Eight year old Sarah and Danny Seltzer, in the midst of being read all of LOTR by their dad and covering their entire room with medieval legos, are FREAKING OUT OVER THIS.
Apparently Occupy Providence has been showering anti-choicers with condoms. LOVE IT feedproxy.google.com/~r/washingtonm… #ows #prochoice #fem2
OCCUPY!
Emo!Matthew (aka The Earl of Sorrow) listens to The Smiths all day while drawing in his journal.
h/t Beth
A must-watch video on the GOP’s racial politics.
From Newt Gingrich’s lectures on how African-Americans should demand paychecks instead of food stamps, to labeling Obama the “food-stamp president,” betcha didn’t think the GOP’s rhetoric could be this dehumanizing.
Activists of the Ukrainian feminist nudity group FEMEN clash with Swiss police during a protest at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (Jean-Christophe Bott)
Quite the image!
katherinestasaph asked: Maybe? But I also feel like when you're in middle school, you might not be able to do that but you're also not responsible for your financial well-being*. Like, right now, at any time I could totally tell off everyone, but it'd also mean I could basically kiss my entire career, and thus my ability to pay rent and stuff*, goodbye. *(insert all caveats about privilege here and here)
That is a really really good point. Also—now “in real life” alienating people who are irritatingly adept social/professional climbers also means not only can they fuck you over in terms of where you sit in the cafeteria, but they can damage your career permanently.
Bummer.
I really wish someone had told me when I was in middle school that when you grow up, life is exactly like middle school, complete with popular kids, burn books and everything.
I’ve been thinking recently how much this is true, but at least in “grown-up” life one has better coping mechanisms aka the ability to tell people to fuck off without being tongue tied with awe at their social status? Maybe? At least a little?
