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Beatrice Hawthorne is walking away from Omelas
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I’m 36; I’m just one year away from being the oldest group of millennials according to the AP’s definition of the generation. I am 100% on board with body positivity for everyone who is not me. I internalised too much from my youth and young adulthood, and I hate myself for the way I look (among other things I hate

SAME GIRL SAME!

You and me both, sister. And Walker is our age, which makes a lot of sense for the “feel” of this book.

I would like to point out that for a lot of women, body acceptance and body positivity are *still* new concepts. I’m an older millenial and during my teen years and 20s (my formative years), the tiny waist, mid-drift baring styles were all the rage (think Britney Spears/Christina Aguilera). Teen Vogue and Cosmo were

Did they wear clothing of wool and linen, woven together??

I had just read yesterday in a piece about Seymor Hersh’s memoir that it was basically an open secret in the white house that Richard Nixon used to hit his wife when he had too much to drink, but that no journalists ever reported on it because it was seen as a ‘domestic issue’ that didn’t have anything to do with

That pee doesn’t just scent itself, you know.

Melania was always Ivanka sitting on Jared’s shoulders in a trench coat and sunglasses.

“Lying Media says I have (or had) a Wife. FAKE NEWS! I have always been a Bachelor and there is NO SMELL coming from my Basement! MAGA”

A used mattress from a Trump hotel.

Is is it just me or are we all wondering if Melania has a huge black eye and/or other obvious signs of spousal abuse? I’m sorry if that upsets anyone, but that is where my mind has been with this.

My dad wouldn’t let me read Anna Karenina. I read the whole thing looking for the filth; what a scam.

***Thanks, I MADE IT!!! I had to film her while watching the movie and DL to giphy and make it because IT DID NOT EXIST!***

Well, in the Mayan dream spells, you’re probably a White Mirror... so that’s why.

They’re harmless enough. But they still feel like a Christopher Guest mockumentary about Burners.

Well, at least they’re trying to make the world a prettier, nicer place.
(I’m trying to focus on the positive today.)

These people all look stoned as fuck.

If the person takes the prescription the same way month after month, there should not be any unintended pregnancies because the non-placebo pills for this particular prescription all contain the same amount of active ingredients.

Thank you, Nexplanon. I could do without the nigh-constant periods, but at least you can’t be an accidental placebo.