Can I post something
so glad i woke up early enough to see this. no
Remember The Blind Side starring Sandra Bullock? The movie showed how a kid who had an extremely rough upbringing got help from the family of a school friend, found success in football and ultimately ended up being adopted by the family. Turns out he was never adopted.
Michael Oher says that he was tricked by the Tuohy family into signing documents that made them his conservators. Since he was already 18 at the time the family told him, “that it means pretty much the exact same thing as 'adoptive parents,' but that the laws were just written in a way that took [his] age into account.”
Oher also says that papers were signed so that his story and likeness were given away for free to use in The Blind Side. He also never got a single royalty check for the hugely successful, Oscar nominated film in the 14 years since its release.
It just continues to baffle me that they essentially purchased a young Black man's life to make football money off of, like buying a racing horse, except a person. Like, I don't know how else to say it. And then made everyone think it was something wonderful they did to "save" an "impoverished, Black boy", and he's been saying it for years to no avail that they took advantage of him!
"I can fix him" not in a "I can make him into a better person" way but in a "if he was my character I would've handled his story better" way
I am not meant for casual. I was born for soul crushing devotion.
imagine being gay Kevin & your whole personality is being gay but then it turns out that your whole friend group and everyone else you know is ALSO gay. the identity crisis would be unparalleled
& your fucking dad is gay
we should not be prescribing moral qualities to how much a person sleeps per day or struggles to be mentally healthy
Y'all I wish it was "no thoughts head empty"- instead I'm "many thoughts head full" bitch I am at capacity
ice cold take but if you have to pay for accessibility features it is not in fact accessible
being low iq is not a moral failure
being "dumb" is not bad
being intellectually disabled is not a moral failure
stop being ableist
it doesnt hurt the ppl your trying to hurt if your punching up involves punching down.
(iq is also eugenics and fuck that)
not going to lie guys i don’t think being employed is for me
devastated to report that being unemployed is also terrible
people really do equate morality to hair huh. ppl see a boy balding and say thats actually a sleazebag and creep who doesnt know personal hygiene. ppl see a man wearing a toupee or combing over his hair and make fun of him for trying to hide his true colors of being secretly an ugly balding person. ppl see a shitty person who happens to be bald or balding and say their disgusting ugly offensive hair is their divine punishment for their actions/personality. ppl see a girl whos bald, balding, or just has short hair and pity her and mourn her perceived loss of feminine beauty. ppl see a women with thin hair or receding hairline and harass her enough to make her start wearing wigs and hats or even undergo cosmetic procedures to fix herself out of fear of further harassment. can people stop being so fucking weird about the perceived morality of hair loss that literally almost everyone and their mother has. hair loss is not a bug its a goddamn feature
Not to vagueblog but some of you are definitely the sweetest souls and I think of you fondly
cause of death: tried to organize an activity with more than 2 friends at once past the age of 25
I promise I’m working on Reverse Innovation chp 2. I literally just need to finish editing the last snippet but Uni has me by the throat currently.
when someone says "why would you want a physical copy of that? you can just stream it" i physically recoil. a feeling of dread comes over me like an evil spirit just passed through my body