Out of The Nest
June 2012
89 posts
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that’s all.”
—Dear Sugar, The Rumpus (via antique-eyes)
i saw a bumper sticker that read “smile, your mom chose life” on a car parked at the grocery store today. after unsuccessfully trying to peel it off for a couple minutes I left a nasty note and im afraid it might’ve been too nasty? Is “Clearly you should’ve been aborted” an approriate response? oops if its not but whatevz
“You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.”
—Dylan Moran (via acynicalcunt)
“Women are socialized to make men feel good. We’re socialized to “let you down easy.” We’re not socialized to say a clear and direct “no.” We’re socialized to speak in hints and boost egos and let people save face. People who don’t respect the social contract (rapists, predators, assholes, pickup artists) are good at taking advantage of this. “No” is something we have to learn. “No” is something we have to earn. In fact, I’d argue that the ability to just say “no” to something, without further comment, apology, explanation, guilt, or thinking about it is one of the great rites of passage in growing up, and when you start saying it and saying it regularly the world often pushes back. And calls you names.”
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The art of “no.” « CaptainAwkward.com (via delascielo)
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