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charmingcatastrophe:

nonbinaryfrancisabernathy:

avoidantproblems:

over-explaining everything because you’re scared of not making sense or people thinking you’re stupid

the thrilling sequel: under-explaining everything because you’re afraid of being seen as a rambling mess

the stunning conclusion: wildly varying between both based off the most recent way you’ve fucked up 

Wow! This Professor Can Pronounce ‘Agamemnon’ But None of His Black Students’ Names

thereallieutenantcommanderdata:

linguisten:

It is a faaaaaake. 

If you google for his name and add -reductress you get only a handful hits with the same text in English or French, but from other pages. So reductress.com simply plagiarized it. Furthermore, the guy in the picture is standing in front of a whiteboard full of stuff that is not classics but neuroscience, you can see the word “hypothalamus” on there twice, and that’s not a Greek hero or something. They didn’t even bother retouching the image. Which is good, because this way  TinEye can gladly tell us where they stole the pic: on a wikivisually page on 

Maxwell Richard Bennett (Sydney)

Well, yeah, Reductress is a satirical site.

Wow! This Professor Can Pronounce ‘Agamemnon’ But None of His Black Students’ Names

Wishful thinking

realsocialskills:

If you think someone is a jerk.

And then you’re attracted to them sexually.

Or they offer you a job you really want.

Or they introduce you to a really cool group of people you look forward to spending time with.

Or you otherwise want something from them.

And then you stop feeling like they’re a jerk.

They’re probably still a jerk. You were probably right the first time.

If you think you’re right now, think through why that is. Why did you think they were a jerk before? Do you have new information? Has anything changed?

Don’t just assume your now-good feeling about them is right.

Wishful thinking is a powerful thing, and it can lead you astray.

mhd-hbd:

drakeswheelchair:

drakeswheelchair:

people love to talk about franz kafka’s surrealism, but as soon as you tell them his writing was specifically influenced by him being a multiply disabled jewish man who was bisexual, they become disinterested real fast

#seriously though no one believes me when I say that the metamorphosis is about disability

absolutely nobody can convince me that “the metamorphosis” is about anything BUT disability, ableism, and anti-semitism

like, you can literally look at kafka’s thoughts in his diaries and letters during the time he was writing it, and see him struggling with feeling physically and emotionally repulsive to people as his health was beginning to really decline, and the way his personality is shaped by paranoia, anxiety, and depression, as well as the obvious correlation between annihilation and anti-semitism

then you read the book, and it’s so fucking clear

“Kafkaesque” is reality for a lot of people.