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"I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:48:41 -0400

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I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, stomp my feet on the floor and scream “No! No, you cannot make me, I won’t, leave me alone!” I am, simply put, too tired. So very, very tired.

I am tired of fighting with my friends. I am tired of arguing that someone groping and slapping my butt isn’t “what I have to expect”, just because I’m at a bar, and the one attacking my butt has a drink in the other hand. I am tired of hearing “boys will be boys” and “when you’re dressed like that …” and “that’s just what guys do”. I am tired of trying to drown those sentiments in loud, repetitive no’s, screamed over and over again, till my throat is sore and my voice weak – just to hear them repeated, as soon as exhaustion threatens to silence me.

I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of seeing someone writing something offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, somewhere online. I am tired of seeing those writings getting likes and lol’s, and SO TRUE’s. I am tired of being consumed by confusion and anger, typing, typing, typing and typing a seemingly endless response, including research, links and statistics, and then hesitate clicking “submit”. I am tired of knowing that I hesitate because I am afraid of the flood of responses that will come. I am tired of knowing that I will be bombarded with lighten up’s, stop whining’s and get a sense of humor’s for so long, that I will start to wonder if I am indeed wound up too tight, a nagger and humorless. I am tired of the fact that I’m afraid of being called a cunt, even though I don’t find genitalia insulting or demeaning.

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- I don’t want to be a feminist anymore (via coffeeurlgirl)

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americasgreatoutdoors: The Milky Way rises over Long’s Peak...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:40:17 -0400

americasgreatoutdoors:

The Milky Way rises over Long’s Peak (14,259 feet) as seen from 9,600 feet up Trail Bridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Photo: Pat Gaines

beeishappy: Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 08:40:09 -0400

beeishappy:

Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.

"I don’t want a piece of the cake, I want the fucking recipe."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:20:11 -0400

“I don’t want a piece of the cake, I want the fucking recipe.”

- Paul Mooney (via silkyblackgold)

so disappointed.

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:54:12 -0400

the devastation in Oklahoma is just awful, and yet not one person on my newsfeed on FB has even acknowledged it. where’s the support? where’s the national outreach?

i guess because it’s not the East Coast or NYC or NJ or Boston no one gives a shit. I don’t know anyone in OK either, but it’s still awful. I mean a tornado destroyed an elementary school with CHILDREN INSIDE OF IT and there’s just…silence.

fuck.

Right before my sister hit a triple

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:54:38 -0400

Right before my sister hit a triple

mpdrolet: Margarete Elmenhorst

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:40:13 -0400

mpdrolet:

Margarete Elmenhorst

text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross to help those in Oklahoma

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:15:29 -0400

allashleyforgottosay: oberstingwithconor: ajejunestar: feversa...

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:00:11 -0400

allashleyforgottosay:

oberstingwithconor:

ajejunestar:

feversandmeercats:

This is really cool and I think a lot of you guys will like it! This photographer (Katrin Bpunkt) has an ongoing series where she shoots artists’ as they react to a song playing on the headphones. For Conor the song was ‘Suzanne’ by Nina Simone and there are 8 more pictures of him on her website. Other artists in the series include Azure Ray, Amanda Palmer, Dave Dondero, and babby Conor from Villagers.

Beautiful :’)

Such a cool idea! I love it!

love this idea!

baby.

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Mon, 20 May 2013 13:20:05 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 10:40:28 -0400

seriously this North America thing on the Discovery channel is so fucking good i love it so much...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:14:28 -0400

seriously this North America thing on the Discovery channel is so fucking good i love it so much ahhhhhhhhhhh

"Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude,..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:58:05 -0400

““Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.””

- Pearl Cleage (via commovente)

wordslessspoken: I must go West

Sun, 19 May 2013 21:20:26 -0400

wordslessspoken:

I must go West

alliesonwonderland: Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles saw...

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:21:28 -0400

alliesonwonderland:

Vincent van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles

saw this lovely painting today. feel very lucky to have seen it, as it’s on loan at the DIA from Paris.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 13:20:08 -0400

"Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:40:07 -0400

“Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

- Mitch Albom (via thelittlephilosopher)