December 2011
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“Eight percent of college men have either attempted or successfully raped. Thirty...”
– Margo Maine, Ph.D. (Body Wars)
There was a time that, as a person of the male persuasion, seeing this quote made me really mad. It made me mad that women would assume that I was a rapist; it made me mad that rape was becoming ‘my problem’; it made me mad because, frankly, I didn’t think it was...
Discussion>Arguing
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Watchsuper-eklectic1:
grapefruitatlarge:
virtutethecat:
shakethecobwebs:
super-eklectic1:
“find nicer boys”
“Is it on google maps? Can I find it on bing?”
Hahaha seriously. This person is just the best.
Love how this bitch thinks she can deflect the burden of naïveté onto the people who who would like to point out that it takes some personal responsibility to avoid getting into...
stormcloud:
i got 99 problems and they’re all self diagnosed personality disorders
In the future, history classes will be told that...
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The government aims to reduce Jay-Z’s problems to...
Things I have noticed about becoming a vegetarian.
early-onset-of-night:
3 months ago BANG! I turned into a vegetarian. Some things have changed. For the better? I don’t know.
Hungrier more often
Immediate weight loss, which has plateaued
I sleep deeper, but less
My toenails grow quicker. Seriously
Bizarre feelings of mental well-being
More frequent episodes of extreme happiness/giddiness/hypomania
Less of a desire to consume alcohol,...
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“It can’t be any more obvious that we live in a patriarchal society if ‘feminist’...”
– Ellen Page (via feminishblog)
“This is safer than Tylenol, and yet we’re going to put extra barriers to keep...”
– Susan Wood, executive director of the Jacobs Center for Women’s Health at George Washington University, who in 2005 resigned her job as the top women’s-health official at the FDA, accusing the agency of refusing to allow emergency contraception because of political pressure by the Bush...
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“I’m so tired of trying to say things to people and having them not listen, and...”
– Fiona Apple (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Using hot pink gaff tape to affix a dry Egyptian licorice teabag to your eye...”
– Hello, is it me you’re looking for?: Public Service Announcement
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I made a new friend
I’ve suspected she was cool for a while now in class
but we just studied together
and we’re both douchey in the same ways
and assume no one wants to talk to us
that’s so nice to find you know
w4m
So the story starts out not-so-interesting: I go to my local grocery store, I have a moment with a cute stranger. I proceed to post a missed connection about it on Craigslist because I’m that bored, and he was that cute.
Then this guy responds back a week or so later, Oh hey! I was there sometime last week. (Nice and specific). So I give him a link to some of my facebook photos so he can...
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