amy dunne retweeted
Insane how much of the world is so f*cked up for no other reason than a psychosexual hatred for women. I would argue that it is the main reason many young men are turning to fascism. Access to women and their bodies is at the end of the day what everything is about.
amy dunne retweeted
our ancient curse was that men go die in wars and women do childrearing. but we've gone and lifted men's curse and not women's, and the resulting fury at the inequality is the thing we call feminism. we won't find equality again until we solve childrearing
amy dunne retweeted
Oh! Let me apologize and clarify - motherhood 100% THE MOST NOBLE task
I'm referring to literally how our culture, cities etc are designed. the amount of men who look slightly ashamed and say "oh she's just a stay at home mom" when I ask what their wife does. I alway let families in front of me in the line at airports and people give me dirty looks.
And I'm like - r u people kidding? Large portions of society think having children is a selfish decision. They do not understand having kids is the most selfless decision, an investment in all of us. And that's crazy to me.
School systems have basically failed. Almost everyone I know with kids is home schooling or pods. A lot of these people can barely afford to do this.
I strongly believe tech and ai and other things are working to fix this tho I know a bunch of ppl on top of this rn so I have hope but our society currently is one that actively disincentivizes having kids
I have to disagree @Grimezsz …think your perspective is very tainted. Having children and being a mother is beautiful and the good of culture recognizes.
amy dunne retweeted
I will point out that every single aspect of our culture spits on motherhood.
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.
If you want to understand the birth rate decline, I implore you, go on TikTok tomorrow.
It’s become an annual train wreck I absolutely cannot look away from. Women, en masse, log on in tears to record how badly their day went - it usually involves being ignored by their husbands/kids, not being given presents, or having to do things for their MIL instead of the day being solely about them.
It used to come across as weird, narcissistic, and extremely sensitive to me, I’m not going to lie. BUT when I’m being generous I step back and realize that it points to a larger epidemic.
These women feel entirely unseen, unimportant, and disregarded in their day to day lives so they NEED this day to make up for it. And when it doesn’t they’re in shambles and go to the internet for support.
This and its cultural effect will be studied by future anthropologists.
amy dunne retweeted
Self-defense is the issue on which I probably feel most distant from the left. Crockett posits that it was the role of Penny and other strangers in this subway car, being threatened by Neely, to somehow divine and solve the problems of his life that hadn’t been solved by Neely himself, his parents, friends, or anyone close to him for 30 years. Absent that, they’re to just sit there in fear and hope he does nothing. Just like you’re supposed to sit in your car during a pro-Hamas/Hezbollah march and hope you don’t become Reginald Denny. Penny was also unarmed and put himself at risk to restrain someone who was threatening others. He was helped by others on the car and thanked by those he protected. Neely was alive when police arrived. The jury had more facts that Crockett has bothered to avail herself of and was diverse. They returned a not guilty verdict unanimously. And now NY can go back to not helping the Neelys of the world while it also ignores the crimes they commit, leaving the law-abiding subject to the repeated abuses of violent criminals without a state or Good Samaritans to protect them. And they wonder why cities swung right.
amy dunne retweeted
i think the kids don’t need screens. i think it’s good to not let them have it. i think pretty much everyone knows this and that’s why people get so defensive over the topic, they know they’re doing a bad thing but want to validate the decision.
amy dunne retweeted
i preferred when disney's live action movies were proper reimaginings (like maleficent/alice in wonderland) instead of shot by shot remakes with a single "modern update" to make the story appear progressive
amy dunne retweeted
"Oof" is a dialog option.
"Well, that's awkward"
"he's fun, you're never fun"
My earliest writing at the age of 8 years old is more refined than this. They want a full game price for this. They expect you to just accept this is the way dialog should be written.
No.
This is embarrassing, this is pathetic, this is lacking in creativity.
You can't even be mean if you wanted to, despite this company once being known for being so mean, your companions could turn on you.
None of the people who made the games we actually love are there, just cheap imitation meatsacks who will inevitably be in the unemployment line.
amy dunne retweeted
Everything is too goddamn hamfisted & I’m tired of fantasy worlds existing as half-assed reflections of current times instead of actually being their own defined things. This writing is cheap & lazy, simply put. I think there’s ways you could make these sort of characters work, especially when you consider that the best fantasy and sci-fi stories shine a light on humanity’s woes &/or the human experience, but far too many writers can’t properly do it to save their life. It’s excruciatingly modern and in your face.
amy dunne retweeted
imagine having a 3000-year head start and still ending up on the periphery, while the group you mercilessly sidelined and oppressed for centuries begins outperforming you in the first 100 years of their emancipation. this is the hard cope their mind frantically comes up with:
Successful female academics tend to have exactly the opposite personality profile of the cantankerous autistic genius, conforming instead to the ‘head girl’ archetype: just bright enough to do perfectly adequate work, high in agreeableness (they want that pat on head from teacher), high in conscientiousness (they do their homework on time), and low in openness (conformity enforcers).
This means they tend to do rather safe, boring, ‘ordinary’ science - tyingup loose ends in dangling theoretical postulates,addingan additional decimal place of precision to a pre-existing result,selecting tastefulcolour schemes for the visualization of scientific data. The scientific equivalent of quilting, needlework, and interior decorating.
When they’re not doing that, they can be found clucking away in their nests on diversity and inclusion committees and running around the department with their ears perked up checking for compliance with this season’s lexicon of fashionable words.
16/22
amy dunne retweeted
i dont trust people who cannot ever criticise something they are passionate about. i just know they unironically have a live laugh love sign somewhere in their house. terrifying