January 2012
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New Years Resolutions
1) Finish the fucking novel. I go another year thinking that bastard thing will write itself and I’ll never accomplish anything.
2) Learn what exercise is. Yeah, get of my arse and do something other than wake up for once in my life. My body and movement have relationship issues.
3) Read more. In fact here and now I, Jade (the internet does not need to know) Whatsherface, here by declare...
December 2011
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Valentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he performs cunnilingus on Michelle Williams. (via agarfields)
Lesley this is what I was talking about.
I love this man. I really do.
(via feministhistorian)
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
Get it through your heads, people. Potentiality=/=actuality, and we don’t hand out rights based on mere potential.
(via prolongedeyecontact)
I have the potential to be a doctor! Give me a medical license before finishing school!
I have the potential to...
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Dear escorts and prostitutes
You take a lot of shit from society.
Just talked to my very sexually promiscuous friend who has sex on the first date, in public places, without protection and cheats.
He says he doesn’t want to associate with escorts because you’re ‘dirty’.
I would just like to say,
you are not dirty. You are wonderful people and there are some people in society who don’t look...
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Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while... →
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.
3. Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When...
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living in a world created to destroy: An excellent... →
cmon-sweetcatastrophe:
An excellent article about vegetarianism/veganism, omnivorism, health, and animal cruelty. I never thought one article could influence my views so much. For the past nine months or so, I’ve been eating pretty minimal meat (basically only eating it when my parents cook dinner for me, which is…
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What if I wanted to break?: silverbellsolicitor:... →
silverbellsolicitor:
It kind of really confuses me when Barbie commercials have little girls dressing them up and brushing their hair Like no Barbie is not about fashion. Barbie is about collecting as many dolls as you can get your grubby 7 year old hands on and dominating the living room…
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The NHS
I volunteer at my local NHS hospital for 3 hours ever Friday. I work on a diabetic/encronology ward which includes mainly the elderly, many of these elderly patients are forgetful or hard to work with. I’ve worked there for three years this coming summer.
I’m not saying the NHS is perfect, not by a long shot, but I really do hate it when people try and tear it to pieces without having...
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One teachers approach to preventing gender...
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got in line for art, and I noticed that she still had not removed her hood. When we arrived at the art room, I said:...
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Lolita
Just read a post on tumblr about how some girl wants a stepfather like Humbert in Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita…
No, just no.
I agree that Nabokov’s written style gives the effect of Humbert being some romantic mastermind but the main point of the whole story is that he rapes a girl from age 12 up until age 15 when she finally gets away from him.
He is not to be admired.
He is...
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