January 2010
“The truth is, one of the problems in talking about this stuff is that saying...”
– Shakesville: Angry Men, Searching Men—and What They Can Learn From Girls and Queers (via notemily) (via gauntlet)
“Why ban small boobs? I can only assume it stems from paranoia that flat chests...”
– Ms Naughty
“The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to...”
– Lynn Lavner (via adenar)
The Bane of My Existence: Bathroomwindow
jonathan-cunningham:
scaeriel:
californiacornbread:
Bathroom Window - A Day In the Life of A Moronic Teenage Girl
I have never honestly been more appalled by someone I have never met over the internet than this douchebag. I honestly think he picks fights with people who get attention on this site. Like god damn brother…. you don’t like her cool shit. I fucking love her. When you insult...
Frightening. →
kafuka:
bowfolk:
tobia:
This is just sick. (via pcquotes:novazembla)
“The book was commonly known as the Buggre Alle This Bible. The lengthy...”
– Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
“I know this is an unpopular thing to say,” she writes, “but feminism has...”
– DEAR JULIA BAIRD AT NEWSWEEK: I LOVE YOU. also, dear newsweek: i love you for publishing an article with the tag “don’t blame feminism for bad dates.” YES. CORRECT. ABOUT TIME A MAJOR MAINSTREAM NEWS OUTLET CAUGHT ON. (via isabelthespy) (via gauntlet)
Three feminist rants
novyonjupiter:
ilovefat:
seaponies:
crustyriotgrrl:
fuckyeahfeminists:
Three feminist rants
“Today I have a few feminist rants that I need to get out of my system. 1. The murder of innocent women at a gym in Pennsylvania has alerted me to the existence of the pick up artist community. These are men who rant and moan about the unreasonable bitches who won’t fuck them, and they share tips...
Human civilisation 'will collapse' unless greed... →
nogodsnomasters:
bradicalmang:
adamquinn:ledgergermane:
The world’s population is burning through the planet’s resources at such a reckless rate – about 28 per cent more last year - it will eventually cause environmental havoc, said the Worldwatch Institute, a US think-tank.
In its annual State of the World 2010 report, it warned any gains from government action on climate ...
“Having been brought up in two traditions, Gaiman is flexible in his devotions....”
– Neil Gaiman’s fantasies : The New Yorker (via ayjay) (via neilgaiman) (via kafuka)
randomlyretro:
“Facts About the Moon” Dorianne Laux The moon is backing away from us an inch and a half each year. That means if you’re like me and were born around fifty years ago the moon was a full six feet closer to the earth. What’s a person supposed to do? I feel the gray cloud of consternation travel across my face. I begin thinking about the moon-lit past, how if you go back ...
randomlyretro:
“Persephone, Falling”
Rita Dove
One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful
flowers, one unlike all the others! She pulled,
stooped to pull harder—
when, sprung out of the earth
on his glittering terrible
carriage, he claimed his due.
It is finished. No one heard her.
No one! She had strayed from the herd.
(Remember: go straight to school.
This is important, stop...
The Truth About Mermaids
anawfullybigadventure:
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire. But just before they go on fire you see the lagoon. This is the nearest you ever get to it...
Biscuits Before Bed
andcoffeetoo:
Maria, fetching Wiggins the largest biscuit, the round one with the pink sugar rose on top, noticed that the fire had been made up afresh, the silver ewer had been filled with hot water, and that a glass of milk had been put on the shelf beside the biscuit-box. As she undressed, she sipped her milk, and it was warm and sweet, just as she liked it. And the sugar biscuits that she...
Ruining Kids in Order to Save Them →
syntheticpubes:
In order to protect children from predators and child pornographers, the local district attorney is threatening to prosecute minors who pose for racy photos as if they were child pornographers.…The girls aren’t in trouble for distributing the photos, or even for taking them. They’ve been introduced to the criminal justice system merely for appearing in them.
Skumanick would...
50 Ways To Put The Light Back In Your Heart -... →
(via kafuka)
