January 2012
6 posts
Dear Coke Talk: On bedtime death panic. →
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
I’ve just recently come to the realization of my own mortality. In the time before I fall asleep, it absolutely terrifies me thinking not about how it will end, but that it ends, period. I know you’ve given this sort of advice before, but I can’t even get past this fear to…
“Desperation is like a spilled drink: even if it’s delicious, no one will...”
– Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket
This is part of the reason why undocumented immigration continues, and arguments about fairness and waiting their turn in line may not be particularly compelling to individuals who want to reunite with family members in the U.S. Waiting a year, or two, or five, may seem reasonable. If you learn there’s a 20-year wait, the cost/benefit analysis of whether to wait for the visa to come...
December 2011
24 posts
“These are the people who actually believe in an omnipotent Creator and the only...”
– Cracked (on “God Hates _____”)
Young couples say no to marriage...
For these female partners, the benefits to marriage were slimmer — they would get an extra person to look after but not an extra provider. Since working-class women are often the main breadwinners, they were more likely to worry that marriages would be harder and costly to exit. So they preferred to regard their relationship as impermanent. And although working-class men have seen their real...
“Meanwhile, the fact that a white male candidate and his supporters who are also...”
– Jezebel
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“Beating women is not cultural, it’s criminal and it needs to be addressed...”
– Hillary Clinton, on women’s (lack of) rights in Egypt. (Article on Jezebel)
Watchcoketalk:
…and to all, a good night.
“On 60 Minutes last night, Meryl Streep talked about her new movie, The Iron...”
– Jezebel
Dear Coke Talk: On letting it go. →
dearcoketalk:
Do you believe in the saying, “If you love something, let it go. If it comes back to you, its yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never meant to be”?
Fuck no. That’s just some simple bullshit people who believe in romantic destiny say when they’re going through the bargaining stage after getting dumped.
Nothing about your love life is “meant to be,” nothing is “yours...
Okay, I approve of Ryan Gosling
You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away...
This is the first time I've ever heard of a crime...
ABC reports that a Vermont woman named Brittany Speckman recently found the word “sult” scratched onto the hood of her car. She figured that someone was trying to call her a slut (and not, say complaining about salt or sultans), and surmised that this someone was her ex-boyfriend Adam Hall, who had been bad-mouthing her. When police questioned Hall, he denied touching Speckman’s...
Top Five Regrets of The Dying
December 1, 2011 By T Kelly For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each...
“To be beautiful is actually to be aware of yourself as art, and to frame your...”
– Margaret Cho
November 2011
21 posts
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“That’s the whole secret, is if you hire great people and you don’t mess them up...”
– Woody Allen on directing actors (not a bad business philosophy in general if you ask me). (via lonelysandwich)
On “Hey Baby” And The Invisibility Of Managing... →
One particular sexual ethics program directed at football players asks them to write on whiteboards what they do each day to avoid being sexually harassed. Most stand around scratching their heads.
Random women are then brought into the room and asked the same question. Furious scribbling ensues. “I stand at the back of the lift to avoid being pinched on the bottom.” “I sit in the back of...
“But what most men don’t realize is that all women in our society are on the...”
– The Most Important Thing That Men Who Have Sex With Women Need to Know | Charlie Glickman (via technicolourx)
“From an early age, boys are fitted with emotional straight-jackets tailored by a...”
– Joe Ehrmann, from “Men Can Stop Rape” (via bitterbuffalo)
“In 2008 a group of Norwegian researchers ran an experiment to better understand...”
– Amanda Knox: What’s in a face? (via bitterbuffalo)
Organon: To all those men who don't think the rape... →
oforganon:
Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act—and that’s the conservative estimate. Other sources double that number (pdf). A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That’s not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?...
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“Most feelings of rage will eventually turn into guilt if you wait long enough.”
– (Things I Have Learned from Air Travel This Year)
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“Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more...”
– Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via heyicanbetheanswer)
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It is a classic myth, that beauty is a commodity to trade on par with power, riches and intellect. Mary Wollstonecraft writing in the late 1700’s cautioned that if “…strength and usefulness are sacrificed to beauty…like the flowers that are planted in too rich soil… the flaunting leaves, after having pleased a fastidious eye, fade, disregarded on the stalk…” If we use our feminine wiles, “…men...