“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.” — Neil Gaiman
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“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and walking home alone. It gives me time to think and set my mind free. I like eating alone and listening to music alone. But when I see a mother with her child, a girl with her lover, or a friend laughing with their best friend, I realize that even though I like being alone, I don’t fancy being lonely. the sky is beautiful, but the people are sad. I just need someone who won’t run away.” —
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ideally.
“She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her was something better than what everyone else could see.” — Bee Season (Myla Goldberg)
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This is what the internet looks like today. It looks like love. Beautiful.
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A weak performance by Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending discrimination, probably went a long way to push Kennedy into the pro-equality camp. When Justice Sotomayor asked Cooper to identify a single example outside of marriage where discrimination against gay couples could be “rational,” Cooper responded “I cannot,” prompting Sotomayor to note that Cooper had more or less conceded that gay people meet the definition of a class entitled to heightened protection under the Constitution.
Similarly, when Cooper argued that same-sex marriages could somehow undermine opposite-sex marriages, Kagan asked him to explain the “cause and effect” behind this point. When Cooper fumbled the question, Kennedy pounced, asking if Cooper was “conceding the point” that same-sex couples are not a threat to other people’s marriages. Cooper was left to meekly assert that it is “impossible to know what the real world consequences will be.”
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Yes, “impossible.” Because all the straight married couples in states with marriage equality have been living in underground tunnels all this time, fearing for the virtue of their unions. We can’t possibly know what’s really going down.
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OMG, it’s a genius. <3
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“[TW: rape culture]
And when we frame all women as being someone’s wife, mother or daughter, what are we teaching young girls?
We are teaching them that in order to have the law on their side, they need to be loved by men. That they need to make themselves attractive and appealing to men in order to be worthy of protection. That their lives and their bodily integrity are valueless except for how they relate to the men they know.
The truth is that I am someone’s wife. I am also someone’s mother. I am someone’s daughter, and someone’s sister. But those are not the things that define me, or make me valuable in this world. Those are not the reasons that I should be able to live a life free from rape, sexual assault or any kind of violent crime.
I have value because I am a person. Full stop. End of argument. This isn’t even a discussion that we should be having.
So please, let’s start teaching that fact to the young women in our lives. Teach them that you love, honour and value them because of who they are. Teach them that they should expect to be treated with integrity because it’s a basic human right. Teach them that they do not deserve to be raped because no one ever, ever, ever deserves to be raped.
Above all, teach them that they are people, too.”
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I Am Not Your Wife, Sister, or Daughter. I Am a Person
This post is soooo good at articulating why it’s so harmful to have to relate women to men through their relationships with men
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This is where a lot of anti-rape campaigns aimed at men go wrong too for the same reason that the “save the boobies” campaigns hijack the message of an otherwise worthy cause and completely take the wrong lesson from it. Even in regards to lesser degrees of misogyny such as ogling, thinking of a woman as “someone’s sister/daughter/mother” is still missing the point because you should just be thinking of her as a person who deserves the same rights as you.
But even more dangerously, this mindset feeds into the idea that a woman needs other men who are willing to defend/avenge her in order to stop us from raping. Like, if the only reason you didn’t rape somebody you were considering raping was because of her connection to the men in her life, I’m not exactly going to be cheering for you.
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I want to live simply. I want to sit by the window when it rains and read books I’ll never be tested on. I want to paint because I want to, not because I’ve got something to prove. I want to listen to my body, fall asleep when the moon is high and wake up slowly, with no place to rush off to. I want not to be governed by money or clocks or any of the artificial restraints that humanity imposes on itself. I just want to be, boundless and free.
Yes, please.
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“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days have been your sonnets.” — Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
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