February 2012
76 posts
“Positioning women as naturally nonsexual and men as innately ravenously sexual...”
– Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via alexisgorges)
logic puzzle
girl gets drunk. wakes up next morning to find that her phone is broken and her wallet is missing.
in order to retrieve her wallet, she needs her phone, and in order to have her phone fixed, she needs money from her wallet.
what does she do?
note: it’s sunday, the bank is closed.
“‘The meaning of life is love’ - yawn.”
– Robert Nozick
Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
me: what's our new internet info?
megan: x666x
megan: the password is ilovesatan
megan: ...
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“I wish I was quiet and I wish I was mean but I can’t keep my mouth shut...”
– mantra
“You start with your own body
then move outward, but not too far.
Never try to...”
– “How to be Happy: Another Memo to Myself,” Stephen Dunn
“You see, it’s not science and reason that are tools of imperialism and...”
– Natalie Reed, “A Matter Of Survival” | Sincerely, Natalie Reed (via fetters)
“No.”
– Actress Julianne Moore, when asked if she gained a newfound respect for Sarah Palin after delving deeper into Palin’s life to portray her in the upcoming film “Game Change.”
feistyfeminist:
I don’t want to be a feminist anymore.
I am tired of being asked. I am tired of being asked if I’m a lesbian or if I was raped. I am tired of being asked if daddy didn’t treat me right. If I was in an abusive relationship. If I was beaten. If I grew up with a single mother. If I don’t like sex. I am sick and tired of being asked “But, why are you a feminist, then?” I am...
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“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively...”
– David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Pantheon Books, 2011 (tnx johnsparker)
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“don’t confuse an emotional hangover with an existential crisis”
interplanetarylove:
last night i had a dream that i knew someone that had a goat that wore overalls and i was so jealous it was the worst feeling eveR.
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“No one should ask the other
“What were you thinking?”
No one, that is,
who...”
– “After Making Love,” Stephen Dunn (via clavicola)
See Also: The science behind why Adele’s “Someone Like You” makes you cry.
that scene in that will smith movie where he kills himself with a jellyfish, when they’re in bed and he’s watching her pulse.
“Irony is so ironic.”
– Phaedra Parks, ladies and gentlemen.
“In American fiction, the sanctum of the literary must not be polluted by the...”
– Reality’s Cul-de-Sacs
“In the age of automaton and job security, a touch of the wanderlust is the kiss...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, “Living in the Time of Alger, Greeley, Debs: Old Time Boomers Still Stomp the West, but Air Conditioning’s Better”, National Observer, July 13, 1964 (via resips)
“It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the...”
– Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley
(I had this exact thought today)
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“Now, Occupy has to rely on artists like Yoko Ono and Joan Baez, who are the product of an era of culture that, beginning with the Civil Rights Movement, flooded forward into the Vietnam War protests and the Womens Liberation Movement with music that inspired change and strengthened movements. By including these artists in the compilation album, Occupy references an era in which music was...