sculpture by Marta Klonowska (via Laughing Squid: Glass Shard Animal Sculptures by Marta Klonowska)
Women’s closets are often mocked as a form of self-indulgence, shop-a-holicism, or narcissism. But this isn’t fair. Instead, if a woman is class-privileged enough, they reflect an (often unarticulated) understanding of just how complicated the rules are. If they’re not class-privileged enough, they can’t follow the rules and are punished for being, for example, “trashy” or “unprofessional.” It’s a difficult job that we impose on women and we’re all too often damned-if-we-do and damned-if-we-don’t.
(Photo by Rosea Lake, Quote from Lisa Wade via The Balancing Act of Being Female; Or, Why We Have So Many Clothes » Sociological Images)
Teenage Girl Blossoming Into Beautiful Object: Full Story
reblogging this now as opposed to a couple days ago because it feels really fucking good to do it at this moment
(via The saddest graph you’ll see today Washington Post Wonkblog)
Statistics from Justice Department, National Crime Victimization Survey: 2006-2010 and FBI reports. More data info from the graph creators at the Enliven project
From Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust, the Rule of 50 will change your life:
Nobody is going to get any points in heaven by slogging their way through a book they aren’t enjoying but think they ought to read. I live by what I call ‘the rule of fifty,’ which acknowledges that time is short and the…
