December 2011
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“I. The Great Ball on Which We Live
The world is our home. It is also the...”
– Let Us Now Praise Famous Men—James Agee and Walker Evans
That awesome moment when you spend 11 hours...
I hate it when spotify decides to interrupt...
Their commercials are so happy. FUCK YOU SPOTIFY I WANT TO BE SAD RIGHT NOW.
don't you hate it when you try to sleep but you...
Anonymous asked: where did you get your background picture?
Yeah I really just need a hug right now. Fuck car accidents, fuck insurance companies, and fuck people who think it is okay to hit your car and the flee the scene.
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Last night I started crying because I hate living...
I cried because I got in a fight that was essential racism vs. misogyny and I cried because it really upsets me that there are divisions even among those of us trying to eradicate divisions and eradicate privilege and oppression. It hurt, a lot.
My book list for this semester is so Liberal Arts...
In Praise of Shadows
Things Fall Apart
Civil Disobedience
American Political Thought
Inferno
Paradise Lost
Faust
Death in Venice
Everything that Rises Must Converge
The Disability Studies Reader
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Why I Like Titus Andronicus So Much: An Outline
The Monitor
Named after the Union warship The Monitor.
Numerous Civil War references
ANGST ANGST ANGST
2. The Airing Of Grievances
The “FUCK YOU” in Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ
Brueghel’s “Landscape with The Fall of Icarus” is one of my favorite paintings (It also sounds like Bruegers our favorite bagel place in Asheville)
Albert Camus was pretty...
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Why "Choice Feminism" Is an Illusion →
neetainari:
lasluchasdelcorazon:
Choice feminism gets one thing right: You should be able to make the choices that are right for you. And yes, of course that should include the choice to be ogled by strangers, or have your body used as a recruitment poster to bait guys into caring about important causes. Where choice feminism falls down, though, is in assuming that any of those things are...
Dear Person Who Frustrates Me
dowdyinsweatshirts:
I hate how nice you are to me, how great you are in bed, how good looking you are, and how you embody any guy I would ever want. I hate that I can’t get you out of my mind. I hate how I can’t be with you anymore. And you know it really sucks to hate someone like you because you are so fucking cool.
Yo I posted this in June guys, well he’s back. YEAH
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feminist historian: stfuracists: recovering... →
stfuracists:
recovering hipster: Ok, so here’s my take on the whole “white people saying the N-word” thing.
recoveringhipster:
I understand what you’re saying, white dudebros. I really do. Because, despite all the anti-racism, anti-sexism, social justice-y stuff I do, deep down…
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Why I Resigned from the Good Men Project: A... →
There’s a conscious purpose to this sort of behavior. Joking about getting pelted (or putting on the football helmet) sends a message to women in the classroom – and online: “Tone it down. Take care of the men and their feelings. Don’t scare them off, because too much impassioned feminism is scary for guys.” And you know, as exasperating as it is, this kind of silencing language almost...
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“Talking like a jerk, except you are an actual jerk and living proof that...”