July 2011
11 posts
“We live in a culture that is very permissive where rape is concerned. While...”
– The Careless Language of Sexual Violence
(via janedoe225)
so long as we keep saying “boys will be boys” they will continue to be the ones usually taking the liberty to not just rape but commit all sorts of other crimes.
i refuse to believe men commit crimes at such higher rates than women because...
June 2011
12 posts
“Chivalry, for the most part, is just called politeness or even not being an asshole when it is being done towards a man, or by a woman. For the other part, chivalry is being a condescending ass. No really, I have walked down the street thousands of fucking times without your fucking help. I am not a fucking infant.
Why it is elevated from mere politeness if I do it, to goddamned chivalry...
William Deresiewicz: "We live at a time when...
“Facebook isn’t the whole of contemporary friendship, but it sure looks a lot like its future. In ancient times friendship was a high calling, demanding extraordinary qualities of character—rooted in virtue, for Aristotle and Cicero, and dedicated to the pursuit of goodness and truth.
Inevitably, the classical ideal has faded. The image of the one true friend, a soul mate rare to...
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very...”
– Audre Lorde (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
WatchQueer-identified artist Austra, aka Katie Stelmanis.
Joan Didion, On Self Respect
To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception...
