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2024.05.13 20:40 Dry_Flamingo_8574 Reevaluating relationship with boyfriend over one of his friendships

I (mid 20s f) have been dating my boyfriend Sam (mid 20s m) for 3 years. A few months ago, we befriended Maggie (mid 20s f) through a mutual friend. My relationship with Sam has been great up until this point. We're each other's best friends, we both get along super well with each other's families and friends, and we've had several talks about moving in together and getting married within the next couple of years lately and are both very excited for our future together.
While we're both friends with Maggie, Sam is significantly closer with her than I am. I have no problem with Sam having female friends and have really liked all but one of them (and they didn't stay friends for long because she wasn't a super nice person), but I'm not used to him having a female best friend. I feel like I'm sharing Sam with Maggie sometimes. Maggie doesn't seem like she's super close with a lot of people other than Sam and the mutual friend who introduced us, so she and Sam spend a lot of time together. Sam and I see each other roughly 3-4x/week and I would say that Maggie sees him the same amount.
Sometimes Maggie hangs out with the two of us, or sometimes we hang out with a bigger group. Over the past month, one-on-one hangouts have become a thing between them. Sam asked me if I was ok with this. I told him that I am ok with it as long as they're not together one-on-one more often than we are and he's transparent about it, which he seemed on board with.
I have felt uncomfortable with some of Sam and Maggie's interactions. Maggie has actively pursued other guys since she and Sam started getting close and she's never been weird to me, so I don't think she's trying to make passes at Sam, but they talk constantly when it's the three of us to the point where I feel like I'm third wheeling them. It's usually about people I don't know and situations I can't relate to, so it's hard for me to butt in. Sam and Maggie are also both very outgoing and I'm on the quieter side, so I feel like I get talked over when I do speak up. Up until about two weeks ago, Sam would always have me sit in between them or would sit next to me with his arm around me, but now he and Maggie sit right next to each other if the option is there.
I talked to Sam about this and he said that he was sorry I was feeling insecure, but that I had nothing to worry about since I'm the one dating him at the end of the day and he loves me very much. He offered to stop hanging out with female friends in general and I told him that was unnecessary and that I thought that would be a controlling and toxic expectation for me to have of him. I told him that I simply don't like feeling like I'm the third wheel and would appreciate feeling a little more included, and Sam told me to make the effort to get closer with Maggie. While Maggie and I have spent more time together without Sam, I still feel like nothing has changed when we're with Sam.
Last weekend, Sam invited Maggie and me to hang out for a few hours in the evening before he went to his friend Connor's house for a boys' night. I had a prior obligation and wouldn't have been able to make it to most of the hangout, so I told Sam that I would call him once I was free to see if I could still swing by. When I called Sam, he told me that he and Maggie were parting ways in about 10 minutes. It wasn't the end of the world, since Sam has always immediately invited me to stuff if he's able and plans fall through sometimes.
An hour later, Maggie posted a story of Sam at a bar. I asked her if I could drop by and she said yes, but Sam told me no when I asked him since they were about to head out. A few hours later, I found out that Sam and Maggie were both at Connor's boys' night. When I asked Sam about this, he told me that Maggie was just saying hi to some people she knew and was going to leave right after. She was there for the remainder of the night and went back to Sam's house, staying there until early the next afternoon.
Once Maggie left, Sam called me. I told him right off that bat that I wasn't trying to cause drama or a fight, but that I was really upset and uncomfortable with what had happened the night before. I was hurt by what I saw as a lack of transparency (telling me that he and Maggie were splitting up for the night but then going on to be together for the whole night, bringing Maggie to boys' night) and that, while I know my feelings of insecurity are my issue to deal with, this wasn't helping.
Sam told me that he did nothing wrong, it's not like he and Maggie kissed or had sex, and that Maggie actually hooked up with Connor's friend Jake and that's why she was there. He told me that he's sick of me being jealous of every woman he interacts with (like I said, I've only ever felt "off" about one of Sam's friendships with a girl up until now, and it wasn't really even out of jealousy) and that I have some problems that I need to work on. Sam told me that he spends all this time with Maggie because other than me, she's one of the few people who he enjoys knowing on a deeper level and he doesn't see gender when it comes to friends, which I do think is completely fair. He said that I'm too fixated on the fact that Maggie is a woman and asked if I have a problem with all of his friends, male or female, if this is how I feel about him and Maggie being so close. I said no and reiterated what I said in our previous conversation about transparency and me still being the clear priority. Sam said that I am still his top priority because, even if he talks to other people for most of the time we're together in a group, he'll still only be sleeping with me at the end of the night.
Sam kept talking over me and telling me to be quiet, so I told him that I didn't want to continue the conversation since it wasn't going anywhere. He told me that it wasn't going anywhere because my feelings on the situation were invalid (verbatim). I was feeling defeated and told him that I would never bring this up again and that, from now on, I would try to deal with my feelings of jealousy and insecurity quietly. He told me to please never bring up his friendship with Maggie ever again and told me to quit gaslighting him when I told him that I would handle my feelings in private if/when they arose again. Sam and I ended the conversation both livid with each other.
We had plans with a small group for that night, which Sam said he still wanted me to attend. I was supposed to go over to Sam's a couple hours before these plans and he told me he was still busy when I called to see if I could head over, since I hadn't heard from him at all after the argument. About two hours into our group plans, Sam ditched us for Connor and his friend group. He didn't even say goodbye to me. He called later that night to see if he could sleep over at my apartment and I told him he could if he could be over within the next half hour since I needed to go to sleep. He asked if we were ok and I said that we should just talk about it when we were both sober (he was drunk) and have time because that entire day was not a good one for our relationship. He seemed understanding and told me that I could spend the following night (last night) at his place.
Last night, I went over to Sam's. I know he had gotten food with Maggie and had her over, but he left that out when I asked him about his day. We barely talked the whole time, but it was getting late, so I figured it wasn't the time to talk about our relationship. I left as soon as we woke up this morning and he made a comment like "wow, out of here fast, huh?", but told me he loves me and thanked me for coming over.
We haven't talked since. The next time I'll be able to see Sam is Wednesday, and I'm not sure how to approach this conversation with him. I'm starting to reevaluate our relationship, which hurts in a way I never could have imagined, but this is the first time Sam has ever spoken to me like that or that we've had a disagreement that went unresolved. I don't feel cared about right now and am not sure how this can be fixed.
TLDR; boyfriend defended friendship that I'm uncomfortable with and told me to get over it, now the vibes between us are off
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2024.05.13 17:17 Ordinary_Branch_9215 AITA for exposing my cousin's pregnancy?

I(17F) have been best friends with "Eleanor"(17F) my whole life. She has brother - "Chris"(18M) who I've also known my whole life. I've developed a crush on him and want to be more than friends.
However he has started dating my cousin - "Maggie"(18F). He is head over heels in love with her and wants to marry her. The issue is that I know for a fact that Maggie is pregnant with another man's child. That guy isn't in the picture(apparently he passed away) and I think she wants to trap Chris into marriage.
This is the part that makes me think I might be in the wrong. So I have this anonymous gossip IG account where I spill all the gossip in our town. I used this account to reveal that Maggie is pregnant and trying to trick Chris.
I did it because I didn't want Chris be deceived like that but now he isn't talking to me and I'm also scared of Eleanor finding out and ruining our friendship.
So, AITA?
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2024.05.13 06:04 Entire_Ad2109 Please help 🩵 Season 2 Episode 4

Spoiler Alert Hi everyone! I have spent longer than I would like to admit 😄 to find the title of the song playing in the background while Cal and Maggie are dancing on their first date (Season 2 episode 4) Here are some of the lyrics A love like this Was written in the stars Two passing ships And no more nights When I just think of you I know inside You’re thinking of me too When the day breaks I will never let you go Never let you go We were meant to be I am the one you come back to
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2024.05.13 05:02 Ok_Resolution_9417 AITA for sleeping with my boyfriends best man

Yes, you read that correctly and I know my life is a mess. I (22f) and my boyfriend (32 m) were in a exclusive relationship for a little more than a year. For the purpose of this story we will call him Cole. Cole was still legally married to his wife “Maggie” when I met him but were separated. Cole and Maggie were married for 4 years (together 7) and had 2 children. Here is some backstory on how we met in the first place. Cole and Maggie would frequent my job when I worked as a waitress at the local ale house. I never thought anything of this since I lived in a small town and this ale house was very popular. I would always say hello every time that I saw them and would carry on with my day. The last time that they came in together, I felt a very weird vibe coming from Maggie. I did not know her well enough to understand why there would be something wrong so I just ignored it. During that shift, Cole came up to me personally and said hello without Maggie. Again, didn’t really think much of it. A few weeks go by and I see that he added me on Snapchat. I accepted and since Snapchat was very common and I had several hundred friends, it was normal to be friends with everyone on the platform. He then messaged me and asked me what I was doing. I instantly asked him “aren’t you married?” and explained that it is not appropriate to message me. He kind of ignored the question and said he was with his friends and wanted to grab a beer and if I was working. I didn’t respond but at this time, I also had my Snapchat linked to my location (which I know was dumb) and the next thing I know he shows up at the ale house with his friends. We had a very casual conversation and he let me know that him and Maggie were separated. I didn’t ask why because it was none of my business. I always thought he was cute but since he was married, I never thought twice. Some time goes on and we start dating. I learned very shortly after we started dating that he told me that he could not stop thinking about me for 3 years and told Maggie. He said that they fought about him liking my Instagram photos, my Facebook, finances, infidelity, and a bunch of other things that ultimately resulted in their separation. But let me remind you, I have never hung out with this man, spoke to him, or even had his phone number but this would explain why I felt a coldness from her the last time I saw her. So as we are dating for about 6 months at this point, Maggie is refusing to sign the divorce papers and she starts posting pictures of Cole and I on her Instagram essentially calling me a homewrecker, husband thief, etc. while we are on vacation. This is not the first time she has done this. She and many of her friends would spam my social media calling me horrific names, make memes out me, and stalk my every move. She would blow up his phone constantly day and night and threaten him with their kids where it got to the point that he would do anything to appease her and prevent them from going to court for the kids. Maggie then decides to book a trip for her daughter’s birthday to Disney World and invited Cole and Cole’s mother. They would all be sharing a house together, which I was not comfortable with. However, I do understand if you have children this would be their best interest, but if you are separated and in a committed relationship, I do not think it is appropriate and he should of got a hotel. Of course during this trip, I can only imagine what happened or didn’t happen. Once Cole returned from the trip, I felt that things were a little off. He was being kind of secretive and I felt like was stringing Maggie and I along. Cole was currently living with our friend “Zach” at the time since he moved out of the house he shared with Maggie as soon as they separated. I spent a lot of time at Zach’s house and soon grew our own friendship. Cole wasn’t very fond that I would hang out at Zach’s house when he was not there but Zach became friends with myself and my sister and that was out of the question. One day, Zach invited his best friend who was also Cole’s best man in his wedding to Maggie over, his name was Jordan. Jordan and I immediately hit it off. From this point Cole was treating me pretty terribly and was verbally abusive but would refuse to break up even though he was being sneaky. Cole was very narcissistic and would do absolutely horrible things to me. For example, he texted my mother that I was so skinny from being strung out on drugs and he was so worried for me. My poor mom came to me knowing I am super healthy and this was clearly a tactic to put a wedge between us. A few days later Jordan one day asked me if I wanted to go to dinner as friends and get some margs. I accepted. Both Jordan and I had an amazing night and ended up drinking way too many margaritas. We had to Uber from the restaurant and he insisted I spent the night at his house. At this point, I had no idea where Cole was (I can guess Maggie’s) but he claimed that he spent the entire night looking for me (the lies). Cole created so many issues and drama with his personal life that Zach asked Cole to move out and he did. I continued to be friends with Zach and would hangout at his house. Fast-forward to a couple weeks later, Maggie’s friend Kaitlin sent me a nasty message, letting me know that we were both being two timed by Maggie’s soon-to-be-ex husband and Cole was sneaking around with Maggie and keeping me as his girlfriend and showed receipts. I was at Zachs house when I got these messages. Zach was currently away in Mexico and told me I could stay at his house if I wanted. So I had some friends over (Zach said yes of course) including Jordan when Cole showed up. It was about 8 people so it didn’t seem like something inappropriate was happening. I asked Cole if he wanted to hang out with us and he said no but told me Jordan had to leave. Based on the information that I knew, he was going to go stay with Maggie for the night and I was correct. This was confirmation for me to have fun and enjoy my time with Jordan and I did just that. The next morning….. It was about 7 AM when I heard loud banging on the bedroom door. At this point both Jordan and I were in bed and just looked at eachother with that “oh shit” kind of moment. We both were still definitely drunk from the night before when all of a sudden Cole literally breaks the door down and was recording? Lol I immediately ran into the bathroom and got dressed while Jordan and Cole had words. I confronted Cole and let him know that I knew that he was with Maggie last night and Jordan treated me better. That day ruined Jordan and Cole’s friendship forever and even though he was his best man, he shouldn’t have been cheating on me with his wife. AITA?
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2024.05.12 17:43 ToysAndCardsNY [US-NY] [H] Sealed Simpsons, Looney Tunes, Disney, Harry Potter, DC CMF Collections 40710 - Pirate Splash Battle (2024 Legoland Exclusive) Used Delorean (BTTF2 Variant) [W] Paypal

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2024.05.12 10:04 OneSalientOversight Maggie Gyllenhaal auditions for Westworld (2015)

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2024.05.12 07:55 Asiablog 12 MAGGIO 1974 🇮🇹 Al Referendum per abrogare il DIVORZIO, entrato in vigore 4 anni prima, vince il NO con oltre il 59% dei voti. L'Unità: GRANDE VITTORIA DELLA LIBERTÀ «Il popolo italiano fa prevalere la ragione, il diritto, la civiltà»

12 MAGGIO 1974 🇮🇹 Al Referendum per abrogare il DIVORZIO, entrato in vigore 4 anni prima, vince il NO con oltre il 59% dei voti. L'Unità: GRANDE VITTORIA DELLA LIBERTÀ «Il popolo italiano fa prevalere la ragione, il diritto, la civiltà» submitted by Asiablog to Italia [link] [comments]


2024.05.12 03:36 NewsInside8464 How do you think solos is affecting legend pick rates?

How do you think solos is affecting legend pick rates?
Of course solos is affecting certain aspects of pick rates. Surprisingly I’m happy to see pathfinder back at the top, and I’m also wondering currently where Alter is going to settle.
Looks like ballistic/ash/crypto also having an increase in their popularity!
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2024.05.11 08:38 Careless-Wish-4563 How much/in what ways does a person’s first sexual experience tend to shape their preferences moving forward?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how much my preferences have changed as I’ve grown older (been 19 for a month) and about how my first sexual experience/dating experience (well, only sexual and dating experience at the moment) has shaped both. Before I dated someone at 16-17 (black) and gave him a blowjob, I had rarely thought of guys sexually. I am bisexual, and before then it had primarily been women, mostly because of what I had been exposed to when I was much younger.
But I notice that as an adult, even though I have disliked my ex boyfriend for years and am no longer attracted to him, I now seem to have a sexual preference for black men that was absolutely not present before (I think that it used to moreso be a sexual preference for white women, although I have grown up in an area wherein there is a high white population and low black population.) I just notice that now, unless I’m thinking of a celebrity (like Jake Gyllenhaal, who I find quite attractive) I don’t really tend to think about white men sexually anymore, it’s almost like I just can’t imagine it and also don’t want it (I’m a black woman.) In my case, I do think about what that first sexual/romantic experience was like, and know there are certain aspects of it I’d like to be apart of my future sexual/romantic experiences.
I’m wondering: is this common? are there any studies on how people’s initial sexual and/or romantic experiences shape their lifelong preferences and expectations of partners?
Why are black women less likely to be attracted to white men than black men are to be attracted to white women?
I’m a black woman, and I wonder about this. I’ve always been in an area that has a low black population, and will note that I do think, based upon observation, that a black woman who lives in an area with a low black population is likely to be more open to dating white men than a black woman who lives in an area with a high black population will be.
But even with that being said, as someone who lives in an area that doesn’t have a terribly high black population, it is rare for me to see black men dating and married to black women here. When I was in high school, black boys seeking out white girls was a “thing.” I receive a lot more attention when I walk around in an area that has a higher black population than I do in my city. I’ve met black women who grew up here that still have a preference for black men. As I’ve grown older, I’ve realized I have a preference for black men even though I haven’t moved. But I can’t say I’ve met many black men who grew up in the same area who prefer black women.
So why is that? I understand that environment growing up and what you see in the media are factors. But as a black woman, I’m wondering myself - why am I not very attracted to white men anymore, like I was for a time in middle school?
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2024.05.11 07:51 Careless-Wish-4563 How much/in what ways does a person’s first sexual experience tend to shape their preferences moving forward?

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how much my preferences have changed as I’ve grown older (been 19 for a month) and about how my first sexual experience/dating experience (well, only sexual and dating experience at the moment) has shaped both. Before I dated someone at 16-17 (black) and gave him a blowjob, I had rarely thought of guys sexually. I am bisexual, and before then it had primarily been women, mostly because of what I had been exposed to when I was much younger.
But I notice that as an adult, even though I have disliked my ex boyfriend for years and am no longer attracted to him, I now seem to have a sexual preference for black men that was absolutely not present before (I think that it used to moreso be a sexual preference for white women, although I have grown up in an area wherein there is a high white population and low black population.) I just notice that now, unless I’m thinking of a celebrity (like Jake Gyllenhaal, who I find quite attractive) I don’t really tend to think about white men sexually anymore, it’s almost like I just can’t imagine it and also don’t want it (I’m a black woman.) In my case, I do think about what that first sexual/romantic experience was like, and know there are certain aspects of it I’d like to be apart of my future sexual/romantic experiences.
I’m wondering: is this common? are there any studies on how people’s initial sexual and/or romantic experiences shape their lifelong preferences and expectations of partners?
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2024.05.11 03:13 cabbage_cai [Question] She(25F) wants to take a step back despite she told me(26M) I didn't do anything wrong. What should I do in this situation?

Hi all,
I want to talk about this amazing girl I dated and the current situation with her. I have some genuine questions, and this also counts as my little rant. Thanks for your attention.
Both she (F) and I (M) are in our mid-20s. We connected through Hinge earlier this year, and it's truly a blessing how well we match personality-wise. We both love sitcoms, appreciate art, and value maturity and communication. She got into How I Met Your Mother because of me, and I got into New Girl because of her. We both really enjoy Modern Family. I aspire to be an amazing partner (and one day dad) like Phil Dunphy, and she, being busy, organized, and driven with her life together, is what I envisioned in a perfect partner. While we're so similar and share many interests, we also have differences that make things interesting: I love Taylor Swift, she loves Pitbull; I work in science, she works in art; I like performing a little, she prefers enjoying the show.
There was some distance between us, but it never seemed to be a problem. We drove back and forth to see each other, and I loved making the trip to her because it felt like racing towards an incredible experience. I had so much faith in her, and she gave me the same energy in return. The distance just made our dates longer (6-10 hours each time), which made me appreciate her even more. During one of our dates, she told me, "I just love that I'm so comfortable around you and can talk about my honest feelings." I felt overwhelming joy and knew I wanted to be in a relationship with her. She's emotionally available, mature, and communicative. I could almost envision eight seasons of a sitcom-like relationship for us.
After about two amazing months, filled with laughter, conversations, and cuddles, it felt like a dream. But things suddenly went downhill after one weekend. She went home to meet her big family, and afterward, the magic was just… gone. I knew she was super tired from the trip, yet she still tried to check in with me as much as possible. I appreciated it, believing she'd have much to share afterward. However, after the trip, she started replying to my messages less frequently. She was vocal about her feelings, saying she wasn't getting enough "me-time," couldn't relax or focus, and didn't have time for what she wanted. I wanted to support her through texts, but for the first time, I felt our bond weakening.
The next weekend, she initially planned to drive down but never confirmed until the morning of our planned meeting. She told me she won't be coming down that morning. I was surprised and saddened because it didn't feel like something she'd normally do. I asked if she was free the next day so I could drive up and catch up. She said she would be and that we could have brunch and hang out. I drove up the next morning, and we met up. During the date, I noticed something was off. She seemed a little on edge, didn't lean her head on my shoulder, and didn't ask for a kiss when we were chewing gum in her car.
Overall, the date was still fine. She explained why she couldn't come down the previous day, citing reasons like "the car is making a weird sound," "I'm exhausted from the trip," and "I'm not feeling great." I knew these were stress responses, but I thought, "It's okay. I have faith in her, and she'll talk to me when she figures it out." I ended the date before dinner and drove home.
The following week, her responses were even less frequent. That Friday, she told me she was frustrated with the way she was interacting with me. She said she couldn't deliver what she felt was appropriate in a relationship and wanted to step back. I was shocked and didn't know what to do. I asked if we could talk over the phone so I could listen and understand her frustration.
We had a phone call the next day, and in our 1-hour and 4-minute conversation, we were amicable and mature. We agreed that our personalities matched perfectly and that we were exactly what we were looking for. We reviewed our experiences and tried to identify what went wrong. Ultimately, she said she simply fell out of love. I hadn't acted differently or done anything wrong; I remained the person she wanted. For no apparent reason, she had fallen out of love. "We're discussing this so openly, and I'd tell you if there were a reason," she said.
I, being a little Ted Mosby in this situation, asked if it could be due to stress from work. She has a big performance coming up and has poured her heart into it. She acknowledged the possibility but seemed unsure if that was the cause. We ended the conversation with a plan to take a break for a while. She would reach out once she'd thought about it, and we'd see if restarting was feasible once she had more free time in the summer.
It's been two weeks since our conversation, and she hasn't reached out. I feel like her image is slipping through my fingers like sand, and along with it, my faith in restarting this relationship. The more I want to hold on to it, the less certain I feel about doing the right thing. Am I putting her in an awkward position by asking her to reach out when she's freer? Am I a fool for waiting for her to reach out? Or am I a fool for doubting our agreement?
Each day that passes, my doubts grow. I feel like a hungry, shocked man choking on the first bite of love. The closest comparison I have is the All Too Well short film, but even that isn't similar enough. At least Jake Gyllenhaal was an asshole and they had a reason to breakup.
TDLR: We were having amazing experience until one weekend. Then things suddenly dropped below the ice point. We communicated about what happened but there were no reasons for it to go bad. I don't know how to move forward with her in the future.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Am I putting her into an akward position? What should I do in this situation? Am I a fool to ask her to restart in the summer? Am I a fool to doubt our agreement? Please let me know what you think.
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2024.05.11 03:11 cabbage_cai [Question] She(25F) wants to take a step back despite she told me(26M) I didn't do anything wrong. What should I do in this situation?

Hi all,
I want to talk about this amazing girl I dated and the current situation with her. I have some genuine questions, and this also counts as my little rant. Thanks for your attention.
Both she (F) and I (M) are in our mid-20s. We connected through Hinge earlier this year, and it's truly a blessing how well we match personality-wise. We both love sitcoms, appreciate art, and value maturity and communication. She got into How I Met Your Mother because of me, and I got into New Girl because of her. We both really enjoy Modern Family. I aspire to be an amazing partner (and one day dad) like Phil Dunphy, and she, being busy, organized, and driven with her life together, is what I envisioned in a perfect partner. While we're so similar and share many interests, we also have differences that make things interesting: I love Taylor Swift, she loves Pitbull; I work in science, she works in art; I like performing a little, she prefers enjoying the show.
There was some distance between us, but it never seemed to be a problem. We drove back and forth to see each other, and I loved making the trip to her because it felt like racing towards an incredible experience. I had so much faith in her, and she gave me the same energy in return. The distance just made our dates longer (6-10 hours each time), which made me appreciate her even more. During one of our dates, she told me, "I just love that I'm so comfortable around you and can talk about my honest feelings." I felt overwhelming joy and knew I wanted to be in a relationship with her. She's emotionally available, mature, and communicative. I could almost envision eight seasons of a sitcom-like relationship for us.
After about two amazing months, filled with laughter, conversations, and cuddles, it felt like a dream. But things suddenly went downhill after one weekend. She went home to meet her big family, and afterward, the magic was just… gone. I knew she was super tired from the trip, yet she still tried to check in with me as much as possible. I appreciated it, believing she'd have much to share afterward. However, after the trip, she started replying to my messages less frequently. She was vocal about her feelings, saying she wasn't getting enough "me-time," couldn't relax or focus, and didn't have time for what she wanted. I wanted to support her through texts, but for the first time, I felt our bond weakening.
The next weekend, she initially planned to drive down but never confirmed until the morning of our planned meeting. She told me she won't be coming down that morning. I was surprised and saddened because it didn't feel like something she'd normally do. I asked if she was free the next day so I could drive up and catch up. She said she would be and that we could have brunch and hang out. I drove up the next morning, and we met up. During the date, I noticed something was off. She seemed a little on edge, didn't lean her head on my shoulder, and didn't ask for a kiss when we were chewing gum in her car.
Overall, the date was still fine. She explained why she couldn't come down the previous day, citing reasons like "the car is making a weird sound," "I'm exhausted from the trip," and "I'm not feeling great." I knew these were stress responses, but I thought, "It's okay. I have faith in her, and she'll talk to me when she figures it out." I ended the date before dinner and drove home.
The following week, her responses were even less frequent. That Friday, she told me she was frustrated with the way she was interacting with me. She said she couldn't deliver what she felt was appropriate in a relationship and wanted to step back. I was shocked and didn't know what to do. I asked if we could talk over the phone so I could listen and understand her frustration.
We had a phone call the next day, and in our 1-hour and 4-minute conversation, we were amicable and mature. We agreed that our personalities matched perfectly and that we were exactly what we were looking for. We reviewed our experiences and tried to identify what went wrong. Ultimately, she said she simply fell out of love. I hadn't acted differently or done anything wrong; I remained the person she wanted. For no apparent reason, she had fallen out of love. "We're discussing this so openly, and I'd tell you if there were a reason," she said.
I, being a little Ted Mosby in this situation, asked if it could be due to stress from work. She has a big performance coming up and has poured her heart into it. She acknowledged the possibility but seemed unsure if that was the cause. We ended the conversation with a plan to take a break for a while. She would reach out once she'd thought about it, and we'd see if restarting was feasible once she had more free time in the summer.
It's been two weeks since our conversation, and she hasn't reached out. I feel like her image is slipping through my fingers like sand, and along with it, my faith in restarting this relationship. The more I want to hold on to it, the less certain I feel about doing the right thing. Am I putting her in an awkward position by asking her to reach out when she's freer? Am I a fool for waiting for her to reach out? Or am I a fool for doubting our agreement?
Each day that passes, my doubts grow. I feel like a hungry, shocked man choking on the first bite of love. The closest comparison I have is the All Too Well short film, but even that isn't similar enough. At least Jake Gyllenhaal was an asshole and they had a reason to breakup.
TDLR: We were having amazing experience until one weekend. Then things suddenly dropped below the ice point. We communicated about what happened but there were no reasons for it to go bad. I don't know how to move forward with her in the future.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Am I putting her into an akward position? What should I do in this situation? Am I a fool to ask her to restart in the summer? Am I a fool to doubt our agreement? Please let me know what you think.
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2024.05.11 02:41 cabbage_cai [Question] She(25F) wants to take a step back despite she told me(26M) I didn't do anything wrong. What should I do in this situation?

Hi all,
I want to talk about this amazing girl I dated and the current situation with her. I have some genuine questions, and this also counts as my little rant. Thanks for your attention.
Both she (F) and I (M) are in our mid-20s. We connected through Hinge earlier this year, and it's truly a blessing how well we match personality-wise. We both love sitcoms, appreciate art, and value maturity and communication. She got into How I Met Your Mother because of me, and I got into New Girl because of her. We both really enjoy Modern Family. I aspire to be an amazing partner (and one day dad) like Phil Dunphy, and she, being busy, organized, and driven with her life together, is what I envisioned in a perfect partner. While we're so similar and share many interests, we also have differences that make things interesting: I love Taylor Swift, she loves Pitbull; I work in science, she works in art; I like performing a little, she prefers enjoying the show.
There was some distance between us, but it never seemed to be a problem. We drove back and forth to see each other, and I loved making the trip to her because it felt like racing towards an incredible experience. I had so much faith in her, and she gave me the same energy in return. The distance just made our dates longer (6-10 hours each time), which made me appreciate her even more. During one of our dates, she told me, "I just love that I'm so comfortable around you and can talk about my honest feelings." I felt overwhelming joy and knew I wanted to be in a relationship with her. She's emotionally available, mature, and communicative. I could almost envision eight seasons of a sitcom-like relationship for us.
After about two amazing months, filled with laughter, conversations, and cuddles, it felt like a dream. But things suddenly went downhill after one weekend. She went home to meet her big family, and afterward, the magic was just… gone. I knew she was super tired from the trip, yet she still tried to check in with me as much as possible. I appreciated it, believing she'd have much to share afterward. However, after the trip, she started replying to my messages less frequently. She was vocal about her feelings, saying she wasn't getting enough "me-time," couldn't relax or focus, and didn't have time for what she wanted. I wanted to support her through texts, but for the first time, I felt our bond weakening.
The next weekend, she initially planned to drive down but never confirmed until the morning of our planned meeting. She told me she won't be coming down that morning. I was surprised and saddened because it didn't feel like something she'd normally do. I asked if she was free the next day so I could drive up and catch up. She said she would be and that we could have brunch and hang out. I drove up the next morning, and we met up. During the date, I noticed something was off. She seemed a little on edge, didn't lean her head on my shoulder, and didn't ask for a kiss when we were chewing gum in her car.
Overall, the date was still fine. She explained why she couldn't come down the previous day, citing reasons like "the car is making a weird sound," "I'm exhausted from the trip," and "I'm not feeling great." I knew these were stress responses, but I thought, "It's okay. I have faith in her, and she'll talk to me when she figures it out." I ended the date before dinner and drove home.
The following week, her responses were even less frequent. That Friday, she told me she was frustrated with the way she was interacting with me. She said she couldn't deliver what she felt was appropriate in a relationship and wanted to step back. I was shocked and didn't know what to do. I asked if we could talk over the phone so I could listen and understand her frustration.
We had a phone call the next day, and in our 1-hour and 4-minute conversation, we were amicable and mature. We agreed that our personalities matched perfectly and that we were exactly what we were looking for. We reviewed our experiences and tried to identify what went wrong. Ultimately, she said she simply fell out of love. I hadn't acted differently or done anything wrong; I remained the person she wanted. For no apparent reason, she had fallen out of love. "We're discussing this so openly, and I'd tell you if there were a reason," she said.
I, being a little Ted Mosby in this situation, asked if it could be due to stress from work. She has a big performance coming up and has poured her heart into it. She acknowledged the possibility but seemed unsure if that was the cause. We ended the conversation with a plan to take a break for a while. She would reach out once she'd thought about it, and we'd see if restarting was feasible once she had more free time in the summer.
It's been two weeks since our conversation, and she hasn't reached out. I feel like her image is slipping through my fingers like sand, and along with it, my faith in restarting this relationship. The more I want to hold on to it, the less certain I feel about doing the right thing. Am I putting her in an awkward position by asking her to reach out when she's freer? Am I a fool for waiting for her to reach out? Or am I a fool for doubting our agreement?
Each day that passes, my doubts grow. I feel like a hungry, shocked man choking on the first bite of love. The closest comparison I have is the All Too Well short film, but even that isn't similar enough. At least Jake Gyllenhaal was an asshole and they had a reason to breakup.
TDLR: We were having amazing experience until one weekend. Then things suddenly dropped below the ice point. We communicated about what happened but there were no reasons for it to go bad. I don't know how to move forward with her in the future.
Has anyone had a similar experience? Am I putting her into an akward position? What should I do in this situation? Am I a fool to ask her to restart in the summer? Am I a fool to doubt our agreement? Please let me know what you think.
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2024.05.10 22:11 cabbage_cai [Question] She(25F) wants to take a step back despite she told me(26M) I didn't do anything wrong. What should I do in this situation?

Hi all,
I want to talk about this amazing girl I dated and the current situation with her. I have some genuine questions, and this also counts as my little rant. Thanks for your attention.
Both she (F) and I (M) are in our mid-20s. We connected through Hinge earlier this year, and it's truly a blessing how well we match personality-wise. We both love sitcoms, appreciate art, and value maturity and communication. She got into How I Met Your Mother because of me, and I got into New Girl because of her. We both really enjoy Modern Family. I aspire to be an amazing partner (and one day dad) like Phil Dunphy, and she, being busy, organized, and driven with her life together, is what I envisioned in a perfect partner. While we're so similar and share many interests, we also have differences that make things interesting: I love Taylor Swift, she loves Pitbull; I work in science, she works in art; I like performing a little, she prefers enjoying the show.
There was some distance between us, but it never seemed to be a problem. We drove back and forth to see each other, and I loved making the trip to her because it felt like racing towards an incredible experience. I had so much faith in her, and she gave me the same energy in return. The distance just made our dates longer (6-10 hours each time), which made me appreciate her even more. During one of our dates, she told me, "I just love that I'm so comfortable around you and can talk about my honest feelings." I felt overwhelming joy and knew I wanted to be in a relationship with her. She's emotionally available, mature, and communicative. I could almost envision eight seasons of a sitcom-like relationship for us.
After about two amazing months, filled with laughter, conversations, and cuddles, it felt like a dream. But things suddenly went downhill after one weekend. She went home to meet her big family, and afterward, the magic was just… gone. I knew she was super tired from the trip, yet she still tried to check in with me as much as possible. I appreciated it, believing she'd have much to share afterward. However, after the trip, she started replying to my messages less frequently. She was vocal about her feelings, saying she wasn't getting enough "me-time," couldn't relax or focus, and didn't have time for what she wanted. I wanted to support her through texts, but for the first time, I felt our bond weakening.
The next weekend, she initially planned to drive down but never confirmed until the morning of our planned meeting. She told me she won't be coming down that morning. I was surprised and saddened because it didn't feel like something she'd normally do. I asked if she was free the next day so I could drive up and catch up. She said she would be and that we could have brunch and hang out. I drove up the next morning, and we met up. During the date, I noticed something was off. She seemed a little on edge, didn't lean her head on my shoulder, and didn't ask for a kiss when we were chewing gum in her car.
Overall, the date was still fine. She explained why she couldn't come down the previous day, citing reasons like "the car is making a weird sound," "I'm exhausted from the trip," and "I'm not feeling great." I knew these were stress responses, but I thought, "It's okay. I have faith in her, and she'll talk to me when she figures it out." I ended the date before dinner and drove home.
The following week, her responses were even less frequent. That Friday, she told me she was frustrated with the way she was interacting with me. She said she couldn't deliver what she felt was appropriate in a relationship and wanted to step back. I was shocked and didn't know what to do. I asked if we could talk over the phone so I could listen and understand her frustration.
We had a phone call the next day, and in our 1-hour and 4-minute conversation, we were amicable and mature. We agreed that our personalities matched perfectly and that we were exactly what we were looking for. We reviewed our experiences and tried to identify what went wrong. Ultimately, she said she simply fell out of love. I hadn't acted differently or done anything wrong; I remained the person she wanted. For no apparent reason, she had fallen out of love. "We're discussing this so openly, and I'd tell you if there were a reason," she said.
I, being a little Ted Mosby in this situation, asked if it could be due to stress from work. She has a big performance coming up and has poured her heart into it. She acknowledged the possibility but seemed unsure if that was the cause. We ended the conversation with a plan to take a break for a while. She would reach out once she'd thought about it, and we'd see if restarting was feasible once she had more free time in the summer.
It's been two weeks since our conversation, and she hasn't reached out. I feel like her image is slipping through my fingers like sand, and along with it, my faith in restarting this relationship. The more I want to hold on to it, the less certain I feel about doing the right thing. Am I putting her in an awkward position by asking her to reach out when she's freer? Am I a fool for waiting for her to reach out? Or am I a fool for doubting our agreement?
Each day that passes, my doubts grow. I feel like a hungry, shocked man choking on the first bite of love. The closest comparison I have is the All Too Well short film, but even that isn't similar enough. At least Jake Gyllenhaal was an asshole and they had a reason to breakup.
TDLR: We were having amazing experience until one weekend. Then things suddenly dropped below the ice point. We communicated about what happened but there were no reasons for it to go bad. I don't know how to move forward with her in the future.
Has anyone had a similar experience? What should I do in this situation? How long should I wait before making up my mind and move on? Please let me know what you think.
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2024.05.10 20:20 Brielle-m-381 Maggie Sellers??

I've been following maggie sellers content since she called off her engagement and in her most recent tiktoks and instagram stories she's been hinting about dating someone for a little while, does anyone know who it could be? I CANNOT figure this out lol - is this guy in finance??
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2024.05.10 14:26 3marta Penélope Cruz en el set de “The Bride” de Maggie Gyllenhaal. (Fuente: Getty Images)

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2024.05.10 14:22 RedChipCompanies Global MMA Superstar Conor McGregor Invests in Alta Global Group to Propel Combat Sports Participation Worldwide

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA / ACCESSWIRE / May 10, 2024 / Alta Global Group (NYSE American:MMA) ("Alta" or the "Company"), a pioneering technology company dedicated to revolutionizing the martial arts and combat sports industry, proudly announces its partnership with five-time MMA world champion Conor McGregor in support of Trainalta.com. McGregor, along with his long-standing coach and Alta Co-Founder John Kavanagh, has become a shareholder of Alta Global Group as it aims to convert 640 million MMA fans into active combat sports participants globally.
Fresh off the stunning success of his much-anticipated movie debut in "Roadhouse" alongside Jake Gyllenhaal, McGregor is lending his support to Alta's flagship 20-week Warrior Training Program. This program, globally recognized for transforming the lives of thousands through intense MMA training culminating in a fully sanctioned fight, is set to receive a significant boost from McGregor's endorsement.
Nick Langton, CEO and founder of Alta Global Group, expressed enthusiasm about McGregor's support, stating, "Alta is thrilled to have the backing of the biggest name in combat sports and one of the most significant sporting stars globally. We aim to partner with icons like Conor to propel MMA's growth while supporting local combat sports gyms worldwide." McGregor's investment and endorsement comes at a pivotal moment as Alta embarks on rolling out its transformational Warrior Training Program across the US.
In a recent video post on social media, McGregor urged MMA fans to embrace martial arts training through Trainalta.com, emphasizing the platform's role in providing a space for learning and camaraderie. He highlighted Trainalta.com as an essential organization in the martial arts space, supporting MMA gyms worldwide, underscoring Trainalta.com's commitment to fostering a vibrant community of martial artists and combat sports enthusiasts while revolutionizing training experiences globally.
LINK TO VIDEO: https://youtube.com/shorts/9SGMFVvseyQ?feature=share
Alta's network currently encompasses partnerships with over 500 gyms, representing a fraction of the total martial arts and combat sports gym landscape in the US, which stands at 45,000 establishments.
~ABOUT ALTA GLOBAL GROUP LIMITED~
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2024.05.09 03:52 MirkWorks Excerpt from The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch (The Flight from Feeling: Sociopsychology of the Sex War)

VIII: The Flight from Feeling: Sociopsychology of the Sex War
The Trivialization of Personal Relations
Bertrand Russell once predicted that the socialization of reproduction - the supersession of the family by the state - would “make sex love itself more trivial,” encourage “a certain triviality in all personal relations,” and “make it far more difficult to take an interest in anything after one’s own death.” At first glance, recent developments appear to have refuted the first part of this prediction. Americans today invest personal relations, particularly the relations between men and women, with undiminished emotional importance. The decline of childrearing as a major preoccupation has freed sex from its bondage to procreation and made it possible for people to value erotic life for its own sake. As the family shrinks to the marital unit, it can be argued that men and women respond more readily to each other’s emotional needs, instead of living vicariously through their offspring. The marriage contract having lost its binding character, couples now find it possible, according to many observers, to ground sexual relations in something more solid than legal compulsion. In short, the growing determination to live for the moment, whatever it may have done to the relations between parents and children, appears to have established the preconditions of a new intimacy between men and women.
This appearance is an illusion. The cult of intimacy conceals a growing despair of finding it. Personal relations crumble under the emotional weight with which they are burdened. The inability “to take an interest in anything after one’s own death,” which gives such urgency to the pursuit of close personal encounters in the present, makes intimacy more elusive than ever. The same developments that have weakened the tie between parents and children have also undermined relations between men and women. Indeed the deterioration of marriage contributes in its own right to the deterioration of care for the young.
This last point is so obvious that only a strenuous propaganda on behalf of “open marriage” and “creative divorce” prevents us from grasping it. It is clear, for example, that the growing incidence of divorce, together with the ever present possibility that any given marriage will end in collapse, adds to the instability of family life and deprives the child of a measure of emotional security. Enlightened opinion diverts attention from this general fact by insisting that in specific cases, parents may do more harm to their children by holding a marriage together than by dissolving it. It is true that many couples preserve their marriage, in one form or another, at the expense of the child. Sometimes they embark on a life full of distractions that shield them against daily emotional involvements with their offspring. Sometimes one parent acquiesces in the neurosis of the other (as in the family configuration that produces so many schizophrenic patients) for fear of disturbing the precarious peace of the household. More often the husband abandons his children to the wife whose company he finds unbearable, and the wife smothers the children with incessant yet perfunctory attentions. This particular solution to the problem of marital strain has become so common that the absence of the father impresses many observers as the most striking fact about the contemporary family. Under these conditions, a divorce in which the mother retains custody of her children merely ratifies the existing state of affairs - the effective emotional desertion of his family by the father. But the reflection that divorce often does no more damage to children than marriage itself hardly inspires rejoicing.
Battle of the Sexes: Its Social History
While the escalating war between men and women have psychological roots in the disintegration of the marital relation, and more broadly in the changing patterns of socialization outlined in the preceding chapter, much of this tension can be explained without reference to psychology. The battle of the sexes also constitutes a social phenomena with a history of its own. The reasons for the recent intensification of sexual combat lie in the transformation of capitalism from its paternalistic and familial form to a managerial, corporate, bureaucratic system of almost total control: more specifically, in the collapse of “chivalry”; the liberation of sex from many of its former constraints; the pursuit of sexual pleasure as an end in itself; the emotional overloading of personal relations; and most important of all, the irrational male response to the emergence of the liberated woman.
It has been clear for some time that “chivalry is dead.” The tradition of gallantry formerly masked and to some degree mitigated the organized oppression of women. While males monopolized political and economic power, they made their domination of women more palatable by surrounding it with an elaborate ritual of deference and politesse. They set themselves up as protectors of the weaker sex, and this cloying but useful fiction set limits to their capacity to exploit women through sheer physical force. The counterconvention of droit de seigneur, which justified the predatory exploits of the privileged classes against women socially inferior to themselves, nevertheless showed that the male sex at no time ceased to regard most women as fair game. The long history of rape and seduction, moreover, served as a reminder that animal strength remained the basis of masculine ascendancy, manifested here in its most direct and brutal form. Yet polite conventions, even when they were no more than a façade, provided women with ideological leverage in their struggle to domesticate the wildness and savagery of men. They surrounded essentially exploitive relationships with a network of reciprocal obligations, which if nothing else made exploitation easier to bear.
The symbiotic interdependence of exploiters and exploited, so characteristic of paternalism in all ages, survived in male-female relations long after the collapse of patriarchal authority in other areas. Because the convention of deference to the fair sex was so closely bound up with paternalism, however, it lived on borrowed time once the democratic revolutions of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had destroyed the last foundations of feudalism. The decline of paternalism, and of the rich public ceremonial formerly associated with it, spelled the end of gallantry. Women themselves began to perceive the connection between their debasement and their sentimental exaltation, rejected their confining position on the pedestal of masculine adoration, and demanded the demystification of female sexuality.
Democracy and feminism have now stripped the veil of courtly convention from the subordination of women, revealing the sexual antagonisms formerly concealed by the “feminine mystique.” Denied illusions of comity, men and women find it more difficult than before to confront each other as friends and lovers, let alone as equals. As male supremacy becomes ideologically untenable, incapable of justifying itself as protection, men assert their domination more directly, in fantasies and occasionally in acts of raw violence. Thus the treatment of women in movies, according to one study, has shifted “from reverence to rape.”
Women who abandon the security of well-defined though restrictive social roles have always exposed themselves to sexual exploitation, having surrendered the usual claims of respectability. Mary Wollstonecraft, attempting to live as a free woman, found herself brutally deserted by Gilbert Imlay. Later feminists forfeited the privileges of sex and middle-class origin when they campaigned for women’s rights. Men reviled them publicly as sexless “she-men” and approached them privately as loose women. A Cincinnati brewer, expecting to be admitted to Emma Goldman’s hotel room when he found her alone, became alarmed when she threatened to wake the whole establishment. He protested, “I thought you believed in free love.” Ingrid Bengis reports that when she hitchhiked across the country, men expected her to pay for rides with sexual favors. Her refusal elicited the predictable reply: “Well, girls shouldn’t hitchhike in the first place.”
What distinguishes the present time from the past is that defiance of sexual conventions less and less presents itself as a matter of individual choice, as it was for the pioneers of feminism. Since most of those conventions have already collapsed, even a woman who lays no claim to her rights nevertheless finds it difficult to claim the traditional privileges of her sex. All women find themselves identified with “women’s lib” merely by virtue of their sex, unless by strenuous disavowals they identify themselves with its enemies. All women share in the burdens as well as the benefits of “liberation,” both of which can be summarized by saying that men no longer treat women as ladies.
The Sexual “Revolution”
The demystification of womanhood goes hand in hand with the desublimation of sexuality. The “repeal of reticence” has dispelled the aura of mystery surrounding sex and removed most of the obstacles to its public display. Institutionalized sexual segregation has given way to arrangements that promote the intermingling of the sexes at every stage of life. Efficient contraceptives, legalized abortion, and a “realistic” and “healthy” acceptance of the body have weakened the links that once tied sex to love, marriage, and procreation. Men and women now pursue sexual pleasure as an end in itself, unmediated even by the conventional trappings of romance.
Sex valued purely for its own sake loses all reference to the future and brings no hope of permanent relationships. Sexual liaisons, including marriage, can be terminated at pleasure. This means, as Willard Waller demonstrated a long time ago, that lovers forfeit the right to be jealous or to insist on fidelity as a condition of erotic union. In his sociological satire of the recently divorced, Waller pointed out that the bohemians of the 1920s attempted to avoid emotional commitments while eliciting them from others.
Since the bohemian was “not ready to answer with his whole personality for the consequences of the affair, nor to give any assurance of its continuance,” he lost the right to demand such an assurance from others. “To show jealousy,” under these conditions, became “nothing short of a crime…. So if one falls in love in Bohemia, he conceals it from his friends as best he can.” In similar studies of the “rating and dating complex” on college campuses, Waller found that students who fell in love invited the ridicule of their peers. Exclusive attachments have way to an easygoing promiscuity as the normal pattern of sexual relations. Popularity replaced purity as the measure of a woman’s social value; the sentimental cult of virginity gave way to “playful woman-sharing,” which had “no negative effect,” as Wolfenstein and Leites pointed out in their study of movies, “on the friendly relations between the men.”(*) In the thirties and forties, the cinematic fantasy in which a beautiful girl dances with a chorus of men, favoring one no more than the others, expressed an ideal to which reality more and more closely conformed. In Elmtown’s Youth, August Hollingshead described a freshman girl who violated conventional taboos against drinking, smoking, and “fast” behavior and still retained her standing in the school’s most prominent clique, partly carefully calibrated promiscuity. “To be seen with her adds to a boy’s prestige in the elite peer group…. she pets with her dates discreetly never goes too far, just far enough to make them come back again.” In high school as in college, the peer group attempts through conventional ridicule and vituperation to prevent its members from falling in love with the wrong people, indeed from falling in love at all; for as Hollingshead noted, lovers “are lost to the adolescent world with its quixotic enthusiasms and varied group activities.”
These studies show that the main features of the contemporary sexual scene had already established themselves well before the celebrated “sexual revolution” of the sixties and seventies: casual promiscuity, a wary avoidance of emotional commitments, an attack on jealousy and possessiveness. Recent developments, however, have introduced a new source of tension: the modern woman’s increasingly insistent demand for sexual fulfillment. In the 1920s and 1930s, many women still approached sexual encounters with a hesitance that combined prudery and a realistic fear of consequences. Superficially seductive, they took little pleasure in sex even when they spoke the jargon of sexual liberation and professed to live for pleasure and thrills. Doctors worried about female frigidity, and psychiatrists had no trouble in recognizing among their female patients the classic patterns of hysteria described by Freud, in which a coquettish display of sexuality often coexists with powerful repression and a rigid, puritanical morality.
Today women have dropped much of their sexual reserve. In the eyes of men, this makes them more accessible as sexual partners but also more threatening. Formerly men complained about women’s lack of sexual response; now they find this response intimidating and agonize about their capacity to satisfy it. “I’m sorry they ever found out they could have orgasms too,” Heller’s Bob Slocum says. The famous Masters-Johnson report on female sexuality added to these anxieties by depicting women as sexually insatiable, inexhaustible in their capacity to experience orgasm after orgasm. Some feminists have used the Masters report to attack the “myth of vaginal orgasm,” to assert women’s independence of men, or to taunt men with their sexual inferiority. “Theoretically, a woman could go on having orgasms indefinitely if physical exhaustion did not intervene,” writes Mary Jane Sherfey. According to Kate Millett, “While the male’s sexual potential is limited, the female’s appears to be biologically nearly inexhaustible.” Sexual “performance” thus becomes another weapon in the war between men and women; social inhibitions no longer prevent women from exploiting the tactical advantage which the current obsession with sexual measurement has given them. Whereas the hysterical woman, even when she fell in love and longed to let herself go, seldom conquered her underlying aversion to sex, the pseudoliberated woman of Cosmopolitan exploits her sexuality in a more deliberate and calculating way, not only because she has fewer reservations about sex but because she manages more successfully to avoid emotional entanglements. “Women with narcissistic personalities,” writes Otto Kernberg, “may appear quite ‘hysterical’ on the surface, with their extreme coquettishness and exhibitionism but the cold, shrewdly calculating quality of their seductiveness is in marked contrast to the much warmer, emotionally involved quality of hysterical pseudo-hypersexuality.”
[*. The transition in American movies from the vamp to the “good-bad girl,” according to Wolfenstein and Leites, illustrates the decline of jealousy and the displacement of sexual passion by sexiness. “The dangerousness of the vamp was associated with the man’s intolerance for sharing her with other men. Her seductive appearance and readiness for love carried a strong suggestion that there has been and might be other men in her life…. The good-bad girl is associated with a greater tolerance for sharing the woman…. In effect, the woman’s attraction is enhanced by her association with other men. All that is needed to eliminate unpleasantness is the assurance that those relations were not serious.”]
Togetherness
Both men and women have come to approach personal relations with a heightened appreciation of their emotional risks. Determined to manipulate the emotions of others while protecting themselves against emotional injury, both sexes cultivate a protective shallowness, a cynical detachment they do not altogether feel but which soon becomes habitual and in any case embitters personal relations merely through its repeated profession. At the same time, people demand from personal relations the richness and intensity of a religious experience. Although in some ways men and women have had to modify their demands on each other, especially in their inability to exact commitments of lifelong sexual fidelity, in other ways they demand more than ever. In the American middle class, moreover, men and women see too much of each other and find it hard to put their relations in proper perspective. The degradation of work and the impoverishment of communal life force people to turn to sexual excitement to satisfy all their emotional needs. Formerly sexual antagonism was tempered not only by chivalric, paternalistic, conventions but by a more relaxed acceptance of the limitations of the other sex. Men and women acknowledged each other’s shortcomings without making them the basis of a comprehensive indictment. Partly because they found more satisfaction than is currently available in casual relations with their own sex, they did not have to raise friendship itself into a political program, an ideological alternative to love. An easygoing, everyday contempt for the weaknesses of the other sex, institutionalized as folk wisdom concerning the emotional incompetence of men or the brainlessness of women, kept sexual enmity within bounds and prevented it from becoming an obsession.
Feminism and the ideology of intimacy have discredited the sexual stereotypes which kept women in their place but which also made it possible to acknowledge sexual antagonism without raising it to the level of all-out warfare. Today the folklore of sexual differences and the acceptance of sexual friction survive only in the working class. Middle-class feminists envy the ability of working-class women to acknowledge that men get in their way without becoming man-haters. “These women are less angry at their men because they don’t spend that much time with them,” according to one observer. “Middle-class women are the ones who were told men had to be their companions.”

Strategies of Accommodation
Because the contradiction exposed (and exacerbated) by feminism are so painful, the feminist movement has always found it tempting to renounce its own insights and program and to retreat into some kind of accommodation with the existing order, often disguised as embattled militancy. In the nineteenth century, American feminists edged away from their original programs, which envisioned not only economic equality but a sweeping reform of marriage and sexual relations, into a protracted campaign for woman suffrage. Today many feminists argue, once again in the name of political realism, that women need to establish their influence within the two-party system, as a kind of loyal opposition, before they can raise broader issues. Such tactics merely serve to postpone the discussion of broader issues indefinitely. Just as the women’s rights movement of the nineteenth century drew back from discussions of love and marriage when they met with public hostility, so strong forces in the National Organization for Women today propose to improve woman’s image, to show that feminism in no way threatens men, and to blame “social conditions” or bad attitudes, not male supremacy, for the subordination of the female sex.
More subtle forms of accommodation pose as radical challenges to mainstream feminism and the status quo. Some militants have revived discredited theories of matriarchal origins or myths of the moral superiority of women, thereby consoling themselves for this lack of power. They appear to the illusory solidarity of sisterhood in order to avoid arguments about the proper goals of the feminist movement. By institutionalizing women’s activities as “alternatives to the male death-culture,” they avoid challenging that culture and protect women from the need to compete with men for jobs, political power, and public attention. What began as a tactical realization that women have to win their rights without waiting for men to grant them has degenerated into the fantasy of a world without men. As one critic has noted, the movement’s “apparent vigor turns out to be mere busyness with self-perpetuating make-work: much of it serving in the short run to provide its more worldly experts with prestige, book contracts, and grants, its dreamers with an illusory matriarchal utopia.”
“Radical lesbians” carry the logic of separation to its ultimate futility, withdrawing at every level from the struggle against male domination while directing a steady stream of abuse against men and against women who refuse to acknowledge their homosexual proclivities. Proclaiming their independence from men, militant lesbians in fact envision a protected enclave for themselves within a male-dominated society. Yet this form of surrender - the dream of an island secure against male intrusion - remains attractive to women who repeatedly fail to find a union of sexuality and tenderness in their relations with men. As such disappointments become more and more common, sexual separatism commends itself as the most plausible substitute for liberation.
All these strategies of accommodation derive their emotional energy from an impulse much more prevalent than feminism: the flight from feeling. For many reasons, personal relations have become increasingly risky - most obviously, because they no longer carry any assurance of permanence. Men and women make extravagant demands on each other and experience irrational rage and hatred when their demands are not met. Under these conditions, it is not surprising that more and more people long for emotional detachment or “enjoy sex,” as Hendin writes, “only in situations where they can define and limit the intensity of the relationship.” A lesbian confesses: “The only men I’ve ever been able to enjoy sex with were men I didn’t give a shit about. Then I could let go, because I didn’t feel vulnerable.”
Sexual separatism is only one of many strategies for controlling or escaping from strong feeling. Many prefer the escape of drugs, which dissolve anger and desire in a glow of good feeling and create the illusion of intense experience without emotion. Others simply undertake to live alone, repudiating connections with either sex. The reported increase in single-member households undoubtedly reflects a new taste for personal independence, but it also expresses a revulsion against close emotional attachments of any kind. The rising rate of suicide among young people can be attributed, in part, to the same flight from emotional entanglements. Suicide, in Hendin’s words, represents the “ultimate numbness.”
The most prevalent form of escape from emotional complexity is promiscuity: the attempt to achieve a strict separation between sex and feeling. Here again, escape masquerades as liberation, regression as progress. The progressive ideology of “nonbiding commitments” and “cool sex” makes a virtue of disengagement, while purporting to criticize the depersonalization of sex. Enlightened authorities like Alex Comfort, Nena and George O’Neill, Robert and Anna Francoeur insist on the need to humanize sex by making it into a “total experience” instead of a mechanical performance; yet in the same breath they condemn the human emotions of jealousy and possessiveness and decry “romantic illusions.” “Radical” therapeutic wisdom urges men and women to express their needs and wishes without reserve - since all needs and wishes have equal legitimacy - but warns them not to expect a single mate to satisfy them. This program seeks to allay emotional tensions, in effect, by reducing the demands men and women make on each other, instead of making men and women better able to meet them. The promotion of sex as a “healthy,” “normal” part of life masks a desire to divest it of the emotional intensity that unavoidably clings to it: the reminders of earlier entanglements with parents, the “unhealthy” inclination to re-create those relations in relation with lovers. The enlightened insistence that sex is not “dirty” expresses a wish to sanitize it by washing away its unconscious associations.
The humanistic critique of sexual “depersonalization” thus sticks to the surface of the problem. Even while preaching the need to combine sex with feeling, it gives ideological legitimacy to the protective withdrawal from strong emotions. It condemns the overemphasis on technique while extolling sexual relations that are hermetically free of affect. It exhorts men and women to “get in touch with their feelings” but encourages them to make “resolutions about freedom and ‘non-possessiveness,’” as Ingrid Bengis writes, which “tear the very heart out of intimacy.” It satirizes the crude pornographic fantasies sold by the mass media, which idealize hairless women with inflated mammaries, but it does so out of an aversion to fantasy itself, which so rarely conforms to social definition of what is healthy minded. The critics of dehumanized sex, like the critics of sport, hope to abolish spectatorship and to turn everyone into a participant, hoping that vigorous exercise will drive away unwholesome thoughts. They attack pornography, not because they wish to promote more complicated and satisfying fantasies about sex, but because, on the contrary, they wish to win acceptance for a realistic view of womanhood and of the reduced demands that men and women have a right to make of each other.
The Castrating Woman of Male Fantasy
The flight from feeling, whether or not it tries to justify itself under an ideology of nonbinding commitments, takes the form above all of a flight from fantasy. This shows that it represents more than defensive reaction to external disappointments. Today men and women seek escape from emotion not only because they have suffered too many wounds in the wars of love but because they experience their own inner impulses as intolerably urgent and menacing. The flight from feeling originates not only in the sociology of the sex war but in the psychology that accompanies it. If “many of us,” as Ingrid Bengis observes of women and as others have observed of men as well, “have had to anesthetize ourselves to [our] needs,” it is the very character of those needs (and of the defenses erected against them) which gives rise to the belief that they cannot be satisfied in heterosexual relations - perhaps should not be satisfied in any form - and which therefore prompts people to withdraw from intense emotional encounters.
Instinctual desires always threaten psychic equilibrium and for this reason can never be given direct expression. In our society, however, they present themselves as intolerably menacing, in part because the collapse of authority has removed so many of the external prohibitions against the expression of dangerous impulses. The superego can no longer ally itself, in its battle against impulse, with outside authorities. It has to rely almost entirely on its own resources, and these too have diminished in their effectiveness. Not only have the social agents of repression lost much of their force, but their internal representations in the superego have suffered a similar decline. The ego ideal, which cooperates in the work of repression by making socially acceptable behavior itself an object of libidinal cathexis, has become increasingly pallid and ineffective in the absence of compelling moral models outside the self. This means, as we have seen, that the superego has to rely more and more on harsh, punitive dictation, drawing on the aggressive impulses in the id and directing them against the ego.
The narcissist feels consumed by his own appetites. The intensity of his oral hunger leads him to make inordinate demands on his friends and sexual partners; yet in the same breath he repudiates those demands asks only a causal connection without promise of permanence on either side. He longs to free himself from his own hunger and rage, to achieve a calm detachment beyond emotion, and to outgrow his dependence on others. He longs for the indifference to human relationships and to life itself that would enable him to acknowledge its passing in Kurt Vonnegut’s laconic phrase, “So it goes,” which so aptly expresses the ultimate aspiration of the psychiatric seeker. <“Western” Buddhism>
But although the psychological man of our times frightens himself with the intensity of his inner needs, the needs of others appall him no less than his own. One reason the demands he inadvertently imposes on others make him uneasy is that they may justify other in making demands on himself. Men especially fear the demands of women, not only because women no longer hesitate to press them but because men find it so difficult to imagine an emotional need that does not wish to consume whatever it seizes on.
Women today ask for two things in their relations with men: sexual satisfaction and tenderness. Whether separately or in combination, both demands seem to convey to many males the same message - that women are voracious, insatiable. Why should men respond in this fashion to demands that reason tells them have obvious legitimacy? Rational arguments notoriously falter in the face of unconscious anxieties; women’s sexual demands terrify men because they reverberate at such deep layers of the masculine mind, calling up early fantasies of a possessive, suffocating, devouring, and castrating mother. The persistence of such fantasies in later life intensifies and brings into the open the secret terror that has always been an important part of the male image of womanhood. The strength of these pre-Oedipal fantasies, in the narcissistic type of personality, makes it likely that men will approach women with hopelessly divided feelings, dependent and demanding in their fixation on the breast but terrified of the vagina which threatens to eat them alive; of the legs with which popular imagination endows the American heroine, legs which can presumably strangle or scissor victims to death; of the dangerous, phallic breast itself, encased in unyielding armor, which in unconscious terror more nearly resembles an implement of destruction that a source of nourishment. The sexually voracious female, long a stock figure of masculine pornography, in the twentieth century has emerged into the daylight of literary respectability. Similarly the cruel, destructive, domineering woman, la belle dame sans merci, has moved from the periphery of literature and the other arts to a position close to the center. Formerly a source of delicious titillation, of sadomasochistic gratification tinged with horrified fascination, she now inspires unambiguous loathing and dread. Heartless, domineering, burning (as Leslie Fiedler has said) with “a lust of the nerves rather than of the flesh,” she unmans every man who falls under her spell. In American fiction, she assumes a variety of guides, all of them variations on the same theme: the bitchy heroine of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzegerald; Nathanael West’s Faye Greener, whose “invitation wasn’t to pleasure but to struggle, hard and sharp, closer to murder than to love”; Tennessee Williams’s Maggie Tolliver, edgy as a cat on a hot tin roof; the domineering wife whose mastery of her husband, as in the joyless humor of James Thurber, recalls the mastery of the castrating mother over her son; the man-eating Mom denounced in the shrill falsetto of Philip Wylie’s Generation of Vipers, Wright Morris’s Man and Boy, Edward Albee’s The American Dream; the suffocating Jewish mother, Mrs. Portnoy; the Hollywood vampire (Theda Bara), scheming seductress (Marlene Dietrich), or bad blonde (Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield); the precocious female killer of William March’s The Bad Seed.
Child or woman, wife or mother, this female cuts men to ribbons or swallows them whole. She travels accompanied by eunuchs, by damaged men suffering from nameless wounds, or by a few strong men brought low by their misguided attempts to turn her into a real woman. Whether or not the actual incidence of impotence has increased in American males - and there is no reason to doubt reports that it has - the specter of impotence haunts the contemporary imagination, not least because it focuses the fear that a played-out Anglo-Saxon culture is about to fall before the advance of hardier races. The nature of impotence, moreover, has undergone an important historical shift. In the nineteenth century, respectable men sometimes experienced embarrassing sexual failures with women of their own class, or else suffered from what Freud called “psychic impotence” - the characteristic Victorian split between sensuality and affection. Although most of these men dutifully had intercourse with their wives, they derived sexual satisfaction only from intercourse with prostitutes or with women otherwise degraded. As Freud explained, this psychic syndrome - “the most prevalent form of degradation” in the erotic life of his time - originated in the Oedipus complex. After the painful renunciation of the mother, sensuality seeks only those objects that evoke no reminder of her, while the mother herself, together with other “pure” (socially respectable) women, is idealized beyond reach of the sensual.
Today, impotence typically seems to originate not in renunciation of the mother but in earlier experiences, often reactivated by the apparently aggressive overtures of sexually liberated women. Fear of the devouring mother of pre-Oedipal fantasy gives rise to a generalized fear of women that has little resemblance to the sentimental adoration men once granted to women who made them sexually uncomfortable. The fear of women, closely associated with a fear of the consuming desires within, reveals itself not only as impotence but as a boundless rage against the female sex. This blind and impotent rage, which seems so prevalent at the present time, only superficially represents a defensive male reaction against feminism. It is only because the recent revival of feminism stirs up such deeply rooted memories that it gives rise to such primitive emotions. Men’s fear of women, moreover, exceeds the actual threat to their sexual privileges. Whereas the resentment of women against men for the most part has solid roots in the discrimination and sexual danger to which women are constantly exposed, the resentment of men against women, when men still control most of the power and wealth in society yet feel themselves threatened on every hand - intimidated, emasculated - appears deeply irrational, and for that reason not likely to be appeased by changes in feminist tactics designed to reassure men that liberated women threaten no one. When even Mom is a menace, there is not much that feminists can say to soften the sex war or to assure their adversaries that men and women will live happily together when it is over.
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2024.05.09 02:47 Born-Beach I AM HAPPY

I say it into the mirror, brows furrowed and mouth pulled into a tight smile.
“I am happy.” My fingers clutch the edge of the bathroom sink, and a muscle twitches near my eye. Something tugs at the corner of my mind. A thought, maybe. It’s tempting me to peek at it, begging me to acknowledge it and push it out into the light of day, but I can't.
I won't.
My mother calls me from the kitchen. “Are you ready for school?”
“Yes,” I call back. “I am.”
I take another few moments to stare at myself. I burn the image of how happy I am into my memory, just in case I start to forget.
It’s a big day, after all.
The car chokes and sputters as it makes its way to school. I’m in tenth grade and I have no idea what I want to do with my life, but I know that’s okay. It’s normal. Nobody does.
Except for Maggie Taller, and Suhky Raj, and David Cho, and Adam Wallace. They’re going to be doctors and engineers and carpenters and drug dealers. They’re going to be happy.
We pull into the school parking lot. The van spits out a plume of smoke the size of Jupiter. Once the pollution clears, I open the door and look out over a sea of faces. Some of them are staring back at me. Some of them are snickering. One of them is Maggie Taller, and she’s waving—all red curls and dimples, so I wave back. My stomach does a frontflip.
“Have a good day,” my mother says. I look her way, and her face lights up with an expression that resembles a smile, but it’s not. There’s not enough play in her cheeks. She forgets to engage her eyes.
“I will,” I reply. I use the same smile that I practiced earlier. It’s much better. When I look back to the steps, Maggie is gone, and my stomach settles.
I lurch out of the car. “Honey…” my mother says. She reaches a hand toward me but stops short, almost as if she's worried I might snap at her or bite it off. She stares at me. "Things will get better for us, you know."
I close the door. The car leaves, backfiring as my mother runs the stop sign and nearly collides with an oncoming pick-up truck. It’s okay, though. Nobody is hurt.
I am happy.
The mutters follow me to my first-period English class. The voices are hushed, but loud enough that I can hear them. It’s intentional. It’s by design.
“... walks like a goof.”
“... saw him staring at Maggie’s ass.”
“... smells like a dead animal.”
“... we’ll get him after school.”
I listen to Mr. Yu discuss the significance of metaphor in literature. He spends the hour comparing Animal Farm to Twilight, and demanding why we waste our time reading the latter. He says it’s dumbing us down. He says it’s a problem. I’ve never read Twilight, but I smile and nod all the same.
He asks me to define the word ‘metaphor,’ and I do my best, but I get the answer wrong. Somebody laughs. Why wasn’t I listening earlier, I wonder. What’s wrong with me?
“... what a dumbass.”
I am happy.
At lunch, I get a table to myself. It’s good because it means I have personal space to come up with ten different metaphors for Mr. Yu.
The cafeteria is loud. Too loud. I try to focus on my paper and pen, and I scratch down my favorite metaphor to get started: It’s raining cats and dogs. I look at it and smile. It makes me think of my sister before the horror took her.
I wonder if it will take my mother too.
The other examples don’t come easily for me. My eyes scan the definition of 'metaphor' over and over, but my mind draws a blank. I can’t think. I can’t focus. I wonder where Maggie is sitting today.
A folded piece of paper lands on the table in front of me. I look up to see where it came from– to see who dropped it, but I can’t tell. There are too many people moving around, too many faces swimming, and too many voices drowning my concentration.
I unfold it.
There’s something written on the inside, hastily-scribbled and messy. It says, “YOUR DEAD,” in pencil-gray. A stickman is lying beneath the words, surrounded by three other stickmen. They’re stepping on him. Kicking him. Red pen strokes paint the page haphazardly, trailing from the crying man on the ground. I look closer. The other stickmen are smiling. They’re happy.
Something pulls at the edge of my thoughts. I ignore it.
The bell rings, and school is over. I gather my things and pull my backpack up and over my shoulder. It’s heavy and awkward. It takes me three tries to get it right.
Today is a big day.
I make my way from the school grounds, over the hill that leads to the forest path that runs along the little creek. I make my way home. My arms are tired by the time I get over the hill, but that’s okay. It just means I’m getting stronger. All the work I’ve been doing in the forest is going to pay off.
Voices follow me. I recognize some of them.
“... pervert is gonna get what’s coming to him.”
"... believe it when I see it."
"... heard Maggie moaning about wanting what's inside of him."
"... fuck you."
The forest is full of people. There are joggers and people walking dogs. A homeless man asks me if I have any change, and I say that I’m sorry, but I don’t. He tries to spit on me but misses.
“... a liar. Gimps like you make bank off disability checks.”
My arms get sore by the time I’m halfway through the forest. I take the same shortcut I usually do, the one that runs by the creek, and there are fewer joggers and dog-walkers. I get nervous, but the babbling sound of the water helps me relax. Today is a big day.
“... I’ll kill him. Watch me.”
“... yeah, right. He’ll be fucking Maggie before you ever get the balls to.”
“... we’ve only been dating two weeks. I’ll fuck her.”
“... not before him.”
Footsteps approach from behind. It sounds like three people and one more in the distance. I don’t see them, but I know them. I know their smiles. I know they’re happy.
A fist connects with the back of my head, and I fall forward, losing control of my crutches. My face smashes against the pavement and my vision swims as pain explodes across my cheek. I taste something in my mouth. Blood. I try to push myself up but my legs aren't cooperating. They're hardly moving. They're useless.
“Crippled fuck!” a voice shouts. It’s Adam Wallace. He's working himself up. “You thought I'd let you get away with staring holes into my girlfriend’s ass?"
I try to say something, but a foot steps on my backpack, and I’m pressed to the ground. The wind’s knocked out of me. I can’t breathe. Shoes connect with my face, one after the other. There’s laughter in the air. A sneaker finds my nose and there’s a crunching sound, and suddenly I can’t stop screaming as warm fluid spills down my face, cascading over my lips. I sputter and whimper. My eyes well up.
“... somebody will see us.”
Hands grab my limp legs. I’m being dragged backward, off of the cement path, and deeper into the forest. I call out, and somebody stuffs a ball of cloth into my mouth. It reeks. It tastes like sweat and filth.
“... bet you wish that was Maggie’s panties, you perverted shitstain.”
I close my eyes. I try to smile. I am happy. I am happy. Tears slip down my cheeks, and something tugs at the edge of my thoughts. I ignore it. I have to.
It takes ten minutes to get to where we’re going. The skin on my elbows is split and torn, caught on too many rocks and roots. They let my limp legs drop with a dull thud. I’m hyperventilating. It’s hard to breathe with the jockstrap in my mouth and a broken nose. There’s death in the air.
I’m rolled onto my back, and I feel my backpack shift against my spine. It’s uncomfortable, but not half as uncomfortable as Adam Wallace wrapping his hands around my neck and strangling me.
“... he’s actually doing it.”
“... I thought he was just fucking around.”
The trees above me fade with the air in my lungs. I gasp and sputter, but there’s no air to breathe and I’m not strong enough to pry his hands from my throat. He leans in close, his lips pressed to my ear. “You think I'm gonna let you cuck me?” he asks, and his voice is dipped in cyanide. “I warned you to stay the hell away from her.”
“... taking too long.”
“... use this.”
I hear the sound of a switchblade opening. The hands around my neck let go, and I take in a lungful of air. My heart hammers in my chest. I try to move, instinctively, and crawl away, but somebody grabs me by my backpack and drags me back.
“... there’s something in there.”
“... open it.”
Four arms wrestle the backpack off of me, and I groan in agony as somebody presses my broken nose into the dirt. I protest but it’s muffled by soil. Nobody hears it. Nobody cares. I hear my knapsack’s zipper being undone, and my pain is washed away and replaced with terror. My body seizes. I forget to breathe.
The moment lasts a lifetime. I know their words before they ever speak them.
What the fuck?
I hear the sound of a backpack hitting the forest floor, and things spilling out of it. I hear gagging. Retching. I hear footsteps stumbling backward. Soon, their shock will be replaced with anger. Rage. Something tears at my mind. It’s crashing against it. Demanding it’s time in the light and roaring at me to stop being such a coward and do something about this. I slam my eyes shut. I can’t. I won’t.
I am happy.
“... filled with dead animals.”
“... he’s a fucking psychopath!”
Hands grip the front of my t-shirt and pull me up from the ground. They’re shouting about the dead squirrel and the dead rat and the dead bird in my bag. A fist connects with my face. Blood hits the ground. Another fist. More blood.
“... what kinda freak collects dead animals?”
“... I'm gonna hurl.”
I open my mouth, and I don’t care anymore. The words come out like a broken dam. It feels good. It feels overdue. “Offerings,” I sputter. “They’re offerings.”
“... he’s lost it.”
“... offerings for what?”
I smile, and my teeth are slick with my own blood. “Offerings to cure me.”
Adam Wallace raises the switchblade, pressing the cold steel against my throat. I close my eyes. Something riots inside of me, throbbing against my skull. I push it back. Death is in the air. Rough hands grip my hair, and I wince as they lurch my head roughly to the side. Adam’s voice is beside me. It's up against my ear. “Offerings, huh? You think you’re some kinda fuckin’ witch, Hermione Granger?”
“No,” I say.
Something shifts in the trees behind Adam and his friends, and a figure steps out from the brush. I recognize them. They've been following us since we left the school.
Suhky recognizes them too. He tries to step in front of Adam and me, to block us from view. Words fall out of his mouth. He's giving them an explanation, maybe. A reason things aren't as bad they seem. He's interrupted by a horrible, wet-sounding jab. Then another. There’s a series of four slick rips, like a pen tearing through paper, or a knife cutting into skin. A gasp.
“... Jesus, Maggie!”
Adam clambers off of me.
“... what’s wrong with you?”
“... she fucking killed him, Adam!"
Suhky falls to the ground. I close my eyes. I am happy. Warm piss soaks the dirt beneath me, and my limbs tremor with anxiety. I am happy.
There’s the sound of panicked feet, but it’s going in the wrong direction. It’s running away from me. The person’s muttering and whimpering, and I think it sounds like Adam Wallace but I can’t be sure.
Somebody else is struggling now. Two voices dance together on my left, just past my vision. A boy and a girl. It's David Cho and Maggie. They’re grunting a symphony of dying breaths. I hear dirt shift and leaves crack beneath stirring footsteps, and the smack of limbs grasping limbs.
There’s another wet jab, and a body drops. David asks, why? Another slick rip. The knife's tearing into him over and over, and he keeps asking why. Why are you doing this? Why me, Maggie? I hear his skin split twice more, and the questions stop.
A girl steps into view, standing above me. Her hair is a wild red, and her face is speckled crimson, just like the knife in her hand. She reaches down, and I think she might help me up, but instead, she starts placing the dead animals back into my bag, one by one.
“You forgot the rabbit,” she says, and her voice is colder than winter. Her eyes appraise me but they're missing something. They're empty. “That demon will kill you, you know. Just like it killed your sister, and just like it'll kill your mother, too. You’re running out of time."
"I know," I say.
“Then give it to me.”
"I'm trying to."
She pouts her lips. Folds her arms. A doll hangs from her neck, and it's dressed in pins and needles and it looks like me. "I told you three offerings, didn't I?" She looks around. "I count two and a bag of roadkill."
Adam.
I have to roll over so I don’t choke on the blood spilling into my throat from my broken nose. “I can’t,” I cough. “I can’t catch him on crutches.”
“Then don’t,” she says with a sneer.
Something tugs at my mind. I close my eyes. I clench my fists. I want to scream and lose control, but I can’t because if that happens, then I’m not happy anymore. People I love will die. They always do. “Can’t you get him?”
“He’s too fast. Besides, the spell is specific. The final offering dies by your hand, or the demon can’t change hosts. Your nightmare doesn't end." Her mouth splits into a wide smile. "You don't have to kill him alone, though."
I stare at her, and I don’t have any words to fight back. She kneels next to me and runs a hand through my tangle of hair, gripping it painfully. She’s smiling, but she’s not. There’s not enough play in her cheeks. She forgets to engage her eyes.
"... now or never."
"... I can't."
"... sure you can."
I whimper as the knife plunges into me, again and again. There’s a ripping sound, followed by another, and another. I clench my eyes. I ball my fists. I am happy. I am happy.
The knife sinks into me once more, and this time Maggie fishes it around my stomach. It twists, and I scream. I thrash and roar. Something escapes. It pulls itself over my bones, wraps itself around my mind, and extinguishes my thoughts before whispering madness into my ears.
I am not happy.
And neither is it.
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2024.05.08 07:22 shadowlarx Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) is a simple, mild-mannered creature of habit who spends his days as an auditor for the IRS. He lives a mundane life that is regulated by his wristwatch until the day he hears a mysterious voice (Emma Thompson) narrating his life as if he were the main character in a book. After some help from literary professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin Hoffman), Harold learns the voice is that of noted author Karen Eiffel, who is struggling to finish her latest novel with the help of her assistant Penny (Queen Latifah). Harold realizes that he is the protagonist of Karen’s latest work and is informed by Hilbert, much to his horror, that Karen’s books always end with the protagonist dying. Not wanting to die, Harold starts to turn his life around, including pursuing a relationship with a pretty baker (Maggie Gyllenhaal) that he had been recently auditing.
Will Ferrell’s movies have always been hit or miss for me. I loved his work on Saturday Night Live and I love the supporting characters he’s played in several films but his leading roles have never really grabbed me before. Then I saw this movie and was blown away by the simple, understated performance he gave as an ordinary man in a race against time with his unwanted fate. It was a subdued performance from the normally manic Ferrell and it was all the more enjoyable for it. Hoffman adds a decent amount of sardonic wit as Professor Hilbert and Maggie Gyllenhaal is radiant as Anna, who throws a monkey wrench into Harold’s world and makes him a better man for it. Thompson’s Karen Eiffel is an entertaining train wreck of a character and Queen Latifah also defies expectations as Karen’s strait laced assistant. A wonderful film that really explores the depths of ordinary life and always a fun watch. My two favorite scenes are probably the scene where Harold goes to the guitar store and we hear Karen describe what each guitar is saying to Harold and the scene where Harold and Hilbert discuss the meaning of life (and pancakes).
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