I Put On Twitter That A Cute Date Idea For Me (a Cis Woman With Reproductive Issues) And My Boyfriend

"I know chatgpt is bad but you just don't really have any choice" you literally do. Don't use it. Have some moral backbone.

fun fact: in the 70s, Sesame Street parodied Goncharov as "Gotcha-Clock", in a segment designed to teach telling time

"Men in dresses are seen as bad, but women in pants aren't!"

is not the statement that "men can't be feminine but women can be masculine in society" that you think it is.

Let me introduce: women with facial hair. Full beards. Mustaches. Bald women. Bodybuilder women. Women with visible body hair. These aren't "more acceptable" than men in dresses.

Pants don't have a gendered association anymore, while dresses do. There is something to be said for that, but it certainly ISN'T "masculine women are acceptable now."

The thing I was thinking the most while watching Conclave was actually a classmate I had in uni who is a nun. She talked about the role of women on the church and how there should be a woman pope. And like, years ago she was given a scholarship to study philosophy in Rome, except she couldn't. Because the nuns had to perform all the domestic labor for the priests and the workload was too big, add to that stuff like how no one could leave the dinner table before the archbishop and he liked to talk so sometimes he would make everyone stay until late at night and ofc the nuns had to clean up after that, or when the priests wanted to give the nuns an easy day they would decide they would have a picnic, but the nuns still had to prepare their picnic. My friend just couldn't find the time to study, so she dropped her scholarship and came back to Mexico.

And Conclave does such a good job of making this work visible, even when if only Sister Agnes speaks, there is always shots of nuns working. For everything the priests do, it's always shown how the nuns make it possible. Benítez standing out early on for being the one person to thank them. The film ending on a seemingly unrelated shot of nuns walking.

It's a very poignant statement given how reproductive labor is often invisibilized.

its labor day post mpreg karl marx

american pope leo xiv please excommunicate jd vance because it would be so fucking funny.

WA

A fun fact is that there are exactly zero cases of any US child ever being killed by Halloween candy that has been tampered with by a stranger, but the myth is so widespread that news stations report on it every single year, simply assuming the fact that it is talked about means that it has happened before. A reference with no referent. But making people needlessly terrified of the other people they live near is how the local news makes most of its money anyway so what’s a little lie once a year