“i used to think life would be better spent if alone. no strings, no attachment, no suffering. but then, life itself moved me towards people who changed my mind. people who made me believe that this life of mine would be much nicer, much worthy if i had some company. people who care, stand by me and are there for me. the same way i have come to be there for them.”
A young Marilyn Monroe playing with a chihuahua in May 1950, in the backyard of Johnny Hyde, the Hollywood honcho who promised her millions if only she’d marry him (she refused).
Fucked up how women are expected to preform femininity to such an unreasonable, expensive and time consuming degree right now. Obviously that’s been an aspect of patriarchy forever but theres a late capitalist spin on it in our current period that’s just so extreme and unrealistic.. I feel like this is something people don’t see as getting worse but in, say, the 70s it was totally normal for women to go outside without foundation on. The degree to which women are expected to compete with other women in the amount of money and unpaid time they spend on their appearance every day has accelerated along with the acceleration and of global capitalism in general
There’s a massive feminist movement erupting in South Korea right now where women are posting pictures of their destroyed makeup collections in protest of the massive amounts of sacrifice they’re expected to make towards conventional beauty just to be employed or viewed as normal. I know liberals like to talk about this stuff being a choice but when thousands of people are saying that it ISN’T a choice for them, and is in fact something they feel cornered into that’s actively harming them, that’s something worth listening to
Really hope people remind themselves that capitalism turns people against each other, especially now, cause like… “before black friday anyone wanna dont capitalism.jpg”. Now the thing is, getting shit cheaply is survival in this system. i dont think you can blame customers, especially poorer ones, for getting things at real cheap, just because theyre “the reason” why retail workers are suffering (the reason is capitalism also)
☆Knight star☆ 