February 2012
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“He [Rick Santorum] is a staunch opponent of abortion, even in the case of rape....”
– John Oliver on Rick Santorum, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
After lecturing to a sea of dull-eyed stares...
Professor: What's wrong with you guys today? You all look terrible.
Classmate: It's gloomy today.
Professor: Gloomy? What are you, a flower?
January 2012
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January blues.
A post of mine about Hugo Schwyzer got reblogged by a number of feminist blogs. I intend to address the issues raised in those posts, but not right away because I have things outside of the Internet to do. (I’m posting this lest my lack of posting be taken as a sign of meek withdrawal from the Internet for being called deluded, mindless, sexist, or a puppet, among other things. Discomfited...
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Pancakes.
Friend: like, every breakfast from here until diabetes is gonna be pancakes.
Friend: regular pancakes strawberry pancakes mexican hot chocolate pancakes lemon ricotta pancakes
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Hugo Schwyzer: Moving Forward →
As a feminist who is a friend of Hugo Schwyzer’s, I’m very disheartened to see that there are self-identified feminists who would take such a reactionary stance against Hugo without looking at his words, actions, roles, and past in context. It’s a disappointing moment in history when we as a movement attempt to expel our best members based on quotes and accusations carefully...
December 2011
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“Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– from This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald. (via fabula)
I like this, even though I don’t really care what a girl’s sexual (or non-sexual) behavior is like, so long as it’s her choice to make.
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On Hugo Schwyzer
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unknowablewoman:
stfusexists:
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Out of all the men that have ever abused/raped me, many of them were addicted to one thing or another. It didn’t mean a damn thing when it came down to it. A lot of people in my life have been addicted to things and even more have had mental illnesses. However, none of those other people addicted to things have ever hurt me. I...
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Everyone has six names.
the-hurricane-k-reigns-here:ipomoeaandthestarstealers:trackster:
1. Your Real name: M————
2. Your detective name (Favorite color and favorite Animal): Black Chinchilla.
3. Your soap opera name (middle name and street you live on): (I don’t have a middle name. I’ll use my alter-ego name, I guess.) Emily Greenwood.
4. Your Star wars name (first three...
November 2011
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Also, I moved.
The place I was living in was getting DV-y so I picked up everything and moved. Maybe I shouldn’t sound so nonchalant about that, but I’m not—I spent hours mediating and helping the girl roomie figure out her options. And I had a nervous breakdown or two prior to my move.
I’m still sorting out legal ish, but I think things will work out.
Also: my new roommates love to...
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Call the whaaambulance!
I canceled all my Thanksgiving plans to nurse a bottle of Nyquil. Currently wallowing in self-pity, procrastination, and open browser tabs of bronchitis symptoms. Blood in phlegm is a symptom of a lot of illnesses.
I haven’t seen my grandma in months despite being only one city away and I canceled today to recuperate and work on my college transfer apps. On one hand, I think she’d be...
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“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more...”
– Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via heyicanbetheanswer)
October 2011
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Missing by Eliza Doolittle.
Because I’m...
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I cried for over half an hour to a stranger (one of the nurses at my school) today. She said back to me a bunch of reassuring metaphors and wrote me a few notes for my professors.
This stress is killing me. I pulled an all-nighter a couple of nights ago, crashed for fourteen hours last night, and woke up feeling just as tired, coughing up phlegm with blood in it. I have so much anxiety from...
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I’m sick and cold and it’s raining outside but I need to get to campus without a car and I want to wear all the sweaters. I hate business attire.
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Last week, my room got so messy I started sleeping on the floor. Having grown up on a Chinese box “mattress”, I was reminded of how much better it feels to sleep on a hard surface. My body feels better than it has in ages. I sleep more soundly, and more deeply.
I want to throw out my bed and get some kind of roll-up cot for the floor.
September 2011
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Today started out shitty but ended up AMAZING.
This morning I had cobbled together a Tumblr post that I didn’t finish that went kind of like this:
I initially requested the weekend off because my family was going to Vegas and wanted me to watch the dogs (thanks, guys), but then my dad ended up not going, so I made other plans to just chill the fuck out and do some Labor Day shopping. Found out that I work all three days, including...
August 2011
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I love my housemates, but I also love when they're...
I get to walk around the house without pants on.
artbychristina asked: Hi. I recently came across the quotation you posted on February 3rd on Tumblr, “I think we can all recognize that the “it’s a joke excuse” is the most dismissive, self-righteous loophole, created by those who refuse to examine their power, and assume they have not only the right to say whatever they want to people, but the right to control how other people react to what...
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“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami.
July 2011
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I borrowed and finished reading Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Murakami over the weekend. It’s been a a few months since I read something for fun.
I don’t feel like myself. I work pretty hard during the week and sleep a lot over the weekends. I don’t feel sad, but I do feel hazy. Like I’m constantly forgetting something. Out of sorts.
Frustratingly...
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June 2011
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May 2011
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coffeeandsarcasm replied to your post: I haven’t had any coffee today.
What curse was put on you so that you can’t have coffee for a month? D:
Oh, I mean that I have an addiction, but I don’t have the resources to wean myself off without negatively affecting my work, grades, and extracurriculars.
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I haven't had any coffee today.
I feel like crying. I think I’ve turned into the McDonald’s “dude I haven’t had my $1 coffee yet” asshole.
Or, you know, I have an addiction that I won’t be able to deal with until a month later. That’s fine, I’ve only been spending about $20 a week on coffee pshhh no big deal /s
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“And the worst kind of loneliness is feeling alone when we are with someone to...”
– Page 251 in Human Sexuality: Diversity in Contemporary America, Seventh Edition.
Studying for my psychology exam (which is tomorrow [tomorrow]) can be a bit depressing with this textbook.
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microaggressions:
This is a flat out aggression. Published by Psychology Today, written by a Japanese man.
While I loathe the article and Kanazawa’s work and racist/sexist/evo-bullshit-psych assumptions, here’s my microaggression: Satoshi Kanazawa, PhD and evolutionary psychologist at London School of Economics is contextually introduced and credited as “a Japanese man”...
April 2011
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I think I've rewired myself to wake up after five...
Which is fine, because that’s all I have time for anyway. I think my pattern is five hours per night for five days, crash and have a full eight, start at five again.
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That moment where you realize you forgot your keys...
ETA: Broke in. Everything’s good.
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I’m awful at interpersonal conflict with people I know. I have a very genuine desire for everyone to get along and to resolve these conflicts, but my first instinct is always to run away and hide (and if I can’t hide, to say as little as possible in attempt to not escalate anything). Some people may interpret that as being cold or hostile, but I’m more of a coward. Obvs, this is...
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