July 2012
Conversation overheard in the bookstore today.
- A guy plucks a book from the shelf...
- Guy: I don't really have the money to buy this, but I really want to read it.
- Guy's girlfriend: *sighs heavily* Why don't you just watch the movie?? Reading is so boring.
- Me, screaming inside my head: Dude, run away now!
June 2012
“It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.
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The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.” —“I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via monkeyknifefight)
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The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.” —“I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray (via monkeyknifefight)
Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate!
Big win
BIG BIG BIG WIN
Chris Matthews choking up at the end of 'Hardball' had me blubbering, too.
He was discussing Nora Ephron and how she helped us all understand ourselves and our romantic entanglements.
SPAIN VS PORTUGAL
LET’S GOOOOOO
CNN: Al-Assad: 'We're in a state of war' →
edition.cnn.com
“We are in a state of real war, in every aspect of the words, and when we’re in a state of war, all of our politics has to be concentrated on winning this war”
- President Bashar al-Assad to his new Cabinet during a speech about the economy and domestic issues in which he called for unity to make the country strong.
