cosmo tip #249
when hes having sex with you, shout out your own name instead of his.
I don’t even think that my boyfriend would be surprised.
(via stonecoldsiren)
A culture that just uses a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, to be manipulated by whatever creative design the human can foist on that critter, will probably view individuals within its community, and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling type mentalities.
— Joel Salatin (in the film Food, Inc.)
Posted May 29, 2012 at 2:28pm
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Are y’all getting your bodies prepped & prepared to allow Skarsy back inside you?
…yes
(via stonecoldsiren)
Ah, but then at the same time how can I think gender socialization is evil… that’s telling a million other cultures that they are wrong. But if gender is not universal is it ever right? It can’t be “correct”. It’s too much about morality and that’s impossible. Or maybe about individual agenda versus societal. Do gender roles help the greater whole? We are always redefining society. Are there other cultures going through the same type of outcry against gendering that American society is sitting in? Are we moving towards the ultimate complexity? Thinking about that book Shantaram.
When we were young, Jaime and I, we looked so much alike. Even our father couldn’t tell us apart. I could never understand why they treated us differently. Jaime was taught to fight with sword and lance and mace, and I was taught to smile and sing and please. He was heir to Casterly Rock and I was sold to some stranger like a horse to be ridden whenever he desired.
I try to make a habit of NOT posting hipster artsy photo/quote combo references to t.v. shows, but damn. Game of Thrones you did good this week. Gender socialization is damaging.
(Source: slayground, via stonecoldsiren)
You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything…We don’t have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run.
— Lewis B. Smedes (via we-all-need-change)
(Source: lololand, via we-all-need-change)
I wonder how strong biological familial bonds are on an emotional plane. Other cultures that don’t emphasis an importance between biological parent and child relationships for example, how do the parents really feel about their children? If social structure and rituals of that society separate the parent and child, do either feel a longing to be close to the other? There are so many off shoots to this… couldn’t get it out of my head.
