May 2010
51 posts
“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a racist; not being racist — or a sexist or a homophobe — is a constant, arduous process of unlearning, of being uncomfortable, of eating crow and being humbled and re-evaluating. It’s probably hard to start that process if you’ve been told that every thought you have is golden and should be given voice, and that people who are offended by what you say are hypersensitive simpletons.”
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— PostBourgie (via katoleary) (via lavenderlines) (via notemily)
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This, one million thousand times this!
April 2010
60 posts
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.”
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— Charlotte Brontë, in the Preface to Jane Eyre (via thewham) (via my-ear-trumpet) (via tobia)
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Like Jr. High all over again.
Public speaking is not my forte. Junior high was the worst time in my life. Three or four days every spring these horrors combine I go give a presentation on our Summer Reading Program/Books/Activities to various English classes at both middle schools in my Library district. Tomorrow and Friday I talk to 12 classes altogether. I’ll be fine after the first few classes, but until I get to that point I can’t help but have MAJOR FREAKOUTS.
I just have to try to not let that show.
Oklahoma passes law that protects doctors who lie to women.
A law passed on Tuesday in Oklahoma “protects doctors from being sued if they decide not to tell patients that their fetus has birth defects. Writes McKinley, “The intent of the bill is to prevent parents from later suing doctors who withhold information to try to influence them against having an abortion.”
I can’t believe this is real.
julie-ism:fishy:scenes-from-my-hood:jackiegarlich:
Well, that’s it. I’m officially convinced that the world is too effed. I may become a nihilist. I believe in nothing, Lebowski.
“This practice of overstating the case is called hyperbole. Hyperbole is usually harmless, but in some cases it has been known to precipitate unnecessary wars as well as a painful gaseous condition called stock market bubbles. For safety’s sake, then, hyperbole should be used with restraint and only by those with the proper literary training.”
—The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: the Mysterious Howling by Maryrose Wood
The messier the bedhead, the better. →
bedheading.tumblr.com
Don’t forget that I want to see your bedhead on my other blog, Bedheading.
He says he's trying to find the words to describe this girl without being disrespectful. →
youtube.com
But if the best he can do is “sexy bitch” than he failed.
I should also stop listening to the lyrics of any songs that I like to mindlessly bop along to in my car.
I should really stop looking at missed connections. →
chicago.craigslist.org
They are always such a train wreck. I want to look away but I can’t. I won’t go through a step by step dissemination of the link. I’m not sure that I could if I wanted. The OP is so muddled and unable to clearly communicate whatever it is they are trying to say. I believe it is something about how hurtful it is to be told that they are “in the closet” as a result of their own gaybashing? They don’t want to be “judged”? Even if I could untangle the logic, grammar, and spelling issues—there is still the fact that someone reposted this with “much respect” because “it touched them deeply.”
It seems like the OP is speaking to someone directly with all the “you” addresses. And I wonder what the OP would think of the post in five years from now. And I wonder what it is that they are really actually trying to tell whoever “you” is.
