"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."
Because this is just awesome.
so…has anybody done this yet? ;D
(from Sex+: FREE THE PUBES!)
We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.
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Will Smith (on why he let Willow cut off all her hair)
Read more: Will Smith on Allowing Willow to Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got to Have Command of Her Body’
He raises a really great point. What would it mean to believe very early that my body was mine. That it’s not for anyone or for any particular purpose other than to be mine until I decide otherwise.
(via larepublicadedet)
I was damned near 30 before I could believe my body belonged to me & me alone.
Dear people who take an issue with this,
Let the Smiths do right by their babies & shut the fuck up about how you think they should parent.
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This is correct parenting. Seriously, let your children do what they want with their body BECAUSE IT IS THEIR BODY. My dad personally views piercings as a type of mutilation but did he say no when I wanted to get my ears pierced, my nose pierced, my lip pierced? No, because it was MY body.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
I remember when I turned 18 and I gave myself a tattoo for a bday present and I was terrified of my mother seeing it so I hid it for almost a week (wore nothing but long sleeves). When she finally saw it and said something like “it’s your body, why should I be mad?” I remember thinking… “Wait, oh man… it IS mine!” I never want my daughters to have to doubt something as innate as that.
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(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Jacob spoke first.
“I want to know if my hair is just like yours,” he told Mr. Obama, but so quietly that the president asked him to speak again.
Jacob did, and Mr. Obama replied, “Why don’t you touch it and see for yourself?” He brought his head level with Jacob, who hesitated.
“Touch it, dude!” Mr. Obama said.
As Jacob, who was 5, patted the presidential crown, Mr. Souza snapped.
“So, what do you think?” Mr. Obama asked.
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I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.
—Jon Stewart (via housewifeswag)
(Source: ghostisborn, via gtfothinspo)
Reporter: I have a question to Robert and to Scarlett. Firstly to Robert, throughout Iron Man 1 and 2, Tony Stark started off as a very egotistical character but learns how to fight as a team. And so how did you approach this role, bearing in mind that kind of maturity as a human being when it comes to the Tony Stark character, and did you learn anything throughout the three movies that you made?
And to Scarlett, to get into shape for Black Widow did you have anything special to do in terms of the diet, like did you have to eat any specific food, or that sort of thing?
Scarlett: How come you get the really interesting existential question, and I get the like, “rabbit food” question?
The respect given to you if you’re a man in the entertainment business, and the respect given to you if you’re a woman in the entertainment business: all perfectly summed up in one idiotically thought out line of questioning.
(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
Religion and Gay Marriage (x)
John Green is one of my heroes
FUN FACTS!
There were 11th century same-sex “brother-making” rites which were basically same-sex marriages. The Catholic rite was called the Ordo ad fratres faciendum.
And 4th century Saints Sergius and Bacchus are a well-known same-sex coupling united through the rite of Adelphopoiesis. Again, it was essentially same-sex marriage.
The Orthodox Church isn’t terribly keen on this interpretation these days, but the historical evidence is pretty solid. It is basically contested on the grounds of “Eww gay people, yucky!” I mean that literally. I had a debate with a very learned Antiochian Orthodox person and that was the heart of her argument.
(via feministische)
Laci Green: I have three proposals to work against weight discrimination, fat shame, and fat phobia. 1: “fat” isn’t a bad word, 2: it’s not about “health,” 3: love thyself.
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let—yourselfgo:Press conference at Fort Dix | March 3, 1960.
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
