baluchx:

this accurately describes my life.

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thempress:

But can we discuss Donna Meagle though. 

Can we talk about how many men are after her and how we haven’t even seen HALF of them on screen. And it’s never played for laughs on her behalf but on the fact that she leads a double life that none of her coworkers and friends know that much about. 

And how amazing it is that a plus sized dark skin black woman is shown on screen being coveted by gorgeous men! That she is not some magical negro goddess to solve all the white women’s problems, with no romantic relationships of her own. 

Not to mention that her hair is always laid, face is beat, and her wardrobe shits on everybody in Pawnee excluding Tom. 

I just…man…
Donna gives me so much strength it’s not even funny.
I really want to be here when I grow up. 

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that’s not something that props can fix

lilianlies:

#me about my future

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annakovsky:

I’ve been thinking lately about the character of Leslie Knope, since some random bloggers have been complaining that she’s too saintly or something. (Which is so weird. She totally has TONS of flaws, it’s just that the show doesn’t think she deserves to be constantly put down for them, unlike how practically every other show on TV treats women. So maybe that’s why it’s confusing for people.)

I think what I love about Leslie and her flaws is that they are all, like, childlike flaws, in what is somehow a very appealing way — she’s impulsive and passionate and feels everything intensely, so she loses her temper very unself-critically. I feel like post-puberty so many women are socialized to not express negative emotions, or at least to be really… what is the word. Like, circumspect or careful about expressing them.

But the way Leslie Knope gets mad — man, that is the way a little girl gets mad. She is totally not worried about whether her feelings are legitimate, or whether she’s being unreasonable, or about anyone thinking she’s a bitch. She just scrunches up her face and loses her shit, and threatens to waterboard a teenage boy, or declares war on the country of Peru, or knocks files out of Mark Brendanawicz’s hands. I GUESS I’VE BEEN PRONOUNCING YOUR NAME WRONG ALL THESE YEARS, MARK BRENDANA-QUITS. 

Basically I feel like Leslie Knope (and, honestly, a little bit Amy Poehler) is what would happen if a girl was allowed to get through puberty with her real self intact, instead of getting relentlessly socialized to be whatever an acceptable woman is supposed to be, and that is kind of great. 

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