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I copped to the fact that we should have done a better job of not being gratuitous in our representation of a barely clothed actress. We also had Kirk shirtless in underpants in both movies, [but I] do not want to make light of something that some construe as misogynistic. What I’m saying is I hear you, I take responsibility and will be more mindful in the future.
Damon Lindelof, the writer of Star Trek Into Darkness, has apologized for a “gratuitous” scene during the new sci-fi sequel in which British actor Alice Eve appears in her underwear, lending absolutely nothing to the plot whatsoever (WHAT? NO WAY).
(via sade)At least there seems to be a growing trend of translucence with this issue. Now if only it would be fixed.
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Posted on May 21, 2013 via thewhitesade with 25 notes
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And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (via charliebronsons)(via coldandwrathful)
Posted on May 18, 2013 via praise mikolak with 311 notes
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What job can I get that helps me dismantle capitalism but also pays me.
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Posted on May 17, 2013 via Shit Women's Studies Majors Say with 267 notes
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“Do NOT apologize for your sensitivity. It’s not a good or a bad thing. It’s just a thing. It’s what you do with it that makes it good or bad. Simply steer it confidently and you’ll see it do amazing things for you. Call it a weakness and it’ll cause you problems. One other thing, NO ONE will judge you as harshly as you do. The secret is that others are too busy to judge you like that. Most are perfectly okay with you. Realize that and you’ll find the confidence you seek.”
-My INFJ professor on being an INFJ
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Posted on May 16, 2013 via INFJ Advice with 34 notes
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I stopped counting how many people I’ve fucked because it got too hard to figure out what “sex” meant.
ethicalslut, fetlife user
My sex life in a nutshell. Queer sex is a lot of things. It can be hard to figure out.
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Posted on May 16, 2013 via Fifteen Minutes To Fame with 50 notes
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The millennials are the people who’ve inherited the hangover from the baby boomers’ party: a warming planet, a dysfunctional global financial system that rewards the rich and screws the poor, a polarized political class that’s moved so far to the right that a centrist like Barack Obama can be described with a straight face as “a socialist.” Millennials may be “narcissistic, materialistic and addicted to technology,” as Stein alleges early in his article; they’re also drowning in college debt, slaves to an internship “system” that demands ever-increasing work for no pay, and entrants into a job market that’s replaced employment rights with the “flexibility” of never being able to afford health insurance.
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How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
Posted on May 10, 2013 via Soaked In Soul. with 15,768 notes
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Let’s not argue now about high vs. low culture. I’m in the midst of writing a post on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land; its beauty and depth are kicking my butt. But on the road from Tony Stark’s (pretty racist) origin fighting a bunch of commies to a world where can be just as artful as stories without drawings, something remarkable happened.
The nerds won. Our dorky compulsions and secret loves have blossomed into everyone’s entertainment. Think of the huge followings garnered by The Walking Dead (originally a graphic novel) and Game of Thrones (not a comic, but something that would have been considered major dork-fodder in years past). I have no idea if this is a good thing. But I am happy to have the extra company and to see my favs come to life in big-budget Hollywood productions.
Posted on May 8, 2013 via NPR with 344 notes
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…less a filmmaker than a music-video director with endless resources and a stunning absence of taste.
The New Yorker’s David Denby on Baz Luhrmann. (He didn’t much care for The Great Gatsby.)
Furthermore, I can’t wait to see this movie. Because this quote makes it sound horrifically wonderful.
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Posted on May 7, 2013 via Brass Snuggles with 8 notes
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I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.
Posted on May 6, 2013 via IV: Misandrist Pythia with 43,182 notes
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The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured anything. And it continues to measure nothing. And the whole game is that everybody who does well on it, is so delighted by their good fortune that they don’t want to attack it. And they are the people in charge. Because of course, the way you get to be in charge is by having high test scores. So it’s this terrific kind of rolling scam that every so often, somebody sort of looks and says—well, you know, does it measure intelligence? No. Does it predict college grades? No. Does it tell you how much you learned in high school? No. Does it predict life happiness or life success in any measure? No. It’s measuring nothing.
John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via loveyourchaos)
and much more can be criticized… but lets leave it at that for the moment…
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fucking thank you.
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Posted on May 5, 2013 via The Summer of Mark with 24,374 notes
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Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.
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Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.
Posted on May 1, 2013 via The Other Way with 18,235 notes
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