This woman reacts to assholes the exact same way I do, but doesn’t feel ashamed after.
She is very brave. :3
God she’s a beautiful writer. And totally kick-ass.
“I grew up hard and am still hard and I don’t care. I did not choose this face or this body and I have learned to live with it and love it and celebrate it and adorn it with tremendous drawings from the greatest artists in the world and I feel good and powerful like a nation that has never been free and now after many hard won victories is finally fucking free. I am beautiful and I am finally fucking free.
I fly my flag of self-esteem for all those who have been told they were ugly and fat and hurt and shamed and violated and abused for the way they look and told time and time again that they were “different” and therefore unlovable. Come to me and I will tell you and show you how beautiful and loved you are and you will see it and feel it and know it and then look in the mirror and truly believe it. If you are offended by my anger and my might at defending my borders and my people you do not deserve entry into my beloved and magnificent country.”
holy fuck yeah
Katharine Hepburn
I’ve been thinking a lot about Katharine as the whole debate over Shiloh’s boyish preferences is going on. At the hairdresser’s the other day, one of our hairdresser’s co-workers started going on about how sick it was that Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie allow their daughter to wear boy clothes & have a short haircut & ask to be referred to as John. We kindly, but vehemently disagreed with her & she was incredulous, exclaiming, “You think this is ok? This dysfunctional family!” I won’t go into all the reasons why I don’t believe the Jolie-Pitt family is at all dysfunctional, but I do worry that people are angered by a little girl’s journey through gender identification. When Hepburn was 10, she had a male alter ego named Jimmy. She wore slacks, slicked back her hair & was perfectly content in this persona. As an adult, she was fine with glamming up for a role, and looked stunning when she did, but she was most happy in her slacks, androgynous & beautiful. And there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, I admire the Jolie-Pitt parents even more knowing they have a possible male-identified child, or a possible tomboy, or a possible daughter who is going through a phase where she’s most comfortable in boy’s clothes with a cropped haircut & a boy’s nickname, who they are letting explore her personal tastes & comforts. They respect her desire to be called John, they don’t force femininity on their young child, but they equally respect their other daughter’s total love of pretty dresses & styled hair. This is parenting at it’s best. I hope when Shiloh is 10, if she still has John in her, that she’s told about Jimmy, and other sweet young girls who are brave enough to be who they feel they are, not who they’re told they should be.
For those of you out there who wanna know more about how before her time Kate Hepburn was I can not recommend the amazing biography of her Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn by William J Mann. It’s the best biography I have ever read, diligently researched and lovingly presenting who the real woman was behind the legend.
