I met him at a convention once! He was super nice and signed my copy of The Child Thief c:
“It saddens me to see girls proudly declaring they’re not like other girls – especially when it’s 41,000 girls saying it in a chorus, never recognizing the contradiction. It’s taking a form of contempt for women – even a hatred for women – and internalizing it by saying, Yes, those girls are awful, but I’m special, I’m not like that, instead of stepping back and saying, This is a lie.
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The real meaning of “I’m not like the other girls” is, I think, “I’m not the media’s image of what girls should be.” Well, very, very few of us are. Pop culture wants to tell us that we’re all shallow, backstabbing, appearance-obsessed shopaholics without a thought in our heads beyond cute boys and cuter handbags. It’s a lie – a flat-out lie – and we need to recognize it and say so instead of accepting that judgment as true for other girls, but not for you.”
“I’m not like the other girls”, Claudia Gray
Excellent article. I always end up thinking this when I see reblogs like that. Female competition is a horrible, poisonous thing (that I’ve only recently gotten over engaging in, and I am much happier for it).
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Don’t Say “That’s So Gay” Campaign (Wanda Sykes) [ x ]
(Source: notkate-argent)
“People go up to him (Hugh Laurie) a lot and ask if he resents my success and is envious of the things I do…Being a Quizmaster and you know, a professional gaysexual, a mental health spokesman, Wagnerite, Twitter embarrassment, a 360 degree whore…while he can’t even afford to shave.”
-Stephen Fry on Hugh Laurie
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[image from ‘Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon’ colouring book by Jacinta Bunnell & Nat Kusinitz. Two children, one in a dress standing, one in a shirt and tie using a wheelchair study a board with cross-out pronouns on it. Circled on the board is ‘ze’. Caption: “the new pronoun they invented suited everyone just fine.”]
If you’re going to colour this image please do not remove the author & illustrator names from the top, and please buy this book - it’s well worth it for yourself or a child in your life.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lswbedgIQx1qak0qdo1_500.jpg)
[image from ‘Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon’ colouring book by Jacinta Bunnell & Nat Kusinitz. Two children, one in a dress standing, one in a shirt and tie using a wheelchair study a board with cross-out pronouns on it. Circled on the board is ‘ze’. Caption: “the new pronoun they invented suited everyone just fine.”]
If you’re going to colour this image please do not remove the author & illustrator names from the top, and please buy this book - it’s well worth it for yourself or a child in your life.
