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“Stop telling women that we should find ourselves beautiful and that we should love ourselves when you are standing right there, judging us on how our knees look in short skirts and how prominent our boobs are in a sweater and how much makeup we are or are not wearing.
Instead of us working harder on “love your body” and “find your inner beauty”, the rest of the world should be working harder on “stop telling women their bodies are a shameful place to live but that if they’re strong enough, they will learn to embrace that shame.”
This is my body. It’s not “beautiful”. I don’t “love it”. I don’t have to. I don’t have to have any strong feelings about my body. And whatever feelings I do have are not somehow invalid if they’re not glowing reviews.”
— Elyse Mofo, “Don’t Tell Me to Love My Body” (via teensweetheart)
I don’t 100% agree with the article, but I agree with the general sentiment. Mostly the bolded stuff (obviously).
(Bolded text bolded by me.)
(Source: nightrevelations)
Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life
“Because community—the rich kind, the transforming kind, the valuable and difficult kind—doesn’t happen in partial truths and well-edited photo collections on Instagram. Community happens when we hear each other’s actual voices, when we enter one another’s actual homes, with actual messes, around actual tables telling stories that ramble on beyond 140 pithy characters.”
-Shauna Niequist
YES!!
(Just because I completely agree with this doesn’t mean I am any less of an unabashed Instagrammer, though.)
"I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad and naked bodies don’t always have to be connected to sex."
Emily Browning (via skintones)(via smuovere)
Why do we feel it’s necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
"Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. “Asian-American”, please."
Walter Sobchak, in The Big LebowskiYES EXACTLY.
(via unicornbb)
"I’m really scared for my generation, you know. The thing that scares me most is Tumblr. I hate what Tumblr has become. Because it like, it reminds me of those clique-y girls in high school that used to make fun of everyone and define what was cool, but in five years, when you all graduate, that shit doesn’t matter. … Instead of kids going out and making their own moments, they’re just taking these images and living vicariously through other people’s moments. It just kills me. Then you’ll meet them and they’re just the biggest turkey in the world. They don’t actually embody any of those things. They just emulate. It’s scary man, simulation life that we’re living. It scares me."
Drake(Source: octobersveryown.blogspot.com)
"Question… vocally. Question the things I say, question your newspapers, television reporters and favorite blog. Question the things you thought and the things you think now. It’s the only way any of us are going to grow…"
Stoya(Source: warrenellis.com)
"Even in crowds I’m alone."
“Red Eyes,” Hello Hurricane, Switchfoot
Man, I just love it when a phrase in a song that you’ve heard a billion times (okay I lied, only 68 times) suddenly pops out at you, even when you’re not listening particularly actively.
MUSIC I LOVE IT.
This particular line has a very Dark Blue feel to it.
"Because lonely to me is not being by myself. Lonely to me is being in a large group and not connecting with a single person while everybody around me is having the time of their lives."
Karol Gajda(Source: karol.gajda.com)
