Thank you for this. Good lord, have I seen things about the figs. I admit it, I’m still curious in reading The Bell Jar. But increasingly the people who co-opt this metaphor as the mouthpiece of their Big Girl Dreams are the ones in the socioeconomic positions to never know the kiss of hard work intimately. Go back to school if you want in on NASA. Write fanfiction of The Office first and practice if you want to be hurtling towards literary stardom in the near future. Dig up the earth and plant the fig seeds, damnit, if you actually want the fruit. Learn to be bad! Yes, you’ve said it all. It takes one snippy article at a time to combat this incessant “I’m just a girl”-ism that is poisoning every privileged clique of white women 🤝
finally i learned about this fig thing without having to read plath
Proud to have been of service 🫡
Oh, treat yourself to reading The Bell Jar.
thank you for this, not least because i forgot about the lizzie bennet post and this was a delightful reminder
You changed lives with that one!
this was amazing omg
Thank you for this. Good lord, have I seen things about the figs. I admit it, I’m still curious in reading The Bell Jar. But increasingly the people who co-opt this metaphor as the mouthpiece of their Big Girl Dreams are the ones in the socioeconomic positions to never know the kiss of hard work intimately. Go back to school if you want in on NASA. Write fanfiction of The Office first and practice if you want to be hurtling towards literary stardom in the near future. Dig up the earth and plant the fig seeds, damnit, if you actually want the fruit. Learn to be bad! Yes, you’ve said it all. It takes one snippy article at a time to combat this incessant “I’m just a girl”-ism that is poisoning every privileged clique of white women 🤝
Exactlyyyyy 🫡
And I recall the bell jar as being a good book when i read it in high school. (I say this as a fierce catcher in the rye defender)
oh my god my eyes are OPEN this was amazing i am having so many thoughts thank you
You got this 💪💪💪
“you don’t need electroshock therapy just try thinking of yourself less” ……!!!!!!! Can we get this headlined on every media outlet ever
Jemima Kirke's instagram story screenshot's influence endures! I believe!
inject this whole thing into my veins, thank you. sick of these people and their nonsense.
If capable, intelligent people put themselves in a state of arbitrary hopelessness, then wtf is everyone else supposed to do??