“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life; Love shouldn’t be one of them.”
— Dream for an Insomniac
(Source: justherguy)
If you close your eyes just as it crashes, you feel really relaxed because your brain thinks you’ve actually died for a second.
it scares me how relaxed my brain actually was when i closed my eyes wow
forever reblog
anyone elses eyes started twitching when they closed them?!?!
It legitimately worked. My whole body relaxed. Creepy.
(Source: de-feated)
When Stuyvesant says that women’s dress and bodies are distraction in a learning environment, for example, what they’re really saying is that they’re distracting to male students. The default student we are concerned about - the student whose learning we want to ensure is protected - is male. Never mind how “distracting” it is to be pulled from class, humiliated, and made to change outfits - publicly degrading young women is small price to pay to make sure that a boy doesn’t have to suffer through the momentary distraction of glancing at a girl’s legs. When this dentist in Iowa can fire his assistant for turning him on - even though she’s done absolutely nothing wrong - the message again is that it’s men’s ability to work that’s important.
And when rape victims are blamed for the crime committed against them, the message is the same: This is something that happened to the perpetrator, who was driven to assault by a skirt, or a date, or the oh-so-sexy invitation of being passed out drunk. Women have infringed on their right to exist without being turned on. (Ta-Nehisi Coates describes this centering of male sexual vulnerability quite well.) Our very presence is a disruption of the male status quo.
From my latest at The Nation, “Asking For It” (via jessicavalenti)
I remember going and getting my fellow swimming teammates out of in-school-suspension my senior year for “dress code violations”, which meant too short shorts, with this argument. These girls were getting in-school-suspensions, losing instruction time, because their shorts were deemed “inappropriate” for male students. Such bullshit.
(via iamateenagefeminist)
“The default student we are concerned about - the student whose learning we want to ensure is protected - is male. Never mind how “distracting” it is to be pulled from class, humiliated, and made to change outfits - publicly degrading young women is small price to pay to make sure that a boy doesn’t have to suffer through the momentary distraction of glancing at a girl’s legs”
(via callingoutsexists)
I want to scream this off rooftops
(via thesabbit)
31 states allow rapists to sue for the rights to the child, when a rape victim rarely even gets legal justice for the rights to her body?!?! Oh sexism you’re a Bitch!
