❝ For the last three decades many Americans have puzzled over a system that gives an R to a movie in which a women is carved up by a chainsaw and an NC-17 to one that shows a woman sexually pleasured. From such ratings one might conclude that sexual violence against women is OK for American teenagers to see, but that they must be 18 to see consensual sex. What message does this send to the kids the MPAA presumably means to protect? ❞
—
Carrie Rickey
(via fireworkselectricbright)
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and yet would support a decision that is clearly a product of a patriarchy-dominant society, which tries to control how women are depicted on screen. The MPAA is okay supporting scenes that portray women in scenarios of sexual torture and violence for entertainment purposes, but they are trying to force us to look away from a scene that shows a woman in a sexual scenario which is both complicit and complex. It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than this film.”
-Ryan Gosling on the controversy around the rating of his film ‘Blue Valentine’
(via misandry-mermaid)
Wow the Feminist Ryan Gosling meme is actually real I thought it was just a joke this could be the best thing I’ve heard all month
(via
miss-love)
❝ When we were doing “Winter Winds” which Winston wrote, it was the winter and we were huddled around and we were aware of how he was feeling at the time and we stood around in this circle in Ben’s kitchen and just sang together for about three hours, pretty much just that chorus. Over and over again. And there was like a sort of… I guess there was a sense of triumph in it, mixed with the other things that he was feeling. We never even mentioned but sort of understood. ❞
—Marcus Mumford, Drinks With: Mumford & Sons (via
crispyrealization)
reinhardlohengramm:
when u try talking to someone and they’re online and they don’t reply

❝ I wrote too many poems in a language
I did not yet know how to speak,
but I know now it doesn’t matter
how well I say grace, if I am sitting at a table
where I am offering no bread to eat.
So this is my wheat field.
You can every acre, love. ❞
—Andrea Gibson (via
clementinevonradics)
❝ I was jumping rope, and everything was fine, and then it all just seemed so futile. ❞
—Sally, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (via
bagofbadgers)