Author: hegetsquirrelwrangler

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laralaralara:

greyhairedgeekgirl:

Schur loved not only the central thesis of “What We Owe to Each Other” but also the book’s title. “It assumes
that we owe things to each other,” he told me. “It starts from that
place. It’s not like: Do we owe anything to each other? It’s like: Given
that we owe things to each other, let’s try to figure out what they
are. It’s a very quietly subversive idea.”

It is, in a way, deeply un-American — an
affront to our central mythology of individual rights, self-interest and
the sanctity of the free market. As an over-the-top avatar of all our
worst impulses, Eleanor is severely allergic to any notion of community.
And yet her salvation will turn out to depend on the people around her,
all of whom will in turn depend on her. What makes us good, Chidi tells
her, is “our bonds to other people and our innate desire to treat them
with dignity.”

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kceyagi:

its-a-harlequinade:

manintolerant:

Eldest sisters r the most oppressed

hey yall dumb fucks reblogging this and yapping about how, ur life is actually super hard as a younger sibling…

the ‘eldest sisters are oppressed’ thing is based on the fact that the oldest girls in many families are, a lot of the time, drafted into watching her younger siblings to the point that shes more of a young third parent than a kid anymore. shes expected to be incredibly responsible while her younger siblings get to make mistakes. she get to do more housework than her father because apparently men shouldn’t have to watch laundry.

op is obviously referring to the ways in which older sisters ( nope not brothers) are forced into maternal roles by both society and their parents for a number of reasons, not limited to society’s insistence that they must learn to become mothers early. theres also the fact that many families both need and cant afford childcare. this idea that an oldest sister is free childcare is bullshit.

There’s a book called “The Eldest Daughter Effect” that goes into detail about this. And it applies to the oldest daughter so even if the oldest child is a boy and the second child is a daughter, she is the one who ends up getting all that extra pressure and responsibilities for younger siblings. 

I know I’ve not been super active recently, but as a head’s up, I’m driving to College Station tomorrow, then to Austin on Wednesday, flying to Detriot, MI early Thursday, and flying back to Austin, TX on Sunday and driving home on Monday.

dollsome-does-tumblr:

a thing that i have realized lately is that, like, kylo ren just doesn’t work on me. i just don’t get it. i see all these people being fascinated with his character, and saying adam driver is doing such phenomenal work, and that he eludes this complex air of sexy fascinating anguished darkness or what have you, and i just don’t get it. i don’t see it. i feel like it’s an episode of arrested development and i’m michael bluth saying “her?” on an endless loop. it’s not that i just hate kylo and all he does and stands for! (though i do, i really do!) even beyond that, he’s just so … meh. so underwhelming. so bland. so utterly nothing to me. what is the rest of the world seeing that i just do not see??? what is it??????????