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A veces no hay próxima vez, a veces no hay segundas...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:17:05 +0100

A veces no hay próxima vez, a veces no hay segundas oportunidades, a veces es ahora o nunca. (at Parque Nacional El Cajas)

" I am sure every girl can recall, at least once as a child, coming home and telling their parents,..."

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:04:07 +0100

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I am sure every girl can recall, at least once as a child, coming home and telling their parents, uncle, aunt or grandparent about a boy who had pulled her hair, hit her, teased her, pushed her or committed some other playground crime. I will bet money that most of those, if not all, will tell you that they were told “Oh, that just means he likes you”. I never really thought much about it before having a daughter of my own. I find it appalling that this line of bullshit is still being fed to young children. Look, if you want to tell your child that being verbally and/or physically abused is an acceptable sign of affection, I urge you to rethink your parenting strategy. If you try and feed MY daughter that crap, you better bring protective gear because I am going to shower you with the brand of “affection” you are endorsing.

When the fuck was it decided that we should start teaching our daughters to accept being belittled, disrespected and abused as endearing treatment? And we have the audacity to wonder why women stay in abusive relationships? How did society become so oblivious to the fact that we were conditioning our daughters to endure abusive treatment, much less view it as romantic overtures? Is this where the phrase “hitting on girls” comes from? Well, here is a tip: Save the “it’s so cute when he gets hateful/physical with her because it means he loves her” asshattery for your own kids, not mine. While you’re at it, keep them away from my kids until you decide to teach them respect and boundaries.

My daughter is 10 years old and has come home on more than one occasion recounting an incident at school in which she was teased or harassed by a male classmate. There has been several times when someone that she was retelling the story to responded with the old, “that just means he likes you” line. Wrong. I want my daughter to know that being disrespected is NEVER acceptable. I want my daughter to know that if someone likes her and respects her, much less LOVES her, they don’t hurt her and they don’t put her down. I want my daughter to know that the boy called her ugly or pushed her or pulled her hair didn’t do it because he admires her, it is because he is a little asshole and assholes are an occurrence of society that will have to be dealt with for the rest of her life. I want my daughter to know how to deal with assholes she will encounter throughout her life. For now, I want my daughter to know that if someone is verbally harassing her, she should tell the teacher and if the teacher does nothing, she should tell me. If someone physically touches her, tell the teacher then, if it continues, to yell, “STOP TOUCHING/PUNCHING/PUSHING ME” in the middle of class or the hallway, then tell me. Last year, one little boy stole her silly bandz from her. He just grabbed her and yanked a handful of them off of her wrist. When I went to the school to address the incident, the teacher smiled and explained it away to her, in front of me, “he probably has a crush on you”. Okay, the boy walked up to my daughter, grabbed and held her by the arm and forcibly removed her bracelets from her as she struggled and you want to convince her that she should be flattered? Fuck off. I am going to punch you in the face but I hope you realize it is just my way of thanking you for the great advice you gave my daughter. If these same advice givers’ sons came home crying because another male classmate was pushing them, pulling their hair, hitting them or calling them names, I would bet dollars to donuts they would tell him to defend themselves and kick the kid’s ass, if necessary. They sure as shit wouldn’t say, “he probably just wants a play date”.

I will teach my daughter to accept nothing less than respect. Anyone who hurts her physically or emotionally doesn’t deserve her respect, friendship or love. I will teach my boys the same thing as well as the fact that hitting on girls doesn’t involve hitting girls. I can’t teach my daughter to respect herself if I am teaching her that no one else has to respect her. I can’t raise sons that respect women, if I teach them that bullying is a valid expression of affection.

The next time that someone offers up that little “secret” to my daughter, I am going to slap the person across the face and yell, “I LOVE YOU”.

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- You Didn’t Thank Me For Punching You in the Face « Views from the Couch (via delucazade)

This is so powerful.

"‎I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In..."

Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:00:30 +0100

“‎I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a child fed, not a child educated, not a child housed. And why would I think that you don’t? Because you don’t want any tax money to go there. That’s not pro-life. That’s pro-birth. We need a much broader conversation on what the morality of pro-life is.”

- Sister Joan Chittister, Catholic Nun (via timehasflewn)

holy shit i love this quote

(via glitter-femin1sts)

I feel like this needs to be said. Again. "Women and girls are not vending machines you drop kindness coins into until sex falls out"

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:49:38 +0100

stfuhypocrisy:

kidbeatdown:

inner-tardis:

hug-sensei:

stfuhypocrisy:

So please fuck off.

^This

Oh dear, still no cure for Nice-Guy Syndrome?

So men who are nice to females only do so for sex?

No. But for the guys who ARE only nice to girls/women because they think they will be rewarded, are not actually nice guys. They have major Nice Guy Syndrome or NGS™.

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Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:32:36 +0100

The Coquette: Dear Republicans,

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:25:25 +0100

The Coquette: Dear Republicans,:

coketalk:

The Bush administration and key members of your party spent the last decade exploiting 9/11 for political gain. As a direct result of this exploitation, our country waged a false war and wasted a trillion dollars.

I point this out as a friendly reminder for those of you who think that President…

inothernews: CNN’s handy graphic showing the number of jobs...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:56:12 +0100

inothernews:

CNN’s handy graphic showing the number of jobs lost (in red and mostly obstructed by Ali Velshi) and jobs gained (in green) during Obama’s presidency.

I guess that’s why Republicans only see red.

NY TIMES: "Setting up an office in Reno is just one of many legal methods Apple uses to reduce its worldwide tax bill by billions of dollars each year. As it has in Nevada, Apple has created subsidiaries in low-tax places like Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands -some little more than a letterbox or an anonymous office -that help cut the taxes it pays around the world."

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:30:11 +0100

NY TIMES: "Setting up an office in Reno is just one of many legal methods Apple uses to reduce its worldwide tax bill by billions of dollars each year. As it has in Nevada, Apple has created subsidiaries in low-tax places like Ireland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and the British Virgin Islands -some little more than a letterbox or an anonymous office -that help cut the taxes it pays around the world.":

inothernews:

Also their employees in China commit suicide but it’s cool, they build awesome stuff that hipsters adore.

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration,..."

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:33:27 +0100

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Heres Tom with the Weather.”

- Bill Hicks (via lleuq)

fucktheory: Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας(click) The United States...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:10:03 +0000

fucktheory:

Περὶ Ἑρμηνείας

(click)

The United States Constitution is pretty explicit here: Congress has the power “To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes” (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).

It goes without saying, I think, that in, a constitutional democracy of the kind the United States generally claims to be, consistency of legal interpretation is a fundamental correlate of the law’s viability. Pluralism, in this sense, might be marked by interpretive disagreements between individual judges, but for an individual judge’s interpretations to betray a fundamental inconsistency would completely derail any claim to interpretive authority on their part.

I don’t think a very elaborate argument is necessary to support the idea that health care, in this country and in this context, bears a fundamental relevance to the question of inter-state commerce; for details, see this article or this White House report on “The Economic Case for Health Care Reform.” Say it with me: There is only one economy. And any element which accounts for almost 20% of a country’s GDP can unilaterally be considered to be fundamentally imbricated in every other aspect of that country’s economic structure.

In other words, if Justice Roberts doesn’t rule in favor of the health care reform law’s constitutionality, he will pretty clearly have shown himself to be a partisan hypocrite bending his legal judgment to the political interests of the party that put him on the bench. And that, of course, goes against the spirit of democracy - we wouldn’t want “activist judges” unilaterally legislating the interests of the American people, now would we?

THE TELEGRAPH: "'Suggesting that the answer is more military action is just wrong,' said Javie Ssozi, an influential Ugandan blogger. 'Have they thought of the consequences? Making Kony ‘famous’ could make him stronger. Arguing for more US troops could make him scared, and make him abduct more children, or go on the offensive.' Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan journalist specialising in peace and conflict reporting, said: 'This paints a picture of Uganda six or seven years ago, that is totally not how it is today. It’s highly irresponsible.'"

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:48:01 +0000

THE TELEGRAPH: "'Suggesting that the answer is more military action is just wrong,' said Javie Ssozi, an influential Ugandan blogger. 'Have they thought of the consequences? Making Kony ‘famous’ could make him stronger. Arguing for more US troops could make him scared, and make him abduct more children, or go on the offensive.' Rosebell Kagumire, a Ugandan journalist specialising in peace and conflict reporting, said: 'This paints a picture of Uganda six or seven years ago, that is totally not how it is today. It’s highly irresponsible.'"

pleatedjeans: White Guy Dance Moves [see more here]

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:42:33 +0000

pleatedjeans:

White Guy Dance Moves [see more here]

The wonderfully eccentric Werner Herzog literally eating his...

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:04:20 +0000

The wonderfully eccentric Werner Herzog literally eating his shoe… its noteworthy that his comments are as valid today as they were 30years ago, if not more so.

Aesthetics of beauty

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:27:57 +0100

Beauty is the visible tip of a gigantic iceberg of want. So look for it under the water line, as well as above. Beauty should never be confused with pretty. The two fulfil separate tasks, the task of beauty is to trigger immoderate desires, pretty never does that.

Sometimes, the universe gets it just right, just when you need...

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:59:03 +0100

Sometimes, the universe gets it just right, just when you need it most. A supple grey saviour from miu miu. Happy face smiley!

Reassure thyself of the fundamental inevitability of suffering

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:38:32 +0100

Reassure thyself of the fundamental inevitability of suffering

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Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:32:13 +0100

Quite possibly the cutest kitten I have EVER seen!

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:54:29 +0000

Quite possibly the cutest kitten I have EVER seen!

"Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified."

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:23:00 +0000

“Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified.”