Posts tagged // perception

In the city it becomes harder to see everyone’s humanity.

Marriage is not the only worthy form of family or relationship, and it should not be legally and economically privileged above all others. A majority of people – whatever their sexual and gender identities – do not live in traditional nuclear families. They stand to gain from alternative forms of household recognition beyond one-size-fits-all marriage. [...]

From last Sunday’s Post Secret I seriously related to that. People often dismiss what younger ones say, simply because of their age. Most think that experience is what counts, and those who have less of it know nothing, or at least, know less than them. Age has nothing to do with common sense. It’s not [...]

I just began reading the “Beauty Myth” by Naomi Wolf. Just now as I closed it for a bit and turned to television for a bit, I caught “What Not To Wear” (ep 250) and suddenly I finally (fully) understand why the self-esteem of the people that go there seems to improve dramatically! It’s interesting [...]