Ally Blue's Blog, page 34
June 21, 2012
"It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. You know when you look..."
It’s all about how you have to look a certain way or else you’re worthless. You know when you look in the mirror, and you think, ‘Ugh, I’m so fat, I’m so old, I’m so ugly’, don’t you know that’s not your authentic self, but that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising, magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself so that you will take your hard-earned money and spend it on some turnaround cream that doesn’t turnaround shit.
When you don’t have self-esteem, you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you really wanna go for. You will hesitate to ask for a raise. You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote. You will hesitate to dream.
For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution. And our revolution is long-overdue.
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Margaret Cho (via wilwheaton)
Hell yeah. Preach!
June 19, 2012
"If we ever knew deep in our hearts that the issue about abortion … was not really about fetuses and..."
- Eve Ensler, author of ‘The Vagina Monologues’, regarding the ban of Michigan House Representative Lisa Brown by the Republican House leader for her use of the word “vagina” in a discussion of the nation’s most repression anti-choice legislation to date. Female legislators and actresses put on a performance of the play on the steps of the Michigan state capital building on Monday, June 18th, to an audience of thousands.
wilwheaton:
That seemingly-eternal 5 seconds between when Coldplay starts on your Slacker...
That seemingly-eternal 5 seconds between when Coldplay starts on your Slacker Alternative station and you run from another room to the computer and tell Slacker NEVER AGAIN GODDAMMIT I WILL FUCKING REACH THROUGH THE SERIES OF TUBES AND KILL YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS YOU MONSTER.
YES!!!! A thousand times, yes! Hate Coldplay. HAAAAAAAATE. With the burning heat of a thousand supernovas.
