-
I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.
Moab Is My Washpot (via fuckyeahstephenfry)(via fuckyeahstephenfry)
Posted on June 19, 2013 via That Quote with 324 notes
Source: thatquote
-
Turns out, booty shaking and stamping your husband’s last name on a product of your own creativity makes a lot of folks question your feminist values. (Beyoncé recently told Vogue UK that though the word “can be extreme…I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I believe in equality.”) Some of the equivocation is no doubt caused by Beyoncé’s slick, pop-princess brand. It is difficult to square the singer’s mainstream packaging with subversion of conventional and sexist views of gender. But ultimately, the policing of feminist cred is the real moral contradiction. And the judgment of how Beyoncé expresses her womanhood is emblematic of the way women in the public eye are routinely picked apart—in particular, it’s a demonstration of the conflicting pressures on black women and the complicated way our bodies and relationships are policed.
(…)
Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a 1992 book devoted to sex, Madonna has been viewed as a feminist provocateur, pushing the boundaries of acceptable femininity. But Beyoncé’s use of her body is criticized as thoughtless and without value beyond male titillation, providing a modern example of the age-old racist juxtaposition of animalistic black sexuality vs. controlled, intentional, and civilized white sexuality.Posted on June 18, 2013 with 1 note
Source: salon.com
-
![tastefullyoffensive:
[extrafabulouscomics]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/053e017421834ce18e46c8788b1ace49/tumblr_mn7o989eO01qewacoo1_500.jpg)
-
Posted on June 18, 2013 via imgfave with 1,415 notes
-
(via fuckyeahstephenfry)
-
-
feministists – disguising themselves as human beings since 18?? or something like that
-
please stop being too cute, okay?
(via gifs-for-the-masses)
Posted on June 15, 2013 via only fools hesitate. with 550,607 notes
Source: sookieforbes
-
is this the real life
is this just fantasy
caught in a landslide
no escape from reality
-
if you kiss my neck, you can softly hear the sound of my clothes being thrown to the other side of the room.
(via valeria2067)
Posted on June 14, 2013 via with 20,814 notes
Source: alana-leonie
-
i miss them. i miss the coat and the purple shirt of sex and the perfect brown curls and sherlock’s way to walk like a really cool person on a mission and john’s straight back and his way to walk like a soldier.
(via captainducrieffed)
-
But one phrase in particular, from the interview, is worth dwelling on: “I figured it was a domestic-violence dispute.” In many times and places, a line like that has been offered as an excuse for walking away, not for helping a woman break down your neighbor’s door. How many women have died as a result?
Posted on June 13, 2013 with 17 notes
Source: newyorker.com
-
(…) when faced with a barrage of reporters asking inane questions and literally fighting over each other in order to get his attention, he makes one of the most astute sociological observations that I have ever heard:
“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms,” he said. “Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway. Dead giveaway. Deeeeeeeeeeaaaaaad giveaway. Either she’s homeless, or she’s got problems. That’s the only reason she’d run to a black man.”
I admit when I heard him say this, I laughed out loud, and I assumed that when people began talking about this video clip, they were laughing at the same thing. But it’s come to my attention that were not.
(…)
We’re not laughing at these things just because they are in and of themselves funny. We laugh because we expect the type casting. We laugh at the inside joke because we know how absurd and improbable it would be that five mature students at Oxford would be in a gang, or that every black man that a white woman ran towards was a rapist or an attacker. We laugh for the same reason that people laugh when we see Mr Bean trying to fit all his travel gear into a small handbag. We laugh because the unexpected is the predicate of all humour. But we also laugh because if you don’t laugh, you will have to cry. Cry at the fact that despite this improbability, the assumption will still be made.
I’m not laughing at Charles Ramsey because I think his accent is funny, or because he’s some kind of minstrel that has managed to entertain. I’m laughing because his acerbic wit has summarised one of the most complex sociological phenomena in the US, and it’s funny because it’s true.
Source:
-
I did not order this box of cat.
there it is! the catsmile! :3
Posted on June 13, 2013 via ラウラです。 with 311,675 notes
Source: weheartit.com
-
(via ihatemyparents)
Posted on June 12, 2013 via Minus The Bullshit, Life's Great with 1,154 notes
Source: trustothers
»"I… I'm sorry," he said. "I don't mean to… to be like I am."«
(Samwell Tarly in "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin)
"But she ain't running / She's walking a little slow / And she ain't crying - she's just singing a little low" - Rickie Lee Jones
"The definition of / A crazy person is / Someone who does the same thing over / And over again / While expecting new results" - Regina Spektor
