@chevalier26 right, we should be normalizing STEM as a choice for girls but we also need to be careful to teach them that you don’t have to choose a certain path to be worthwhile. You can be a makeup artist if you want to and that’s not a less liberated choice if it’s what you want.

And the last thing I have to say is that I can’t point to anything specific that I read, but I got a very icky feeling from the online reactions to the news about Schumer. I’m sure nobody would admit this but I suspect the reason so many people were saying the movie dodged a bullet when she quit has something to do with her appearance and not just the fact that she isn’t exceptionally funny.

Anyway the feminist reclamation of overly feminine interests and aesthetic choices is the whole reason a Barbie movie for adults was a viable project. Making Barbie an inventor for *the* Barbie Movie would send the wrong message, because the message NEEDED to be that it’s okay to like Barbies and pink and whatever you want and still be liberated. We already know women can be scientists.

From what she’s said about it, she felt it would be more progressive to make Barbie an inventor or a scientist. The thing about (at least modern) feminism though is that its goal isn’t to make every woman a scientist or a doctor, its goal is for everyone to be treated equally regardless of their gender identity or their interests. Liking girly shit is just as valid as challenging stereotypes as a woman.

I feel like I could write a whole essay right now on the Barbie movie and the fact that the original star was going to be Any Schumer but she quit because it wasn’t “feminist enough”, and how the internet reacted to this information. There’s just a lot of missing the point going on in that story. First of all, Amy quit because she couldn’t envision a way for feminism to include stereotypical feminine interests like pink and shopping and bikinis basically.

My feminist idol ⭐️

Just booked our hotel for our Lapland adventure!

@LnzyHou thank you! He has anxiety issues that put him in special needs territory so we’ve had to work hard for our little victories 🩷

I had a training breakthrough today with my pup. We’ve had issues with loose leash walking forever (he’s nearly 4) and I always thought it was because he gets overstimulated and can’t listen anymore. But today it occurred to me to give him a verbal cue for coming a little closer to put slack in the leash—and it worked! I think maybe he just wasn’t sure why I was stopping when I wasn’t using a consistent cue. I’m so proud of him.

@Kinnison the original quote has big “legally allowed to leave after 15 minutes if the professor doesn’t show up” vibes.

When I was a teenager, I thought horror movies where nobody survived were edgy and “realistic”, because all the media I had experienced up till then had (sometimes improbable) happy endings. I’m still very into horror but I no longer enjoy movies where the hero dies despite fighting their hardest. I think maybe as an adult I realize they’re TOO much like reality, which has no guaranteed outcomes.

The bad news is my passport photo is hideous. The good news is my husband and my dad both looked at it and told me it doesn’t look like me.

@TrueBloodNet sounds like a person who lacks empathy tbh. Actually I think that’s true of most people opposed to student loan forgiveness.

And the thing they conveniently forget when they say “you chose to take out those loans” is that the system is literally designed to be predatory. They take advantage of young people whose brains aren’t fully developed by brainwashing them to think college is the only path to success and then shackling them to a hamster wheel of insurmountable debt as the price of admission.

I’ll never understand why people who don’t have student loan debt are so opposed to letting debt forgiveness happen. Actually, I do understand why but I think it’s spiteful and selfish and I can’t comprehend being such an enormous dick. They don’t think anyone else should get to benefit if THEY don’t get to. This is a perfect example of what’s wrong with modern American culture.

@Lulz4l1f3 I was going to say I’ve never dropped a knife and had it land on my foot but that will probably jinx it, so I’ll take your advice 😂

I finished my beige sweater last night, making a total work time of 32 days. I really should block it but I was too excited so I’m wearing it unblocked today. It’s quite novel as a fashion piece to me because I’ve never had a beige sweater before… ever.

@Lulz4l1f3 true! I never even considered that one!

While making dinner tonight, I:
- sliced my finger open on the lid of a can
- got a second degree burn on my forearm because I reached over the rice cooker’s steam vent
- burned my knuckle slightly because I bumped a hot pan

I’m really on a roll. I think that’s a personal record.