I have the same standards of morality
As the society in which I find myself.
As the society in which I find myself.
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| — | T. S. Eliot, The Elder Statesman |
Gender is the cultural definition of behavior defined as appropriate to the sexes in a given society at a given time. Gender is a set of cultural roles. It is a costume, a mask, a straitjacket in which men and women dance their unequal dance.
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| — | Gerda Lerner (The creation of patriarchy) |
i mean it’s easy to hate the Westboro Baptist Church and talk up a lot of righteous outrage about how awful they are but honestly you should spend less of your angry energy on a small cult organization that no one takes seriously anyway and focus on things like idk racist media, racist and heterosexist education systems and the thousands of microaggressions we perpetuate daily against marginalized folks. I see so many
whitepeople who foam at the mouth about the WBC but try to shut down WOC anytime we talk about militarization of our countries and communities or the imperialism we face or the border violence we live with.it’s easy to hate and condemn flagrant bigotry like the WBC, it’s harder to admit how we benefit from everyday acts of institutional bigotry.
Macklemore speaks the fuckin truth.
People don’t realize how much of a genius Macklemore really is. The only song they know is Thrift Shop, when there are so many more wonderful songs. He raps about the problems of the world. And that is what makes him an inspiring person.HEY DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE TONS OF BLACK RAPPERS THAT HAVE BEEN DOING THE SAME SHIT FOR YEARS BUT NOBODY CALLS THEM INSPIRING.
Thank you.
T h a n k y o u.
Fifty-seven percent of the world’s population still lives under some sort of autocratic regime. In the span of a decade, the world’s autocracies will go from having a minority of their citizens online to a majority. From Tehran to Beijing, autocrats are building the technology and training the personnel to suppress democratic dissent, often with the help of Western companies.
Why, if it comes to that, are people educated at all? It is in order that they may be helped by their education to put the best they have into life and to get the best they can out of it. In other words, in order that they may be happy.
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| — | Humfrey Grose-Hodge, Roman Panorama (1944) |
Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt they can’t afford the time to think. Tuition fee increases are a “disciplinary technique,” and, by the time students graduate, they are not only loaded with debt, but have also internalized the “disciplinarian culture.” This makes them efficient components of the consumer economy.
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| — | Noam Chomsky (via lesilencieux) |
Joan of Arc came back as a little girl in Japan, and her father told her to stop listening to her imaginary friends.
Elvis was born again in a small village in Sudan, he died hungry, age 9, never knowing what a guitar was.
Michelangelo was drafted into the military at age 18 in Korea, he painted his face black with shoe polish and learned to kill.
Jackson Pollock got told to stop making a mess, somewhere in Russia.
Hemingway, to this day, writes DVD instruction manuals somewhere in China. He’s an old man on a factory line. You wouldn’t recognise him.
Gandhi was born to a wealthy stockbroker in New York. He never forgave the world after his father threw himself from his office window, on the 21st floor.
And everyone, somewhere, is someone, if we only give them a chance.
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| — | Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via lituplight) |
