June 2012
i’m a brilliant essayist.
tell yourself this instead of writing the actual essay.
you are good at pretending.
Study: The Objectification of Women Is a Real,... →
PROBLEM: Women’s bare bodies are on display in billboards, movie posters, and many other kinds of ads. Though plenty of studies have looked at the ramifications of this pervasive sexual objectification, it’s unclear if we see near-naked people as human beings or if we really do view them as mere objects.
METHODOLOGY: Researchers led by Philippe Bernard presented participants pictures of men and...
fuck makes me cry
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hrm study or how i met sally
how i met sally.
no doubt.
gotta write stuff in between maybe.
if not tomorrow works fine.
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338/1200 ack
May 2012
“This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are...”
– Roy Peter Clark’s Writing Tools (via andrewwei36)
“Beauty and purity go hand in hand, and are tied up in a false sense of modesty....”
– Teen Pop and the Culture of Purity (via sparkamovement)
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1773/3000
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and laura’s asleep in my bed
as i’m leaving, she wakes up and says
‘i dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave
baby, don’t go away. come here.’
THE DRUNK KIDS
THE CATHOLICS
THEY’RE ALL ABOUT THE SAME
THEY’RE WAITING
FOR SOMETHING
HOPING TO BE SAVED.
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I have to diet- as soon as semester/ study is over…
“We had nothing left to us but the past, and even if some were to live in the...”
– The Plague, Camus. (via amnesiac1331)
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“woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her...”
– simone de beauvoir, the second sex, 1949
An Existential Life: In the beginning, God created... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, “Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done.” And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God…
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microsoft word recognises de beauvoir. y’know why?
because she’s amazing.
i just thought to myself, ‘MAN IT WOULD BE FUN TO HIGHLIGHT THIS RIGHT NOW.’
and you know what? i pulled out my pencil and it was fun to underline passages in de beauvoir.
conclusion: i am destined for success
“A good piece of music is like knocking a hole in the wall so that you can see...”
– Thom Yorke (via keinenbock)
cosmo tip #249
expertcosmotips:
when hes having sex with you, shout out your own name instead of his.
