I feel like our economy has been driven by mass production for so long that we’ve forgotten just how intensely time-consuming making things by hand is. Mass production was revolutionary for a reason. It DRASTICALLY reduced the cost of things. And I’m all for making things more affordable! But the problem arises when people decide they want something handmade for the cost of something mass produced. People get an idea in their mind “this is how much x item should cost” when in actuality that’s how much a machine made version of that thing costs. Then they hear the price of something made entirely by hand and think “that person is ripping me off.” If you want something handmade, you have to compensate the person making it fairly.
I mean like…when Bradley cooper made lady gaga take off her makeup for that movie because he wanted like…realism…women wearing makeup IS like…realism…like you have to wear it in real life
I don’t know I just feel like the reason for so much discourse and discord and strife is that like…people seem to think wearing makeup or whatever is something people CHOOSE to do instead of have to do…not just the women who wear it but everyone else…I think the like makeup culture we have now is a result of like…a very distinct sentiment about “””real girls””” who like hated being girly (like the hunger games etc.) and implied anyone who fulfilled the demands of being a woman was fake and so women started rebelling against that and it completely backfired and turned into the makeup culture we have today…but I don’t know performing womanhood isn’t something you do because you like it you literally have to do it. I think it’s become impossible to truly represent womanhood because it requires like…the balancing of the artificial and the very genuine. There’s something here I’m trying to say but I can’t!!
The notion that straight people who approach sex unconventionally are comparable to gay people is predicated on a conception of gayness as sexual deviance. It’s homophobic.
wish i lived in the Mama Mia Extended Universe where almost everyone’s poor but being poor means you have a single bedroom filled with adorable assorted mismatched furniture that still follows a decorative scheme and you have a great view and a french press
and if you stand in one spot long enough a very attractive man will walk by and just fall madly in love with your fun energy and offer you a ride in his pedicab 100 miles up the coast to a wonderful little bakery where the owner will also love your energy and just leave it to you in her will for some reason, along with her rolodex that includes at least three more attractive dating options
oh also you can duet with an invisible ghost right there in public and no ones even going to get on your case about it. utopia
take time to figure it out 