February 2012
37 posts
The SCAR Project →
Some of the most beautiful and heartbreaking photographs I’ve ever seen.
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4 Reasons Humans Will Never Understand Each Other →
This is great. I love Cracked.
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I can say to myself that I would never make such an obviously silly choice, but...
– Lisa Guerrero, And the Beat Goes On: Chris Brown, Too $hort, and the Disposable Conscience of Consumer Society
Depression and the Placebo Effect, from 60 Minutes.
I don’t necessarily have a solid opinion on any of this at the moment. As someone who was diagnosed years ago with severe clinical depression and an anxiety disorder (and who tried multiple drugs at multiple doses before finding the right one), the consensus of this piece seems to be that the chemicals in my prescription are actually...
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Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...
– Amy Poehler
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on when it's enough.
I mean everything I say about how size doesn’t matter, how no woman exists only to be looked at, how beauty is subjective and is never, ever a requirement for being treated like a human being. I love women, and I think our freedom from body hatred is an essential part of being healthy and whole and happy. I believe these things from the bottom of my soul.
So why can’t I cut myself any...
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just going to say this one more time, in one more...
Yup, again. I am totally fucking disgusted by Chris Brown and the public’s willingness to welcome him back with open arms. Maybe he did make a terrible mistake. Maybe Rihanna has forgiven him—which is her right to do, certainly. However, his right to be an adored public figure should have been revoked for good as soon as he laid his hands on her. Period. Our actions should have...
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I would like to say,
re: Thursday’s Parks & Rec episode, that Galentine’s Day should, in fact, be a national holiday.
Downton Abbey Stars On-Screen Vs. Off-Screen →
Anna and Mrs. O’Brien are stone-cold foxes offscreen!
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January 2012
48 posts
Have I ever had “ANY unwanted/undesired physical... →
This point cannot ever be made or stressed enough. (Thanks to Kim for the link.)
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Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...
– Carl Jung
The Pervocracy: Consent culture. →
I love the idea of consent culture as extending beyond sex. This is good shit. (Thanks, Chelsey.)
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You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...
– from this (via feministteapot)
M: I don't know much about the Rockets except that they suck a dick.
T: I thought you liked them when Yao Ming played for them.
M: Yeah, those five games he played for them? Those were cool games. And then his feet crumbled because he's fourteen feet tall and weighs three trillion pounds.
T: Yes, those are the exact measurements.
M: I know. I wrote his Wikipedia page.