June 2012
Joyce Manor, Algernon Cadwallader Summer Tour
Joyce Manor and Algernon Cadwallader will be touring together this summer. Check out the dates below by clicking “Read More!”
fuck yeah August 8th Cleveland kidnapping barry
will anyone else skip school to see them with me
ooooooh my goodness
May 2012
what is wrong with "hun?"
It’s condescending and belittling in nature at best, if you’re speaking to a grown person; insulting and sexist at worst.
If it’s coming from a girl my age or older: “hun” is something that you say to children, it’s condescending and insulting to call someone your equal age-wise at the very least something one calls a little child. Ugh just fuck that if you do that, I hate it.
If it’s coming from a guy that I know, and certainly one I do not know: it is, again, condescending and belittling, and also sexist. Because you’re babying a full grown, intelligent, strong autonomous person. Sexism, mysogony, patriarchy..They all seek to make quiet, cute, dainty, obeying creatures out of women. They seek to make them smaller, to make them inferior. The use of the term “hun” implies all of these things intrinsically, (again, think the baby or child relationship/image). It also (given, the context in which it is used and your relationship with said user,) can communicate ownership and/or dehumanization or objectification.
If it’s coming from a family member or someone who loves me, who may be the only possible exception to this rule because it’s supposed to be a term of endearment: I just plain don’t like it. If you use it I will be mad.
tumblr has lost its mind.. they're actually giving stuff away though.. at tumblrtreats(.)com
Im so excited
yes yes yes yes
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
—Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“Humanity is a failed experiment, walking the path to extinction, spinning its wheels endlessly; grease them with oil and uranium.”
—Lamb of God ; Reclamation
“I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.”
—Rabih Alameddine, Koolaids: The Art of War
“It is idle to hope that this self-contradictory, disintegrating [modern] “person” will not last for generations, that the system must collapse because of such a psychological split, or that the deceitful substitution of the stereotype for the individual will of itself become unbearable for mankind…Synthetically produced physiognomies show that the people of today have already forgotten that there was ever a notion of what human life was.”
—Horkheimer and Adorno; DE 156 (via asthepoemsgo)
- writing a normal paper: We can only truly appreciate the great works of past philosophers if we read their works ourselves.
- writing a philosophy paper: "We" can only "truly" "appreciate" the "great" works of "past" "philosophers" if we read "their" works our"selves".
