[lilytakeson]

[rob-walks-deactivated20210614]

i be having full blown conversation with myself

[kushandwizdom]

There's nothing better than having peace of mind.

[rubyetc]

it’s ok 

[nevver]

[feministperalta]

me, with someone I have no interest in: lighthearted witty banter, often perceived by others as flirting.

me, with someone I’m interested in/actually trying to flirt with:

[lv0009]

it is so upsetting listening to so many males talk about all of the times they have gone on road trips alone and slept in their cars alone or on the side of the road, or travelled overseas alone and slept on the floor of strangers homes or in parks or at hostels, and they appear to have such freedom in that they are able to be alone in ways that females, unfortunately, cannot. and there is an ignorance surrounding this in that these boys never seem to comprehend just how fortunate they are that strange people and unfamiliar places and the dark of night are not their enemies but rather exciting, promising things.

[1or3]

“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…”

― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

[wretchedoftheearth]

Many men will object to the very idea that male privilege exists, but their objection also insists on a kind of invisibility that patriarchy depends on. Few men realize how much their lives would change if women weren’t treated as subordinate. Instead, men take credit for their hard work and achievements without taking into account how much harder it would have been if they had to compete with women on a level playing field or do without the supportive (and unpaid) domestic labor that so many wives and mothers perform. Because patriarchy defines women as subordinate and “other,” men can take women’s exclusion from serious competition for granted. As a result, many men have been rudely awakened by women’s entry into hitherto male-only workplaces. When men complain about the advantage some women gain from affirmative action, they ignore centuries of pro-male affirmative action that, in spite of the women’s movement, continues as the largely unexceptional default condition under patriarchy.

Allan G. Johnson, 

The Gender Knot

[the-lady-of-camelot]

Remember when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received, only what you have given: A heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.

St. Francis of Assisi (via istandwiththecatholicchurch)

[bahtmun-deactivated20240623]

Have any of your friendships ever ended because you were always the first one to talk to someone and one day you stopped to see if they would talk to you first and they never did so you just stopped talking to each other?

[unclefather]

[c0ntemplations]

not to sound dramatic but everyday is an existential crisis 

[wordsnquotes]

يقبرني/ya’aburnee

(idiom) An untranslatable, Arabic phrase literally meaning you bury me, ya’aburnee is the hope that one’s lover will die before them because life without them is unbearable. This both beautiful and morbid expression is generally used in the Levantine Arabic dialect.  (via wordsnquotes)

[magentagram-blog]

I like how men tell us that periods are somehow simultaneously “not that bad” and also bad enough that we shouldn’t be allowed to hold positions of power.

[thatonechick339-deactivated2023]

This is a very important and powerful text post.

[wordsnquotes]

No matter how many people care about you…if you can’t be open with them about who you truly are, you’re still alone.

Diane Chamberlain, The Silent Sister (via noorshirazie)

[sairceketli]

Visit Original Link

[jibril-deactivated20190420]

[hallahwallah]

I loved when she said this in that episode. He kept saying how much he loved Beirut. He gets to experience the nice parts of the countries he visits without dealing with any of the negative aspects of the culture or problems of actually living there.    I once ate a kabob and drank with hipster rebels at a bar in Beirut, I love this country!! The bombs were falling but it’s ok we just came back to film the episode later. I study your government’s problems in my Mid East Studies class and watch CNN so I understand. 😒