āāAs soon as teenage girls start to profess love for something, everyone else becomes totally dismissive of it. Teenage girls are open season for the cruelest bullying that our society can dream up. Everyoneās vicious to them. Theyāre vicious to each other. Hell, theyāre even vicious to themselves. Itās terrible.āSo if teenage girls have something that they love, isnāt that a good thing? Isnāt it better for them to find some words they believe in, words like the āfire-proof and fearlessā lyrics that Jacqui wrote? Isnāt it better for them to put those words on their arm in a tattoo than for them to cut gashes in that same skin? Shouldnāt we be grateful when teenage girls love our work? Shouldnāt that be a fucking honor?āItās used as the cheapest, easiest test of crap, isnāt it? If teenage girls love a movie, a book, a band, then itās immediately classified as mediocre shit. Well, Iām not going to stand for that. Someone needs to treat them like theyāre precious, and if nobody else is ready to step up, I guess itās up to us to put them on the path to recognizing that about themselves.āā
a character from The Devilās Mixtape.Ā (via valjeans)
Every now and then, something comes along on your dash that opens your eyes and makes you question assumptions you didnāt even realize you were making.
This former teenage girl fell in love with Rush, RPGs, Russian literature, ancient history, sci fi flicks, and Led Zeppelin. Iād say she had pretty good taste. So why have I always defaulted to marginalizing or dismissing the tastes of other teenage girls? Why have I always counted the large teenage female presence in fandom as a black mark against it, or at least something that needs to be explained or surmounted for older fans to participate or engage? Why have I assumed that teenage girls as a whole are incapable of critical analysis or meaningful engagement with the same media that I enjoy, when it was the critical analysis and meaningful engagement of a teenage girl that got me into much of the same media I enjoy now?
Wow. Talk about not even recognizing the patriarchy at work.
seriously, this just made me feel like a fucking asshole, which is always a sign that iāve learned something important.
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I think I like the commentary above more than even the quote itself. Ā Itās cool when just a quote can make people really rethink their positions.
Wow. We are all jerks. Manā¦.. (via lurkthis)