kristinasworld.bsky.social
Adjunct prof in the (digital) humanities, writer (curriculum writer for money, personal essayist for fun). Retired marketer. Beach lover, book lover, bird lover. Mom of 3. Looking to follow fearlessly creative people.
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I can’t stand him. He’s such a smug little a-hole.
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The Education secretary is not very educated. How does she not know who Ruby Bridges is?
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At the end of the day, for everyone, it’s hard to be yourself without some level of performative anxiety. Society expects us to act a certain way based on gender, but only as long as it doesn’t make others uncomfortable.
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We’re supposed to be pretty but not too assertive, confident but not “too much,” independent but still appealing. It’s a different shape, but the same trap: tying our self-worth to how others respond to us.
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It told men their worth was in conquest, not connection. That kind of pressure is toxic and exhausting. Women are hit with something similar. We’re often taught that our value lies in being desirable, but on someone else’s terms.
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I get where you’re coming from. But I think we all get freer when we stop blaming each other and start questioning the systems that taught us these roles in the first place. The PUA movement pushed a version of masculinity built on performance and control.
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Women face rejection too, just in different forms. What do you think makes it fundamentally different? Women are rejected, ghosted, led on, and overlooked constantly. It just doesn’t always look the sam and women are usually taught not to externalize their anger.
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We need more spaces where people feel seen and supported without needing to “earn” belonging. That’s the kind of world I want for my children and for everyone else too.
Out of curiosity—what do you mean when you say it’s “completely different” for women?
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Agree that the loss of third spaces has left a real gap…for everyone. Blaming feminism for that isn’t the answer. It’s a distraction from doing the real work of growth. Everyone faces rejection. Everyone struggles with connection. That doesn’t justify resentment, political extremism, or misogyny.
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Everyone faces rejection—women included.
Resentment isn’t a response to rejection. It’s a response to entitlement.
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Respectfully, this isn’t about feminism being hypocritical—it’s about personal responsibility.
Feminism doesn’t say men have to initiate; it questions why that’s the norm. And helping someone or expressing interest doesn’t entitle you to a relationship.
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I get that some guys feel pressure to make the first move, but that doesn’t justify resentment when someone isn’t interested. I’m trying to teach my son that kindness isn’t a transaction. No one owes you affection because you helped them. That’s basic emotional maturity.
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It’s sad. And in two years, I will have many of these same kids in my freshman courses at the Community College where I teach. Hatred and anger starts at home. No child learns to hate because of wokeness or diversity. But we are stripping the curriculum of it.
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If we strip the curriculum of its so-called “wokeness”, schools become even more of a breeding ground for hatred and oppression. My daughter is 16, she’s a honor student, and she is a kind, compassionate young woman and every day she tells me about the disrespectfulness and apathy of her peers.
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lived experience? I know some people will say that schools overstep and that there are some things that parents should be responsible for and not schools. But what happens when the parents are angry and teach hate at home? Sometimes school is the only place where a child gets a meal, or feels safe.
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happens in a world where we are not allowed to celebrate diversity? Where we are not allowed to teach compassion and basic human dignity in the form of social emotional skills in our classrooms? Where we can’t read books with diverse characters who are different than we are and have a different
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especially angry with young women his age having been rejected by a girl he really liked who he had tried to help out of a tough situation at school. I had to remind him that women don’t owe men anything and if you choose to help someone you must do so without expectations. So circling back, what
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only hope that some of what I instilled in them as boys has resonated. Young men have a tendency to go through a stage where they are angry at the world. My 21 year old, who is much more influenced by his father than my older son seemed to be lashing out at the world last year and he seemed
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where he heard it from. He was 7 and he said it to his 5 year old brother. They were boys. I thought I had nipped it in the bud but when they became teens and their father became even more important in their lives, I started to see some of these ‘ideas’emerge again. They are grown now and I can
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other disability and diversity slurs that I have forbade my children to ever use. The father of my two boys (my ex for good reason)is one of these angry white people. The first time I ever heard one of my sons use the R-word or call someone gay, I was quick to correct. I didn’t even need to ask
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growing list of topics that I must steer clear of in my writing. I’ve always been very mindful of using people-first language but this administration and much of the “angry white world” is not. You have Bros like Joe Rogan and technocrats like Elon Musk trying to bring back the R-word and a slew of
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I’m an educator. I teach at a community college and I write high school curriculum. I can’t tell you the number of times that people want to have the conversation about “woke curriculum” with me and what we should be teaching children in school. As a curriculum writer, I’m now faced with an ever-
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Ugh I can’t stand her. At least I can say that here. When I try to comment anything negative about any of these people on Instagram, I get a warning. Way to bend the knee Zuck!
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Not all of us. I didn’t vote for this clown. I don’t agree with anything he is doing and I know a lot of people who feel the same.
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What expertise? What focus? And who is happy with it? Most of the American people I know are not happy at all.