November 2011
The Painter
I'm From Barcelona
I’m From Barcelona, “The Painter”
I’m just a painter, I do my crappy art
But I see what’s in your eyes and I know what’s in your heart
I have to go now, the cops are on the way
And I haven’t got a license but I’ve got a lot to say
We are all gonna make it, you guys. Even if we have to make a sled of the charred remains of our enemies and pull some people across the line on it.
“Boys are told from a young age that whatever they do will be excused under the “boys will be boys” mantra, and that “boys will be boys” mentality leads to what I call the “boiling frog” problem of women’s sexual boundaries. I call it that because if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump right out, but if you put a frog into a pot of room-temperature water and slowly heat it to a boil, the frog will acclimate as it heats and never jump out, eventually boiling to death. Similarly, when we learn as young girls to tolerate “low-level” boundary violations like the ones we often are forced to suffer in silence at school, at home and on the street – bra-snapping, boob-grabbing, ass pinching, catcalling, dick flashing “all in good fun” relentless violations that adults and authorities routinely ignore – it makes it harder for us to notice when even greater boundaries are being violated, eventually leading to the reality that many women who are raped just freeze and fall silent, because that’s what they’ve been taught to do over and over since day one. You tell me what’s more infantilizing: repeatedly letting boys (and grown men) off the hook for their behavior because “boys will be boys” and we can’t ever expect any differently, or creating a consent standard in which all partners take active responsibility for their partner’s safety, and which acknowledges the truly diseased sexual culture we’re soaking in every day.”
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The (Nonexistent) Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Consequences of Enthusiastic Consent by Jaclyn Friedman (via zoemelisa)
my bff lent me this book a while ago! i’m still not finished all the essays, but they are brilliant.
(via weltpokalsiegerbesieger)
“Fat people who love themselves scare the shit out of people who don’t love themselves. Even fat people who are TRYING to love themselves scare the shit out of people who can’t do the same. We force people to have to look at why they hate their bodies because we are “supposed” to hate ours and we don’t. And sometimes they have no idea what to do with that, so they act like assholes.”
—Tigress Osborn (via ratbrat)
“I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
—Edgar Allan Poe, in a letter to Maria Clemm (via frenchtwist, wildcat2030) (via gadgetry)
Bruce Springsteen Announces New Album, World Tour →
rollingstone.com
Bruce Springsteen’s official website has confirmed longstanding rumors that he will tour with the E Street Band in 2012. A short statement says they will tour Europe from the middle of May through late July. There will also be an American tour, as well as a new album. The complete text of the note is below:
Well, things are starting to heat up down on E Street.
A lot of you have been hearing that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will be on tour in 2012. That is absolutely correct. The European dates run from the middle of May until end of July and are being announced this week. Info on the US dates and the World tour dates will coming up shortly.
In addition, we want you to know that the music is almost done (but still untitled), we have almost settled on the release date (but not quite yet), and that we are all incredibly excited about everything that we’re planning for 2012. That’s all the info we have for right now, but we’ll get back to you—real soon.
Thanksgiving is boring I hate my family I want to get drunk and play with my makeup and burn this house down and take a bunch of xanax.
“Every time I see something terrible, I see it at age nineteen.”
—Ralph Nader, at age forty-nine (via cocknbull)
Every time Parks and Recreation has an episode that incorporates feminist thought without making it the target of a joke, an abortionist gets her license.
Alleged Jerry Sandusky victim leaves school because of bullying →
pennlive.com
Victim One, the first known alleged victim of abuse by former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, had to leave his school in the middle of his senior year because of bullying, his counselor said Sunday.
Officials at Central Mountain High School in Clinton County weren’t providing guidance for fellow students, who were reacting badly about Joe Paterno’s firing and blaming the 17-year-old, said Mike Gillum, the psychologist helping his family. Those officials were unavailable for comment this weekend.
The name-calling and verbal threats were just too much, he said.
I Was a Teenage Anarchist
Against Me!
Against Me!, “I Was a Teenage Anarchist”
Do you remember when you were young and you wanted to set the world on fire?
Listen
This is the mostly one-sided audio of me accepting the call to be the winner of Chicks Be Tweetin’, which I recorded myself, like a dweeb. You can KIND OF here the other side of the conversation, but I have a flip phone + hate speaker phone, so it’s mainly just me yelling. The guy said I won by 50% which is INSANE to me. I really am incredibly excited. I’m about to put this on my resume, BASICALLY. Thanks everyone.
CONGRATULATIONS!
“But when a saga popular with pre-adolescent girls peaks romantically on a night that leaves the heroine to wake up covered with bruises in the shape of her husband’s hands — and when that heroine then spends the morning explaining to her husband that she’s incredibly happy even though he injured her, and that it’s not his fault because she understands he couldn’t help it in light of the depth of his passion — that’s profoundly irresponsible.”
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NPR’s Linda Holmes reviews Twilight Breaking Dawn, Pt. 1 (via diandrabird)
I happily know nothing about Twilight, but if that’s really true, that is terrible, rage-enducing and heart-breaking.
(via head0verheels)
It really is. I hear in the movie the bruises are downplayed. Boo, Twilight.
(via ipomoeaandthestarstealers)
“I drank six Four Lokos with Core, a beer or two. And then we ordered an iced mocha and two chicken fingers and large fries. I lost my virginity today. I was amped for it.”
—That’s Brandon Watts, 19, the protester whose bloodied head made waves on the Internet yesterday. He gave that quote to the Times in October. (via newsweek)
