Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
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| — | Banksy (via myxomat0sis) |
“Miley Cyrus has received a lot of flak over the past few years for doing exactly what she’s supposed to — grow up.
Cyrus was introduced to the world as a plucky 12-year-old on Disney’s “Hannah Montana” and came of age both on television and in the public eye —…
I’m studying and I don’t understand anything and everything I do is half finished.
I’m tired and I’m crying.
My body and my brain are in pain.
I Kissed A Girl is a boner dyke anthem for straight girls who like to turn guys on by making out or like faking gay. I hate Katy Perry! She’s offensive to gay culture, I’m so offended. She’s just riding on the backs of our culture, without having to pay any of the dues and not being actually lesbian or anything at all. She’s on the cover of a fucking gay magazine.
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Beth Ditto (via prayforprada) Seriously Beth. I LOVE YOU (via voguefemme) |
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
The pure fact that this doesn’t even need a title or a description or anything speaks volumes. I mean look at the number of notes this has. There are so few people who don’t recognize it. And the song itself just gives you chills. It’s so magical.
this makes me cry.
i cry everytime
fuck crying
At first I thought “Hmm… what’s this? I hope it’s not a troll post…”
Then it started.
And I saw it…
I saw everything again…
And I remembered the very last scene…
And I shattered.
this is literally my childhood (and most likely everyone else’s) all wrapped up in song
i am legit crying guys
It’s perfect to listen to while you look at the cloud post under this
Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one.
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one.
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The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy) I have no desire to go topless anywhere, but I thought this made good points about perspective, and about how female [identified?] bodies are considered inherently sexual even when nothing sexual is going on or implied. (via feministdisney) |
I think people are quick to reclaim the word Slut or Whore or whatever and expect everyone to do the same, and they don’t realize at what cost that reclamation has on some people. Often white women will romanticize the reclamation of the word without understanding that the process of having command over your bodily integrity and sexuality is not as easy for some people.
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| — | blck-grrl (in answer to an Ask about slutwalk) |
