Freelance worker lives in huge, gorgeous house/apartment in expensive area despite never seeming to be working
Characters work 8-5 office job with hour-long commute, but go to bed no earlier than midnight and get up in time for morning sex and long, leisurely cooked breakfasts every day
Do these characters even have jobs?
Single parent has way more communication with child’s teacher than is normal; leads to dating; administration somehow has no problem with this.
“I know I could never afford this mansion, but it’s OK I inherited it. No, paying property taxes isn’t difficult on my salary. I don’t even know how much the place is worth. Are property taxes a thing?”
There are two levels of cooking skills: gourmet food every time no recipe, and sets pot of boiling water on fire somehow. No one is ever in between these two skill sets. People on each level always end up dating each other.
Despite the gourmet meals described needing like seven pots to cook, no one ever does dishes.
Character shares a bottle of wine with their date (2 and half glasses each), and they both get falling-down drunk.
Later, one of them drinks an entire bottle of whiskey by themselves and does not die.
“ My first song “iT” was about wanting to have a dick just in order to have an easier life.
Now I wouldn’t write “iT”. I’d rather stay a woman and fight, and try to control this male gaze by wearing unsexualised suits and speaking about my own desire without worrying about being desirable on someone else’s terms. ”
“Tell me your story, I’ll tell you mine… Then either judge me, or disagree with me, or tell me I’m fat and don’t look good for my age or find some solace and inspiration.”
Carrie Fisher, introducing her new advice column for The Guardian
Earlier today, Jo Cox, a Labour MP in Northern England, was stabbed and shot at an event in a library.
It has just been confirmed that she has died due to the attack.
She was a great campaigner and humanitarian, and has left behind a husband and two children.
This kind of event happens rarely in the UK, and so this is terrifying and destabilising that such a horrific thing has happened to such a compassionate person.
Can thoughts on Tumblr turn to the UK today please, and turn to remember a woman who has been brutally murdered after a lifetime of trying to build a better country.
I met Jo while I was at university. She was an incredible person and my heart is broken for her family.
TBT to 1963 when Valentina Tereshkova became the first women in space when she launched on this day in history aboard Vostok 6 and orbited 48 times before coming back to Earth almost three days later.
We’ve featured a few of these items before when celebrating the amazing accomplishments of women in STEM, but we’ve found a few more for you as well:
