To the guy in the coffee shop who argued vehemently with me that women are more privileged than men in our society and that women are truly the oppressors ( Read more... )

Life makes sense when you're small, because it needs to make sense, what else do you know? For small you, life makes sense because that's normalization ( Read more... )

It's been awhile. I've been thinking about what makes a meaningful friendships, especially in an age when hearing from a friend once a year actually means you're doing the best you can. I'm wondering about friendship loyalty. I have made it a pretty straightforward rule to really dislike people who aren't good to my friends. However, although this ( Read more... )

"Juliette Binoche's performance clearly is the focus of Malgorzata Szumowska's drama, and I hear that both Anaïs Demoustier and Joanna Kulig are more than willing to match her intensity with their portrayals of two young women from modest backgrounds who pull Binoche into their world ( Read more... )

I'm tired of reading articles about women and beauty standards. I know, I know, this is just sort of perpetuating that awful cycle of commentary and re-post, but I think it's worth it to have a few more shots at how I really feel about this ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbN0nX61rIs

gosh, why do you have to be so sensitive about the way that people react to sexuality? it's not like they mean anything by it. when a guy says "that's hot" when you're close to a friend they're not trying to own both you and your relationship to females. they're not trying to defile lesbians. they're not trying to normalize a threat to their ( Read more... )

anyone else find it strange that we normalize the phrase "the one that got away"?

like, if we could have just tied them down and forced them to be with us, that would have been the thing to do.

http://xkcd.com/610/

Ten years ago I lied and said I loved you. Look, a lot will happen to you. You'll be 14, and you'll say things you don't mean. You'll hope that you're special, that you're a character from off a screen or from thick powder pages in the library. You'll hope against hope that you have some sort of intrinsic purpose, something that you were born with ( Read more... )