May 5, 2011

When I’m sick is when I feel most lonely.

I just want someone to take care of me. I want someone to bring me Jamba Juice and Jimmy Johns and to rub my back. 

May 2, 2011 • 48 notes • tinfoilyarmulke

Tinfoil Yarmulke: A terrible place to be a woman

tinfoilyarmulke:

I apologize. I had my priorities mixed up. It’s not Egypt that’s a terrible place to be a woman. It’s the United States of America.

I am now in Boston. It’s Good Friday, and I am in an empty hotel bar, looking over the Charles River. A drunk girl totters towards my group and peers at a nearby…

April 27, 2011

activism and discipleship are suffering because our generation (myself included) have no idea what sacrifice means.

April 24, 2011

Oh, to be young and to understand things in simplistic binary.

Real life is too murky. 

April 12, 2011
What is this!? This is appalling, that’s what. 

What is this!? This is appalling, that’s what. 

April 11, 2011 • 14,845 notes • moderngirlblitz
parkavenue: alivewiththegloryoflove: this week’s loyola’s sexual assault awareness week. But we also live in a society that teaches, “lock your doors, because people steal.” “Don’t talk to strangers, because some of them are bad.” “Don’t leave your car unlocked, because people will take it.” We live in a society that teaches us how to protect ourselves from evil. Because it exists, whether we like it or not. And you cannot teach someone to be not-evil. It is. I would argue that a lot more children grow up hearing how it is not right to steal than grow up hearing that it is not right to rape. Women should take precautions, because they have the power. But when I go to a bar and a trivia team name is “no means yes and yes means anal” you can’t convince me that there are not pieces of our society that condone rape. 

parkavenue:

alivewiththegloryoflove:

this week’s loyola’s sexual assault awareness week.

But we also live in a society that teaches, “lock your doors, because people steal.”

“Don’t talk to strangers, because some of them are bad.”

“Don’t leave your car unlocked, because people will take it.”

We live in a society that teaches us how to protect ourselves from evil.

Because it exists, whether we like it or not.

And you cannot teach someone to be not-evil. It is.

I would argue that a lot more children grow up hearing how it is not right to steal than grow up hearing that it is not right to rape.

Women should take precautions, because they have the power.

But when I go to a bar and a trivia team name is “no means yes and yes means anal” you can’t convince me that there are not pieces of our society that condone rape. 

April 9, 2011
Look guys – all you guys in the audience – no matter what a girl does, no matter how she’s dressed, no matter how much she’s had to drink – it’s never, never, never, never, never okay to touch her without her consent. This doesn’t make you a man – it makes you a coward. A flat-out coward.

Vice President Joe Biden on the Durham, N.H. campus.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52773.html#ixzz1J40tKNgx

April 7, 2011

Trap, maw, yap, gob

All synonyms both for mouth and for a device used to ensnare prey.

Coincidence?

April 4, 2011
The Homosexual Agenda: The Principal Threat to Your Religious Freedom So. After hearing an ad on Pandora about freedom of speech on college campuses for the umpteenth time. I clicked on the link. So, on the front page of this site, there are three links. One says “University,” one says “Church,” and one says “Marriage” with a picture of wedding rings. I was like, “well, that seems out of place.” And so I clicked it. And this is what it brought me to. I will just leave this here and say: what?

The Homosexual Agenda: The Principal Threat to Your Religious Freedom

So. After hearing an ad on Pandora about freedom of speech on college campuses for the umpteenth time. I clicked on the link. So, on the front page of this site, there are three links. One says “University,” one says “Church,” and one says “Marriage” with a picture of wedding rings. I was like, “well, that seems out of place.” And so I clicked it. And this is what it brought me to.

I will just leave this here and say: what?

March 28, 2011

it has been so long since I’ve written prose.

Since I’ve taken concern in styling things in away that reveals my heart and soul and not just my intellect. Since I’ve played with my words, rolled them over like stones in my hand or candies on my tongue. How do they look, how do they taste, how do they feel. Accuracy is critical, I can lose track of time clicking through the online thesaurus until I find just the right word. Whatever it is I get to do someday, I hope this is part of it.