"Roles" are a means of avoiding actual emotional intimacy.

Abortion as birth control is atrocious. Abortion as tragedy management is humane and wildly important.

What do you suppose would have happened if Biden sent California's national guard into Texas? 🤔

I'm pretty sure that I'm the most popular Hannah Rosenberg on LinkedIn 🙌 #Winning

Would totally attend this class, this dude looks amazing!

“Success” is difficult to objectively define as it means different things to different people - a Lambo to some, a farm to others. But I keep coming back to one, fairly measurable quality that I find to be the true objective measure of success in life – emotional maturity.

Travel is so on my mind. ...in which airport do you have the best memories?

Originally thought this photo was great but too cringe for LinkedIn, then a friend said I look like a Jedi, another ran it through AI, and now I’m wondering… can I actually get away with using this as my LinkedIn profile pic? 🤔😁

First the lefties melted into insanity over covid, and now the righties are melting into insanity over Trump.

Just your periodic reminder

There are real biological and temperamental differences between men and women, in general of course. Discussing them isn’t inherently wrong, it can be interesting and insightful! The problem is that, in my experience, most of these conversations aren’t driven by curiosity but by an agenda: to argue that women are not appropriate to leadership or decision making. Too often, the goal is to find 'evidence' for treating women as second-class citizens. When someone comes up to me and says “ya know, women really…” 🚩🚩🚩🚨🚨🚨 all the alarm bells go off. Almost certainly that is someone who has set out to persuade me into thinking of myself as appropriately a follower, as appropriately less than. And fuck you bro, never gunna happen.

Anxiety comes from a refusal to accept our limited existence. I was talking about anxiety while flying the other day and a friend noted that when on an airplane is one of the only times in your life when you truly have no responsibility for the outcome… so it should be relaxing. And well, my prefrontal cortex totally understands that, but the rest of my brain rejects that! Lol But why? In my head if the plane went down and me with it, it would be my fault cuz somehow I should have known to not get on that flight. Somehow everything is my fault. I know that I have anxiety when I take on responsibility for things that I can’t realistically have an impact on. And so I have to train my brain to accept that I can’t possibility know the future. I can’t predict when a wild anomaly like a plane crash might happen. That’s a bizarre responsibility to try to put on myself because I am a limited creature. But I have a really hard time saying that, I have a hard time saying that I’m limited… I get a sense of shame from that. Why? Is that maybe part of a religious fundamentalist hangover? Is that just human nature? Where does this insane sense of responsibility come from?

There is a certain type of person that I really like to be around but I have trouble describing it, I’m searching for the right word. There are some people who are quite content living “the quite life”, and awesome, got no issue with with that, but I tend to be drawn to people who are the opposite. I used to say that I like “ambitious” people…. But then I knew lots of people like that and found that often the people that get called “ambitious” the most are the people who are followers, comparative people, desperate to prove themselves. Not only do I not find that healthy to be around, it’s also not for me. So then I was thinking “bold” might be the right word, and then I knew some wildly bold people… and holy shit are they unbalanced. The perpetual radicals, often chasing fame, people who will throw their values out the window for their next cause, their next sense of identity. And ya, also not for me. So, maybe it’s “authentic”, which is an abused word but in it’s true sense is an amazing thing. To be around a real, raw, person recharges you, it’s magical. But… someone can be authentically into the quiet life, and amazing, but again, not for me. We could go with “adventurous” but I still don’t think that quite covers it. There is a Lana Del Ray song where she keeps saying “a lust for life”, is maybe that the right way to put it??? Please help me here! Do ya understand what I mean? What’s the right word?

Trad wives are predators! ...hear me out. I watched a video from a former trad wife/MAGA/Mormon/White Christian nationalist, and she really walked through this well telling her personal story. Link in comments. But here I’ll summarize for you. First, yes this is an adaptation to living in a time/place/subculture where women are actively prevented from acquiring the skills and resources necessary for caring for themselves. This is an adaptation to being strongly coerced into dependence on your partner. And in the video she tells the story of how she was coerced into this dependence. But, once you have that world setup where women can only get the resources they need via a man, well, then they start to see men through that lens. She spoke about how she did not see men’s personalities, or unique interests, or their compatibility with her, she only saw who came from a rich family, she saw what a man’s college major was and thus what his earning potential would be, etc, etc. She viewed men as resources and went out hunting to find the best resource that she could. She was a predator looking to use a man as a checkbook. And this was also true of the majority of the other single women in her community. This is not only why Mormon women tend to be so fixated on their looks, as this is how they hunt, this is also why these women will leave their husband for another man. When you have a relationship of this type it’s not very fulfilling just on a human level, and so these women are often unhappy and looking for something else. But if the only way they can care for themselves is via a man, well then they have to stay in that bad relationship until they can find a new man to use for his resources. It’s just all around a very ugly setup for everyone. Partnerships > Transactionships