kombüse
August 2012
71 posts
“I really want your opinion on my looks, weight, career, religion, sexuality, political decisions. Basically I am dying to hear your opinion on what I should do with my life.”
—No woman to a man, ever. (via mehreenkasana)
Frühling in Paris
Rammstein
Rammstein - Frühling in Paris
Ein Flüstern fiel mir in den Schoß
und führte feinen Klang
Hat viel geredet nichts gesagt
und fühlte sich gut an
Kun Minä Kotoani Läksin
Ville Valo
Kun Minä Kotoani Läksin performed by Ville Valo
When I left my home
the sky was shaded by clouds
and the most bitter destiny
I was offered in the world
At the dance of the village
I met a young girl
And I’ll never forget
the shining of her blue eyes
And my desire won’t disappear
here among strangers
before the brier will blossom
on the edge of my graveOne of my favorite songs. And his voice is just, hng!
“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (via illogicalthought)
hfml:
IF IT’S A LEGITIMATE CASTRATION THE MALE BODY HAS WAYS OF SHUTTING THE WHOLE THING DOWN.
“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their love natures — restrained at every turn! Your blasting lies would even blacken a child’s kiss. Little girls must not be tomboyish, must not go barefoot, must not climb trees, must not learn to swim, must not do anything they desire to do which Madame Grundy has decreed “improper.” Little boys are laughed at as effeminate, silly girl-boys if they want to make patchwork or play with a doll. Then when they grow up, “Oh! Men don’t care for home or children as women do!” Why should they, when the deliberate effort of your life has been to crush that nature out of them. “Women can’t rough it like men.” Train any animal, or any plant, as you train your girls, and it won’t be able to rough it either.”
—
Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years ago? Because it totally was.
(via missvoltairine)
