idk i just feel like if you were actually attracted to women you’d be attracted to women in their default state not just exclusively in an outrageously plucked and preened one
like if you see a woman with body hair or whatever and go “ew that’s disgusting!!!” like you’re not attracted to women then bc women have stuff like that we’re born with it it’s literally normal and you think it’s disgusting
“i would never date a woman with leg hair, armpit hair, facial hair, saggy tits, cellulite, stretch marks, etc etc etc” great! so you admit you aren’t attracted to women then!
be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
good morning to tummies that have rolls and arms that jiggle and thighs that could crush a man’s skull and back dimples and double chins and soft bodies that deserve more gentleness than they get sometimes
this was my fastest post to multi-hundred notes in my life and I just wanna say i’m so happy because the last one to get traction really fast was a sad one about feeling unwanted and id rather contribute to happy and hopeful things than sad and lonely things even if i feel the sad and lonely things more often
Without hyperbole government offices that take half an hour of waiting to get anywhere and close at 4pm are are a form of oppression against the working class
Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.
The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.
And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.
I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.
Let me tell you a story.
Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a "master-planned community," constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.
Seaside, FL
Seahaven
And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don't exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.
