Hey, all. I think I’m going to take a hiatus from Twitter and Tumblr. I’m feeling the need to simplify my life. I’m not sure for how long.
‘I feel too much. That’s what’s going on.’
‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’
‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’
‘Do anyone’s insides and outsides match up?’
‘I don’t know. I’m only me.’
‘Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.’
‘But it’s worse for me.’
‘I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him.’
‘Probably. But it really is worse for me.
‘Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?’
‘My insides don’t match up with my outsides.’
‘Do anyone’s insides and outsides match up?’
‘I don’t know. I’m only me.’
‘Maybe that’s what a person’s personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.’
‘But it’s worse for me.’
‘I wonder if everyone thinks it’s worse for him.’
‘Probably. But it really is worse for me.
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| — | Oskar Schell in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via loveyourchaos) |
Easter Aurora - Jökulsárlón á Breiðarmerkursandi (by Örvar Atli Þorgeirsson - Arctic Photo)
Pure glory.
The problem with sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, classist, ableist, etc., remarks and “jokes” is not that they’re offensive, but that by relying for their meaning on harmful cultural narratives about privileged and marginalized groups they reinforce those narratives, and the stronger those narratives are, the stronger the implicit biases with which people are indoctrinated are. That’s real harm, not just “offense.
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| — | I Don’t Care If You’re Offended by Scott Madin (via dnka) |
So, bornofstars, icantfindmypants, our friend Andrea and I pretty much had the best Beauty and the Beast geek-out-fest EVAR :D
We were giggling and squealing with fan-girliness and singing along to every song. ‘Twas über-fantastic ^w^
HECK YEAH.
When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
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| — | Doctor Who (via helloxminjoo) |
But what most men don’t realize is that all women in our society are on the receiving end of UNWANTED sexual attention at some point in their lives, and most of them get it a lot. Women are catcalled on the street. They’re harassed in bars, groped in clubs, and whistled at in the grocery store. They’re told that they need to be sexy to be valued and then they’re attacked as sluts. Simply put, women put up with sexual intrusion for most of their lives, in big ways and small. It happens everywhere and most men have no idea how much of an impact it has. I’ve heard quite a few men say that women should just take it as a compliment. Ironically, these are often the same guys who lose it if a man cruises them, winks at them, or simply appears to be sexually interested in them. Seems like a double standard to me.
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Charlie Glickman, The Most Important Thing That Men Who Have Sex With Women Need to Know (via tulletulle) “They’re told that they need to be sexy to be valued and then they’re attacked as sluts.” This a million times. |
