January 2012
178 posts
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via par-avi0n)
Headline I saw yesterday: REAL AUSTRALIA DAY RECIPES! I assume they mean mix equal parts colonialism, historical revisionism and latent racism?
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– angels-and-angles (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the...”
– Noam Chomsky (via theformofbeauty)
Feminist Fitness: Impossible is Nothing →
feministfitness:
When I was 295 pounds, I felt like I had completely lost control. Probably because it was true. Nobody who has control over their lives would let themselves get up to 295 pounds… unless they wanted to, I suppose.
I got up to 295 pounds. I lost control of my life. And on multiple occasions, I…
…ALL OF THIS IS GOOD.
“Can you hear it now?
The sound of my smile breaking
and lighting me up.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.”
– Franz Lebowitz (via theskeletonofme)
Slat By Slat: in reference to that post the other... →
feministhistorian:
mswyrr:
thiscuntsays:
the thing is it’s not a surprise when someone doesn’t find something like that attractive
when people say stuff like that i feel like going YOU DON’T SAY?!?! REALLY?? YOU DON’T LIKE ANYTHING THAT DEVIATES FROM THE GENDER NORMS THE PATRIARCHY HAS SCRIPTED FOR US? WHAT A…
Yes. Jesus. It’s as if straight men with mainstream tastes truly don’t realize...
“Society’s wariness toward sex is highlighted by contrasting it with the greater...”
– Nadine Strossen (from ‘Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex and the Fight for Women’s Rights’)
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“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...
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