Love Your Self, Love Your Body

We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she’s going out with a command that it is hers. She is used to making those decisions herself. We try to keep giving them those decisions until they can hold the full weight of their lives.

— Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair Off (via alcoholicgifts)

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Pink Zebra Ninja Shoes →

best-of-funny:

lord-kitschener:

r0bertbrowniejr:

Yesterday my mom posted a picture on Facebook of my 5 year old brother Sam wearing a pair of shoes he picked out for his first day of preschool.

She explained to him in the store that they were really made for girls. Sam then told her that he didn’t care and that “ninjas can wear pink shoes too.”

Sam went to preschool and got several compliments on his new shoes. Not one kid said anything negative toward him about it.

However, my mom received about 20 comments on the photo from various family members saying how “wrong” it is and how “things like this will affect him socially” and, put most eloquently by my great aunt, “that shit will turn him gay.”

My mom then deleted the photo and told Sam that he can wear whatever he wants to preschool, that it’s his decision. If he wants to wear pink shoes, he can wear pink shoes.

Sam then explained to her that he didn’t like them because they were pink, he liked them because they were “made out of zebras” and zebras are his favorite animal :)

“Ninjas can wear pink shoes too.”

Best. Explanation. Ever.

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The Riot: Warning: Please Do not go to MorningAfterPill.Org →

sexreeducated:

If you are looking through google for information on the wonderful invention known as Plan B, Emergency contraception or the Morning After Pill-
avoid Morningafterpill.org, which comes up on page 1 of ‘morning after pill’ searches

It is a actually a Anti-Abortion,…

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Truthfully, I had gotten suspicious of my dreams long before this. I wasn’t sure they had my best interests at heart. And it’s not my dreams’ fault- they grew up in a very sheltered environment, raised far away from anything that resembled reality…

The prevailing theory put forth in 60s folk music is that we always cling to our dreams. I don’t think that’s true. I think we cling to our hurt. We seek remedies, and the remedies are often mistaken for our dreams. The real cures for our injuries are hard to find. Some try therapy, some try oblivion. I’ve tried both, and can say without reservation that the most effective of them all is success. Succeeding in anything can heal a wounded spirit- even making oatmeal well!- but succeeding in what you’ve failed at before can make you feel downright immortal.

— Stephen Tobolowsky; The Tobolowsky Files Ep. 56. (via chamberlain)

It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them.

— D.H. Lawrence (via chamberlain)

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