"Many people do lack self-confidence, and there is certainly more pressure on women to be conscious of their own appearance than men, but is it really the case that women are more critical of that appearance than everyone else?

First of all, the whole entire world is critical of the way women look. Whether you are a supermodel, a teenager or even Secretary of State, if you’re a female, there are people all around you ready to tell you how bad your body looks. Secondly, the idea that women are valuable only for their beauty permeates nearly every facet of modern society, from the billboards we walk past to the social media we use daily. And this idea that women should be reduced to their appearance originated almost entirely in the minds and actions of men. And it is still largely perpetuated today by men – who run over 90% of our media.

So to say women are their own “worst critics” when it comes to beauty puts the blame on women for a beauty-obsessed, body-shaming and misogynistic world created and maintained largely by dudes."

Imran Siddiquee, “Women Are Not Their Own Worst Beauty Critics” (via wretchedoftheearth)

graceebooks:

men at large think they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy

what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need

"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."

When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

(Source: bostonreview)

Getting my vageener cranked open and poked around inside = never on my List of Good Times

My regular introduction at hospitals and doctors offices is gonna be “hi there if I’m not crying right now I most certainly will be before we’re done here and there’s also a chance I might pass out depending on what you want stick in me” from here on in just to avoid any further confusion

At the doctor’s and I can see my heart beating through my clothes

• Bf: (farts)
• Me: that was
• Me: like a grown baby bird
• Me: flying away from the nest
• Bf:
• Me: that was a weird fart analogy why did I make that
• Bf: hey man compare it to whatever it felt amazing
• Bf: you could say it was like a tyrannosaurus biting somebody's dick off and spitting it into another tyrannosaurus's eye and--
• Me: I'm starving
• Bf: ok it's weird you moved the conversation to there from that

FIRST SUSHI?! Goodness!

yeah I’m a late bloomer

things that were worth spending money on this week

• the best three burritos of my life
• margaritas
• lush sweetie pie shower jelly
• first two volumes of the new 52 swamp thing
• my first sushi experience
• 4 containers of vegan ice cream (i shit u not i bought 4 different fucking flavours)