(Source: tteenspirit, via fakeville)
"In high school, I took four years of English, including advanced classes. I can only remember reading two works by women in all of high school, and they were both poems. And I went to an all-girls school, where catering to the reading tastes and styles of boys wasn’t even an issue.
Do you know how much I read about aging men and their penises and their lust for younger women and their hatred of their castrating wives? I read enough stories about male writing professors having midlife crises and lusting after young students to last me seven lifetimes. Can you imagine the reverse? Can you imagine classes in which guys read nothing but Germaine Greer, Eve Ensler, and Caryl Churchill? Can you imagine whole semesters of reading about vaginas? Again, I mean outside of a specialized class in women’s literature or anything about the human reproductive system. I seriously doubt you can.
Perhaps we still need to consider the fact that female stories are consistently undervalued, labeled as “commercial,” “light,” “fluffy,” and “breezy,” even if they are about the very same topics that a man might write about. If we sell more, it is simply because we produce candy—and who doesn’t like candy? We’re the high fructose corn syrup of literature, even when our products are the same. It’s okay to sell the girls as long as we have some men to provide protein."
Do you know how much I read about aging men and their penises and their lust for younger women and their hatred of their castrating wives? I read enough stories about male writing professors having midlife crises and lusting after young students to last me seven lifetimes. Can you imagine the reverse? Can you imagine classes in which guys read nothing but Germaine Greer, Eve Ensler, and Caryl Churchill? Can you imagine whole semesters of reading about vaginas? Again, I mean outside of a specialized class in women’s literature or anything about the human reproductive system. I seriously doubt you can.
Perhaps we still need to consider the fact that female stories are consistently undervalued, labeled as “commercial,” “light,” “fluffy,” and “breezy,” even if they are about the very same topics that a man might write about. If we sell more, it is simply because we produce candy—and who doesn’t like candy? We’re the high fructose corn syrup of literature, even when our products are the same. It’s okay to sell the girls as long as we have some men to provide protein."
— Maureen Johnson
"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."
— When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
(Source: bostonreview, via ixnay-on-the-oddk)
Done. There’s something holy about the first complete draft of a poem, even though you know it’s gonna seem shitty one you get to the final product.
I’m not leaving epoch until I have a rough draft of this poem.
Fangirled all over Lacey Roop this past Tuesday because…just watch.
(Source: buffysummer, via chemicallyunwound)
Just saw this and it broke my heart— signal boost for this lady! I’ve seen this kinda stuff get spread majorly so I thought this might be able to help this lady. If you find her phone here’s the link to the craigslist ad!
(via get-karied-away)
Find me a punk boy with a leather jacket who’s good in bed and trill as fuck and I’ll be happy
For everybody in southern Arizona and Texas:
Jorge was abandoned by his guide in the beginning of May while crossing north. He had been vomiting and had severe abdominal cramping. His full name is Jorge Humberto Menjivar Guardado. He is 40 years old.
He left El Salvador on April 5 and stayed in Reynosa until April 29. His family says he was headed to Houston, Texas.
No one has had word of him since he left Reynosa.
Please share this information with anyone who might be able to help, especially if you are near the border region.
If you see him or hear anything about him, please call:
- The Mexican Consulate in Tucson (if found in AZ): @ 520-882-5595 or 520-623-7928
- Consulate in Brownsville, Texas @ 512-882-3375
- Consulate in Del Rio, Texas @ 830-775-2352
- Consulate in El Paso @ 915-533-3644
I live in the border region near Brownsville. I’ll keep an eye out for ‘im.
(via ladypandacat)
I NEED THIS BOOSTED
This is my brother.
His name is Ralph Persuhn jr.
He’s 16 years old, 6’6 hazel eyes and brown hair
He’s been missing since this afternoon.
The police have been notified.
We’re from kent, Ohio. If you see him at all, notify the local police or call kent police station at tel:330-673-7732 and tell me!
He went to a friends and is no longer there,
He’s either still in kent, in the Ravenna area or in the Akron area.UPDATE:
We talked to his friends, they said he was on his way to the library and he never showed up.
PLEASE if ANYBODY hears/sees/knows ANYTHING call the police
PLEASE
BRING MY BROTHER HOME
(via theuppitynegras)
I will never not be in love with Paul Rudd.
What’s with having a royal family anyway?
Silly brits!
Us Americans would never
pay people
just to be
famous
- bisexual with a preference for the same sex does not mean "one foot out of the closet."
- bisexual with a preference for the opposite sex does not mean "trying to get attention."
- lesbian does not mean "masculine."
- gay does not mean "feminine."
- transgender does not mean "going through a phase."
- transsexual does not mean "a disappointment." nor does it mean "gender identity confusion."
- asexual does not mean "prude."
- demisexual does not mean "prude."
- pansexual does not mean "easy."
- heterosexual does not mean "normal"
- Your does not mean "you are"
How do normal people grocery shop? This is literally the worst.
