blue whales are the largest animal ever recorded, like you literally need to be in a helicopter to actually see one in from a perspective with zero distortion. idk i just feel pretty lucky to be alive on earth at the same time as them and they don’t even want to kill me. they just wanna use their toothbrush mouthes to filter the ocean of smol ocean bugs. they have communities and they sing to each other to communicate. work is slow im sorry happy friday whales r so cool
Anyway, no-fault divorce, easy access to birth control, and abortion on demand all serve to make families stronger, healthier, happier, and more robust, because they allow family to be a matter of choice rather than a means of social control and violence.
man call me crazy or whatever but i’m not very thrilled with the fact that the takeaway that all of y'all are getting from the titanic submarine crisis happening right now is
“People able to spend exorbitantly for some tourist trip thing deserve to die a horrific and torturous death via suffocation after spending 96 hours in mounting dread and awareness of that oncoming reality, all inside a 20 foot long windowless iron casket lost at sea”
and how it isn’t
“There is no way in fucking hell that it should be legal to take people into such high-risk environments with zero regulations and shoddy work which almost certainly factored if not is the cause of this crisis to begin with, and the problem isn’t that people will spend lots of money on dumb shit, it’s that there are companies allowed to prey on that with no oversight”
Ken’s purpose was to be Barbie’s trophy husband. He barely had any good clothes or shoes to wear.
*boyfriend. trophy boyfriend. occasional fiancé. but barbie was designed to stand alone. she’s had a credit card in her own name since before women could have credit cards in their own names.
All this! Ken was so unnecessary to the Barbie experience that most girls I knew had a bunch of Barbies and like 1 or 2 Kens.
And Mattel knew this because any time they’d make a Barbie group of friends there was usually a 2-1 girl/guy ratio, and the guys were not key to the narrative included with the dolls.
But the idea that he didn’t have good clothes? BAYBEE, are you serious? He was designed to wear things that complimented Barbie. My boy’s wardrobe had to be on point or he wasn’t invited to the party.
Mans even got a tattoo to match hers when she decided to rebel a little.
Didn’t they accidentally make him gay at one point too?
Yeah, twice actually, one time with Allan, which is WHY “there’s only one allan” was such a funny line, he was kens guy friend which came across more like they were gay. Then sometime in the 80’s or 90’s they wanted ken to appeal to the styles of the time but didn’t know what they were doing, accidentally researched GAY club clothes instead of like… straight clothes I guess, and gave Ken an outfit with a lot of mesh and he was wearing a metal ring on a necklace, not knowing that gay guys were wearing *cock rings* on necklaces, not just regular rings, lol. I’m not the MOST knowledgeable in everything about these two incidents but I know of them.
TLDR Allan seemed more like Ken’s gay love interest and also Mattel accidentally made ken walk around wearing a cock ring
In case you haven’t the glory that is Earring Magic Ken.
[ID: A blonde Ken doll with blue eyes wearing a mesh tshirt, a lavender leather vest, a hoop earring in his left ear and a cock ring on a chain around his neck.]
I am 100% sure earring magic Ken was not an accident.
