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Urge Overkill
Urge Overkill - Girl, You’ll be a Woman Soon
December 2011
75 posts
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On Wednesday, March 1, 2006, at a hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law at AU, was requested to testify.
At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs said: “Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to say about that?”
Raskin replied: “Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.”
The room erupted into applause.
” —snopes.com: Jamie Raskin (via jiffysquid)
“we raise boys to believe their bodies aren’t as beautiful, as desirable, as appealing as those of girls. Boys get to be sexual, but too rarely get to trust that they’re wanted, lusted for, desired. Girls are much more visual and much more sexual than we admit; boys “long to be longed for” to a far greater extent than we realize.”
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On Sex, Drugs, and Feminism: A Q&A With Hugo Schwyzer (Part II)
Poor babies. Women don’t get to be anything but “longed for”; even in those occasional instances where men “get to” be objectified, it is for the benefit of other (gay) men—never for women. I’m well and truly sick of having to couch every feminist complaint in terms that imply men are the “real victims” in order for said complaint to get taken seriously.
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No wonder some women are unconsciously passive aggressive when expressing anger, sadness, or frustration. For years, they have been subjected to so much gaslighting that they can no longer express themselves in a way that feels authentic to them.
They say, “I’m sorry” before giving their opinion. In an email or text message, they place a smiley face next to a serious question or concern, thereby reducing the impact of having to express their true feelings.
You know how it looks: “You’re late :D ”
These are the same women who stay in relationships they don’t belong in, who don’t follow their dreams, who withdraw from the kind of life they want to live.
” —Why Women Aren’t Crazy (via lagrandefille)
I hate when people claim that women are crazy or complicated or don’t know what they want because fuck you. When a woman is vocal about her opinions, desires, feelings, you call her a bitch or crazy or hysterical. Women have been taught that the only way to communicate while maintaining their physical and emotional safety is to be indirect.
(via pompadoursandpincurls)
One of the best things a woman can do is stop apologizing. It’s hard, though. I’m still working on it.
(via unknowablewoman)
GOD ALL OF THIS. It’s one of the things I want to work on most for myself. Aaron has no problem being direct and blunt with people—I want to be able to do the same. I’m too fucking nice.
(via kelly-butter-tarts)
“Half of all the films in the Silent era were written by women. All of the top screenwriters were women. The highest-paid screenwriters were all women, and many of the top directors were women.”
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These Amazing Shadows, streaming on Netflix
(via kateoplis)
893. AT ONE POINT, ALL OF YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS WERE STRANGERS. TALK TO STRANGERS.
because apparently the only path to literary it-girl-dom is to fuck pre-existing literati and write about it →
observer.com
I give up. Fine. You want me to abandon my grandiose plans of ageing into my twenties as a single wino? Fine. Anybody know if Amiri Baraka would be amenable to having sex with me?
Scholar discovers 16th-century love poem written by an Englishwoman →
earlymodernengland.com
A previously unknown poem dating from the mid-1500s has been discovered pasted into a rare edition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer. The erotic-love poem seems to have been by a Roman Catholic woman and sent to a Protestant scholar who was the tutor to Edward VI.
The poem was discovered by medieval scholar Elaine Treharne during a guest lecture at West Virginia University last summer.…
“I think it’s a particularly important find,” she said. “On the one hand it’s not brain surgery. It’s not a major discovery like DNA or something. But I think I’m right in saying that we don’t have any other nonreligious Latin poetry written by a woman possibly at all—and certainly in this period. So it’s the only love poem written in Latin by a woman ever until maybe the 18th century. That’s kind of astonishing really.”
“That’s okay! In the meantime I drank red wine and smoked cigarettes out of my bedroom window and finished reading “just kids” and watched/read the flash art piece “cunnilingus in north korea” online and now I’m feeling so creatively stimulated I can hardly stand it so I’m working on a prose poem while pacing around my room like a nutjob. As for coffee, how does 2 or 3 sound to you? I’m not on drugs.”
—the text I just sent to my long-suffering friend Matt
I finished reading "Just Kids" tonight and it made me cry
