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Ed Ruscha

California Grapeskins, 2009

Acrylic on canvas, 38 1/8 x 64 1/8 inches

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Ed Ruscha, She Sure Knew Her Devotionals,1976

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….I found in [Fifty Shades of Grey] was a very niche corner of female sexuality being presented as an everywoman coming-of-age fantasy. Fifty Shades Of Grey is about a shy, studious, 21-year-old virgin who, in exchange for being repeatedly beaten on the clitoris with a hairbrush, gets an iPad and a go on Christian Grey’s helicopter. While I don’t doubt – and am wholly for – this being what some women want, the monolithic place this book was taking up in young girls’ sexual hinterlands I found disturbing. It’s the opposite of independence, rebellion, curiosity, rock’n’roll and the carefully attended forming of your own desires. Anastasia is essentially a thoughtless, desireless, empty girl who has sex happening to her, via a powerful and unstoppable man – and I don’t think I have to spell out why I find that sexual template deeply skeevy for, say, my own teenage daughter and her friends.

Caitlin Moran about 50 Shades of Grey. I disagree with her on a lot of points, but here she is bang on the money about why it’s a terrible book for young teenage girls curious about sex. (via bossistherozofme)

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one of the most beautifuls

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You can’t choose your family but you can live with it.

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You’re thoughtful, Barbara, but you’re not open. You’re passionate, but you are hard. You are a good, decent, funny, wonderful woman, and I love you but you’re a pain in the ass!

August: Osage County (via chiangtiff)

I literally got chills when I heard that.

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Caitlin Moran

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The problem with improvement via new year’s resolutions is that they tend to centre on removing things from your life - drinking, smoking, eating four packets of crisps on the bounce while pressing “refresh” endlessly on Facebook - rather than adding things. They’re all about making your life smaller. And I’m instinctively anti-smaller lives. Balls to smaller lives. Balls to denial and unhappiness and rationing. Our lives - like our hearts, our vocabularies and our hair - should all be about remorseless embiggenment.

Resolutions I Failed at by Caitlin Moran, in The Times, 04 Jan 2014. (via fuckyeahcaitlinmoran)

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this sexist man, whom I unfortunately love.

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Nearly every aspect of modern culture addresses teenage girls as a newly formed problem that will take a long, expensive, often painful lifetime to fix. This messy, loud, exploding 12-year-old will – by the time she’s 14 – have learnt to shave/wax her pubic hair, her legs, her underarm, her arms. She will painstakingly straighten her hair every morning, before school; pluck her eyebrows; expertly apply foundation and mascara until doll-like and smooth. You only have to stand in a shopping mall on a Saturday to see a crushing, nervous high-maintenance homogeneity of appearance in teenage girls that you don’t see in boys of the same age, happily lolloping around in jeans and unwashed hair. A teenage girl will not see anyone – not in TV, movies or photoshoots – who looks like her when she first gets out of bed. Teenage girls looking into the mirror of society to see themselves will find that they do not exist – until, of course, they paint their faces on, and pluck, and shave, and put aside their comfortable shoes for those thin-soled ballet pumps, through which you can feel the pavement, like vulnerable street ballerinas.

Caitlin Moran, ‘How to be a girl’ - The Times, 09/11/13 (via empoweringredlipstick)

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I don't want just words. If that's all you've got for me, then you'd better go.

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