I’m going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.
— E. D. W.
Weather: Cloudy
*ten minutes later*
Weather: STORM’SA COMIN’.
Gave my first light show Saturday night. Funnest thing ever. I now know why people not only love receiving it, but giving it.
That’s what she said.
Today is gonna be fucking awesome. Can’t wait for Datsik, Pretty Lights, and Crizzly.
Ahhh I’ve been waiting for this day foreverrrrrr
My name is not Frida Kahlo
It’s Frio Calor
I’ve never felt this distraught over what to WEAR somewhere
NEVER
I usually just throw shit on me and leave
but this
THIS
IS HARD
❝
From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.
So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.
Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
—
David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women
That last line is right on the money.
