These jokes hit hard for me because I’ve seen the kind of culture that creates situations like this, but I’d like to add I guess a sympathetic touch to this…
Christian youth are often taught that sexual feelings and thoughts are really only permissible within marriage, and that they’re basically supposed to be sexless beings before that. This leads to them being rushed to marry the first person they feel attracted to because waiting longer increases the discomfort/feeling of “sin.”
But furthermore, “dating” within this subculture is usually very atomized and sterile. You barely have physical contact. You often aren’t allowed to date until a very late age, and even then, it’s incredibly limited.
This happens because these people are experiencing really being in a relationship for the first time ever when they don’t have the maturity to deal with it. They’re making all their relationship mistakes the very first time. They haven’t had much time to figure out what kind of person they are compatible with. They probably don’t even know what they’re sexually attracted to because they’re taught to be so disconnected from it. They’ve never been alone in a bedroom together with a date and now they’re sharing finances and everything. It’s “hard” because they are not prepared in the slightest.
This doesn’t happen because either of the people involved are bad or foolish people. It happens because they were failed by a culture that forces them to make a vastly life changing decision before having ever been able to make a tiny mistake and learn from it enough to figure out what they need and want. And it’s sad.
@christians y’all need to do better by your young people. let them make mistakes, learn, and grow through that
@the people in the notes actively calling the woman stupid: please do not do that. not only is it extremely misogynistic to say that women in bad relationships are there because it’s their fault for being stupid, it’s also just wildly dismissive of how DEEPLY damaging and manipulative purity culture is
i mean, maybe she is stupid. But she should have been allowed to be stupid with her boyfriend at sixteen when she didn’t have to change her entire life around a single decision. Stupid leads to mistakes. Mistakes lead to learning.
would love to be one of hannibal’s normal patients. he’s not trying to convince me to murder or anything, he’s just showing me breathing exercises and writing out my zoloft prescription. i hear he’s a cannibal on the news and just go :( aw b/c now i have to find another psychiatrist and i had already gotten so comfortable with him because i made him laugh with a mento ewness meme i saved in my phone just for him
Wages in the US have become wildly, fantastically unshackled from the costs of doing business, and they’ve been that way for decades. We’ve been told our entire lives that the world is such a way, and that it’s the Natural Normal result of things working the way they Have to work.
It’s a lie. It’s been a lie the entire time. They just Started Lying one day and didn’t stop until everyone who knew better died, gave up, or got their voice drowned out in all the noise.
You can’t tell me a combo at any fast food restaurant hasn’t doubled in price since the 90’s. Guess how much minimum wage has increased….
1) if food prices go up if wages go up, complain about CEOs not taking the cut, not the workers who need the money to pay their rent
2) smash this idiot idea that it’s only high school kids working minimum wage jobs: who do you think is making you your Starbucks at 12 pm? The highschool kids are all in highschool, idiot. At my retail store where people make minimum wage, we have no staff under 25 years old right now, about half the staff have families, they are all making minimum wage.
3) these people are providing you goods and services that are important and you want. You want a burrito. You want a coffee. Why on earth should the people providing us essential services not make enough money to pay their rent and their bills? Explain to me why this group of people deserves to live in poverty?
4) these jobs are not “unskilled” as in they’re easy to do and any asshole could do them. They are working harder than any prick sitting in an office chair all day.
5) Canada has raised its minimum wage. My province has had a minimum wage of $15 per hour for four years. Burritos do not cost $30 here, no one has gone out of business because they can’t afford to pay their workers anymore. What HAS happened is that I can now afford to live with my kids in my own apparent and not have to share it with my sister and her kids, I can afford to actually buy things, I can afford to cook healthy food and replace my shoes when they fall apart. The extra money I am making goes straight back into the local economy. My health and the health of my kids will be better and we will cost our government less. Don’t be a fucking idiot.
Fuck every single asshole who ever shits on minimum wage workers, ESPECIALLY these days after the pandemic when we all screamed about wanting to go out and get a coffee during lockdown. Fuck every single one of you with a rusty rake.
Reblogging for rottenbrainstuff’s excellent response.
this pandemic really exposed the level of disrespect capitalism has towards minimum wage workers by deeming them essential but not bothering to give them a wage they can live off of
gonna go ahead and use “the mcelroy brothers no longer using john roderick’s song it’s a departure as their theme music after roderick posted a thread about being an ‘apocalypse dad’ and forcing his 9 year old to use a can opener on a can of beans with weird verbally abusive undertones (the internet dubbing him “bean dad”) which then led to a revelation of his history of racism, homophobia, and antisemitism” as the free space on my 2021 bingo card
absolutely nothing will top the video game experience of being SHIT at a video game but all the npcs you come into contact with are in awe of you for being the most amazing and talented person they’ve ever met
the seven year old daughter of some npc i’m helping out: PAPA! YOU MUST COME MEET THE HERO WHO SAVED MY LIFE!
me, dropping a grenade on the ground accidentally and immediately blowing myself up:
Pokemon is almost always the opposite of this. I’ll have 6 gods in my party and won the championship a half dozen times and some snot nosed kid with one diglet will still be like, “you think you can beat me?”
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