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Try is not a word in my vocabulary, apparently, excellency requires commentary.
Elyut -
Now, while I don’t think that all horror films are rife with girl power, I think there’s a solid case that the female archetypes found throughout the genre (and especially the subgenre of the slasher) are actually positive feminist features. On top of the inherent male gaze of Hollywood cinema, the fear factory tends to bleed out a stream of conventions that demean women and glorify violence against them. However, no other genre of film has evolved so intimately with the times: reacting and responding to real politics and humanity itself. From creature feature to torture porn, horror has remained a highly stylized caricature of human nature, and, more importantly, the dynamic between men and women.
Elyse Dawson, Taking a Stab at Feminism: Why Horror is Empowering (via inourwordsblog)(via hardtbeats)
Posted on May 16, 2012 via In Our Words with 3 notes
Source: inourwordsblog.com
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There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; there are things we do not know we don’t know.
Donald Rumsfeld -
If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we’ve got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don’t want to do it.
Stephen Colbert -
1. Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.
2. Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.
3. Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean ‘More people died’ don’t say ‘Mortality rose.’
4. Don’t use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was ‘terrible,’ describe it so that we’ll be terrified. Don’t say it was ‘delightful’; make us say ‘delightful’ when we’ve read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers, ‘Please will you do my job for me.’
5. Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.C.S. Lewis (via Letters of Note) -
You can’t water down water with more water.
Elyut -
In Germany, they can’t say ‘techno’, they say ‘teshno’.
Seth Troxler -
I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head.
John Updike (via tobeshelved)(via tobeshelved)
Posted on March 24, 2012 via the shipfitter's wife with 525 notes
Source: fleurishes
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My brother and I were the kids that other kids weren’t allowed to play with.
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I’m interested in the relationship between poetry and physics. I like blending the boundaries where art meets design and architecture meets fashion.
Dror Benshetrit
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