This is Matrix in a matrix read this shit because it’s talking about how Bandersnatch can be used to create an even more complex user profile depending on how you interacted with the movie, what choices you picked, and how many times you went through a certain path….IM SHOOK
No offense but literally nothing and no one is and will ever be out of your league. Nothing is too good for you. Nobody has the right to make you feel like you are not enough or less than you are, you deserve the world.
One of my few complaints about Queer Eye is how it buries Karamo’s training and experience as a SOCIAL WORKER in the title of “culture” or whatever. The world needs many more social workers and much more respect for the field.
you need to give yourself permission to be happy now. not when you lost weight, not when you found your soulmate, not when you have more money. we seek excitement from future events, but once those goals are met, the temporary pleasures will pass and they will be replaced by the next fantasy. devote your full attention to your inner self and appreciate being in the moment. happiness is never external, but a way of living and appreciating life. it’s not reality, just the way you perceive it. so go and shift your focus from the outcome to watching yourself grow.
I know this is a fun tweet and all that but it absolutely is an instance of striaght privilege. Heterosexual people have up to seven years to explore their sexual and romantic attraction in an environment that is designed for them while many queer youth deligate their time in maneuvering their identity in response to themselves and their environment. It’s one of the reasons why dating as a queer adult is so hard: so many of us are romantically undersocialized when compared to our heterosexual peers, who are not only given social liscence to explore themselves, but who have the additional benefit of being able to see themselves in media.
There will always be exceptions to this, of course, but it’s so sad to see how the effects of childhood homophobia haunt us well into our adult years, to the point where it limits our opportunity to connect with other people around us.
It’s not just heterosexual privilege either. Women of color, regardless of sexuality, are seen as gross and undesirable, or as fetishes and objects. As a brown bisexual girl, I couldn’t date women because of homophobia, and men never liked me back because they saw me as a monstrous, ugly “bitch” who’d never be half as pretty as white girls. And I saw my fellow women of color going through the same things. Only the most hyper-feminine, skinny, conventionally attractive women of color were desired, and even then they didn’t have as much dating experience as the white girls in my grade did.
The opportunity to healthily explore your romantic identity as an adolescent/teenager is rarely afforded to women of color, and this affects bi/trans/lesbian teen girls of color even more because of the combined effects of racism, misogyny (and transmisogyny if they’re trans girls), and biphobia/lesbophobia/homophobia. Conversely I even knew white gay people who found other people to date even while my wlwoc peers and I were closeted.
