things i am scared of doing:
- ordering food in a restaurant
- walking down a busy high street on my own
- talking to people on the phone
- eating in front of people
- asking for help in a shop
- meeting new people
- being in a big crowd of people with a lot of people i don’t know
the future looks bright for me
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Kurt Hummel feelings below the cut.
Apparently someone’s coming to pick up my rabbits tomorrow.
I mean, I knew they needed to go live with someone else when I went to college, but I would have liked more than a day’s notice.
I’ll miss you weirdos who wake me up at night with your thumping and hot rabbit humping.
We live in a strange, beautiful, and often alien-looking world. Case in point: the crystal-clear Jewel Caterpillar of Central and South America, pictured here in all its translucent glory.
This particular caterpillar (which is known more formally as Acraga Coa, and metamorphoses into this equally stunning orange moth) was spotted by photographer Gerardo Aispuru near Cancun, Mexico
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I haven’t been emotionally responsive to anything in Glee the past season but right now I just want to burn things.
“I don’t think it’s terribly controversial to note that women, from a young age, are required to consider the reality of the opposite gender’s consciousness in a way that men aren’t. This isn’t to say that women don’t often misunderstand, mistreat, and stereotype men, both in literature and in life. But on a basic level, functioning in society requires that women register that men are fully conscious; it is not really possible for a woman to throw up her hands and write men off as eternally unknowable space aliens — and even if she says she has, she cannot really behave as though she has. Every element of her life — from reading books about boys and men to writing papers about the motivations of male characters to being attentive to her own safety to navigating most any institutional or professional or economic sphere — demands an ironclad familiarity with, and belief in, the idea that men really are fully human entities. And no matter how many men come to the same conclusions about women, the structure of society simply does not demand so strenuously that they do so. If you didn’t really deep down believe that women were, in general, exactly as conscious as you, you could probably still get by in life. You could probably still get a book deal. You could probably still get elected to office.” —
Jennifer duBois, Writing Across Gender (via florida-uterati)
see, this is right. I’m not saying men are never stereotyped, that gender roles can’t be harmful to them, what I’m saying is that because men are generally much more valued than women in most societies, their feelings and what’s harming them will be taken into consideration anyway. I mean, look how eager people always are to switch a conversation about an issue affecting women prominently to add that it hurts men too. We’re all conditioned to think of men first.
This is why, when we decide to focus on women and their problems, we’re not ignoring the issues men face. We’re just paying attention to a group that does not always recieve the same amount of consideration.
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