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playboy's non-tit content is great, or was at one point, i haven't seen enough of it now to say either way.
playboy's tit content bothers me for obvious reasons (objectification of female bodies etc) but also because the inclusion of tits alongside legitimate pieces of writing for the ~ultimate men's magazine~ suggests that men can't or don't want to read quality writing unless there is a naked lady involved. come on, hef, you can do better than that for both genders. -
ART FREEK. the fucking lussier brothers god damn. go there go there go there
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awwww, thank you anonymous :]
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ok so i check my formspring like once a month and it's funny that this just appeared here because i almost wrote something on tumblr today detailing how i had a pregnancy scare recently and how i would have aborted.
so there's that: i'd abort. without question or hesitation. the first thing i did when i thought i might be pregnant was check to see if my health insurance covers abortion. it does, lucky for me. i found an abortion provider near me. i was prepared to make an appointment if it came to that. luckily, i wasn't pregnant, so it didn't. but for every moment i thought it might, for every single fucking second, i was terrified.
this is why i am so upset about the health care bill allowing states to ban insurance coverage of abortion. no man will ever know what it feels like to be faced with an unwanted pregnancy. i don't give a FUCK how empathetic or sympathetic he is. i don't care how much god is speaking to him. he will never, ever know what it's like to suddenly realize that everything he has ever worked for in his entire life is so close to being over because of a child. and he has no right to tell me that i am somehow a second class citizen, that i do not deserve control of my body, that control of my body is something that comes with the privilege of having money. fuck that.
and fuck the notion that men can go around fucking whoever they want without consequence, but if i have sex with someone and it results in pregnancy, it's too fucking bad for me and i'm just going to have to live with it and really i deserve it for my "promiscuity" or "poor decision making" or whatever the fuck else they're calling it these days. -
lol i know who this is
i had/have a big fat crush on one of my old professors and i swear one day i will succeed at getting at that. SWEAR. -
i don't think anyone on a-f has ever suggested anyone do any such thing. a critique of girls' toys or media doesn't mean that "everything about your childhood was wrong," it just means that media and toys for girls should be considered critically. there's nothing wrong with having an easy bake oven; there is something wrong when you can ONLY have an easy bake oven.
that said i'm interested in running the best blog possible, so if you want to step up and go un-anon email me and we'll talk about this. melissa@about-face.org -
it's from the kings of convenience song "the build up":
the spinning top made a sound like a train across the valley
fading, oh so quiet but constant 'til it passed
over the bridge into the distances
written on your ticket to remind you where to stop
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depending on fund$, either a ship or a spinning top! probably a spinning top because i'm pretty broke as fuck.
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i really like "fucking christ" but i guess "christ" isn't necessarily a swear.
sooooo i'm gonna go with "cunt bitch." this is a pretty misogynist answer coming from a self-proclaimed feminist but you really cannot deny the stinging impact of those words. if i'm going to double curse, i want that shit to COUNT, you know? -
every morning, baby.
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that's funny, i used to also really dislike me. especially in high school. god, i cringe thinking about it.
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a lot of them don't have explanations but i'll try!
1. tree of knowledge on my side -- a reminder that knowledge comes with a price and that i'd better well use my abilities to do something worthwhile. also largely aesthetic.
2. semicolon/interrobang on my ankles -- i'm a fucking nerd and these are my favorite punctuation marks even though the interrobang isn't REALLY real
3. anatomical heart on my inner arm -- cheap valentine's day flash, i just felt the itch and thought it was cute. no real meaning.
4. goldaline, left arm -- from the poem "bread and roses" by james oppenheim. "hearts starve as well as bodies / give us bread, but give us roses." my tribute to the women's labor movement and my personal gender and class politics.
5. "get cool" on my right forearm -- from west side story. i just fucking love that musical, ngl. a reminder to keep calm under pressure i guess.
6. "daylight" on my left index finger -- from the song "daylight" by matt & kim. that song (and record) perfectly capture my feelings about brooklyn, my youth, and my optimistic view of the future. moving here was a huge transition and living here was the first time i'd been truly, unabashedly, stupidly happy and i wanted to try to keep a part of that feeling with me forever.
that's all i've got for now but more are on the way real soon :) -
student loan money, christmas money, savings, and careful planning! but mostly the student loan money, hah. i'm most likely going to have to find employment in california, though.
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i don't know who you are, anonymous, but thank you <3
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