Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
—James A. Baldwin (via gorgeousmuslimah)
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All I wanted was a new mouse for my laptop, not a spaceship.
Seriously…UGLY UGLY UGLY.
Also: EXPENSIVE EXPENSIVE EXPENSIVE.
I don’t even NEED a gamer mouse.
Beauty and purity go hand in hand, and are tied up in a false sense of modesty. This type of attractiveness comes from being white, virginal, conventionally attractive and actively or deliberately ignorant of meeting that standard of attractiveness. It comes from needing to be seen as beautiful even “without any makeup on” but in “skin-tight jeans” if you’re Katy Perry, from Bruno Mars ‘knowing’ that “when I compliment her, she won’t believe me,” and in reminding a boy that he should be dating a girl who isn’t a shallow hussy, if you’re Taylor Swift.
All of this encourages girls to constantly strive to meet an arbitrary standard of attractiveness that fuels multiple industries (dieting and cosmetics, primarily) while reminding them that their job is to be appealing to men but never to admit that they’re trying to be good-looking for men, and never admit that they look good – especially if they’re not skinny or white. It creates a maelstrom of unhealthy attitudes about girls’ bodies and sexuality. Girls must be all things: attractive and unknowing, winking about sex and flaunting their sexuality but never expressing desire or – worse – actually having sex, and presenting their bodies as sexually available while deriding those girls whose sex lives are more active than their own. They must do all this while being straight, slender and white and preferably blonde or they’re not really even in the game to begin with.
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Teen Pop and the Culture of Purity (via sparkamovement)
Oh, and look! My last post can be translated to apply to sex and beauty, too. See: “their job is to be appealing to men but never to admit that they’re trying to be good-looking for men, and never admit that they look good – especially if they’re not skinny or white.”
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VICE WRITERS
Music Reviews
Rating: X(((((((
Ladies, imagine being a Vice writer. Just walking around everywhere with your entitlement and ennui and midlength penis all gently bouncing in step; wearing a male tank top or a waxed mustache or some shit. Imagine having an ironic, retro-sexist dudebro-voice and getting together with a couple of other white guys and some cocaine and making your not-at-all-different voices all sync up as tautly as your nihilistic senses of humor, then snuggling all up together (no homo!) in a big Bushwick loft of partially employed trust-fund kids while something noninformative is happening on the Internet. What a life. I guess there’s the whole “everyone in the world thinks I’m an asshole” thing to deal with, too, but let’s not split hairs here: Vice writers got it pretty fucking made.PLZ DIE
BARF
I love all of these, but I really want to hang with the twosome in the first pic. (I have a thing for great smiles and great accessories.)
(Source: crashntumble, via so-treu)
I hate this.
They took the most attractive people from my grandmother’s generation and posted ultra flattering pictures of them dressed in their best clothes.
Then they compared them to less flattering pictures of celebrities today to try to make some sort of point about how women should look.
Rita Hayworth had to submit to electrolysis and skin bleaching to advance her career back in the 1940’s to look less “ethnic” for white audiences. You go back in your time machine, bro. Women have always had to give in to ridiculous unobtainable standards of beauty, pal. You’re delusional and part of the problem by insisting we still have to.
^^ comment = awesome
THE BOLDED.
^^ Exactly.
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Hii , it’s Nelson from south of france !
I hope you enjoy this <3
That outfit is sheer brilliance.
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NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY