February 2012
59 posts
Peter Daou: Male Monsters -- Girl Buried Alive for... →
Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an “honor” killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys. The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-meter hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province...
“Feminists did not hate men. In fact, they loved men. But just as my father had...”
– Byron Hurt - Why I am a Black Male Feminist (via angehobendurchwolfe)
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Depressing, but true. I have just realized that every single man I’ve ever met, including those who claim to love me—my father, various men I’ve dated, etc.—have done their utmost to silence me so they could avoid...
Paul Graham on How To Do What You Love →
youmightfindyourself:
To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated. The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of...
“When we complain about men raping, abusing, harassing, and refusing us our human...”
– Unknown. (via futureabortiondoctor, inherhipstheresrevolutions) (via aoawaywego) (via she-hulk-smash) (via loveyourchaos) (via yanettcanhazsoul) (via baddominicana) (via nohunnylovesyou) (via jungle-red) (via fatbodypolitics) (via thepersonalispolitic)
Reblogged for TRUTH.
Also, when menfolk get...
Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It →
youmightfindyourself:
A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don’t have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
This disconnect may be responsible for many of society’s problems.
With more than a decade’s worth of...
“With a few tents and shedloads of determination, those who have huddled outside...”
– Former canon chancellor of St Paul’s Cathedral Dr Giles Fraser on the latest Occupy eviction (via guardian)
Daily Pagan News: Missing Link: When Ancestors... →
pagannews:
One issue in polytheism that does the Macarena on my last nerve is the insistence that a person must have an ancestral and ethnic connection to the polytheistic religion that the person practices. The deities call whom the deities call, and sometimes they ignore ethnicity and culture. There…
Daily Pagan News: Gods And Goddesses: Ma Gu (The... →
pagannews:
Ma Gu is an immortal and considered a goddess by some, said to be the goddess of hemp and longevity. Her name means “Hemp Maid”. She appears young and beautiful, with her hair often in a bun, her fingernails long and alike to birds talons, along with being clothed in a dress with a collar made of…
Daily Pagan News: Your Brain on Sacred Geometry... →
pagannews:
Sacred Geometry has a very powerful effect on the brain. Within SG are lessons and teachings that we only understand on a subconscious level. The information in a scared geometry drawing can enter human consciousness through the left brain, but there is a way that it can also enter experientially…
“Being triggered does not mean “being upset” or “being offended” or “being...”
– “Survivors Are So Sensitive” (via tart-tart) (via luxuryproblem) (via kimclit) (via brainguts) (via askepticandafeminist) (via gonnaruinyrshoes) (via hoaxzine)
I’ve stopped dating people because something triggered flashbacks like this and they called it bullshit and told me to get over it.
(via...
Sexual violence against women is the result of the... →
Gangs of young men rape girls. They also sometimes act as pimps that seduce a girl, then subject her to gang rape or otherwise insist that she sexually service gang members. Some girls are so desperate for acceptance and so convinced by sexual abuse that they have no other value: they see this as inevitable. Thanks to the testimony of a brave female former member of a London gang in Peckham,...
A short guide to British cider | Life and style |... →
Good quality cider is increasingly easy to find across the UK, with Yorkshire being the latest county to stake its claim as a serious cider-making region. But for the best stuff, it’s still worth exploring the traditional stars of the scene.
Somerset and the West Country
Everyone knows the tired stereotype of the bumpkin and his scrumpy but of course, it’s not that simple....
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: On the... →
It’s good to know somebody is actually thinking about stuff like this.
Stages of Sleep →
youmightfindyourself:
Every 60-100 minutes we go through a cycle of four stages of sleep
Stage 1 is a drowsy, relaxed state between being awake and sleeping - breathing slows, muscles relax, heart rate drops
Stage 2 is slightly deeper sleep - you may feel awake and this means that, on many nights, you may be asleep and not know it
Stage 3 and Stage 4, or Deep Sleep - it is very hard to wake...
SweetDreamr's Blog: Woman in Comedy: A really... →
gabydunn:
Part of me thinks it’s too soon to be writing about this because I don’t think I’ve completely processed how I feel, but I also think maybe this has happened to other women and I should talk about it in as raw a way as possible. I’m still really embarrassed and ashamed and garbled…
Please reblog this if you know someone who has...
browncoats:
redcloud: A few will just whisper, “Miranda”. Best to leave those ones alone, and quickly.
Umm, yeah, I’m falling into the “Miranda” camp. *sigh*
How Companies Learn Your Secrets →
youmightfindyourself:
By CHARLES DUHIGG NY Times, Published: February 16, 2012
Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ”
Pole has a master’s degree in...
“It’s not that Chris Brown is categorically unforgivable. It’s more that he’s no...”
– VICE on Cord’s Chris Brown post (via ceedling)
Leon Wieseltier, on browsing →
youmightfindyourself:
Browsing is the opposite of “search.” Search is precise, browsing is imprecise. When you search, you find what you were looking for; when you browse, you find what you were not looking for. Search corrects your knowledge, browsing corrects your ignorance. Search narrows, browsing enlarges. It does so by means of accidents, of unexpected adjacencies and improbable...
Henry Miller's Writing Commandments →
youmightfindyourself:
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.”
Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
When you can’t create you can work.
Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
Keep...
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via aquaticuss)
Here's Why Your Relationship is Doomed, and Other... →
psychotherapy:
So are most marriages doomed to fail?
It is an archaic institution designed to expire concurrent with a woman’s childbearing years, just like in the olden days. The idea of two people changing together and—more importantly— accepting each others changes over a 50-year span is delusional unless that person is undeniably your best friend in the whole world. Ever.
Needs-based...
“Healing grief does not mean making the grief disappear, but rather making peace...”
– Barry Grosskopf (via psychotherapy)
Things to say in a TSA checkpoint
Me: *looks at TSA agent* Two by two...hands of blue.
Random Guy: GO BROWNCOATS!
#dailyjuice
Jimmy Choo
“[CONTENT WARNING: SEXUAL ASSAULT] I’m tired of being treated like shit by you...”
– The Amazing Atheist
No commentary needed, really.
(via unknowablewoman)
He eventually stopped spewing his distinct form of bile after this comment:
I now know that, apart from being misguided, intentionally ignorant, and quick to resort to pathetic excuses, you are also a purposefully...
