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“Anyone who’s remained stubbornly single through their 20s (or refuses to marry, or legally can’t) knows the financial woes of helping your friends “build a new life together!”: the numerous pre-parties (and required gifts), followed by the wedding (travel, hotel, clothes, and an even nicer gift). Marriage, in Western culture, operates on the model that a new couple needs “one of everything” in order to make a home, and should keep buying until they get it—and all those fancy cupcakes require lots of cooking gear too.”
What Pinterest Taught Me About Marriage as a Capitalist Prison by Academic Coach Taylor
Slacktory: “This article covers how Pinterest fetishizes owning stuff, and how that relates to the Western institution of marriage, and holy crap, this is a genuinely insightful article that starts with an analysis of dumb ol’ Pinterest. Read it.”
The editor of Academic Coach Taylor is writing cultural analysis for Slacktory!
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Ain’t it the truth.
I got married when I was a 23-year-old fetus. Way too early and way too stupid. And this started immediately.
The wedding gifts say it all. We got the bread maker. The knives. The one thing of every thing of all things. And we had nowhere to put it all. So we bought a house, but then holy shit there was too much space. So we bought more stuff.
We went through three houses like that. Two married children with better jobs and more privilege than they deserved, trying to keep the fuck up.
And I figured it out at one point. That I was really just buying things and waiting to die.
I spent the next few years learning to undo both of those trends.
I am a minimalist at heart in nearly all things. My mind and heart need the space that other things quickly occupy. And the trend described above will drown a person like me. And it tried.
After the divorce, I sold everything and rebuilt according to need.
And I have yet to buy a breadmaker.
They say Miami is heaven’s waiting room.
I say the consumerist Western marriage model is Miami’s waiting room.
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laceandlaudanum: fallingdownsyndrome: one-to-tennant: lazoey:
That tag wins all the awards, in the history of ever.
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- Doctor: Hey, I just met you,
- Doctor: and this is crazy,
- Doctor: but here's my TARDIS,
- Doctor: so d'you wanna come with me and travel through space and time saving planets and people from aliens and monsters whilst being rather awesome and running a lot (seriously there is a hell of a lot of running involved), maybe?
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The thing is, it helps when people stand up to them, it gives everyone hope. I used to notice that when you did it, Harry.
the thing about neville is that no one expects anything from him that’s the main difference between him and harry it’s not that harry’s a hero and neville’s not or that harry’s full of himself and neville’s not it’s that harry had his destiny thrust upon him and neville had no destiny at all people expect harry to lead and expect neville to sit in the corner aloneharry james potter is a remarkable boy who did incredibly hard things and his arc makes me weepy and emotional he did i don’t want to take away from that but i think that what he never quite got the hang of was talking to people and being their leader he’s awkward and closed off and feels like he can only trust the few people closest to him neville didn’t just figure out how to make the room of requirment work better than harry did; he figured out how to lead people and inspi… harry potter is a hero; neville longbottom is a leader
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“You’re not gonna make the world any better by shouting at it!”
Seriously my favorite companion.
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