I don’t really believe in the concept of noblesse oblige but whenever I get really mad at people online who are objectively way worse off than me in terms of every offline metric, I instinctively remind myself it doesn’t behoove me to punch down so I send their tweets/posts to my friends with snide comments rather than fighting them publicly.
CC: @tributary’s punching up/down post
Girl im south asian and HAIRY and i had my back sugared for the first time IT MAKES A HUGE difference.....dc summers are truly something different tho.
Hahaha DC summers are SO bad.
I have naturally straight hair even if it gets wavy in the humidity but my head feels SO heavy in the summer that it gives me headaches.
Thankfully, I have no back hair but I do shave my arms (getting called a gorilla in the 6th grade will make you start doing that) and legs and underarms, thread my eyebrows/upper lip, and do Brazilian sugaring every month or so. I also work out 5 days a week, 45 minutes of cardio/15 minutes of yoga each day, and it’s simply impractical to have excessive body hair when you do that, even if I usually work out at home in my AC.
I find this whole insistence that white men don’t have any mental health support so frustrating because if you read biographies of Euro American guys from 100 or 200 years ago you realize a couple of things;
First of all, famous men with serious mental health problems had at least one or more women devoted to being their full time emotional caretakers and secondly their mental health related bad behavior was praised or just allowed to slide as “eccentricity”
I know I am talking about privileged men here, but it drives me nuts how guys were considered to be responsible enough to manage nations and armies but not their own emotions. Then women who were nowhere near as unstable were getting called hysterical
I feel like there are just a lot of modern men who are being told their behavior is a problem for the first time but refuse to take responsibility for it. Then they are mad that they don’t automatically get entitled to an emotional support woman because we mentally ill girls finally have some room to say we’re not ok








