dodeontheroad

You Found Me!: The most stereotypical fat activist EVER right here V

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:02:56 -0400

You Found Me!: The most stereotypical fat activist EVER right here V:

mikeychickie:

dallyingminstrel:

mikeychickie:

dallyingminstrel:

mikeychickie:

debramagnified:

dallyingminstrel:

I love how if a thin person is offended by something or vents after being bullied for their weight, they get sincere sympathy…

kidandexplosion: I woke in a gold dressyou in jeans. Morning...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:35:13 -0400

kidandexplosion:

I woke in a gold dress
you in jeans.

Morning filled
wine bottles

in the kitchen
ashine with

fine mica glitter
of fish scales and salt.

It was quiet.

We coiled in scarves
outside –

me sugar, you milk.

You said: That went well,
don’t you think?

Sun behind you

I kissed the hole in the light
and said, Yes.

That said, facial hair is not pleasant. However it could be a...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:34:03 -0400

That said, facial hair is not pleasant. However it could be a subconscious jealousy thing.

Feel like I could do this most days.

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:34:33 -0400

Feel like I could do this most days.

Truer words have never been said.

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:41:10 -0400

Truer words have never been said.

Foreign Affair's

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 05:17:20 -0400

“Ultimately, however, the most serious way to critique the Nobel Peace Prize is not to complain about the Nobel committee’s biases but to note the historical insignificance of so many of the prize’s winners. So many laureates, so many good intentions, so many theories and ideas about how peace can be made — and yet so little peace. As Nordlinger points out, Alfred Nobel’s will offered the committee the opportunity to abstain from awarding prizes in years in which no suitable recipients could be found. But the committee has rarely exercised that right. Perhaps in awarding peace prizes, less would be more.”

People in the City

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:47:47 -0400

People in the City

Terminology

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:57:17 -0400

Words are important. Choice of words are important.

I really hate it when people use the term “lose” loosely.

Losing your virginity - perhaps that makes some sense. It gets hell of a lot worse when you have people (dipshits) saying “losing your first kiss”.

Firstly, the obvious conundrum: How the hell do you lose your first kiss?

More importantly though, the implications of the word “lose”. To lose your first kiss/virginity implies something taken away. It’s so empty. It implies that the kiss/virginity in question was meaningless, having just so been misplaced unfortunately but permanently. When you add in “losing it to ___” it sounds even worse, like he or she forcibly took it, and has obtained possession of it in a throw of dice. Like a game, and rather meaningless.

I prefer the term “give”. You’re given your first kiss. You’re giving your virginity. You are given someone’s something. There’s the connotation of a gift being bestowed or receiving a momentous experience, as such things should imply.

1o6

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:14:32 -0400

1o6

"If we cannot choose to die then it follows that we cannot really choose to live, and that it..."

Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:39:50 -0400

“If we cannot choose to die then it follows that we cannot really choose to live, and that it undermines the value of living. It isn’t good or bad; it is what it is - final”

- Thoughts of a dying atheist (not really)

Photo

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:03:41 -0400

Puli dogs jumping: It’s an explosion of dog!

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:41:07 -0400

Puli dogs jumping: It’s an explosion of dog!

Her style’s really something eh?

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:54:20 -0400

Her style’s really something eh?

Dionysus and Ariadne by Nicola Carta

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:17:04 -0400

Dionysus and Ariadne by Nicola Carta

This is what the future holds, and by God I want it.

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:44:36 -0400

This is what the future holds, and by God I want it.

Photo

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 19:26:16 -0400

Frontier Psychiatrist

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 09:32:00 -0400

Frontier Psychiatrist

What I would do for a latte now.

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:49:02 -0400

What I would do for a latte now.

kimjongillookingatthings: looking at putin

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:37:42 -0400

kimjongillookingatthings:

looking at putin

sailonsilvergirl: peaceful-wanderer: There is no African,...

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:01:14 -0400

sailonsilvergirl:

peaceful-wanderer:

There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a well-meaning college student speaks of villagers dancing because they were so grateful for her help, I cringe. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head — because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West&rsquo{s fantasy of itself. And not only do such depictions tend to ignore the West’s prominent role in creating many of the unfortunate situations on the continent, they also ignore the incredible work Africans have done and continue to do to fix those problems.

-Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”