girlboss? no. girlbas. bas ho gaya.

Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

everyone who hasn't heard must get the news via this meme

self proclaimed leftists with entire graduate degrees on twitter not understanding that tourism in places like latin america and the caribbean is a form of neocolonialism even in places where the national economy is dependent on it. just because the government is making money off of ur lil excursions and hotel stays doesn’t mean regular citizens are, especially in your fave ‘tropical getaway spots’. the fact that sandals wanted to build an entire resort in tobago where my family lives might sound great for the economy or whatever until you realize that they would’ve closed off several acres of land and made it inaccessible to non-tourists which is fucking insane thing to even propose on such a small island. like i’m sorry but do you really think my family is grateful when you crackers come to visit during the winter?? do you really think your presence adds value to their lives?? when the govt invests money in ports but not paving the fucking roads anywhere that’s not downtown/vacation home territory?? you white losers need to put down ur marx for like half a sec and pick up a small place by jamaica kincaid. ​like lol if you wanna be a tourist be a tourist but don’t fucking act like anyone who refers to it as a contemporary form of colonialism is doing too much. ESPECIALLY when this sentiment is legit coming directly from the people living in the getaways you love to visit. i genuinely don’t understand how y’all can grasp the “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” shit but can’t understand this.

tourists visit a place where the livelihoods of the 5% of the population they actually interact with are dependent on how well they’re able to kiss their asses and make them feel like they’re the most important people in the world and somehow they genuinely believe that this translates to all of the locals actually liking, respecting, and needing them.

unironically people need to learn to say “they haven’t done anything wrong i just find them annoying”

I personally think people need to understand that if someone hasn’t wronged you or anyone else, you should NOT dislike them. You don’t have to like them; just remain neutral.

nope! this is the kind of attitude the leads to you picking apart every little thing a person does digging through their past for dirt and problematizing everything about them, exaggerating harm, assuming the worst about them, putting words in their mouth, etc, to justify the fact that you simply don’t vibe with them when the truth is that you will not get along with everybody you meet in life and it’s extremely possible to be civil to someone you don’t like. you don’t have to be friends with everybody its fine. it’s certainly nicer than falsely accusing them of some heinous shit rather than admit that you’re not some Disney princess who’s never had an unfairly mean thought in her life and loves everybody and sings with little birdies and is never bitchy or irritable. sometimes you get annoyed for stupid reasons and understanding that your personal feelings about a person aren’t necessarily related to their morals or worthiness as a human being is the first step to being a civil adult.

June Gehringer, “EARTH IS AN ANAGRAM FOR HEART, U FUCKING IDIOTS”

[Text ID: “I don’t want to talk about it. / I want to lie in what little grass remains / and try to fit your heart inside of mine.”]

3:28am thinking about Him (captain death of the terrible privateer)

nominative determinism win: captain death died

#okay not to ruin the joke by explaining it#but people in the notes are legitimately confused#ok some of this is bad but XYZ is just goofy little jokes!!?#yeah that's what's happening here#she's dramatizing how a steady algorithmic feed of misogyny radicalizes people#it's silly jokes it's Not That Deep#and then it's jolly good-natured lifestyle content#and then it's deeply ugly reactionary conspiracy theories#but it's all so light and quick and it just flows effortlessly over you#once you're in the pipeline#and it all sounds equally friendly and approachable in tone#and maybe the first time you hear something it sounds a little wrong#or not quite what you believe#but the next thing is fine and the next few things are just jokes#until suddenly this is just where you live#this is what the world sounds like hour after hour#this is what the normalization of reactionary fascist ideas sounds like in action

THE TAGS THE TAGS THE TAGS THE TAGS

I am so isolated from the insidious stuff that I always find the slow creep of the jokes funny but they start to itch something at me eventually. I think girl dinner is hilarious BECAUSE it’s so ridiculous but most people don’t take it that way (off tumblr) and then it starts to make me feel icky to joke about it at all and oh my god I’m just ducking down hiding from these reels