(Source: hellonewyork)
"I wonder how many people in this city
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when I look out at the buildings
I swear I see a face in every window
looking back at me,
and when I turn away
I wonder how many go back to their desks
and write this down."
live in furnished rooms.
Late at night when I look out at the buildings
I swear I see a face in every window
looking back at me,
and when I turn away
I wonder how many go back to their desks
and write this down."
— I wonder how many people in this city, Leonard Cohen (via bbook)
(Source: 1000scientists, via bbook)
Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not Going To Talk About
- “Something just happened,” said someone on the TV.
"
What kind of world do we live in when young men are so proud of violating unconscious girls that they pass proof around to their friends? It’s the same kind of world in which being labeled a slut comes with such torturous social repercussions that suicide is preferable to enduring them. As a woman named Sara Erdmann so aptly tweeted to me, “I will never understand why it is more shameful to be raped than to be a rapist.”
And yet it is: so much so that young men seem to think there’s nothing wrong with—and maybe something hilarious about—sharing pictures of themselves raping young women. And why not? Their friends will defend them, as they did in Steubenville, tweeting that the young woman was “asking for it” and that the boys were being unfairly targeted.
Women and girls are the ones expected to carry the shame of the sexual crimes perpetrated against them. And that shame is a tremendous load to bear, because once you’re labeled a slut, empathy and compassion go out the window. The word is more than a slur—it’s a designation.
"— “In Rape Tragedies, the Shame Is Ours,” my latest at The Nation (via jessicavalenti)
(via thenationmagazine)
"You wait until the next November, a year from now, when people who run against them will say, ‘Look at how many more people died since they voted to stop sensible rules that would simply keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill.’ That’s all this legislation would have done. But it would have made an enormous difference. And how are they going to, a year from November when they’re running for election, answer, ‘Why didn’t you do something to stop that, Senator? You had it in your power to do it, and you voted to keep the killing going.’ That can’t be good politics. It just can’t be."
“I’ve said it before, but not giving a shit has been a successful business model for me and it’s one I intend to honor.”
"People don’t understand that the jobs of the future, the tax base of the future, these are all dependent on us having businesses here. Businesses need transportation, in and out, they need places to land helicopters, they need mass transit to move employees, they need tunnels and bridges that aren’t choked with cars to move goods and services by truck."
— Bloomberg on Tappan Zee plans and the need for mass transit (and helicopter pads)
