“Women’s “heal everything, fix everything” compulsion is a major entrapment constructed by the requirements placed upon us by our own cultures, mainly pressures to prove that we are not just standing around taking up space and enjoying ourselves, but that we have redeemable value- in some parts of the world, it is fair to say, to prove that we have value and therefore should be allowed to live. These pressures are introduced into our psyches when we are very young and unable to judge or resist them. They become law to us… unless or until we challenge them.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves
This dance teacher went viral for doing cartwheels in pink thigh-high boots to tackle bullying!
Dremon Cooper is a 19-year-old from Washington, DC. He’s a dance teacher for an LGBT nonprofit called Casa Ruby.
Cooper
told that he’s a goofy person who loves to laugh and make
skits and, more recently, created a new superhero character.
Cooper
says the name of the character is Super Bitch, but fans have started to
call the superhero “Him Possible.” The character was created to show
that bullying and violence are not OK.
if millennials need to take “stupid” classes about how to be adults, then it’s bc no one taught them these “stupid” stuff. and who was supposed to do that? oh yeah, their parents, the baby boomers.
it’s also cause they been gradually taking these out as high school classes and we got less participation in after school programs and organizations that would’ve taught kids these kind of skills
Yeah like, weren’t these skills taught in Home Ec classes that straight up dont exist anymore? I mean, i was born in 1995 and the only time I’ve even heard of Home Ec is from TV and movies.
And I know that the real purpose it served was to teach young girls to become housewives, but bringing back these classes as mandatory for everyone would be a really good thing because these are life skills
Pretty sure most men from the older generation don’t know how to sew on a button and wouldn’t even consider taking a class for it. They’d hand the thing over to their wife/daughter/mother expecting them to know it
My brother’s actually been making money making minor clothing repairs in his frat, because out of forty some guys, he’s the only one who knows how to sew a dang button.
we’re gonna have to start eatin hard cheese and cured salted meats again to try to dodge badly inspected food like just go ahead and give me a set of leather armor and send me on a quest if you’re so set on returning us to darker times
