Count to Seventeen and Close Your Eyes

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:43:03 -0500

"I look at my student loan statements each month and feel angry and jaded toward a culture that tells..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:21:32 -0500

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I look at my student loan statements each month and feel angry and jaded toward a culture that tells poor kids that the only way to make anything of themselves is to take out a ton of loans to MAYBE have a tiny chance at competing for a job that dozens or hundreds of other people are also competing for.

I feel like someone tricked me along the way by telling me college was the answer, and I feel stupid for not having questioned that. I did enjoy college. I don’t regret my degree. I DO have a job now. But I don’t think that means the system works. I think that means I’m lucky.

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- We Were Poor, And College Was The Answer to All My Problems. (Right?) at The Billfold (via echolikebells)

braver than me lookin at them statements. I don’t need to see that shit till I start paying them

(via etherealxeyes)

I’m like 65% sure I’m done with this scam ass shit after this semester

(via patrickandmarcus)

bedbones: some girls tell stories about men who want to fix them i am not a girl men want to fix i...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:55:24 -0500

bedbones:

some girls tell stories about men who want to fix them
i am not a girl men want to fix
i am not a girl with problems that want to be kissed, sucked on
made to feel
softer
i am a girl who makes wounds like mothers do birthday cakes
i pace over them, i find all the right ways to use a knife
men don’t like this
men want something they can fix
they don’t want the girl who lets the knife slip,
they want someone easy to talk to
they want the girl who doesn’t know what to do when she falls down
but i have died so many times that now i do it on accident
love me & you will see how many halos i have
men want a girl whose dark parts
are easy to enter & exit
but i swallow everything
i’m not safe i’m so
hungry
don’t touch me

So stressed and frustrated about finding a second job it brought me to a panic attack today. It just...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:13:43 -0500

So stressed and frustrated about finding a second job it brought me to a panic attack today. It just makes me feel so inadequate.

Why Sexist Language Matters

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:11:27 -0500

Why Sexist Language Matters:

I’m not saying that people who use “you guys” have bad intentions, but think of the consequences. All those “man” words — said many times a day by millions of people every day — cumulatively reinforce the message that men are the standard and that women should be subsumed by the male category. We know from history that making a group invisible makes it easier for the powerful to do what they want with members of that group. And we know, from too many past and current studies, that far too many men are doing “what they want” with women. Most of us can see a link between calling women “sluts” and “whores” and men’s sexual violence against women. We need to recognize that making women linguistically a subset of man/men through terms like “mankind” and “guys” also makes women into objects. If we, as women, aren’t worthy of such true generics as “first-year,” “chair” or “you all,” then how can we expect to be paid a “man’s wage,” be respected as people rather than objects (sexual or otherwise) on the job and at home, be treated as equals rather than servers or caretakers of others, be considered responsible enough to make our own decisions about reproduction, define who and what we want as sexual beings? If we aren’t even deserving of our place in humanity in language, why should we expect to be treated as decent human beings otherwise?