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Back In My Day Cellphone Edition

By: Saint Twenty November 5, 2025November 5, 2025

Saint Know2000s, 90s, 90s.Talgic, Cellphones, Razor Phone, SprintLeave a Comment

Someone in the comments asked if this was real, yes little one it was. Phone companies mattered then, if you had the same one you could call anytime for free. I explained. If your uncharged calls started after seven instead of nine you were lit. We had to coordinate for the aforementioned reasons, looking for the overlap. Ranking came into play at some point, as your top five could receive unlimited text no charge. Nostalgia.

Although the innocuous question made me feel archaic, reminding me I watched the birth of technology, I feel no shame. I love being a millennial. Life back then was complicated, yet simple. There was more connectivity between people pre social media. What color was your Razor phone? Via: 90s.Talgic

Know Your Worth & Secure The Bag

By: Saint Twenty October 18, 2024October 18, 2024

Saint SoulCellphones, Know Your Worth, Low Vibrations, Professional Goddess, Self Care, Self LoveLeave a Comment

A reminder to anyone letting negative, low vibrational, jealous, abusive or evil people devalue them. It’s cool to be kind, until people mistake it for weakness and try you. Then you gotta put them in their fucking place, otherwise you’re enabling poor behavior. Know your worth, add tax, secure the bag. What you allow tells others how to treat you. Via: ProfessionalGoddess

Hedy Lamarr Complex

By: Saint Twenty October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

Saint KnowBrains and beauty, Cellphones, Frequency Hopping, GPS, Hedy Lamarr, Inventor, sexual objectification, Wi-fiLeave a Comment

When starting a book, I skim the synopsis and carry on. So I didn’t realize that the novel The Only Woman In The Room, was about old Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. At one point crowned the ‘Most Beautiful Woman In The World’, she came to America to flee her abusive husband Fitz Mandl. An arms dealer to Mussolini and possibly Hitler. Hard to believe, but her tumultuous love life and influence (Vivian Leigh and every classic actress with dark hair, parted down the middle, was sporting The Lamarr) weren’t the most intriguing things about her.

Hedy Lamarr is the reason we have cellphones, GPS, Wi-fi and Bluetooth. She was a brilliant inventor who created frequency hopping, which is the foundation of internet based technology. Hedy wanted to be viewed for her inquisitive mind, her world changing patents. But all anyone ever cared for was her beauty. A sentiment I understand.

Black women as a culture tend to be sexually objectified. On top of that, I’m a being who embraces her sexuality, with barely there clothing if I feel so inclined, and free the nipple proclivities. When people find out how intelligent I am, it throws them off. For this exact reason it’s essential that I’m not objectified, without an objective.

I went to top billing elite specialty schools growing up, where I cultivated an appreciation for critical thinking. I also like wearing short skirts and see through tops. Why can’t women be both? Even still from her time to ours, society is grappling with women as human beings, not a political playground, not an object, not second class citizens.

Women can have both brains and beauty. Do not succumb to being one, or the other. Thank you Hedy Lamarr for your contribution to the world, you never got the recognition you deserved in your lifetime. Your beauty was otherworldly, but had nothing on your intellect.

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