“ Walking down the street, women experience tension all the time. They’re walking down the street and some guy is walking behind them and all of a sudden there’s this tension. Is this guy going to do something? What’s going on here? They’re feeling it. And guys feel it too. I feel it. And I’m like, Hey, I’m just walking down the street. I just happen to be going the same way. I’m walking behind this woman, and she’s thinking I’m a rapist. And now I’m feeling guilty for being a rapist when I haven’t fucking done anything. So now I’m feeling guilty and feeling a little angry because I’m minding my own business. Like, I’m sorry I’m walking behind you. And she’s thinking, Why the fuck can’t I just walk down the street? All of a sudden there’s this tension and anger about nothing. ”
Quentin Tarantino (via wasdiana33)
Except it’s not about nothing… it’s generated by a real problem. Like legit, this makes sense, except for, you’re both feeling this tension because society has a serious rape culture problem. So we should all take our anger and frustration about this tension and target the source, by working to eliminate a culture that defends and/or ignores rape.
(via thbhtd)
I usually don’t get into any discussions with you over rape/feminism/ etc, because I generally agree with you; yes, we need to stop ignoring that rape happens, yes we need to stop letting it happen, and yes women should not fear speaking out against the fact that we let it happen. But here’s the thing—rape, until it occurs, which then implies a rapist, cannot be eliminated. It is an idea, it is an abstraction, it’s something that cannot be destroyed. There will always be lies, and there will always be rape. However, what we can target are rapists and those who have potential to ones (everybody). Education is indeed good; we need to tell men and women both that sexual attacks are, at least in the USA, an immoral action. This would hopefully reduce the number of rapes over time.
However, now that I’m at this point, I must ask this question: if you did have the power to eradicate rape altogether, that is, to eradicate the idea of it, so that no one ever did it again, would you? And if you would, how would you justify this? Rape may not be pretty, but it exists for a reason—if for no other than being the opposite of the mutual, total surrender of two bodies for each other. I suppose I am something of a dualist, but I think to imagine getting rid of rape is a little irresponsible to nature. Besides, if you gave animals rationality, would not some of them think that what’s occurring when they mate be classified as rape? Many animals see an attractive female, mate, then go away. All I’m really saying here is that one must consider the fact that making everything one way causes problems. I mean, I’d even venture to say that if there were too strict of rape laws, the number might increase for that every reason. No human is ever going to be wholly good, period. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to be; it only means that you should be very aware of the bad parts if you want to turn them to good.
(via thbhtd)
“ Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ”
Charles Bukowski (via aquaticwonder)
(via quote-book)
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a work or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from THE POET
Born today May 25, 1803.
“ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are ”
e. e. cummings (via persiandreams)
(Source: listofmemories, via persiandreams)
My album "When Lovers Aren't Loved With Love" is now streaming on Soundcloud.
I finished recording this about nine months ago and because of a million reasons, I haven’t really been promoting it;namely, because school/grad school applying process/family issues. But, I think it has some merit; it’s certainly the most realized thing I’ve done, musically. If you’re into indie-folk, ambient, poet-singers, or sound collage, then have a listen. It’s certainly not for everyone, but then, I’m not the person who makes that kind of art. Ok, end promo.
Ethereal Mysterium: Venus Capricorn / Mercury Sagittarius
This is earth and fire. This is fire in a straight forward thrust. The thinking is a shooting star reaching for the Moon. It speeds up the Capricorn Venus, making it less practical, less socially rigid.
The Mercury in Sagittarius is creative, foresighted, enthusiastic and adventurous. The Venus…
(Source: thewhedonverse, via fuckyeahfirefly)
“ This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we will never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie. And that is what is fucked up about our culture. ”
Robert Downey Jr. (via quote-book)
