“In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men…it was a custom at the time”
cosmo tip #621
every time you cum you should shout “that was SO RANDOM xD” as loud as you can
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“Seemingly unaware of my presence, these young men talked about their plans to fuck as many girls from other racial/ethnic groups as they could “catch” before graduation. They “ran” it down. Black girls were high on the list, Native American girls hard to find, Asian girls (all lumped into the same category), deemed easier to entice, were considered “prime targets.” Talking about this over-heard conversation with my students, I found that it was commonly accepted that one “shopped” for sexual partners in the same way one “shopped” for courses at Yale, and that race and ethnicity was a serious category on which selections were based. To these young males and their buddies, fucking was a way to confront the Other, as well as a way to make themselves over, to leave behind white “innocence” and enter the world of “experience.” As is often the case in this society, they were confident that non-white people had more life experience, were more worldly, sensual, and sexual because they were different. Getting a bit of the Other, in this case engaging in sexual encounters with non-white females, was considered a ritual of transcendence, a movement out into a world of difference that would transform, an acceptable rite of passage.”
— bell hooks, Eating the Other
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Women in the OED
Today is International Woman’s Day, and that seems as good an opportunity as any to take a quick look at the women who are currently most quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is the OED’s policy to include illustrative quotations for all senses covered in the Dictionary. Anybody can have a look at the thousand most popular sources and from that list we have picked out the ten most popular women and showcased some of the words for which they are quoted in the OED. These women — all of whom were poets and novelists — had an astonishing impact on the English language, and for that, among many other reasons, we celebrate them today.
1. George Eliot
Words include: chintzy, nattering, insurgence2. Fanny Burney
Words include: grumpy, keepsake, unamusing3. Harriet Martineau
Words include: isolation, bus, avoidably4. Jane Austen
Words include: door-bell, irrepressible, sponge-cake5. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Words include: inauthentic, serfdom, uncomprehending6. Mary Braddon
Words include: apoplectically, tight-lipped, amateurish7. Charlotte Yonge
Words include: creepy-crawly, squeaky, inexpensiveness8. Maria Edgeworth
Words include: argh, divorcee, electioneer9. Charlotte Brontë
Words include: companionless, timbre, Wild West10. Ann Radcliffe
Words include: allsorts, chivalric, unchilled
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Shot by Matthew Stone - Styling by Matthew Josephs
I would like more people to do this with their hair, please and thank you.
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1943 : 1940′s Tips to hiring Women
This patronizing sexist and retrospectively quite funny article was first published in the 1943 edition of Transportation. It dishes out sympathetic advice for the poor ‘male’ supervisor. Women ‘know your limits!’
The first three below:
1. Give every girl an adequate number of rest periods during the day. You have to unfortunately make allowances for feminine psychology. A girl has more confidence and is more efficient if she can keep her hair tidied, apply fresh lipstick and do her nails.2. Older women who have never spent time outside their home may be cantankerous and fussy. Impress upon them the importance of friendliness and courtesy!
3. Pick young married women. They have more of a sense – usually – of responsibility, than the unmarried type. They are less likely to flirt.
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A rare video of the diminutive Namaqua Rain Frog, a species native to South Africa. The clip was recorded by Dean Boshoff “in the sandy dunes along Port Nolloth in the Northern Cape province.”
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