February 2012
18 posts
“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the...”
– Stephen Fry
“How terrible it is when you say I love you and the person on the other end...”
– J.D. Salinger (Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters)
Broom
To remember you’re alive visit the cemetery of your father at noon after you’ve made love and are still wrapped in a mammalian odor that you are forced to cherish. Under each stone is someone’s inevitable surprise, the unexpected death of their biology that struggled hard, as it must. Now to home without looking back, enough is enough. En route buy the best wine you can afford and a dozen stiff...
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“A critique is not a matter of saying that things are not right as they are. It...”
– Michel Foucault, “Practicing Criticism”
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Watchi need that sun more than anything else in the world right now.
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Speaking purely as a male feminist...
stfuconservatives:
I have never met a feminist who hates men, though they all hate people who think that most feminists hate men. -Joe
Ten Reasons Why You Should Never Accept a Diamond... →
1. You’ve Been Psychologically Conditioned To Want a Diamond The diamond engagement ring is a 63-year-old invention of N.W.Ayer advertising agency. The De Beers diamond cartel contracted N.W.Ayer to create a demand for what are, essentially, useless hunks of rock. 2. Diamonds are Priced Well Above Their Value The De Beers cartel has systematically held diamond prices at levels far greater than...
“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
January 2012
34 posts
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“How can hip hop be dead if Wu-Tang is forever?”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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“When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of...”
– Neil Gaiman
“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, that’s...”
– Malcolm X
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“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka
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TV on the Radio - You But you Threw your hands up...
“What’s the worst thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now. You’re...”
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Full frontal feminism: a young women’s guide to why feminism matters
By Jessica Valenti
I'm getting infernally SICK of the white whiners... →
thegoddamazon:
Look, I’m going to explain this as clearly as possible.
The exercise was to teach white people/white passing people about the daily racism that POC face by putting them in a position to be discriminated against constantly. This was the point of the “A Class Divided” exercise.
Now, these students were all required to sign waivers saying that they would undergo high emotional...
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We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; To-day will die to-morrow; Time stoops to no man’s lure; And love, grown faint and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure.
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise...
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“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams
“Charity is the humanitarian mask hiding the face of economic exploitation. In a...”
– Slavoj Žižek; ‘Violence’, p19
“Beauty is nothing. Beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be...”
– Charles Bukowski
Full article: Nerds and Male Privilege
“A guy who plays a first person shooter – Call of Duty, Halo, Battlefield, what-have-you – online may expect a certain amount of trash talking, but he’s not going to be inundated with offers for sex, threats of rape, sounds of simulated masturbation or demands that he blow the other players – but not before going to the kitchen and getting them a...
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“if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,...”
– Charles Bukowski
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