it’s always a good day to complain about English speakers
Important addition: Maria Skłodowska-Curie was born during partitions, which means Poland didn’t exist, which means her insistence that she was Polish was a significant act of defiance against the occupation, which means that you should respect that instead of arguing that ‘well she had French citizenship’. She couldn’t have Polish citizenship despite being Polish, that’s kinda the point she was making by keeping her maiden name and naming a chemical element she discovered ‘Polonium’ .
HOW TO PRONOUNCE: Skłodowska
L with a dash through it (ł) makes a “W” sound. and W makes a “V” sound.
something the retro art people forget is that the past still exists in those time periods. Like those photos where every single iconic 80s thing is in the kid’s bedroom–no one lived like that outside of the very wealthy and/or the movies.
Someone kicking around in 1985 was probably living in a house built decades prior, and their parents last renovated in the 70s before the kids were born–because there’s no money for that when you had kids.
I mean look around today, there are plenty of people 10+ years behind the times. Old cars are out there, old fashions, old music–the present day is haunted by the past around every corner, the date doesn’t roll over to a new decade and all the old stuff doesn’t just disappear–it’s all still here.
Those achingly period-appropriate homes you see in movies and TV are just that–sets. Unless you just moved into a brand new home and all your stuff was lost in a fire so you had to replace it your home is not going to be all modern present day shit.
This is also something a lot of future-fiction doesn’t get–the future will have a lot of the past in it, because as humans bumble through life they pick things up and they don’t discard them–Someone who is 40 in 2040 is going to have shit from the 20′s when they got their first apartment or whatever, their home may have been built in 2000 and last remodeled in 2030…what I mean is cutting edge fashions and styles exist on TV but rarely in real life.
Whenever I see girls on tiktok or Twitter complain about how men are “all jerks to each other” and claim “women are always nice to each other and would never bully another woman! They always have each other’s backs and are pleasant to be around!” it just makes me think of my middle school days where the girls at said school made my life a living hell to the point I’m still traumatized by how bad the bullying was til this day. 🙃 Being a female doesn’t mean you can’t be an asshole to other girls.
if a woman says “women are always nice to each other and never bully other women!”
she’s been a fucking bully her whole life
Or at best, you are extremely oblivious.
I remember the post from the other day about how even young boys were sexual predators of girls, and all I could think about while reading that was the girls in in middle and high school who made fun of my breasts and underwear.
Anyone who tells you girls don’t bully or harass other girls is either lying or a bully themselves.
Anyone who tells you girls don’t bully or harass other girls is either lying or a bully themselves.
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