#live rambling

[wosofanstuff]

Becks in the starting XI, am I in some kind of fever dream?

Honestly love that so much

[antennatoheaven]

[violetsandshrikes]

I met a girl when I was fresh out of high school in undergrad who frankly, annoyed me quite a bit, but I also had an inkling to continue to be compassionate to her given a few things about her life/background/family

I ran into her two years ago. Last week, her daughter turned 1. This girl, let’s called her “P”, is a really good example of why I never feel comfortable mocking trad wives

Her perfect trad husband, who was a shining young figure in the local religious community, volunteered in all sorts of groups, well loved in his workplace and everything else, beat her up at 1 month post-partum. I reached out to her after seeing her desperately asking for a stroller on a page, confused and slightly concerned knowing both of them came from wealthy backgrounds.

The reality for lots of tradwives living “perfect lives” is this: P was immediately ostracised. All the wealth of her husband and her family meant absolutely nothing if she wasn���t in favour and doing what she was told. Her child and her well-being didn’t matter. P, at 25 years old, was basically deemed an oopsie, and left on her own to figure out how to pay for herself, a baby, find housing, and every other task you can think of.

Having known many of these women (and supported many of these women), another factor most people don’t consider is this: they are intentionally raised to be helpless. When I immediately offered my support to P, she really needed it. This young woman needed to be guided through how to apply for government assistance, how to weigh up rentals and apply for them, how to apply for jobs, how to sign up for childcare. How to sign up for your own power and internet, and how to connect them.

It wasn’t that she was “stupid”, or incapable, or spoiled. While it looks like they’re being sheltered, in reality, these women are practically being held hostage. Sure, they might be allowed to learn things that are expected of them (see: basic cooking, baking, cleaning, child rearing, women’s bible studies, hosting, and so forth) but they are heavily controlled from family life into marriage life, and they are never given the opportunity or the reality of what many of us would consider basic adult tasks.

She’s doing okay now. Her daughter turned 1, is happy and healthy. They live frugally, but they have a roof over their heads and the essentials. I often babysit for her so she can attend counselling, or go to a woman’s support group. She is painfully aware that she has so much to learn about how to live as an adult.

I don’t envy tradwives, but I don’t find any joy in mocking them either. Even when they live the most picturesque lives, they’re also practically living a real life Jenga game. If (and often, when) it comes tumbling down, they’re screwed too, and they often have 0 skills to help themselves or find community (that again, isn’t carefully curated).

[moomoorare]

I love nautical and seaside town horror stories. Tell me more about the fog and water that eats people

[wosofanstuff]

Did we just block our own possible goal?!? Like we know we need to hit the goal and not our player right?

[wosofanstuff]

Sad day for football shows that a federation dosen’t have to treat there players fair at all

[wosofanstuff]

I kinda love our jersey btw for some reason the black with the pink is pretty

[wosofanstuff]

Alright we need to make it against Zambia

Till then Horst please please have shooting practice and get those passes back. Like the amount of time we passed into nothing or not in the foot or even just call for it. Like please get the communication going again. And yeah we need to finally score like Lea babe love you but you had two chances that should have been goals like you need to make those. We make them it would be a tie so…

Please padding and shooting practice and please watch film (no drone footage) but like you can learn probs so much about Zambia from the last two games

[wosofanstuff]

Welp Spain vs Germany 🥉

And USA vs Brazil 🥇

[wosofanstuff]

what's your opinion on feli today? cause i feel like she could have done so much better...

Honestly we could just see what we always see against teams with a quick players. Pretty much all our defenders are to slow (not talking about giuli) it’s to easy to over run us. Like most of the time you can make a difference with good positioning but that only helps so much against teams like the us, and well today you saw how often with one ball we were running behind

Then an early yellow for Kathy and well feli was just no match for rodman today. In my opinion today our whole defence was in the end not a great matchup

[wosofanstuff]

Love a win against Bayern. I’m hyped partying back to the car is a vibe 💚🐺🍾

[wosofanstuff]

Like how the first half went but the ref is soft as

Anything to add @nooneinparticularr ?

[wosofanstuff]

That had to be checked

[wosofanstuff]

Also we wear our sexy jerseys

[wosofanstuff]

Bronze Medalist Germany 🥉

[wosofanstuff]

50 wins in the cup and 10 wins of the cup back to back 💚💪🏼🐺