June 2013
40 posts
“Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free.”
—Stoker (2013)
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God we fuck up teenagers’ heads. We tell them that biological conditions are moral punishments and then we get all shocked when they don’t practice rational risk management of biological conditions. We teach them “sex is super desirable and all the cool kids do it, and it’s hideously shameful and will destroy your life” and we wonder why they act an eensy bit neurotic about it. If you tried to design a system for making sexually active kids confused and unsafe, you couldn’t do much better than the American media and school system.
And for once, the answer is relatively simple. Just talk about sex like it’s a part of life. Some people have sex and some people don’t, because people are different. STIs aren’t bad because they’re Dirty Crotch Rot; they’re bad because they’re contagious illnesses like strep throat or whooping cough, and you can ask a doctor to check for and treat them just like you would with strep throat. Unwanted pregnancy isn’t a scarlet A; it’s a mostly-preventable accident that sometimes occurs when people are going about their normal business of having sex. You can ask the school counselor about a variety of topics, including career planning, problems at home, questions about sex, or conflicts with teachers.
If we could just get the goddamn stick out of our collective ass and accept that sex is a human activity and teenagers are humans, maybe there wouldn’t be quite so many plaintive “I don’t understand my body and I’m confused and scared and I don’t know anyone I can ask in person” messages flying out into the world.
” —The Pervocracy - “Teenage Panic.” (via klonazepam)
“Fiction is dangerous, Gaiman explained, because “it lets you into others’ heads, it gives you empathy, and it shows you that the world doesn’t have to be like the one you live in.” That imaginative leap into other minds and other worlds is surely the reason many of us read fiction.”
—Why Neil Gaiman Thinks Fiction Is Dangerous, and Why I Think It’s Dangerous | Library Journal (via libraryjournal)
“Sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too empty and sometimes people have nothing to say because they’re too full.”
—Yasmin Mogahed (via larmoyante)
good thing i intoxicated myself all day yesterday and ate a box of macaroni and cheese and a package of oreos
feeling great and healthy and regret-free about that
2073:
money can’t buy happiness but it can buy a false sense of security and fruity alcoholic beverages to numb the pain and honestly what’s the difference
I think the hardest thing about finding a new doctor is finding a british actor who hasn’t already been on doctor who.
“Without literature, life is hell.”
—Charles Bukowski (via theselittlewondersstillremain)
May 2013
51 posts
“Normally seven minutes of another person’s company was enough to give her a headache, so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.”
—Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (via larmoyante)