June 2012
gatsby: hey i just met you
gatsby: and this is crazy
gatsby: but i'm going to spend most of my life and wealth in an attempt to pursue you for your stunning vapidness and the warped image of yourself created in my mind as a precursor to my eventual fall
gatsby: so call me maybe
tanku:
this post is here to remind everybody that “gråtrunka” is the swedish word for “crying while masturbating”
THERE’S A WORD FOR THIS NOW?!
Awesome. Now I can stop using ‘crasturbating,’ which is really unattractive.
I’ma go grastrunka with my tears of joy.
the wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his...
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via nadia-love)
I’ve always loved intelligent girls, no matter how they look, to be able to hold...
– Prabal Gurung. (via thatkindofwoman)
TRIGGER WARNING: cissexism, transmisogyny, sexual assault.
“Deciding to...
– Sarah Brown in this F Word comment.
I love Sarah Brown. Despite being a Lib Dem, she’s also a really good politician.
(via fuckyeahgenderstudies)
>at Pride London 2008, stewards took it upon themselves to exclude MEN from the female toilets in Trafalgar Square,”
fixed that for ya
(via...
Over the past 25 years, Muslim majorities have elected five women as heads of...
– Dr. Ali M. Nizamuddin is a ISPU Fellow and an associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois Springfield. (via monkeyknifefight)
Women are expected to be nice and sweet, to make other people feel comfortable....
– Unknown (via grrl-meat)
May 2012
Plenty of oppressive bullshit goes down under the guise of nice. Every day,...
– The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)
I’ve been thinking about niceness a lot lately. I’m not sure it’s as beneficial as I used to think it was.
(via meganwest)
lettherebecramp:
if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with women of color, your feminism is shit
if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with trans* women, your feminism is shit
if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with disabled women, your feminism is shit
if your feminism does not actively advocate for and with financially disadvantaged women, your...
snarg:
when ur sad always remember that u don’t look like you did in 6th grade
Ho-ly shit this post.
o.o
Fucking boyfriend thinks its funny to pretend he...
That is so not funny >.< hope everything turns out okay and that you feel better *sending waves of comfort*
You know that moment when you’re reading a book and you just have to stop and bite your lip and squeal or sigh or close your eyes and wrinkle your nose and forehead and press the book against your heart and just like sit there and try to soak up the gorgeous literature via osmosis?
That’s my favorite part of reading.
normal girls: TIME TO GO TANNING
me: I must bathe in sunblock.
artmotherfuckers:
Sometimes something reminds me of Firefly and I get sad because it was cancelled And then I marathon it and I’m happy because it’s such a good show But then I get to the end and I’m sad again because it’s over forever
One time I dreamt that they were going to start filming again. They were already finished a new episode, and it was going to have something to do with River and...
Oh, I don't know.: “This module examines the roles... →
zedoh:
“This module examines the roles and relations of women and men in a period of great cultural, political, economic, social, and religious change (c.1530-1700). The law, religion, and popular culture of sixteenth and seventeenth-century England represented gender relations as rigidly hierarchical:…
straylight3jane:
maxximillion:
if you are cis and straight and you are in support of same-sex marriage, adoption by same-sex couples, trans rights, etc, but “respect people who feel otherwise because that’s just their opinion and they are entitled to it” then you are part of the problem
if you are cis and straight and you are in support of same-sex marriage, adoption by same-sex couples,...
I need feminism
whoneedsfeminism:
because food products aimed at women shouldn’t use how few calories they have as a marketing technique, and because food marketing shouldn’t be dictated by gender in the first place.
I was yours before the first morn broke
Before the sun that woke the earth
And...
– Amici (via tittyschwarzenegger)