[lora-mathis]

The only way I know how to deal with my problems is by buying a bus ticket away from them The only way I know how to tell people I have a problem with them is through poetry I’d say I’m either a coward or gifted in avoiding confrontation it just depends how far from myself I am when you ask me

A Poem | Lora Mathis  (via lora-mathis)

[stefon-rneyers]

[scatteredneedles]

Your soulmate is not someone that comes into your life peacefully. It is who comes to make you question things, who changes your reality, somebody that marks a before and after in your life. It is not the human being everyone has idealized, but an ordinary person, who manages to revolutionize your world in a second …

Anonymous (via scatteredneedles)

[brutereason]

There’s a poisonous double standard in our society which says that it’s reverse-sexist and wrong for women to feel threatened by creepy-awkward male behaviour because our fear implies that we hold the negative, stereotypical view that All Men Are Predators, but that if we’re raped or sexually assaulted by any man with whom we’ve had prior social interaction – and particularly if he’s expressed some sexual or romantic interest in us during that time – it’s reasonable for observers to ask what precautions we took to prevent the assault from happening, or to suggest that we maybe led the guy on by not stating our feelings plainly. The result is a situation where women are punished if we reject, avoid or identify creepy men, and then told it’s our fault if we’re assaulted by someone we plainly ought to have rejected, avoided, identified.

The Creepiness Question | shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows (via brute-reason)

[poppunk-and-junk]

[lora-mathis]

He says, You don’t seem like you’re twenty. And I am left wondering how twenty seems, if “acting my age” should mean scrapping my habit of scratching where there’s no itch. But I don’t want to act like something else because I like the way I can get him to look at me, thirsty and pants throbbing. Boys my age never know how to touch. They’re too nervous, too new at what they do. He has nine years on me and unhooks my bra with steady fingers. I like thinking that he has studied hard to know how to make me shake. When I moan and moan and then exhale a “thank you,” I remind myself that this is not the sort of thing to regard as permanent. I know he likes me because he correlates youth and foolhardiness, and so I play the giggling light-hearted girl in front of him. Lolita, I almost say, call me Lolita. I work myself into his sort of fantasy-baby with bouncing breasts and soft skin. I am too smooth to remind him of his other women. I know that the women he kisses taste like commitment, that they pick up his clothes off the ground and wash his dishes because they want him to brand them as “wife.” When he falls asleep after finishing on top of me, I plead with myself not to lean into his chest. You are not meant to see this as anything more, I say. Still, no matter how much the logic in me begs me not to, I fall asleep with my arms stretched in his direction. I am still young. I have not yet learned that he will touch me will never settle down for anyone. Not for those women. Not for me. Six months in, while his unshaved chest rises and falls beneath his sheets, I slip out and leave a note saying: I didn’t want you to only fuck me, I wanted you to love me. But I didn’t know what to convince you with besides my body.

Your Sort of Fantasy | Lora Mathis  (via lora-mathis)

[beeishappy]

TCR | 2014.05.19

[unreconstructedfangirl]

I love him. I’m still not over my grief that it’ll all be over soon.

[lucillepetty]

[ohalice666-deactivated20170405]

just saw a guy wearing a nirvana t-shirt lmfao i bet cant even name three noble truths of buddhism

[lepipehd]

[letstalkaboutrape]

I’m not responsible for some perverted 45 year old dad lusting after me because I have a sparkly dress on and a big ass for a teenager. And if you think I am, then maybe you’re part of the problem.

17-year-old Clare Ettinger who was kicked out of her prom for the dress she was wearing.

Source: Teen Girl Ejected From Prom Because Horny Dads Can’t Stop Staring

(via bodypartss)

[honeydrippingbeehives]

[jacarandajungle]

Petra Collins and Tavi Gevinson for Rookie, October 2011 (x,x)

[imtakingafuckingbreak-deactivat]

this is everything to me

[sitandhavefun]

[geeseabovecloverbelow]

[tattoome]

[danielle-mertina]

self-respect is a weird word because you’d think it means “having respect for yourself” but it’s mostly used in terms of whether or not a person is acting in a way that makes them respectable to everybody but themselves. 

[osikapa]

that is the realest thing i’ve read this morning. 

[staininyourbrain-archive-deacti]

For those of you who think that feminists exaggerate or cherry-pick the worst of the porn industry, I have an experiment for you. Type ‘porn’ into Google and click around the most well-travelled websites that appear. With mind-numbing repetition you will see gagging, slapping, verbal abuse, hair-pulling, pounding anal sex, women smeared in semen, sore anuses and vaginas, distended mouths, and more exhausted, depleted and shell-shocked women than you can count. You will not see two people having sex; you will see images depicting a level of physical cruelty that would not be out of place in an Amnesty International campaign. One of the only studies of contemporary pornographic content found that the majority of scenes from fifty of the top-rented porn movies contained both physical and verbal abuse targeted against the female performers. Physical aggression – including spanking, open-hand slapping and gagging – occurred in over 88% of scenes, while expressions of verbal aggression – calling the woman names such as ‘bitch’ or ‘slut’ – were found in 48%. The researchers concluded that ‘if we combine both physical and verbal aggression, our findings indicate that nearly 90 per cent of scenes contained at least one aggressive act, with an average of nearly twelve acts of aggression per scene’. [x] That this is the major form of sex education for men should be taken very seriously by the women’s movement. The same men who get off from women being brutalised and called cunts, sluts and cum-dumpsters are the ones who go on to become politicians, corporate executives, judges, media professionals, policy makers and bankers. In other words, they become the economic and cultural elite that shape the material and ideological world that determines how women – and their children – will live. Most of them will become partners and fathers. To assume that porn is mere fantasy and does not impact on the way men think and feel is to ignore decades of research on how images frame our social construction of reality.

"Porn and the Misogyny Emergency" — Gail Dines 

(via coffeekaling)