hilaryalehman

Loves: Writing, No Doubt, pie, shoes, the news, feminism, contemplating theology, a good book, makeup, Bob Dylan, Gators football. I'm a woman of diverse pursuits.

February 15, 2013 5:30 pm

slaughterhouse90210:

“That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time. There is a good deal of comfort, now, in remembering this.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Love this blog. Love this show (although Scarlett is easily the most annoying character).

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Nashville

February 10, 2013 10:36 pm

If a young woman in middle school or high school hangs up a poster of Barack Obama in her room, this is seen as acceptable. It’s fine for women to admire men and want to be like them.

If a young man (the same age) hangs up a poster of Hillary Clinton in his room, this is seen as odd (maybe even troubling, is he gay? Oh no!).

Society tells us young men can’t think of women as role models, unless they’re a family member, whereas young women can admire and seek to emulate anyone, regardless of gender.

If you’re a young man, and if you have a poster on your wall with a woman, she had better be half-naked in a bikini, even if the Ronald Reagan or Gen. Patton poster next to it obviously features the man fully-clothed.

Young men are not to taught to think of women as role models. They are taught to think of them as either family members or sexual objects. There is no other category presented.

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http://charlesclymer.blogspot.com/2013/02/why-are-we-so-ashamed-of-our-women.html (via there-was-a-girl)

(via one-bite-at-a-time)

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February 8, 2013 4:14 pm

lucymcclane:

~~People~~ THE ONE PERSON Who Got Completely Snubbed By Awards Shows This Year: Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway

Life inspiration.

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January 30, 2013 9:08 am

I have decided

A la Mindy Project that my warrior name is “Hillary Rodham Clinton Toblerone.”

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You can have Beyonce Pad Thai

January 29, 2013 5:00 pm

"I was stunned to realize I might witness Darcy’s transformation into a stand-up guy. Too young to second-guess, I read his character as Austen showed him to me, through Lizzy’s eyes, and so had no indication he had reserves of good in him. (Then, once both our eyes were opened, like many Austen readers I went on to project reserves of good into several aloof men who had zero to speak of — but that’s another story. Like a true Austen heroine, I lived and learned.)"

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Well, that is the story of my life, ages 15-22.