"This is not how you raise a child. You don’t send them out there with a false sense of pride because out there, in the real world, no one will coddle you. I’d rather know right now if I’m going to be working at CNN or carrying a basket around its offices with sandwiches in it."

Gilmore Girls

"The trouble is that, for women, being “nice” often translates into putting up with things we should never put up with. How many times has some creep sat uncomfortably close to me on the bus and stared me down, yet I’m too afraid to just get up and move, lest I offend him?

We smile when we’re harassed on the street or hit on by jerks. We laugh at sexist jokes. We learn that when we have strong opinions, we’ll be called bitches and that if we get angry, we’ll be called hysterical. When we say what we want, we’re called pushy or aggressive.

Part of learning “ladylike” behavior is about learning to smile politely when someone is being crude. Femininity has long been attached to passivity and to being docile. Men fight, women giggle and fume silently."

Women And Girls Don’t Need To Be Told To Be Nicer | xoJane

RELEVANT.

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Tiny Glowing Screens Pt 2 - Watsky.

The Newsroom. The most fantastic use of television I have seen in a while.

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Self explanatory.

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"I can’t even believe this. We’ve been drinking, and we’re having BLUEBERRIES. This is like seeing a public hanging! I haven’t seen one of those in years!"

A funny moment from a brief encounter.

"“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.””"

Courtney Martin

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photographyprison:

Bloomin’ wonderful. DAKHA BRAKHA. Folk beats straight outta Ukraine.

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photographyprison:

Reggie Watts vs. TED crowd

“It’s not so much, as so much so little, as to do with what everything is.”

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