July 2011
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How I have destroyed myself, gladly.
Pt I.
You break like the dawn
over a stormy ocean
falling over me,
soft and graceful,
coming apart
perfectly at the seams
like a shirt
under the skilled hands
of a seamstress with a ripper.
You crumble like mountains
sitting over fault lines
shaken apart
by the shifting of Earth.
You sweep me up like a landslide
tumbling us both into
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Since everyone is so quick to point out the lessons we missed from Feminism 101,...
– Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist)
This is definitely something I agree with. The shame tactics that I see a lot of activists using frustrates me, because it doesn’t help anything. We have to STOP seeing the other side as enemies, and start seeing EVERYONE as potential allies who are farther back in...
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11 Freedoms That Drunks, Slackers, Prostitutes And... →
During the War of Independence a culture of pleasure and freedom blossomed in American cities. Non-marital sex, including adultery and relations between whites and blacks, was ubiquitous and rarely punished. Because divorce was unregulated, it was easily and frequently obtained, often by women. Brothels were legal and abundant and prostitutes were rarely prosecuted. Black slaves, Irish...
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