I really need people to know that Helen Keller did fly a plane and yes, this fact alone is the crux of a lot of weird Keller-denialism. It's ironic that the woman in the post is suggesting the man mentioning Keller is ignorant for confusing her with Earhart, because he wasn't. He is ignorant for thinking the Keller story is unbelievable, however.

https://www.britannica.com/story/how-did-helen-keller-fly-a-plane (egregious ad deployment on that site, fair warning)

I thought this was somebody's type

Helen Keller flew a plane. She slept with both these men?!

Reminds me of the sexy guy I met at the hotel pool the day before my breast cancer surgery and his only hesitancy was "Is it contagious?"

ummm isn't this from "The Most Unlovable Man in New York City" is in fact saying it's hard for a guy out there?

*Hard out there for a man.

The author is John Paul Brammer, from his piece "The Most Unlovable Man in New York City."

Archived copy of source, because fuck giving that nazi bar Substack any clicks.

Knew a lady that had four sons with her first husband. Wonderful woman in every way, the boys took after dad. Tall and handsome, dumber than chicken shit and always drink the bottle empty. Nice guys, but I swear they quit breathing while they are trying their shoes. Met someone who knew her in school, she was only sorting for looks and fun. Paying for that now.

In the current typhoon of men behaving badly in the US and the ongoing response and safety movements often advocating romantic abstinence, sometimes the observation is made that not every woman — even those pledged to the movement — is on the same page.

And then there's the abstinence-until-marriage doctrine of white Christian nationalists, in which young women pledge to preserve their virginity until their one-and-only trad-minded husband puts a ring on it. (Young men might take a similar pledge, but they're not held to it and in fact are pressured to get some early experience. Double standards and inconsistent value systems and all that.) Yet, a conspicuous fraction of these (sometimes underage) young women overestimate their willpower, frequently contributing to the disproportionate rate of teen pregnancy in school districts that have committed to abstinence-only sex-ed.

Then there's the women's magazine I remember reading during the COVID-19 lockdown, that asked readers to write in their stories when they needed the d so badly they risked infection by a stranger to get it. There were a lot of confessional replies.

And all this is to say, sometimes a girl has needs.

This is basically Ron DeSantis and his pronunciation of "Thai" food. It's gross. Don't sleep with someone like that.

Your body, your choice.

I was shaking my head at the Helen Keller - Amelia Earhart confusion until I double checked something.

I was getting Helen Keller confused with Anne Frank...

I cracked up at the novella one because the guy was probably thinking of a telenovela.

Wait, she slept with Helen Keller and Amelia Earhart?

Nice.

There actually was a stunt where they let Helen Keller ‘fly’ a plane (hold the stick while they were already in the air with the pilots monitoring).

The conspiracy that she wasn’t actually blind or deaf is frustratingly common among people under 30, who I assume have all picked it up from TikTok.

I'm not sleeping with stupid. I don't care what they look like. Gross. Such a turnoff.

God, I wish I was a moron.