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lizzo passionately playing her flute, stopping for a hot second to yell BITCH and returning to play is just so powerful

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This pic is so cute

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Watch: Poet Melissa Newman-Evans confesses number 9 is “the most terrifying thing to think about yourself.”

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"Wine Country" star and former "SNL" writer Paula Pell spent decades trying to chase what others thought she “could be.” Here's how she gave that up.

“Each time I “failed” to complete my assignment of being “attractive,” I wore my increasing shame like a fiery skin. My life became an apology for letting everyone down. It must have really bummed them out.

One night a man I was seeing told me I “could be a knockout.” I remember thinking, Wow, a knockout? I’d never imagined I could reach knockout status even as a thin person. Perhaps “pretty cute,” but never a knockout. What a compliment! He’s been thinking about this! He must have pictured it in his head—maybe even cut-and-pasted my face onto a picture of a hot woman in a bikini. (Back then you had to actually cut and paste.) He bestowed this treasure of an idea that I could be so much better. That I was actually in the parking lot of the ballpark and with enough hard work and canned tuna, I could be a real fox and make him (and many others) relieved.

But it was also so strange to me because he himself had a number of things that could be improved. Like his hair, body shape, face, height, lips, teeth, vocal timbre, skin sheen, quality of soul, chin integrity, breath, and of course, wardrobe and penis.

I wanted to lean in and tell him with the same coy yet worried low tone that he “could be a hunk.” Let him in on the secret. But it wasn’t my place, I thought. He was funny like me and had a sweet side. He was just being him.

I went on to eventually unbraid myself from others’ wishes for me and relaxed into my skin. I had a long marriage to a woman that ended amicably, and my size had zero to do with it. Now I’m 56 and engaged to a gorgeous love tornado of a woman. I gave up long ago trying to chase what I actually could be. I love my body, for the most part, and I surround myself with others who do too. I continue to wish deep in my soul that women and men who hold gravity like me are no longer being “clued in” on their potential. That they aren’t waiting at an imaginary bus stop to get to where they’ll finally become something good. They’re already good.”

Read the full essay here

“Hey Young Girls, finish your sentences no matter what look someone is giving you while you speak.

- Paula Pell‏

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paula pell is cool as hell and i’m so happy she’s finally getting recognition and spreading positivity

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Agree! She’s GREAT in Wine Country, the new movie with Amy Poehler (Amy directed too), Maya Rudolph and co. on Netflix.

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Also, if you haven’t seen A.P. Bio, she’s fantastic in that.

Oh, and Ron Swanson’s mother on Parks & Rec.

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this is the funniest story ever told

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finger line drawing by me - leezajoneé

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Watch: SNL destroys the homophobia behind “religious freedom” bills.

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Let me tell you a fucking thing about costume design. That’s some in depth, difficult shit to learn. And the fact that this goddess can ramble this shit off the cuff means she knows her shit. ELLE WOODS IS A GODAMNED GENIUS AND IT’s NOT A STRETCH TO BELIEVE SHE GOT INTO HARVARD LAW MMMK?

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FUCK YEAH ELLE WOODS OR DIE

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this movie is literally about an attractive woman who loves to party having to prove over and over again that she’s also intelligent and hard-working to those who judge her based on her looks (who also empowers and fights for other women, and fosters unlikely friendships instead of engaging in girl hate) and if you don’t think that’s some great feminist shit then I don’t know what your problem is

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Let’s not forget that in the end when the guy wants her again, she turns him down because she knows she deserves better.

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The movie’s director made fun of Reese Witherspoon for taking the part too seriously. He was trying to make a silly movie where you laughed at the sorority girl

Reese’s co-stars have said her hard work inspired them to play their parts with more focus too. This is one instance where a lead actor actually should get credit for the movie being as iconic as it is. If everyone had followed the director’s vision this would have been another forgettable college comedy

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We were funnier in 2010 than we are now

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When foxes discovered the fairy penguins living on Middle Island off the coast of Australia, their numbers were decimated. The population plummeted from 800 birds to fewer than ten in 2005. A local chicken farmer had the idea to station two sheepdogs on the island to chase off the foxes – and it worked. The fairy penguin population on Middle Island is now at 250 and climbing. (x)