1. Notes: 2318 / 1 year ago  from newwavefeminism (originally from whitedrunkgirls)
   "Fuck these patriarchal beauty standards”. I hear you loud and clear, but women wearing pink and glitter and heels are not the enemy. And believe it or not, a whole bunch of women LIKE wearing that shit. We are not dumb, less feminist or watered down because of it. A long time ago when I was in undergrad I walked up to my feminist friends sitting in the grass and they started talking about my pink backless shirt and how their own clothes weren’t so “cutesy,” then it got awkward so I left and one of them said “see you later Blossom”. Do you remember that show? I loved it. But that’s not the point. The point is that my “friend” snuck a little snide comment in front of our all of our other friends simply because I like dressing up. And that was at least 8 years ago and I still remember everything about that day. Feminism is not about laughing at other girls and making them feel insecure. Especially over something as trivial as clothes. Remember you are pro-choice. Respect my choice to wear booty shorts."
   -

   Lamesha, Grrrl Perspective (via blanche-dubois)

    

   Feminism is about values and rights. It isn’t a pissing contest at who can show how “anti-patriarchy” you are, while looking down at girls who don’t spend every waking moment trying to stick it to the man. It’s just rebuilding the patriarchy - Feminism fights for all women, there’s no footnote saying “except those dumb, girly bitches.”

   YOU’RE MISSING THE POINT.

   (via newwavefeminism)

   (Source: whitedrunkgirls)

2. Notes: 154 / 1 year ago  from newwavefeminism
   

   newwavefeminism:

   ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

   first of all, why are we still thinking about bikinis in the winter.

   second, fuck them, that chick with the tats looks badass

   third, never in my life have i seen anyone describe Julia Roberts as “lumpy & frumpy.” never.

   fourth, they actually used the phrase “double wide” to decsribe snooky. 1.THATS RUDE - SHE’S A HUMAN. 2. SHE BATTLED WITH EATING DISORDERS.

   why would you want to be that guy? why would you want to publish a magazine cover that someone is going to pick up and see something horrible written about their body? why would you WANT to be responsible for making someone feel ashamed of their weight. someone please help me understand.

    
3. 2 years ago 

   The Tao Te Ching

   So i’m reading this book and the idea of Taoism is interesting.  Its very difficult to describe tho, because “the Tao that can be described is not the true Tao.”  If one were to describe it Tao is defined as “the way” or the “true path”.  It is the mother of everything and therefore humans cannot understand what it is, “they can only understand what it is not”.  Here’s a quote from the book:

   Humanity follows the Earth

   The Earth follows Heaven

   Heaven follows the Tao

   And the Tao follows what is natural

   Taoism follows a few principles.  The Tao or The Way as i have mentioned. There is the principle of “Wu Wei” which means “action without action” or effortless doing.  It sound very paradoxical but think about it this way.  A tree does not sit there and try to grow from a seed, it just does naturally.  Water is very yielding, soft and weak, but it can carve mountains and move stone.  It says people should not try to exert their will against the world, but place there will in harmony with the natural universe.  I’m still trying to figure out what that means but it sounds good, lol.

   Another principle (and i think probably the best one) is the principle of P’u which translates into an Uncarved Block.  It represents a passive state of receptiveness. P’u is a symbol for a state of pure potential and perception without prejudice. In this state, Taoists believe everything is seen as it is, without preconceptions or illusion.

   P’u is usually seen as keeping oneself in the primordial state of tao. It is believed to be the true nature of the mind, unburdened by knowledge or experiences. In the state of p’u, there is no right or wrong, beautiful or ugly. There is only pure experience, or awareness, free from learned labels and definitions. It is this state of being that is the goal of following wu wei. (taken from wikipedia).

   It sounds like they just want you to sit and meditate all day, but i don’t percieve it this way.  I perceive it in the way that someone that is an uncarved block is constantly learning.  Not burdened by ego and not learning until they get to a certain point (the point being the finished sculpture in the metaphor) but constantly learning about the things around them and gaining experiences.  For example, a white belt is always learning new things about their art every day, once they become black belts, there is a certain ego that comes with it.  A sort of “i know what i’m doing” attitude that impedes them from learning much more.  Wouldn’t one want to stay a white belt to learn as much as possible?

   Anyway, its a cool idea either way, but i’m still reading the book.

4. 2 years ago 
   The fucking weather, lol
5. 2 years ago 

   A warrior (interesting code of life i find interesting)

   

   A warrior is not just a person who has learned some moves, is able to kick at 90 miles per hour or who has won the world championships at kick-boxing. A warrior must earn his title. The martial artist is a person who knows things that go far deeper than just self defence, he is someone who walks into a room full of people and an immediate calm falls upon that room, he is a person who can touch a person’s head, or arm, or hand and cause an inner stillness and peace to fall upon that person. You know a warrior not from the way he looks, his big biceps, or his rolled up sleeves revealing a row of tattoos, or his shaven head or the fact that he wears his full gi (karate uniform) to parties!
   
   We know the warrior by his presence and the healing he automatically gives to everyone he meets. His energy, his ‘Qi’ is touching you, you don’t feel anything physical, but rather the internal effect of this touching, and peace is with you.
   
   The warrior looks upon the earth in a different way than those who are not warriors, everything, from the smallest insect to the largest mammal, and the most insignificant rock or tree is important and has life, the grass he walks upon, he thanks for softening the rough path he walks upon, the trees, he thanks for giving him shade and oxygen. Everything has importance because it was put there by mother earth for some reason.
   
   
   Sure, he has to live in modern times, he must drive a motor car and go to the supermarket and mow his lawns, but always, he never loses sight of what he is, and more importantly, where he is. He knows that what he is, is not only what he has made himself to be, but also what is handed down to him and what is an accumulation right inside the very cells that he is made of, from his ancestors. Everything that they were, is now him, every bit of information that his fathers and mothers gathered is now inside of him, this is how we live on in our children, we literally, and I mean literally, pass on our knowledge, along with eons of knowledge accumulated since the beginning of time, to our children. Everything that we are at the conception of our children is passed on to them. We think that we have certain talents, but the warrior knows that all that he is, has come from the beginning of time, he knows that he is made up of the same stuff that a rock is made of, or a tree or a blade of grass, the difference is only physical. He knows that he owns nothing, and that all animals are free, his animals chose him to be with, he does not go to the pet shop to chose a new dog, he knows that the dog has chosen him to come to that pet shop to chose it.
   
   
   The warrior communicates with the earth, he talks to the dogs, to the cats and owls, to the snakes, not so much verbally, but simply by being. This is the one thing that everything on earth has in common, being. He knows that there are forces at work on this earth, forces that he must learn to go with and to live with, otherwise he will surely perish. The energy within the warrior has the power to join with these forces, and then he has the power to change. But this comes not without payment, for he also knows that we cannot receive without first having paid for it. The whole of the universe is based upon this giving and taking, it is called yin & yang. For every up there must be a down, for every happiness, there must be a sadness, for every full tummy, there must be an empty one. The warrior knows that he must lose in order to gain, and so he sacrifices. He sacrifices his food, he sacrifices his sexual longings, his every day comforts, in order that he has the power to change and to help others to change. Not in going out specifically to help others, but to have the internal power always there to automatically help others to be peaceful, and in doing so, they too will be able to see where they are, and who they are. We are not only someone’s son or daughter, we are the sons and daughters of an infinite amount of people, those who have passed on to us their cells inside of which is hidden the very substance of creation and everything that has happened. Not ‘since time began’, because there is no beginning or ending.
   
   Being a martial artist is only one hundredth of what a warrior is, it is only a part of the whole, it is what gives us the confidence to become a healer, the internal energy to make changes.
   
   A warrior knows that we do not have teachers, but guides, the people we meet who are able to give us something internal, that something extra to cause us to become our own greatest teachers. Just by simply being, a guide helps us to realize that it is we, ourselves who teach us, because the warrior also knows that locked away inside of everything, is that primordial cell that contains all information. He learns to read this information which comes in the form of ‘flashes’ at first, and this is too much for his feeble human brain to handle, he shuts off as soon as the flash arrives. But soon he learns to read these flashes, and they become longer in duration than just a moment. This is when the warrior knows that he is reading time.
   
   He learns to communicate other than speaking, he knows that his physical needs are being looked after, and needs not worry about where the next mortgage payment will come from.
   
   The warrior finds his place on the earth and stays there, where the power is. It is not a physical searching, but rather the warrior is ‘taken’ to where he must be, and there he stays, and the whole world will pass by, he needs not to travel, because the universe is there within him, and those who will in turn need to seek him out, will do so when their time is right, in just the same way that he did when he had to travel the world searching for his own guides. They then will learn to teach themselves from within, and also then go and find their own place, and he may never see them again, but this does not worry the warrior, he is in contact.

   The warrior is not the master, he is not the sifu nor the sensei, these are just physical words that we put upon ourselves to make us seem important, or better than those who we guide. The warrior is a friend to his students, and so cannot be our master. He does not wish to gather students as they will search him out, and those who need to have a master or a sensei will not stay, they will keep searching until they realize that what they search is within them, and who they search, can only be their guide

6. Notes: 2157 / 2 years ago  from theironlion (originally from mahal-kita)
   "

   Before you can grow up, you must fall in love 3 times.

   Once you must fall in love with your best friend, ruining your friendship forever. This will teach you who your true friends are, and the fine line between friendship and more.

   Once you must fall in love with someone you believe to be perfect. You will learn that no one is perfect, and that you should never be treated as any less than you deserve.

   And once you must fall in love with someone that is exactly like you. This will teach you about who you are, and who you want to be.

   And when you’re through with all that, you learn that the people who care about you the most are the ones that you hurt, and the ones that hurt you are the ones that you needed the most.

   But most of all, you learn that love is only a concept and is not something that can be defined, it is different to each person that experiences it. And you will learn to respect each and every person on this earth, knowing that everyone only wants to be loved.

   "
   -

   (via mahal-kita)

   So scary how accurate this is.

   (via mouthfullofgommy) (via dylancharles)

   (via therefortomorrow) (via theironlion)
7. 2 years ago  from theironlion (originally from loveyourchaos)
   "Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon."
   - Gloria Steinem (via loveyourchaos) (via theironlion)
8. Notes: 1 / 2 years ago 

   So am i selfish?

   So lately i’ve been very to myself.  I’ve been focusing on work and saving money to get my car and all the other things that are going on in my own life.  Pretty much just creating a foundation so i can make myself better, I suppose.  So when i get home i’m tired, and all i want to do is relax.  I don’t do my laundry, and i don’t care about the state of my room.  I don’t really ask my mom how her day went or anything like that because i’m focused.  Pretty self absorbed of me i know, but i’m trying to make my situation better.  I feel that getting up and out on my own would give me the self confidence i need to make me a more whole person.

   So my mom recently went on a tirade about how i walk around the house with my nose up in the air and think i’m better than everyone else.  She pretty much squared herself in front of me and told me that no matter how big i get i will never be bigger than her because she’s my mother.

   See?  That kind of dominating parenting is the stuff that i don’t respond to anymore at my age.  It just makes me withdraw from her more because everytime i speak to her, its another speech about how no one helps her in the house and she has to do everything.

   So i was talking to my twin about it, and she told me that mom thinks that i’m selfish.  Is it selfish if i’m trying to find myself?  I feel i’m very close!   I dont’ know what my mother wants from me, and if i could just get out of here our relationship could be better.  I feel almost stifled like i’m trying to grow and i’m not being allowed to.  Its very frustrating at times.  Things would be better if i was out, because she would have one less messy person.  Cammie (my dog, and another source of frustration for her) would be gone, and we would have our space.  She wouldn’t have to see my messy room because i would have my apartment clean before she got there everytime.  But it does kind of bother me that she feels bad, and that she’s trying to make me feel bad about wanting to be self reliant.

9. 2 years ago  from theironlion

   theironlion:

   Diana Ross - The Interim

   You owe it to yourself to vibe to this.

10. 2 years ago 
    
     

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