learning to cheerfully dislike other people is I think a critical component of getting along with people who don’t like you. Like as soon as I got a solid grasp on the fact that there is a wide swath of humanity that gets on my nerves and that it’s my problem, not theirs, it got easier to be around people I find annoying. Once that’s settled, it’s easy to flip the reasoning around and conclude that if someone doesn’t like me, that’s a quirk of their own strange and arbitrary tastes, not a judgment upon either of us as a person. You can’t like everyone. Not everyone will like you. It’s fine. It’s not a personal attack in either direction. We can exchange cordial nods across the room and then go on with our lives
anyway normalize women not wanting children as a happy ending
its NOT a happy ending, for a majority of women. Having kids, especially for women, is an intrinsic biological desire. If you are a person who genuinely has no desire for kids or god forbid dislikes kids, that is an anomaly - you might have some trauma or mental/emotional hangups that you have to work out of, or you could be autistic or some other thing. But Its not normal to not want kids. Living childless does and will make women miserable. Dying without kids in, in fact, a bad ending for the vast majority of women.
there is something so deeply wrong with you baby girl
‘bread is bad for you’ ‘rice is bad for you’ sorry im not subscribing to the idea that staple grains that have been integral to cultures for centuries are evil. i love you carbs
annihilation is soooo good because the biologist is aware that she is an unreliable narrator and also hates it. she WANTS to be completely impartial and objective and just observe everything without influencing any of it. but she cant so instead she omits her name from the entire book to the point where it’s almost absurd and completely intentional and splits her journal into “objective” chapters detailing her expedition and “subjective” chapters detailing her memories about her husband. ill never be over you biologist