June 2013
Dan Savage talks to Stephen Colbert.
- SAVAGE: You know who has a single-payer (health insurance) model? Vatican City.
- STEPHEN: Oh, yeah. This is it right there. (Makes the Sign of the Cross.)
- SAVAGE: It covers everything but birth control because altar boys can't get pregnant. When altar boys start getting pregnant, it'll cover birth control too.
- STEPHEN (sardonically): We're gonna gloss over that for a second.
- SAVAGE: As the Catholic Church has done.
“I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
—Waiting for Godot (via juneandafter)
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“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.”
—Maya Angelou (via kelsey-burns)
“We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him. The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See, you are afraid, because for the first time in your life you have found yourself a victim of unwanted sexual advances by someone who has the physical ability to use force against you.” The boy nodded and shuddered visibly.“But,” I continued. “As a woman, you learn to live with that from the time you are fourteen, and it never stops. We live with that fear every day of our lives. Every man walking through the parking garage the same time you are is either just a harmless stranger or a potential rapist. Every time.” The girls in the room nodded, agreeing. The boys seemed genuinely shocked. “So think about that the next time you hit on a girl. Maybe, like you in the taxi, she doesn’t actually want you to.””
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Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat you like you treat women. Andrew Sullivan
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May 2013
“I would love to say that you make me weak in the knees but to be quite upfront and completely truthful you make my body forget it has knees at all.”
—Derrick Brown (via emtc)
