January 2011
December 2010
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
Think women have achieved equality? Think again. →
We Can’t Be Equal While:
Gender Roles
Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
Men are beat up,...
Watchwhenthecamerasoff:
“In a strange way, I miss that year, because all those possibilities that existed then are gone. It didn’t seem unlikely to me that he could walk through a door or could appear behind a bush. It was a year of very magical thinking, and in some ways I’m sad to be moving further and further away from it.” - Michelle Williams on Heath’s passing.
I fucking love her.
“Working class women are already often stereotyped as slobbish and homely in the...”
– Size Matters: The Fat Tax | Bitch Magazine
Tasha Fierce, reblogged mainly for her ethical nuance - as a self described fat, middle class, writer - that class presents both barriers and motivation to engage with body image issues, fashion and diy clothing.
(via materialworld)
I’m sure most of us...
“I didn’t break up the Beatles. The Beatles were a group made up of four very...”
– YOKO ONO, in an interview with the Daily Mail, in which she also says John Lennon would love the Internet, Twitter, Facebook and Lady Gaga.
A family friend of ours introduced us to a family member of theirs (JEWISH GEOGRAPHY) who directed the recent American Masters documentary on John in NYC. He...
“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...”
– George Carlin (via rebeccam)