May 2011
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Today in "What the Fuck Is This Shit?" →
romanceclub:
A life coach tells the internet that romance novels are as addictive as pornography (with backup from Focus on the Family), and warns that women can become “dangerously unbalanced by these books entrancing but distorted marriages.”
She earns the righteous fury of Sarah over at SBTB.
Unleash your anger, Tumblr. Open season.
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Meet Julia Moreno: Newspapers Give The “Rape... →
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“Un Eroe dei nostri tempi, mi ha regalato i 10 minuti più belli del 2011.”
– (Eclipsed)
(ma forse Baruffi voleva dire SRSLY, CAN YOU BELIEVE THESE GUYS? LOLZ. forse.)
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“The contest there was by far the most important. Milan is the city from which...”
– In case you’ve been wondering why Italian tumblrs went crazy with LOL U MAD and random joy today: “Silvio Berlusconi faces humiliation as Milan voters support leftwing mayor”, The Guardian
This Milan-born citizen is running around going AAAAAAH.
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“As I lunged my way across the floor to my treadmill to run down the time to my...”
– Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness.
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“My girlfriend had to be heterosexual because I didn’t want to be a lesbian. If...”
– Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness
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Courtney Chronicles (Part 2) →
Giddy and high-spirited at one moment, she can turn needy and paranoid the next. A life-long insomniac, she often stays up until dawn, tweeting and texting and Googling herself. And while she’s been linked with a long string of high-profile lovers in the past few years, she often seems lonely. On a frigid Tuesday night a few months ago, just as I was heading to bed, I received a text...
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Taken advantage of when I was drunk, by my best... →
lipstick-feminists:
Hey y’all. An Anon posted this over at reddit and is asking for help. Trigger warning.
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Courtney Comes Clean: Part One →
“ Love was scheduled to perform at Randall’s Island Park at 11 a.m. To the consternation of the event’s organizers, she showed up three hours late. Apparently her hairdresser was tardy, her make-up artist was a mess, and she needed a jacuzzi dip to calm her frayed nerves. She then spent an hour and a half picking out an appropriate outfit and trying on shoes. So by the time her...
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“For as badass as I am—or like to think I am—in the back of my mind, I am always...”
– Periel Aschenbrand, In memory of Imette - the essay is part of the collection “A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer”; you can read the whole thing for free here.
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My Rapist Friended Me on Facebook (and All I Got... →
” As one benefit of that long-ago trauma, I sometimes have difficult accessing and identifying emotions, so I’d describe my feelings upon seeing his friend request in my inbox as sort of “hurt-y?” With a side of “can’t breathe.”
When his face and username popped up in my inbox, my first impulse was to immediately close the browser window, shut down my computer, leave my house and...
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“If you report an assault soon after it occurred, it proves that you couldn’t be...”
– Scott Lemieux, Rape Victim Catch-22s
(see also: Jon Stewart taking on rape apologists.)
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“When you actually get into the physical act of writing, the characters tend to...”
– Richard Price
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Unsimulated sex in film →
Fun with Wikipedia, we meet again.
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Uganda anti-gay bill pushed out of parliament →
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'Knowing Your Value': An MSNBC Host Tells Women... →
Heather Havrilesky, The Atlantic.
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“God bless Treme.”
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“I’m as guilty as anyone else when it comes to partaking in feminist Call-Out...”
– OUCH, but true: Jill Filipovic on Feministe.
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