December 2011
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the-beautiful-and-the-damned:
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I...
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This Is England '88
was seriously good television. Joe Gilgun should walk the BAFTAs for all that.
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it means loud: Detailed Trigger Warning for E4's... →
lakalenyu:
TRIGGER WARNING FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT. Spoilers for Misfits seasons/series 1 and 2.
I’ve been seeing the TV show Misfits getting recommended a lot on my dash in the past couple days and as a former fan I have some concerns that there has been no discussion of all the rape and rape apologism that…
Really enjoying this show, but I must say a lot of this has been bothering me also....
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Are sex offenders and lads’ mags using the same... →
Source: University of Surrey Psychologists presented men between the ages of 18 and 46 with a range of statements taken from magazines and from convicted rapists in the study, and gave the men different information about the source of the quotes. […] Men and women rated the quotes from lads’ mags as somewhat more derogatory, and could categorize the quotes by source little better...
soweak-sopowerful:
Obviously her photo shoot is going to look good with all the editing they did. She has no freckles and it doesn’t even look like her. She has no class. I don’t like the trash that she brings to Marilyn’s legacy. Marilyn didn’t bare her tits in photo shoots and Marilyn wasn’t a shoplifter.
Emphasis mine. Marilyn was in the first ever issue of Playboy doing exactly that; in...
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new-aesthetic:
“It’s straight out of a Don DeLillo novel: A few hours after television producers set up a replica of Occupy Wall Street for the filming of a new episode of Law and Order Special Victims Unit, the real Occupy Wall Street announced plans to occupy the fake one. At 11:30 p.m. the call to occupy the set went out on Twitter with the hash tag #Mockupy. Located at nearby Foley Square,...
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When an adult took standardized tests forced on... →
rapisoffensive:
This was written by Marion Brady, veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer and author.
By Marion Brady
A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do. He took versions of his state’s high-stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he’d make...
