July 2011
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
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Mahatma Gandhi.
I think this really summaraizes the spirit of the Norwegian people right now, I have never been more proud.
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“Norway’s Prime Minister is a liberal atheist, they have one of the best economies in the world, they have universal health care, and subsidized education, it has had the highest Human Development Index 7 years in a row, and it’s never started a pointless war, given tax breaks to the richest, and created Jersey Shore — yet it’s America that knows best.”
—Matthew Trevithick, responding to this story, “Former Bush Official Places Blame For Oslo Attack On Norwegians For Not Being ‘Serious’ About Terrorism,” with a comment that wins the universe. (via cognitivedissonance)
Harry Potter and It was Snape…wait no
Harry Potter and It’s Malfoy…wait no
Harry Potter and it was Sirius Black…wait no
Harry Potter and It was Voldemort
Harry Potter and fuck you I was right
Harry Potter and no it was definitely Snape this time
Harry Potter and shit, wrong again
“Nobody told me I had a clitoris. Nobody told me I was capable of having orgasms. For five years I was given “sex education”. It mostly consisted of periods and condoms. It didn’t talk about consent. It didn’t talk about the actual mechanics of sex, about arousal and lubrication and oscillation. It didn’t tell me a single thing about relationships and it didn’t tell me I had a clitoris. I only know now because of the internet. Nobody entrusted with my care and education has ever told me that the female orgasm exists, or about the parts of my anatomy necessary for it. I didn’t find my clitoris until I was eighteen, after six years of active sexuality. That makes me angry.”
—Sex Education, or, What Boys Will Want From You « Frothing at the Brain (via mollix, sexisnottheenemy) (via feministslut) (via ieatyourhatelikelove) (via tumblinfeminist) (via calanthe) (via quizzical) (via bigmouthstrikes)
“I am so proud of my country. I am so proud of my people. I am so proud of the politicians and media, who are all preaching restraint and compassion. No one that I have seen are trying to enrage the masses. It’s muted, it’s quiet, there are tears in public. Our politicians and royal family have been out in public to grieve with the people with limited security. As the prime minister said, we need more democracy, more openness.”
—This Space Blank » Blog Archive » Oslo – reflection and tears (via cleolinda)
Indian women tweak their SlutWalk →
washingtonpost.com
The confrontational “slut” has been softened by adding the Hindi word for “shamelessness” to the event’s title. Women have been asked to march in their regular clothes. And weekly public debates and street theater are being promoted even more energetically than the walk itself.
Rather than focusing on clothes, the campaign is questioning gender stereotypes embedded in ancient Hindu religious epics, Bollywood movies and sexist matrimonial classified ads.
“There will be no dress code” for the march, said Umang Sabarwal, 19, the event’s chief organizer. “In India, no matter what we wear, even if we are covered head to toe in a sari or a burqa, we get molested and raped. A woman’s fight in India is more basic — it is a fight for the right to be born, education, nutritious food, work.”
Got up at 5am. Have been used as a jungle gym for 8 hours. Have drunk innumerable cups of coffee. Time for a Resident Evil marathon.
“You will not destroy us. You will not destroy our democracy nor our quest for a better world. We are a small nation, but we are a proud nation … the answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity, but never naïveté. That is what we owe to the victims and to the those they hold dear.”
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Norwegian Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg
The situation in Norway is devastating. There really is nothing else I can say at the moment, I’m just watching with horror as the events unfold. I did want to take a moment and say what an enormous amount of respect I have for Norway’s PM and his speechwriter, because this was a dignified, wonderful speech.
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“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
—Bertrand Russell (via wordpainting)
