January 2011
Healthy people are poor consumers →
weirdfish:
“very-high-level marketers have managed to create a nation of people who typically… are tired and unhealthy and vaguely dissatisfied with their lives, respond to boredom, dissatisfaction, or anxiety only by buying and consuming things, have disposable income but can’t find a more fulfilling line of work without losing their health insurance, create health problems for themselves… are...
“wait, what’s happening in egypt? i always just tell my friends that if anything...”
– a rather high up professor at uc
in this same class today, i had someone tell me that there is obviously no longer a gender gap, and someone else argue shortly thereafter that everyone has equal access to nutritious food in the united states. after all, there’s a kroger in otr.
in other news, i...
If you can correctly pronounce every word in this...
crimsun:
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“… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is...”
– Karl Lagerfeld (via fuckyeahkarllagerfeld) (via goosebumpsfitsandmalaria)
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Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to... →
tersaudades:
If you fail to respect what women say, you label yourself a problem.
There’s a man with whom I went out on a single date—afternoon coffee, for one hour by the clock—on July 25th. In the two days after the date, he sent me about fifteen e-mails, scolding me for non-responsiveness. I e-mailed him back, saying, “Look, this is a disproportionate response to a single date. You are...
the atrocity of sunsets: In the 1960s, a student... →
earlyfrost:
In the 1960s, a student at Harvard Law School addressed parents and alumni with these words:
“The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might. And…
“I photograph bar mitzvahs, so I know the songs. I like the one that goes, ‘It’s...”
– Flash Rosenberg, an artist-in-residence at the New York Public Library, in the New Yorker (via abbyjean)
