I genuinely think that books like To Kill a Mockingbird and Little House on the Prairie are so popular, because they represent a world where you can have a father that is loving, emotionally stable, and just.
I feel like men internalize a compliment to an extreme degree. So, if someone says "Hey, you have nice legs." they'll wear shorts when it's 45 degrees out, or wear the same hat for 10 years, because someone complimented it once. Is this just me?
Someone asked me about my favorite film directors, and I've realized the list is way too white, hetero, and male!
So, if you have a suggestion about movies directed by, women, people of color, lgbtq+, please let me know. Suggestions of a good movie or two that represents their work well, would also be appreciated, thanks!
I used to work at a restaurant that served these really good fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. They were made pretty regularly, so you'd never get a cookie that was more than an hour or two old. Despite this someone would inevitably ask for some fresh out of the oven. The problem with this was twofold:
They took nearly 15 minutes to bake, way longer than anyone was willing to wait.
If you know anything about baking soft chewy cookies, when they come out of the oven they are basically just molten goo, we had to wait 10 minutes before we were even allowed to take them off the pan.
So, we'd always tell people these things, and at least a couple times a week, someone would demand we do it anyway, and call the manager when we handed them a hot bag of cookie goo 15 minutes later. The restaurant eventually got rid of those cookies for something that was pre-made that tasted like Dollar Store cookies.
I thought about this a lot during the height of the Covid Pandemic, and every time a politician disagrees with a scientist about climate change. Anyway, welcome to Dollar Store Planet.
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