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p0kemina: oxprettyhatemachinexo: tempestpaige: loveyourmakeup:...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:49:04 +0200

oxprettyhatemachinexo:

tempestpaige:

loveyourmakeup:

Well, depends on how much you put on to start with!

Heavy makeup is so unnecessary every day. Keep it simple and go all out when you are going out or for a special occasion.

#makeup #doha #cosmetics #beauty

fuck ur shit makeup is my art
i can’t make art on paper
i can’t write poetry
i can’t make music
i can’t dance
but i CAN paint. and draw. and outline. and blend. and smudge. and highlight. and shade.
it just so happens that my face is my canvas.

^

The harmful drug here is society’s unrealistic expectations of women. The harmful drug here is media’s influence in making women feel like they’re not good enough. Being able to visually express yourself is not harmful. I love my makeup. I love to create and blend and explore colour palettes and I love to put it on my face the same reason you love to wear your favourite shirt. You feel good wearing that shirt and it also gives others a feel for your personality. Expressing yourself is not harmful; belittling women for their right to do so is.
Of course makeup is used as a tool to enhance beauty and can therefore have negative effects on one’s self esteem, warping their perception of beauty and in effect their own self worth. However instead of tacking that issue, some women feel the need to lecture others (almost always condescendingly) on what makeup is, what it does, when to wear it, how and why. Not wearing makeup doesn’t make you any more morally superior than the next person.

"Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:23 +0200

““Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked at sexualised images of women wearing bikinis. She found that the part of their brains that became activated was pre-motor - areas that usually light up when people anticipate using tools. The men were reacting to the images as if the women were objects they were going to act on. Particularly shocking was the discovery that the participants who scored highest on tests of hostile sexism were those most likely to deactivate the part of the brain that considers other people’s intentions (the medial prefrontal cortex) while looking at the pictures. These men were responding to images of the women as if they were non-human.””

- The Equality Illusion (via lesilencieux)
scary.
(via fuckyeahfeminists)

"Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:51:05 +0200

“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.”

- Viktor E Frankl, Man’s Search For Meaning (via fuckyeahyoga)

sexualfrustrationmama: we don’t need to “teach girls to say no”, we need to teach boys to take “no”...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:48:19 +0200

sexualfrustrationmama:

we don’t need to “teach girls to say no”, we need to teach boys to take “no” for an answer so that girls who learn to say no, who already say no, who’ve been saying no can feel like it’s even a viable option that’ll have an effect in the first place

"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:47:01 +0200

“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via thatkindofwoman)

adriofthedead: ＴＨＥ　ＲＩＴＵＡＬ　ＩＳ　ＣＯＭＰＬＥＴＥ

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:43:29 +0200

adriofthedead:

ＴＨＥ　ＲＩＴＵＡＬ　ＩＳ　ＣＯＭＰＬＥＴＥ

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:32:19 +0200

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

- Mary Oliver (via awelltraveledwoman)

"You see, when we are not considered to be the legitimate owners of our bodies, then our decisions..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:24:58 +0200

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You see, when we are not considered to be the legitimate owners of our bodies, then our decisions regarding them become unimportant. Thus, the Swedish woman’s desire to not have something done to her body was seen as less valid than the rapists’ desire to carry it out; Angelina Jolie’s desire to have surgery was seen as less valid than men’s desire to leer at her breasts; and women’s desire to wear what they like is seen as less valid than men’s opinions on what they should be wearing. These vary in severity and the horror of their consequences, but it is the same pernicious mentality that underlies them all.

Who owns our bodies? We do. And it’s time the world knew that.

”

- Source: Who Owns Our Bodies? (via zeeblebum)

"You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:07:55 +0200

“You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”

- (via thatkindofwoman)

unapologeticfatty: myqueersexytime: Sometimes I feel ugly. Sometimes I hate my weight. Sometimes I...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:06:34 +0200

unapologeticfatty:

myqueersexytime:

Sometimes I feel ugly. Sometimes I hate my weight. Sometimes I just hate myself.

And that’s okay. I embrace those negative feelings.

Body positivity is a process.

Body positivity is not a linear journey.

I say this often but it’s important to say and hear.

Body positivity is not a linear journey. Some days will be easier than others.

You can feel wonderful one day and shameful the next, all of these feelings are valid and normal and acceptable.

thelovelyloner: Today’s affirmation: It’s okay for me to feel exactly how I feel right now.

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:22:46 +0200

thelovelyloner:

Today’s affirmation: It’s okay for me to feel exactly how I feel right now.

"The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same...."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:22:22 +0200

“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.”

- The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)

Truth bomb if I ever saw one.

(via ikenbot)

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Wed, 15 May 2013 21:20:36 +0200

"The key is this: Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:20:19 +0200

“The key is this: Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow’s strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”

- Max Lucado (via creatingaquietmind)

graceebooks: men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman...

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:09:35 +0200

graceebooks:

men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy

what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need

always relevant

Tue, 14 May 2013 08:18:29 +0200

always relevant

"Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual enough aren’t taken..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 07:13:06 +0200

“Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual enough aren’t taken seriously. Women who are conventionally attractive get valued solely for their sexual appeal; women who aren’t conventionally attractive get dismissed for their lack of it. Women who are conventionally attractive are assumed to be dumb bimbos; women who aren’t conventionally attractive are assumed to be either bitter or desperate. Women who are conventionally attractive get trivialized; women who aren’t conventionally attractive get treated with pity and contempt. We can’t win.”

"Girls and women, if no one has ever told you this before, or if you just have trouble believing it:..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:16:36 +0200

“Girls and women, if no one has ever told you this before, or if you just have trouble believing it: you are good, you are whole, you are yours. You do not exist to please men, and your value as a human being is not contingent upon your sexual capital.”

- Lindy West, http://jezebel.com/girls-and-women-if-no-one-has-ever-told-you-this-befor-494096690 (via hopefuluncertainty)

tyleroakley: flozac: the principal at my school made an...

Thu, 09 May 2013 21:40:56 +0200

tyleroakley:

flozac:

the principal at my school made an announcement yesterday that the girls need to start covering up and then i found this in the hallway

BOOM.

"One of the best things you can do for yourself is become acutely aware of your energy and how you..."

Wed, 08 May 2013 10:02:02 +0200

“One of the best things you can do for yourself is become acutely aware of your energy and how you manage and care for it.”

- Indigo Williams (via soul-confit)

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p0kemina: oxprettyhatemachinexo: tempestpaige: loveyourmakeup:...

"Princeton University psychologist Susan Fiske took brain scans of heterosexual men while they looked..."

"Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss..."

sexualfrustrationmama: we don’t need to “teach girls to say no”, we need to teach boys to take “no”...

"Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul..."

adriofthedead: ＴＨＥ ＲＩＴＵＡＬ ＩＳ ＣＯＭＰＬＥＴＥ

"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

"You see, when we are not considered to be the legitimate owners of our bodies, then our decisions..."

"You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."

unapologeticfatty: myqueersexytime: Sometimes I feel ugly. Sometimes I hate my weight. Sometimes I...

thelovelyloner: Today’s affirmation: It’s okay for me to feel exactly how I feel right now.

"The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same...."

Photo

"The key is this: Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s..."

graceebooks: men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman...

always relevant

"Women who are too sexual aren’t taken seriously, and women who aren’t sexual enough aren’t taken..."

"Girls and women, if no one has ever told you this before, or if you just have trouble believing it:..."

tyleroakley: flozac: the principal at my school made an...

"One of the best things you can do for yourself is become acutely aware of your energy and how you..."

adriofthedead: ＴＨＥ　ＲＩＴＵＡＬ　ＩＳ　ＣＯＭＰＬＥＴＥ