuna deserves a hard/mean dom. i think isagi drools a lot when he gets fucked. i think sanemi is really into giving head. i think reo likes the be choked. i think kyojuro is really really twitchy and can’t sit still.

[lemotmo]

I would be so interested in seeing some actual conflict with a parent, I feel like for a show with so many less than stellar parents for the adult cast, the actual problems and issues and grievances tend to get swept under the rug a lot? Glossed over. Which I will admit does seem realistic in a way, especially for people their age who might want to keep the peace and prioritize that over like, their mental health (I’ve been reading about how younger generations are more likely to cut contact with parents and forgive less, it’s been interesting with the different perspectives) I would love to see some consequences though

Yeah, that would be interesting to watch, I agree.

I do think though that it's vital to also show that cutting ties with someone isn't always as easy as it seems. Also, sometimes cutting ties with a parent isn't the best thing to do either.

Parents are people just like everyone else. They make mistakes just like everyone else. Most parents try their best, but they aren't perfect so they fumble up sometimes.

And yes, some parents are abusers, gaslighters and manipulators and if there is abuse, whether mental or physical or both, YES! Cutting ties is the right way to go. Same goes for abusive children by the way. It's okay for parents to cut ties with an adult child that mentally or physically abuses them.

But I do feel that these days people scream 'abuse' too soon and too often. Sometimes there are problems that have nothing to do with abuse, that can be solved by actually communicating with each other and even going to therapy together. There are a million solutions out there for struggling families where the problems don't fall under 'abuse', but rather 'misunderstanding' each other.

If we look at the show I would say that the Buckley parents were definitely neglectful and mentally abusive. They never offered Buck any comfort, love or protection. They told Maddie to lie about Daniel. Imagine what that does to a child. Yes, the Buckleys were obviously extremely traumatised people, but they took that pain and trauma and made it into some kind of barrier between them and their kids.

They did show us that the Buckleys were trying to do better, but I'm not so sure if that worked out. In my opinion, if Buck or Maddie decided to go no contact? They would probably be better off.

As for the Diaz parents. Well, Helena has definitely shown her true colours in 8x01. She isn't trying to help Eddie. She is living out her dream of raising Chris as her own son after Eddie disappointed her when he was just a kid. Ramon seems to just follow his wife in her decisions, so he is just as guilty. This is a form of emotional manipulation. Helena is making Eddie feel guilty over something he ultimately didn't have any control over. Did he screw up? Yes, he did. Does he deserve this treatment from his own parents? No, he doesn't.

If I were Eddie? I would get on a plane to El Paso, tell my son to pack his bags and take him home, telling my mom that she wouldn't be seeing them for a while until I decided when to talk to them again. Let them feel some of that agony he felt when they had Chris in their care and treated Eddie like he was a second-class citizen.

So in the 911 cases? Yeah, I do think some time away (or even forever) from the parents would be an excellent idea.

[picnicbitchsokka]

aangs master of all four elements right?

inspo from: @michaelnotholden

[swiftie-blog-123]

Kind of just realized anything targeted towards women and not men is received poorly by men or is considered embarrassing to like: Barbie, Taylor Swift music, Captain Marvel, Twilight, etc. I’m not saying anyone is obligated to like these things (Twilight was…creepy) or shouldn’t criticize it, but the hate they get is disproportional to the hate other media gets.

It’s because women can enjoy media not targeted to them because we can enjoy stories that we can’t relate to. (After all, growing up, our choices were watch this movie about a sexist stereotype of a woman finding a husband or watch this movie about this really cool guy.)

This is one of the first times in history when media targeted specially at women is being made, and men are upset because they never grew up with media they couldn’t relate to.

[8celestebells]

Let me just….. yeah….. I don’t know what to say; like he has a point but at the same time though… he doesn’t…. Do you agree with him or do you disagree?

[bombuni]

We as a society need to discuss the differences in sex with Steven, Marc, and Jake more. Like this is an important discussion that needs to be had

[nikkiruncks]

Jackie/Hyde>Jackie/Eric>>>Jackie/girls>>>>>>Jackie/Kelso>>>>>>>>Jackie/Fez

[scentedsstuff]

Unpopular Book Opinions

Out of curiousity, send me some unpopular book opinions📚. Anonymous asks are on so feel free to be as honest as you want.

[zaneaquaman]

Analysis of Will Wood's "I/Me/Myself"

Will Wood’s music is known to be the type that serial killers would listen to as they start their descent into madness and violence; however, as Wood emphasized in an interview on Bleeding Cool about The Normal Album, the songs really “reflect a lot of my personal growth through proper treatment of my psychiatric troubles, therapy, personal work” and are about “coming to terms with my flaws and learning to be honest with myself”. Many people interpret this as him coping with bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. While that may add to some of the meanings behind his lyrics, I find it much more plausible that Will Wood’s music details his struggles in defining his gender, gender expression, and coming to terms with who he really is. His song titled “I/Me/Myself” acts as a primary example that is hard to deny even without micro-analyzing the lyrics.

As someone who is transgender, I’ve had my fair share of coping with the reality that I was born in a body that doesn’t fit me, with clothes I’ve been told to wear my whole life feel wrong, and with expected behaviors that I always viewed with disgust because they didn’t feel true to me. “I/Me/Myself” hits the issue of a gender identity crisis dead on:

“For some reason I find myself lost in what you think of me

And too confused to choose who I should be

…

It’s been a point of contention between myself and this body that they stuck me in

The privilege of being born to be a man”

In the first line, Wood is detailing how people’s impressions of us have major impacts on how we behave, what we wear, and so on. Wood and I are going different ways on the scale of gender expression (him presenting more feminine, while I tend to prefer masculine). While it certainly did take a lot of guts for me to start presenting as a man rather than continue the lie of living as a woman, it is incredibly more difficult for people who are going the other way around. Society has built up this idea that men being feminine or rejecting masculinity is obscene and mockable. After all, why would anyone want to be anything other than the dominant, benefitting gender in our rigged patriarchal society? If women present as masculine, however, they may get applauded, which is an incredibly unfair result of toxic masculinity. The line “For some reason I find myself lost in what you think of me” shows just how self-conscious Will Wood is about actually presenting feminine, so much so that (although he has explicitly stated he is not transgender) Wood feels that if he was a girl, it’d be so much easier for him to be feminine without receiving any judgment. It wasn’t until 2016 that the artist finally switched his outfits from a goth presentation to a more non-conforming feminine one. In an article on N.J., Will Wood states that he “was so in love with femininity I had to wear it myself”. The feeling of wearing clothes that best show your true self is beyond euphoric. You feel complete in such a way that you finally realize you’ve been doing it wrong the whole time beforehand.

Jumping to the last line, “the privilege of being born to be a man” uses sarcasm to emphasize further the harmfulness of toxic masculinity. As the whole rest of the song details his dreams of being feminine, saying, “I wish I could be a girl”, “Am I pretty now?”, “Flower petals and feathers tether me to the ground”, and “You’d wish I could be your girlfriend, boyfriend”, he adds in this one bitter line detailing how he should be grateful to be born a man in this patriarchal society. How dare he want to deny his masculinity and privilege, right? It’s a problematic ideology that a large proportion of society commonly shared until fairly recently. Wood is hoping that now people will be more accepting of him presenting as feminine rather than masculine, even though he is a man. 

When it comes to figuring out one’s gender identity and expression if it doesn’t match the ones they are assigned by society, it can cause quite a mental breakdown since it is an identity crisis of sorts. Will claims to be “too confused to choose who I should be” which is perfectly natural considering how fluid gender and gender expression are. There is no one way to be non-cisgender or gender non-conforming in presentation, which makes it so much more difficult to figure out on your own. You have to wonder if you want to present as your assigned gender if you even are your assigned gender, and if you’re not, then what are you? Which label fits you or do you not want a label? Do you want to wear this or that? If you want to change your outside self completely so you are true to who you are inside, you have to throw out your old clothes, cringe at past photos of you, get the paperwork done, wince every time you hear the wrong name or pronouns, undergo medical treatment, and receive hate throughout the process – it’s exhausting. It’s horrible. Why would anyone want to go through that? Would you really want to go through all of that just to be true to yourself? It’s a nightmarish dilemma that many people face, including Will Wood as he figures himself out in this song.

Finally, the best definition of gender dysphoria is the line “It’s been a point of contention between myself and this body that they stuck me in”. This isn’t the first song where Will Wood describes how he doesn’t feel like his body matches himself either. Time and time again, he has made references to looking in a mirror and seeing himself, not sure exactly who is looking back at him: “I’m looking at myself… Well, who else could I be, when I can hardly see?... Who should I be then if I’ll never be the same?” in “Dr. Sunshine is Dead”; “Why I can’t see / that I am the me / that I was born into?” in “The Song with Five Names”; “Dead in your own skin / but you didn’t choose what you were born in” in “Mr. Capgras Encounters a Secondhand Vanity”; “I check in the mirror to see how I look / I look different in different ways… Who’s looking back? / That’s not me!” in “Cotard’s Solution”; and lastly, “You bear a striking resemblance / some kind of semblance of something I’ve been remembering / You appear familiar, dear / You look just like my bathroom mirror” in “6up 5oh Cop-Out”. All of this showcases how he’s been having reoccurring thoughts where he sees himself in the mirror and can’t identify with the body staring back at him. I’ve known that feeling all too well. It’s suffocating, and yet, it also makes your thoughts so chaotic and hectic as you contemplate who you fundamentally are if you aren’t the body you were forced to grow up in. 

Of all the songs I’ve listened to, “I/Me/Myself” has been the best to capture what it’s like to be either non-cisgender or gender-non-conforming. It describes the self-consciousness of worrying about what others and society as a whole will think of you while also covering the inner struggle of coming to terms with yourself. I hope to see more music like this in the future because there really aren’t many songs that cover these issues.

[thcrin]

thoughts on this? yikes.

https://www.tumblr.com/dlivee/754431555426992128/jon-bernthal-one-of-the-biggest-zionists-in?source=share

i'm conflicted, would be the simplest way to put it

i love the characters he plays (frank, shane etc.) and i wonder if it's ever possible to truly separate the characters he's played and be a fan of them without supporting the actor himself by not paying for any of his content

it's a difficult position and i'm sure there would be people who agree or disagree with the one i've taken

but i would like to clearly state that i don't agree with many of the points he's made on his various platforms. like i said, i'm conflicted

[bajaja-blast]

you dislike Luke Castellan because he disagreed with an oppressive government system and actually took action to change the abusive ways him and his peers have been forced to follow for millennia.

I dislike Luke Castellan because in the Titans Curse he manipulated Annabeth, who he raised as his little sister, into holding up the sky, the FUCKING sky, for over 20 hours and had the audacity to walk away as though he was completely apathetic towards it while she begged and pleaded with him to help her.

we are not the same.

[panicattherodeo]

should I quit looking for a job until I finish grad school and dedicate myself to writing for ao3?

[swiftie-blog-123]

I love how men are getting so upset about the Barbie movie. Man-hating?? This movie covers the most basic level of feminism, and Barbie actually apologizes to Ken despite the fact that he brainwashed all the dolls simply because Barbie rejected him.

Men just haven’t seen any media that is actually man-hating because it’s not mainstream.

Meanwhile, women-hating is so pervasive in media that we’ve practically become immune to it. In so much media, women are degraded, brutalized, and objectified, that you can’t enjoy much media unless you tolerate misogyny.

This was one movie that wanted to cater to women, and men can’t stand it.

[teaboot]

Sometimes I wish I was Out at my main job but you know part of me really, really enjoys just being seen as "the young straight cis employee who's knowledgeable about queer topics" because I find myself often approached by older folks who admit things like "I know transsexuals are more popular these days but injecting things into children doesn't seem right" and I can tell them "Actually your niece/nephew/nibling isn't getting surgery and junk right now, they're twelve, what they're getting are 'blockers' which delay puberty- and since puberty itself is an involuntary change to the body caused by hormones, isn't it nice that they're getting a bit of time to decide that they're sure about what they want before they start? And also we've been using and observing HRT for longer than Advil, ibuprofen, digital cameras, and laser eye surgery, so IDK, it's good that you're asking questions though, I'm glad you're looking out for them but it's not really all that scary" and I like knowing that I can help steer them in the right direction (seeking out scientifically proven facts and stats, asking questions) instead of encouraging the path they're already on (leaning into instinctive feelings about the unfamiliar and strange)