An Experiment in Provocation

Constantly striving against anonymity, battling writers' block, and encountering first world problems. I will find your pet and befriend it. I like conversation and compliments.

[just-shower-thoughts]

Anyone who says self-driving cars couldn’t compete with human drivers on snowy roads, has clearly never seen human drivers on snowy roads.

[erinmeansireland]

Especially human drivers on snowy roads in Nashville, TN.

[erinmeansireland]

I applied for a promotion, and I didn't get it. It fucking sucks. It's really hard to have the realization that you're not as smart or as deserving or whatever as you think you are. But really, it's mostly what this potential promotion would have meant. Maybe I wasn't such a failure. Maybe I didn't waste my brain on a fucking English degree (two English degrees, actually). It's exhausting. Feeling like you're not qualified for anything. Like you're not good enough. Like you've wasted every ounce of energy you have on something that's not in the least bit useful. Like you did EVERYTHING right. EVERYTHING that you were supposed to do, that you were told to do from the beginning, that you were assured was a recipe for a successful and happy life. All of it. From the start. I don't know. I guess it could be worse. At least I have a boyfriend. Because, lets face it, that's what's important for a young woman in two-thousand-mother-fucking-seventeen. Just ask my family at Christmas.

[erinmeansireland]

Guys. The world is a super great place.

Like, really. I just love being a woman living in a world where a girl who was raped was asked why she didn't just "keep [her] knees closed." Where a man who rapes an unconscious woman behind a dumpster walks free after serving only a small part of his laughable sentence - only after he was lauded as a star swimmer and his own father claimed he shouldn't be punished for "only twenty minutes of action." Where an experienced presidential candidate (no matter opinions on her policies) is casually called a "slut" and a "bitch" simply because she's a woman in a position of power. Where millions and millions of women are sexually assaulted or brutally attacked just because they had the audacity to refuse the advances of a man. Where a woman performing the same job as a man with the same qualifications and the same results is paid less. Where I'm told by strange men on the street or in a store to smile because someone as pretty as me shouldn't look so mad or sad. Well, men, sorry to burst your bubble, but I am. And I'm allowed to be.

[theglassessay]

from a leaflet circulated c.1968 by the feminist movement W.I.T.C.H. (Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell)

[jigglypuffsvevo]

[weavemama]

[radicat]

do u ever just purposefully not look @ ur bank account because u know u fucked up

[tobeagenius]

[eldrwitch]

[thegoodvybe]

[nightcores-pokemon]

[awesome-picz]

Today Is National Take Your Dog To Work Day.

[thecommonchick]

Wtf do u get ur mom for mothers day when she deserves a mansion over looking the ocean in Fiji but u have $3.00 in ur checking account??????

[thebestoftumbling]

saint bernard puppy chasing a gopro

[chriscappuccino]

When I first saw GoPros in the stores, I thought, “What the hell would anyone need that for?” Now I see.

[tyleroakley]

honestly the only thing i care about today

[skaodi]

Backstage at Giambattista Valli Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015.

Paris Fashion Week.

[gabrielahansen-blog]

[erinmeansireland]

me: I just want this to be over

friend: want what to be over?

me: *gestures vaguely*