Get It, Girls

"The girl and the woman, in their new, individual unfolding, will only in passing be imitators of male behavior and misbehavior and repeaters of male professions. After the uncertainty of such transitions, it will become obvious that women were going through the abundance and variation of those (often ridiculous) disguises just so that they could purify their own essential nature and wash out the deforming influences of the other sex. Women, in whom life lingers and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully, and more confidently, must surely have become riper and more human in their depths than light, easygoing man, who is not pulled down beneath the surface of life by the weight of any bodily fruit and who, arrogant and hasty, undervalues what he thinks he loves. This humanity of woman, carried in her womb through all her suffering and humiliation, will come to light when she has stripped off the conventions of mere femaleness in the transformations of her outward status, and those men who do not yet feel it approaching will be astonished by it. Someday (and even now, especially in the countries of northern Europe, trustworthy signs are already speaking and shining), someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being." Rilke

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thefrisky: Lena Dunham Gets Twiggy-fied this girl is the real deal. this show is the real deal. 

thefrisky:

Lena Dunham Gets Twiggy-fied

this girl is the real deal. this show is the real deal. 

Diablo Cody is Such a Badass

The conventional knowledge in Hollywood is that an unsympathetic female character can tank a movie.  I’m hoping that’s not true.  I’m knocking on wood really emphatically right now but honestly I have a lot of theories sometimes I wonder if it comes down to mommy issues. The idea of a cold, unlikeable woman or a woman who is not in control of herself is genuinely frightening to people because it threatens civilization itself or threatens the American family. 

I think Diablo Cody is really smart and that she has even better work to come. I haven’t seen this movie, but I will. I think what she’s saying about the portrayal of women is important.

There are some feminist voices which are outspoken about the portrayal of women in the media as overly sexual, unintelligent, objectified sort of things. I’m not into this portrayal for sure. Diablo makes another point about the portrayal of women which I think is also important: that women have flaws, and it’s ok. 

I don’t know why people are always willing to accept and even like flawed male characters.  We’ve seen so many loveable anti-heroes who are curmudgeons or addicts or bad fathers and a lot of those characters have become beloved icons and I don’t see women allowed to play the same parts.  So it was really important to me to try and turn that around.

Women are multi-faceted. And the facets don’t have to be limited to a) cute when you’re meeting your boyfriends’ parents, b) sexy in bed, and c) smart in an interview. We can also be disproportionately emotional (http://tinyurl.com/73zm6rt), angry, or overwhelmed. Seeing those facets in the media could relieve the pressure to be or to seem to be a certain kind of woman.

The Concerns Of Mindy Kaling: The Back Of My Book!

Hilaaaarious.

theconcernsofmindykaling:

When you don’t look like in a model in real life you cherish great photos of yourself. When I was on Facebook, approximately 1/3 of my life was untagging bad photos of myself and sending messages to their uploaders saying: “WTF, you guys? Put another grim photo of me on the internet and I will…