I have often used Barbie to explain Greek mythology, and people laugh until I explain it, and then they get really serious and thoughtful.
I say, “The Greeks ascribed aspects to gods. Apollo had many aspects, but all were Apollo. He’s like Barbie that way. She’s an astronaut, a veterinarian, and a rollerskater, but no matter which of those things she is in the moment, she is always still Barbie. She is Barbie in her aspect as.”
Then people get not only the idea of “aspects” of godhood, but also, well, the changeable yet eternal nature of Barbie.
Broke: Barbie’s many different careers are a way to sell dolls and accessories to little kids.
Woke: Barbie had every single one of those careers and is an immortal timeless being.
Bespoke: Barbie’s different careers are different versions of Barbie from across the multiverse who occasionally swap place with each other or combine into one Barbie.
i cant believe the guy who made super size me, which was a total bullshit movie, made a second one
leave me alone
I always new Super Size Me was bullshit because I lived off McDoubles, Steel Reserve and LSD for months when I was 16 it was the strongest and healthiest I’ve been in my life
thanks to this being tumblr, there is no doubt in how real that statement is.
you know. avril lavigne really made it seem like skaters were oppressed
“seem?”
“Were”?
I know this can seem either like funney joaks or like “white people are reaching so hard to be oppressed” but the criminalizing of unsupervised time for adolescents and the policing of unused spaces simply limits freedom of movement and sets the stage for further stigmatizing and policing marginalized groups like the homeless while also normalizing the invasive presence of police in our day to day lives and allowing them to collect fees to punish harmless inexpensive, playful exercise that is accessible in many places where parks or greenways aren’t (and that many adults without cars use as a form of legitimate, inexpensive, efficient transportation) all of which is to say
