July 2011
“Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.”
—Steve Carell (via e-pic)
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
—Anaïs Nin (via olivicat)
“It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
—The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (via weirdbitterdays)
the patriarchy phrasebook →
laurelin.wordpress.com
Patriarchy: ‘He loved women’
Translation: ‘He fucked a lot of women’Patriarchy: ‘You’re a feminazi/ bitch/ dyke/ delusional woman/ whore/ desperate for a fuck’
Translation: ‘I am threatened by your argument and am scared of you and it’Patriarchy: ‘Smile, love!’
Translation: ‘Why are you not deferential to my masculinity?’Patriarchy: ‘I’m not being racist/ sexist/ hetrosexist/ agist, but…’
Translation: ‘I’m about to say something racist/ sexist/ hetrosexist/ agist and I don’t want to be called on it’Patriarchy: ‘feminists are humourless’
Translation: ‘feminists don’t laugh at my jokes about rape and violence’Patriarchy: ‘you’re delusional’
Translation: ‘I can’t attack your argument, so I’ll have to attack you’Patriarchy: ‘if we didn’t have prostitution/ pornography there’d be more rape’
Translation: ‘if we don’t get exactly what we want, you’ll pay for it’Patriarchy: ‘you’re too emotional’
Translation: ‘this issue only hurts women, so why get upset?’Patriarchy: ‘it’s natural’
Translation: ‘if I say it enough times, that makes it true!’
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
—Elbert Hubbard (via imfantasyparade)
“It’s difficult to be young. You have to pay thousands of pounds to go to college so you can be super aware and alert of just how in debt and unemployed you are.”
—Dylan Moran (via letmeeatpears)
“I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it’s one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.”
—Margaret Atwood (via discoveries-in-chaos)
