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My formative feminist text was "Marked Women, Unmarked Men" by Deborah Tannen. I read it when I was 14 for my English class and suddenly I had a framework to describe what I'd always known to be true: Gender is a defensive invention. I'd like to recommend it as reading to anyone curious about female-centered feminism... Frustratingly, the New York Times hosts the article and requires a subscription. If any gyns have a copy on hand or are willing to copy it below, I would be so appreciative.

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People messing with their textbook mini DUMP

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I really like winnie the pooh, Can you draw winnie the pooh pleaseeeeee

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“I was afraid to say – I want to be with you – see, here I’m shying, because I really want to say, I love you.”

— John Tasker to Colin Spencer, 1957

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NEW | Cate Blanchett with her mother June Blanchett and Rebel Wilson at Wimbledon day two!

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Cate Blanchett by Renato Campora [x]

Borderlands press tour

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Photographs That Explore The Relationship Between Animals And Humans By Steve McCurry .

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In a recent interview with the UK’s Telegraph, the lawyer and prolific author of books and Hollywood adaptations such as “The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief” and “A Time to Kill” sparked outrage when he expressed his belief that some people who view child pornography online are receiving punishments that don’t match the scale of the crime.

“We have prisons now filled with guys my age, 60-year-old white men, in prison, who’ve never harmed anybody (and) would never touch a child,” Grisham said during a conversation about high U.S. prison rates. “But they got online one night and started surfing around, probably had too much to drink or whatever, and pushed the wrong buttons and went too far and got into child porn. … They deserve some type of punishment, but 10 years in prison?

“There’s so many of them now, sex offenders … that they put them in the same prison, like they’re a bunch of perverts or something.”

He then used an old law school friend as an example:

“I have no sympathy for a real pedophile. But so many of these guys don’t deserve harsh prison sentences. A friend of mine, this was 10 years ago, was drinking, and his drinking was out of control. And he went to a website, and it was labeled, 16-year-old wannabe hookers or something, some stupid website. And it said 16-year-old girls. So he went there and downloaded some stuff.

“It was 16-year-old girls that look 30. … He shouldn’t have done it. It was stupid. But it wasn’t 10-year-old boys, and he didn’t touch anything.”

To Grisham’s recollection, the website his friend visited was actually a sting operation to capture sex offenders. He said his friend was then sent to prison for three years.

Breeana Hare, 2014 October 16

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The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

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“I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens” -Mary Oliver, “I Know Someone”

“Our kisses are petals, our tongues caress the bloom.” -Essex Hemphill, “Black Beans”

“Your eyes half-thrush half-angel and your drowsy lips where float flowers of a kiss” -e.e. cummings, “in the rain-”

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Nicole Kidman in Elie Saab at a screening for Paddington in NYC on January 6, 2015.