“Just look at him up there,” Stubblefield went on, as in the distance the solitary figure jumped through a hoop and landed back on the nearly invisible wire. “What you’re seeing is the perfection of a conscious act of craziness. What you’re seeing is pinpoint focus combined with mad abandon in such a way as to cause the specters of death and the exaltations of life to collide at some kind of crossroads. The sparks that fly from that collision are like little shards of God. If you can hold them in your mind for more than five seconds, you can understand everything that ever was or will ever be.”
Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito
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#i have a hard time dating men because i have a hard time believing men respect me
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THIS.
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i’m bringin sexy back. it was defective. yes, i still have the receipt. thanks.
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| me: | All scientists are hipsters, that's why wear glasses. |
| husband: | No. |
| me: | "I stopped working on electromagnetic induction. It was too current." |
| husband: | No. |
| me: | "I used to have a passion for oceanography but I got sick of about the mainstream." |
| husband: | No! |
| me: | "Of course I'm not a mathematician. Calculus-based models of the universe are SO derivative." |
| husband: | ... |
| me: | "I'm an expert on geothermal vents--" |
| husband: | Oh my God. |
| me: | "--They're probably too for you." |
And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes you cannot even breathe deeply, and the night sky is no home,
and you have cried yourself to sleep enough times that you are down to your last two percent, but
nothing is infinite,
not even loss.
You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again."
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Everyone SAYS they want a fairytale wedding but when I show up and curse their firstborn suddenly I’m a jerk.
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Give me ammo for the sexist conversation — MetaFilter (via programmersbeingdicks)
Oh hell yes.
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Communism works on paper, but it doesn’t work on marble, granite, or treated wood. I just bought this communism and it won’t work on any of my countertops or desks. Is it already broken? I want a refund.
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And yes, back to feminism again: The response to women demanding equal respect and equal rights, in the past, was often violence. Well, it still is. It was, in the past, bullying. Still is. It was in the past a wide range of punitive measures. That has not changed. What has changed is that the absolute and relative number of people who are going to react very negatively to misogyny has gone way up. Misogyny is responded to now less by silence and more by direct response.
But not enough. We need to work harder on that.
And, if you are a young MRA or slymepitter or misogynist of any sort, please think about the École Polytechnique massacre, and think about the fact that when you run around the internet telling women that you want to kick them in the cunt, this is what some of us see in you. Maybe you are jut Marc Lépine who hasn’t acted out your fantasy yet.
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