December 2011
87 posts
“Political leaders should be encouraging young adults to participate in civic...”
– NY Times Editorial: Keeping Students From the Polls (via cultureofresistance)
“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you...”
– BiIl Hicks (via cultureofresistance)
“And then Jack chopped down what was the world’s last beanstalk, adding murder...”
– Susan Sto-Helit (portrayed by Michelle Dockery) Hogfather (via downtonandher)
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Human fantasies
Susan: All right, I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable.
Death: REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
Susan: Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—
Death: YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
Susan: So we can believe the big ones?
Death: YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING
Susan: They're not the same at all!
Death: YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET, AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME... SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
Susan: Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—
Death: MY POINT EXACTLY
“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some...”
– Carl Sagan (via cultureofresistance)
of mild interest and boredom: silverbellsolicitor:... →
silverbellsolicitor:
It kind of really confuses me when Barbie commercials have little girls dressing them up and brushing their hair Like no Barbie is not about fashion. Barbie is about collecting as many dolls as you can get your grubby 7 year old hands on and dominating the living…
Mine were always getting stranded on desert islands and having to reconstruct societies and having...
“What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate...”
– Gloria Steinem (via loveyourchaos)
This. This is, like it or not, totally true. Hilarious, stunning, and mindblowingly true.
Maybe one day there will be gender equality. But not yet.
(via ckburch)
Huh.
And yes.
(via picturesinhismind)
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Watchpoplockgrimlock:
LETS GET DOWN TO BUISNESS TO DEFEAT THE HUUUUUNS. DID THEY SEND ME DAUGHTERS WHEN I ASKED FOR SONS? YOU’RE THE SADDEST BUNCH I EVER MET AND YOU CAN BET BEFORE WE’RE THROUGH. MISTER I’LL MAKE A MAN OUT OF YOU.
TRANQUIL AS A FOREST BUT ON FIRE WITHIN. ONCE YOU FIND YOUR CENTER YOU ARE SURE TO WIN. YOU’RE A SPINELESS PALE PATHETIC LOT AND YOU HAVENT GOT A CLUE. SOMEHOW I’LL MAKE...
Lily Brown, "We're in the Ocean, Or I'm Alone"
sharingpoetry:
Repetition smudges in. The lake sets beneath a bird- turned sky. I balance water, rock, flat- topped dirt, the bone I’ve become. Back home, wind throws a tree on the van out front, air goes glassy and sharp. I point to a building, hit brick. Consistent animal, it’s elemental, how we feel. Do you know you’re a photo graph, mapped to a flash?
Watchallthegirlsarebummers:
One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years...
