Maybe this was common knowledge to some folks but I only learned today that koalas have so little cognitive power, they won’t recognize leaves as food if they’re not on a tree branch. They have almost 0 learning capability or problem solving ability.
love is real and worth it and SO important to me it’s pretty much my entire political spiritual philosophical deal………you can be critical of how romantic love is commodified and dominated by heteronormative myths for sure but ppl out there like “love is fake” aren’t doing ANYTHING interesting or subversive……love is revolutionary bc the systems that oppress us are directly opposed to all kinds of love, interpersonal love and self love etc. they’re trying to drive it out of us. love as an action love as a choice love as something u cultivate and tend to is the best thing in the world and it’s at the absolute centre of my life
if we’re talking about straight hair as a beauty standard and you think you have a counterpoint about big hair being popular in the 80s, you’ve completely missed the point and don’t understand the way beauty standards originate and operate.
straight hair–even teased, even crimped–is a white supremacist ideal that never ceases to exert a controlling force in the mainstream. a white women who has temporarily made her straight hair bigger is not comparable to a woman of color or a jewish woman who has kinky hair–no matter what the aesthetic of moment, those latter groups are not meeting its standard. they can’t; these standards exist as white supremacist tools of domination.
thick eyebrows, tanner skin, certain body shapes, hair volume… these things cycle in fashion for white women. they are never a condoning of non-white or othered bodies, and they change nothing for the people who experience the material consequences of white supremacy.
a white girl can tease her hair to high heaven and be a fashion icon at her school, while a black girl w the neatest braids is sent home. do you think women w 4c hair were more likely to get jobs in the 80s bc white women were crimping their hair? pls pull your head out of cosmo and learn about the way the world you live in actually works
