May 2013
It’s amazing how aggressive I’m becoming. Okay, maybe aggressive isn’t the right word. Assertive? I feel like enlightened would be the only accurate way to phrase it though for I’m simply realising that I don’t actually have to put up with other’s nastiness.
When I guy comes up to the bar at work and gets a kick out of being misogynistic and belittling I...
My professor just took about fifteen minutes or so of his last lecture to discuss the importance of ‘fat Tony’ knowledge (a.k.a. street smarts) and remind us that universities only test one narrow kind of knowledge. He then discussed the fact that it’s drive, not IQ, that determines how successful we’ll be.
Point is that it was cool of him to take the time to encourage us...
“Where the inspirational figure is selected for us, and the gap between their...”
– For BBC’s Mental Health Awareness Week, Mark Brown questions the value of glorifying role models who share our own disabilities and pathologies.
A flipside of the same coin to consider is the perilous “tortured genius” myth of creativity, which implies that depression, addiction, and other mental...
“The assimilated homo doesn’t understand why I don’t protest the Boy Scouts of...”
– Josina Manu Maltzman - “Revolting” (via riley-ferretboy-konor)
“I stayed in bed for over an hour
looked at things on my phone
I felt slightly...”
– “Today My Alarm Went Off at 12:30 p.m.,” Mira Gonzalez (via commovente)
The sun is shining, I have no Uni or work today, and I had some of the best sex of my young life last night and this morning.
Days like these…ugh <3.
“When things are down and you feel like the whole world’s against you and...”
– Ian Rubbish, “It’s a Lovely Day,” Top of the Pops (5/18/13)
I needed this.
“The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured...”
– John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via thepeacefulterrorist)
But all those test prep folks sure do make a shitload of money off it.
(via eshusplayground)
Something Has Disagreed With Me: Why Do Men Keep... →
fuckingrapeculture:
literaryreference:
You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this…
“I align myself with people who support my growth. If you meet someone whose soul...”
– Dr. Wayne Dyer (via fabulousbitch69)
You are allowed to have really good days for no...
Why does it have to be so hard to remove emotion from decision making? I need an objective force to look at my life and give me guidance. Preferably one that will refrain from judging and remain neutral to the outcome.
I also need a cookie…so damn bad.
Grumble, grumble, grumble.
“I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the...”
– Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)
“1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with...”
– Juan Cole, 08/09/2012
Juan Cole actually wrote this 4 days after a white terrorist, yes, terrorist, murdered 6 and injured 4 people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. The terrorist who committed said crime spoke of an impending “racial holy war” beforehand and was a member of white...
Transgender woman arrested for wearing sheer top,... →
admirableasian:
daggerpen:
Ashley Del Valle is a transgender woman from New York who was arrested in Georgia for indecent exposure after she allegedly showed her breasts, but then was housed in an all-male jail.
I just.
You arrest her because her top is too sheer and shows her nipples, something that is only a crime for women.
And then you jail her as a man.
Fucking fuck.
(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻.
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I don’t understand why so many people rely so heavily on name calling and spiteful speech to argue a point. Am I the only one that feels completely turned off by such things? I feel like if you are at the point in which you must rely on calling me foul things (mainly to invoke a response) then you truly have no argument at all. Intelligent thoughts need not depend on venomous speech to be...
trashfemme:
always glorify my own body (especially the parts society hates) because if i don’t who the fuck will
Sometimes I like to go out to dinner and imagine myself sitting across the table from me. I like to ask that girl how she is and imagine that I’m holding her hand and letting her feel and sending her love regardless of what comes out. Sometimes she cries. Often she cries. She misses home some days. She’s no longer so worried though. She realised recently that she has been acting with others in...
“As a trans woman, not many things give me a headache the way the entire concept...”
– Meyllen Djneres (via muffinsandcouture)
The moral of “passing” discussions always seems to be:
If you get bashed it will be your fault.
(via charthebutcher)
Do you even know how badly I’ve been needing to hear exactly these words for the past few months now?
(via sixtyforty)
*slow clap——>...
“Scientists have another name for failure: data. Expecting that your first stab...”
– At the 2013 99U Conference, Stanford Technology Ventures director Tina Seelig, author of inGenius: A Crash Course on Creativity, echoes Neil Gaiman’s timeless advice on failure and the creative life.
A wise woman once said it even better.
Also see Steve Jobs on the fear of failure. (via...
birds-bones:
Hey! Did you know:
sex is okay
so is masturbation
watching porn won’t make you impure
one night stands are okay too
having sex with multiple people doesn’t make you a slut
even 3-somes or group sex and orgies are a-okay
sex with the same gender is alright
not having sex doesn’t make you a prude
your body your choice no matter your gender
shaming other people for who they...
thelovelyloner:
Today’s affirmation: It’s okay for me to feel exactly how I feel right now.
: If media covered America the way we cover... →
jahanzebjz:
Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.
Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down…
ewoksandwrackspurts:
I wish self-esteem campaigns would focus less on “everyone is beautiful” and more on “who the fuck cares if you are beautiful or not”
miguu:
if someone does not want me it is not the end of the world but if i do not want me the world is nothing but endings.
