February 2012
123 posts
“I’m fat positive because I’m a feminist, and I refuse to acknowledge in the...”
– You’re Welcome - Why I’m Fat Positive (via ceasesilence)
Among other things.
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“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU)
& also where survivors are asked to ignore casual use of the word “rape” for things like something costing too much, etc.
“In the 1960’s, we were at war with the Soviet Union. Cold War, and a little bit...”
– Dr. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON, on why the de-prioritization of space exploration is a “tragedy,” and how, in fact, the Cold War helped foster U.S. space exploration, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)
In other words, we only reach for the sky in the U.S. nowadays if we’re afraid another country...
“And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
— Genesis 3:13
...”
– Diane Lockward, Eve Argues Against Perfection (via grammatolatry)
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“I’ve had librarians say to me, “People in my school don’t agree with...”
– David Levithan - Supporting Gay Teen Literature (via cake-light)
SERIOUSLY! I’m sick of LGBTQ culture being treated as just some political issue. Queer people aren’t just a handful of people who want to get married, okay? We’re real, and we’re fucking important, and we need to be represented...
“They were encouraging girls to embrace whoever they were; it didn’t matter what...”
– A concerned mother who pulled her daughters out of Girl Scouts because they…taught inclusiveness. (via invisiblelad)
Good God. What a crap parent this so-called “concerned mother” must be.
“Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that...”
– Otomo No Yakamochi (via coypatalagsa)
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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not...”
– Thomas Merton (via myquotelibrary)
“[TW rape, violence against women] When we complain about men raping, abusing,...”
– Unknown (via petitefeministe, inherhipstheresrevolutions) (via iwillnotshavemyvagina, in-her-hips-theres-revolutions) (via faded-as-my-jeans) (via stfuhypocrisy) (via feministhistorian) (via feministsoccupyhalloween)
“People are so fucking dumb. Nobody reads anymore, nobody goes out and looks and...”
– David Bowie (via tibiae)
“”One day we must ask the question, ‘Why are there forty million poor people in...”
– And this is what really got Dr. MLK killed. (via black-culture)
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“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– “The Way It Was” — Mother Jones Magazine — Abortion before Roe v. Wade. (via deltumbles)
this article is definitely worth a read.
(via adriannebro)
“Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without...”
– California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision here. (via cognitivedissonance)
If Famous Writers Had Written Twilight →
thefistofartemis:
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thambos:
The main problem with Twilight isn’t its sparkly vampires who lack all traditional weaknesses, or even its anti-feminist sensibility. When you get right down to it, the trouble is that the writing is terrible, filled with cliche phrases (“smoldering eyes”), repeated words (294 “eyes” in 498 pages) and the reductive characterization of its main...
