Originality is Not Very Popular Anymore.

kvtevndres:

beben-eleben:

A Daddy’s Letter to His Little Girl (About Her Future Husband)

 Dear Cutie-Pie,

Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.”

It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and superior.

And I got angry.

Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”

Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul—in that unshakeable place that isn’t rattled by rejection and loss and ego—that you are worthy of interest. (If you can remember that everyone else is worthy of interest also, the battle of your life will be mostly won. But that is a letter for another day.)

If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of the word: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one life investing all of his interest in you.

Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because he knows you are interesting:

I don’t care if he puts his elbows on the dinner table—as long as he puts his eyes on the way your nose scrunches when you smile. And then can’t stop looking.

I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me—as long as he can play with the children you give him and revel in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.

I don’t care if he doesn’t follow his wallet—as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to you.

I don’t care if he is strong—as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that is in your heart.

I couldn’t care less how he votes—as long as he wakes up every morning and daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of reverence in his heart.

I don’t care about the color of his skin—as long as he paints the canvas of your lives with brushstrokes of patience, and sacrifice, and vulnerability, and tenderness.

I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no religion—as long as he was raised to value the sacred and to know every moment of life, and every moment of life with you, is deeply sacred.

In the end, Little One, if you stumble across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we will have the most important thing in common:

You.

Because in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested” is to be you.

Your eternally interested guy,

Daddy

OMG :’) SO BEAUTIFUL 

mentalscubadiving:

scooterpiebanana:

shonilane:

imusgrove:

flozac:

the principal at my school made an announcement yesterday that the girls need to start covering up and then i found this in the hallway

Really? This person is really going to pretend that men think ENTIRELY different from women. Shows their age/ignorance. Why do women(and girls) ignore men over and over again when they explain to them that they are VISUAL creatures. It takes effort to control sexual desires as a man. Most women don’t think of most of the men they meet everyday in a sexual way. Unlike men who do. They say they do. So having rules regarding attire that isn’t overly revealing isn’t illogical or overbearing. It makes sense. But so many young people are so idealistic and lack any nuance into their philosophy of life(the same philosophy on life that will inevitably change with time and experience).

“It takes effort to control sexual desires as a man.” And? Explain to me why I should alter how I choose to dress because you don’t want to put forth that effort? You don’t get to control my body just because you don’t want to control yours.

It takes effort to control sexual desires? 

Do you not understand what “effort” means? 

Because I’m pretty fucking sure it takes effort to do something, and a lack of effort to do nothing. So staring/leering is an example of effort. Fantasizing requires effort. Groping/molesting requires effort. Cat-calling requires effort. 

Keeping eyes forward and minding your own fucking business requires less effort than scoping out every person you view as an object for your sexual fantasies. 

Just because “it takes effort for men to control their sexual desires” doesn’t mean that your sexual desires are more important than someone else’s desire to feel comfortable in their own choice of clothing. If it takes effort, then put forth the fucking effort! Come on, do you seriously think that a man’s right to slut shame is more important than a woman’s right to be treated like an equal fucking person regardless of her clothing!? I used to see guys in PE or Track take their shirts off all the time in high school, and no one said shit! Women have bodies, okay! They’re not shameful or overtly sexual, they are just bodies. Get the fuck over it. And stop trying to make it sound like this is just the way the world works and us “naive women” should just accept it. The way the world works has always changed when people have tried to change it. And nobody better give me that bullshit line that, “oh, the world will change and it should change, but not right now. The world isn’t ready yet, you just have to give it time.” Fuck that shit, I don’t care who’s fucking ready! I’m ready and every woman I know is fucking ready! If people waited for the world to be ready then nothing would ever have fucking changed and someone would come get me as soon as I posted this and burn me to death for being a woman who said something other than “yes dear” or “I’m sorry”.

To the person who posted this picture in the first place, I love the flyer and I hope it puts out a good message at your school. I hope it doesn’t get taken down, and if it does then I hope more people will put up more flyers.

And to everyone who isn’t that sexist asshole, I’m sorry you had to see me get so pissed. I’m good now.

topreppytofunction:

#ootd

day-walking:

oliviasimons:

baconat0r:

This is a ridiculously powerful picture.

reblog this twice, to make sure you really see it.

This is so frustrating

this is the shit that makes me feel terrible living my life like the average person