Yeah I Will Be Eating Pasta With Pesto 3 Times A Week. I Will Be Having Pasta With Other Sauces Too.

It doesn't matter what you think, stop doing it. When someone tells you you're doing something wrong, trying to argue around it just makes you a jackass. Just apologize and correct your behavior.

This, my friends, is what we call “weaponizing progressive language.”

Because this would be a completely reasonable response in many circumstances. We’ve all seen similar things said to people who genuinely need to Stop, like celebrities defending their use of slurs (to name just one example). Devoid of context, this ask seems like someone fighting against an unreasonable asshole.

Except the thing I was most recently told to stop doing was…acknowledging that historical trans people existed.

The only reason I’m not simply ignoring this ask is that, once upon a time, I would have seen it and immediately started groveling. Because I don’t want to hurt anyone, and I ESPECIALLY don’t want to be doing so habitually. And very young people- like teens -in progressive spaces, I feel, are often cornered like this and made to apologize for “transgressions” that aren’t real. They have the compassion, but not yet enough experience to recognize this pattern of behavior.

It’s important to apologize and change when you hurt someone undeserving, or a group of innocent people. But it’s also important to recognize when someone is trying to use that concern for others against you.

You got through the days you worried most about, you got through the weeks you were anxious about, and you got through the months you felt at your worst. Take a moment to be proud of yourself for that, and maybe even reward yourself. I believe in you for going through and doing well in the moments you still have ahead of you.

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I think if we covered everything in moss everyone would be a lot better off. Think maslow’s hierarchy of needs, but it’s all moss.

ladies we need to start frantically and obsessively reading books in less than 24 hours again..remember how happy we were

today is not my birthday

getting the most popular result on uquiz is one of the worst and most sickening things that can happen to a girl

i get so mad when i hear things scuttling inside the walls. like yeah yeah we get it…youre a creature. you dont need to rub it in my face that youre capable of scuttling

reminder: not being happy doesn’t make you a failure, it’s ok to be sad and it doesn’t mean you’re not trying

Hey students, here’s a pro tip: do not write an email to your prof while you’re seriously sick.

Signed, a person who somehow came up with “dear hello, I am sick and not sure if I’ll be alive to come tomorrow and I’m sorry, best slutantions, [name]”.