December 2011
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Rape of Iraqi Women by US Forces as Weapon of War:... →
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| “In April 2004, new photographs were sent to La Voz de Aztlan from confidential sources depicting the shocking rapes of two Iraqi women by what are purported to be US Military Intelligence personnel and private US mercenaries in military fatigues. It is now known, Cienfuegos wrote in May 2004, that hundreds of these photographs had been...
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Because that’s the thing about Scooby-Doo: The bad guys in every episode aren’t...
– Ask Chris #81: Scooby-Doo and Secular Humanism
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They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world:...
– Tom Bodett
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The emphasis on sex that currently permeates our public life attest not to our...
– Ellen Willis, No More Nice Girls
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A letter written by Mr. Stephen Fry to a girl suffering from depression.
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When you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody...
– J.D. Salinger
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I don’t want people to matter to me too much. Sometimes it hurts too much to...
– Henry Rollins: Smile, you’re traveling (Black Coffee Blues Pt. 3)
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Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified....
– Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
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All I ever witness is straight men showing me how miserable they are with the...
– Molly Lambert, Can’t Be Tamed: A Manifesto
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If somebody says or does something fucked up, call them out on it. Don’t...
– Molly Lambert, Can’t Be Tamed: A Manifesto
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Goddamn, it felt amazing the days you were happy to see me.
– Buddy Wakefield
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If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy...
– Michael Jay Tucker
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The American Psychological Association has found in recent years that...
– Caroline Heldman, PhD, Miss Representation
“Not only are girls seen as objects by other people, they learn to see themselves as objects.” —Jean Kilbourne, EdD
(I’m sure this isn’t limited to just America though.)
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I am a radical feminist. I get furious, I get...
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When you can look in the mirror and truly love who’s looking back only then will...
– Michaela (via lightrevelation)
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People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of...
– Jim Morrison
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To all the people who judge sex workers and say, as Tina Fey did, “We should all...
– Sex Worker Problems, SW7
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Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put...
– The Rotund by Marianne Kirby
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That’s what people do who love you. they put their arms around you and love you...
– Deb Caletti
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All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
– Samuel Butler
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If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been...
– Joseph Campbell
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Although no one will ever accuse me of being much of a science student, one...
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...
– Roald Dahl
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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the...
– Kurt Vonnegut
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The point is that women routinely get our ideas dismissed by attacks on our...
– Greta Christina
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I don’t expect gay people to prove to me, a straight person, that there’s...
– WORD
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out...
– Jack London
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