saw someone refer to not knowing how to keep track of your money as “girl math” ……why are we in this weird era of treating women like idiots but repackaging it to sound cute and quirky. We All Need To Stop
at this point i also take issue with those tweets/posts that are of the genre “girls were meant to sit in their bed with treats and do nothing all day” it was fun and #relatable maybe the first few times but it’s really just feeding into this weird mass objectification and dehumanization of women going on all over every social media platform now
sibling relationships are so strange… like i love you. you will never understand me in a way that matters. we are the same person in drastically different ways. we are sewn together. we don’t talk. we are attached at the hip. you wish i was never born. can i call you. let’s eat together. i forgive you. etc
i don’t have enough photos of you on my phone to make one your contact picture. we got the same tattoo completely by coincidence. why do you always get to be mario. i love the meals you cook. we live in different universes. you can stay at my house if you need. we have never been friends. you are more important to me than anyone on this earth
i really do love “they put their whole pussy into this” because that really is the only way to describe things sometimes. there really are things out there that are so good it is clear that they were putting their whole pussy into it during the creation process. like art. and strawberry lemonade. many such cases
ok you know what tahani is more fucking valid than anyone because she never wanted anything that wasn’t 100% justified
her parents treated her like garbage and she only comes across as full of herself because literally not a single one of her achievements was ever fucking recognized by anyone around her, least of all the two people whos opinion she actually cared about, her parents
nothing she wanted ever was detrimental to any other person in any way
it wasn’t about making everyone around her think she was a saint, she just wanted to do something that would finally be seen as enough
it wasnt even about outdoing her sister it was just about being recognized for her accomplishments in her own right
so dont sit there with this she was doing good things with bad intentions stuff
she was doing good things for her own reasons, and it wasnt about the magnanimity of helping people, but that doesn’t make her motivations bad objectively
and like her final test to see whether she was a good person was to walk down that hallway lined with rooms where people were gossiping about her
and she passed by aaalll the doors of aaall the famous people and socialites that she talks about all the time and the one room she finally did stop at was her parents!
there’s nothing vain about desiring approval from your parents! she just wanted acknowledgment. from her parents. there’s no fucking realm of reality where you can frame that as vain! she wanted her parents not to treat her like complete fucking garbage for one goddamn second.
like having bad parents is a bad enough environment to grow up in but having them treat you so unjustly your whole life while watching that so completely opposite and juxtaposed with the way they treat your only other sibling. thats so horrible.
and tahani stopping to get some closure on that CANNOT be termed selfish. theres just no fuckin way
This is the point of the series. The “good/bad place” system is built on Kantian absolutism and a complete rejection of anything even remotely near moral dessert, but the fact that it qualifies *as* a very clear and obvious moral dessert completely invalidates the moral logic underlying the selection system. Which is *why* Chidi’s wide-ranging philosophical lessons lead the characters into contradictions within the framework. Even Michael can’t deal with the “good/bad” paradigm’s rules in the face of something as “simple” as the trolley problem.
Michael’s experiment exposed the fundamental flaw in the system.
And, for what it’s worth, Chidi’s assignment to the bad place is also entirely bogus. The guy has some obvious neurodivergence that genuinely makes his own life difficult for him. He needs therapy, and probably meds, not to be sent to hell.There is no malice in Chidi that would merit that sort of punishment, but because of the way the system is set up with its black/white ethics, there he is.
And while Jason’s morals are…..bad…..he also acts without malice and genuinely spends his time trying to help people. He’s just….not very clever about it, unfortunately.
Basically the whole kantian system classifies disability and trauma as moral failings and it’s just mega fucked up.
