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“Sometimes I’m deeply in love with David and head-over-heels, and sometimes I question whether it’s going to work out and is meant to be. It’s like a business relationship, as well as a personal one; we have a business together and that’s maintaining our love for one another”
- Neil Patrick Harris, on his marriage, in Out magazine. That about sums it up.
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This is a pretty compelling cover (compared to say, Zombie Diana or the Beached White Male), though the super-tabloidy art direction is a curious choice. Two important takeaways from the comments: a man can be a pig and not be a rapist, and a woman can live in the margins of society and legality and still be a rape victim. (In fact, living in those gray areas can up the odds)
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I originally named this site The Daily Want because I used to employ my gchat status to link to things I was coveting each day…Every day, I’ll post an item I like. I will probably say why I like it, but some things essentially speak for themselves.
Like the above j.crew bathing suit, which is the right length and will stay stylish and soft – it’s an unconventional cotton seersucker – as it transitions from the ocean to the ice cream parlor. Summer, you say? Yes please.
[54.50, jcrew.com]
Brett has the the LL Bean Downeaster Sport bag b/c Kurt featured on his G-chat months ago. It’s GORGEOUS.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhe3z4tlEG1qbl0z4o1_400.jpg)
Brett has the the LL Bean Downeaster Sport bag b/c Kurt featured on his G-chat months ago. It’s GORGEOUS.
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“For women and men who have already been sexually assaulted, the new screening rules—or just the threat of these rules—present a very real danger. They can be triggering events, setting off a posttraumatic-stress reaction. “I started crying. It was so intimate, so horrible. I feel like I was being raped,” an anonymous rape survivor recounted on a Minnesota blog. Melissa Gibbs, a spokeswoman for We Won’t Fly, a group protesting the new regulations, says that a rape survivor she spoke to had a panic attack as an agent began touching her leg.”
- For Sexual Assault Survivors, New TSA Screenings Pose A Threat
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I love this meme, and the crazy, meme-analyzing rabbit hole jujitsu Sady Doyle did on Tiger Beatdown
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“It feels safer to believe that one person will always come out of the relationship with clean hands, and that only monsters hurt people. But this belief can actually make it harder for victims to get out of abusive situations. Abusers are human; so are the people they abuse. Both parties are capable of feeling and inflicting pain. If we can’t envision abusers as anything less than monstrous, or if we require victims to be perfect, then identifying and escaping abuse becomes that much harder. None of this is any excuse for abuse, because there is no excuse for that; still, maybe just because of its basis in well-known abuse cases, “The Way You Lie” has become a way for many people to discuss the ways in which our picture of abuse sometimes diverges from the reality. And that discussion is important.”
- Sady Doyle makes the argument I’ve been trying to articulate for about a year and a half.
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“We wanted Betty to read The Feminine Mystique and get her mind blown and rise above; or, we wanted her to stay a victim, so we could relate to her better, or at least keep feeling sorry for her. But sometimes, people just get damaged until they start damaging. Sometimes, people are lost. We hate Betty now because she’s not going to stay a victim, but the truth is, she’s also not going to be saved.”
- Sady Doyle on the heartbreak that is Betty Draper.
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