February 2012
108 posts
“When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of...”
– ~Tim Burton (via bellamort-in-wonderland)
If Common Sense Was Used in Government and the...
Citizen: I don't believe in abortion.
Government: Then don't get one.
Citizen: I don't believe in birth control.
Government: You don't have to use it.
Citizen: I think gay marriage is a sin.
Government: Don't marry the same sex then.
Citizen: I want my kids to learn about creationism.
Government: Take them to church.
Don't ever hesitate. Reblog this. This should be...
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Eating Disorders Hotline: 1-847-831-3438
Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673
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Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000
Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253
“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via valjeans)
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
Doing the MapCrunch thing
I’m in Europe, somewhere.
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am...”
– Oscar Wilde (via societycottontail)
“It’s more interesting to have just a picture of a small detail - then you can...”
– Dries van Noten (via yearslater)
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them...”
– Groucho Marx (via myquotelibrary)
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s...”
– Karl Lagerfeld (via myquotelibrary)
myquotelibrary:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
— Joseph Goebbels
“Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred...”
– Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now”
Everyone should read this article.
(via coketalk)
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to...”
– Abraham Maslow (via psych-quotes)
“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain,...”
– Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone)
“The thing is, it’s patriarchy that says men are stupid and monolithic and...”
– On claiming to be a stupid man who doesn’t know anything « Zero at the Bone (via grrlyboy)
Yes.
(via utopiaisbanished)
“People say, “I’m going to sleep now,” as if it were nothing. But it’s really a...”
– (via kissesonthebottom)
“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (via bookmania)
“You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion...”
– Julie-Jeanne-Eléonore de Lespinasse (1732-1776)
“I had a strong sense as a kid, who was constantly belittled by vile PE teachers,...”
– Mark Gatiss (via bbcsherlockftw)
“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space,...”
– Stephen Hawking (via crownedrose)
Why do I keep falling in love with shows that want...
Why I Will Always Side With Rape Accusers Before... →
stfuconservatives:
(trigger warning for rape, sexual abuse, rape culture)
14kgoldnyc:
safercampus:
Yesterday, prosecutors decided that they won’t press charges against Greg Kelly, son of police commissioner Ray Kelly. He was accused of raping a woman—I wrote about it here. I sounded pretty sure I believed he was guilty. As far as the courts are concerned, there wasn’t enough evidence to...
