Reblog
I can’t wait to read this ten years from now with all my tiny little 19-year-old notes and ramblings in the margins, and then add my (hopefully older and wiser) 29-year-old notes and ramblings. But until then, I guess watching the movie will have to do. Weird that I have this sudden urge to reread it because although I remember liking this book a lot, there were also so many things that bothered me about it — the fact that Thomas was a total prick (london’s rubbing off on me maybe?) throughout the whole story and yet the reader is supposed to somehow sympathize with him, the divide between love and lust that I maybe understand a bit more now but still have trouble with, the treatment of women, the sometimes exhaustive philosophical writing. But besides all that, not a bad book at all.

I can’t wait to read this ten years from now with all my tiny little 19-year-old notes and ramblings in the margins, and then add my (hopefully older and wiser) 29-year-old notes and ramblings. But until then, I guess watching the movie will have to do. Weird that I have this sudden urge to reread it because although I remember liking this book a lot, there were also so many things that bothered me about it — the fact that Thomas was a total prick (london’s rubbing off on me maybe?) throughout the whole story and yet the reader is supposed to somehow sympathize with him, the divide between love and lust that I maybe understand a bit more now but still have trouble with, the treatment of women, the sometimes exhaustive philosophical writing. But besides all that, not a bad book at all.

 Thu, 29th Nov — 6 notes
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But I think the first real change in women’s body image came when JLo turned it butt-style. That was the first time that having a large-scale situation in the back was part of mainstream American beauty.

Girls wanted butts now. Men were free to admit that they had always enjoyed them. And then, what felt like moments later, boom—Beyoncé brought the leg meat. A back porch and thick muscular legs were now widely admired. And from that day forward, women embraced their diversity and realized that all shapes and sizes are beautiful.

Ah ha ha. No. I’m totally messing with you. All Beyonce and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful. Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits.

The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes.

— Tina Fey (Bossypants)

Sun, 1st Apr — 2 notes