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When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.

Sally Kempton.

It’s been apparent to me for a while that most men can’t really imagine “equality". All they can imagine is having the existing power structure inverted. I cannot decide whether this shows how unimaginative they are, or shows how aware they must be of what they do in order to so deeply fear having it turned on them.

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latinarebels

start where you are, with what you have. just….. start.

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madeinafreeworld

#Chocoholic: We sure love our chocolate, but it'd be a lot sweeter if it wasn't coming from child labor.

WATCH the short video here.

+2 million children work in cocoa production in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. This year, Nestlé, Mars Bar, and HERSHEY'S were sued for knowingly partnering with suppliers that use child workers.

DEMAND that these chocolate companies become Made In A Free World here: madeinafreeworld.com/action!

25 Things To Do Before 25

1.Leave the country or have definite plans/dates/tickets to leave Columbia with Janika!

2. Begin my “Year Without A Purchase”

3.Do a Paint & Wine night-going to a mystery murder dinner, same venue of fun outings

4.Learn how to crochet something cool-minion beenie

5.Start shopping regularly at farmer’s markets-

6.Read 30 15 books (at least 1 in Spanish)- The New Jim Crow, Pillars of the Earth, Dracula, Philosophy in a Week, Gulliver’s Travels, The Secret, Lean In, War Talk, The Idolatry of God, Frankenstein, The Secret Daughter, Bossy Pants, Dandelion Wine

7.Improve Spanish vocabulary (more academic/professional)

8.Have a legitimate grown-up wardrobe with only things I will actually wear-no more of this full closet but wear the same 7 shirts every week

9.Take a cooking class with my sister- Tasty Thai Favorites

10.Learn how to mix drinks (at least 10)- watermelon & strawberry margaritas, piña coladas, spiked cider,

11.Journal/Reflect at least 4 times a week

12.Visit family or friends in another state-Saw Alyssa in Utah

13.Go to a drive-in movie

14.Attend a religious group’s worship/discussion group (not Christian/Catholic)

15.Watch a meteor shower

16.Do something out of my comfort zone-Guitar Recital

17.Volunteer with an anti-trafficking or fair labor organization-volunteered to teach English abroad leaving in June

18. Make a new friend-coworkers

19.Learn how to braid my own hair

20.Learn how to do (and actually do) my own taxes

21.Do regular group physical activity-basketball,ultimate, etc Ultimate

22.Blow Glass (this is the one I am most excited for!)-done!

23.Do all of the touristy things in San Diego- Potato Chip Rock, Cowels Mt., beaches, SD Zoo, Torry Pines, Sunset Cliffs, Petco Park, Balboa Park, Mt. Soledad, Seaport Village, Summer Pops Concert, Birch Aquarium

24.Go dancing a least once every other month-(almost did!)

25.Get to and maintain 160 lbs-lost a few lbs...

mysharona1987

Donald Trump is every student ever who didn’t read the book and is trying to wing it when the teacher asks what they think it was about.

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On Monday, Martin Shkreli made headlines after his company hiked the price of Daraprim, a life-saving drug for AIDS patients, from $13.50 to $750 per pill. Shkreli cited it as a necessary business decision, but Twitter was having none of it. One major politician even spoke out and promised to take action.

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Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it.

observando

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

John Mayer (via observando)

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I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there.

J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via wordsnquotes)

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“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. (via wordsnquotes)

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Please love yourself enough to enter a relationship for the true connection and not for the emotional need.

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“Men aren’t allowed to be emotional!”

Actually, yes, yes they are. Men are allowed to be frustrated and angry and upset. Men are allowed to be happy and excited. Men are allowed to be silly and fun and joke around. Men are allowed to be childish and insensitive.

The difference is, though, that when men are frustrated or angry or upset by something, whatever comes out of their mouths is treated as “logic” because men are taught their negative emotions are always reasonable.

Women are taught the opposite and are told we are “too emotional” when we are exasperated or indignant or upset or angry or sad or any emotion that is inconvenient for men to recognize.

Women are taught that it is up to us to perform emotional labor for men, that their negative emotional states are always our fault and we must heal them and coddle them and reaffirm the importance of their struggles, even when they derail conversations about us to make it about themselves. The whole reason men even think to derail discussions about women’s oppression to be about them is because they feel they can reasonably expect women to change the topic of conversation from our own issues to theirs. Men feel entitled to the emotional labor of women.

Conversely, men don’t want to perform emotional labor for women. They don’t even want to do the bare minimum of empathizing and sympathizing with us. So we get written off as “overly emotional” because what they really mean to say is “I don’t want to spend emotional energy empathizing with you.” even though they expect women to do the same for themselves.

This is because they consider their own feelings to be rational and logical and expected, while women are expected to be meek and accommodating to them.