This film will always remind me so wholly of you.
The first time we met, we sat on my bed holding hands, watching this film. Within ten minutes my head found its way to your chest and your arms were around me, your hand absent-mindedly stroking my arm.
I will remember that moment forever, I can feel it so vividly. My heart was racing, my skin so alive where you touched it.
I loved you then.
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January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era.
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I love us.
As defined by urban dictionary, the friendzone is…
“When you are expected to support a girl you really like while she searches for a smarter, richer, and more handsome boyfriend. There is little you can do without feeling like a dick. All in all, one of the meanest things a girl can do, whether they mean it or not.”
and ”The perennial location of nice guys everywhere.”
Although this hypothetical situation could work both ways, friendzone is almost always applied to a man who is rejected by a woman. Therefore, there is something inherently unequal, something inherently sexist about the term “friendzone”. But what and why?
From my experience, this is what friend zone is. A “nice guy” pursues a woman, but isn’t forward with his intentions from the get-go like, say, a “jerk”. The woman is pleased to see a man who is interested in her not as a sexual object but as a human being and wishes for things to stay that way. The man is not satisfied with seeing the woman as a human being because being “expected to support a girl” is a bad deal if she’s not putting out.
Before I delve into the sociological aspects of this, I just want to point out that ”friendzone” is no more pleasant for a woman than it is a man. First, that is to say unrequited love works both ways, but the person who doesn’t return affections is considered mean only when she’s a woman. And second, what option does the woman have in a traditional “friendzone” situation? Just stop talking to a close friend to avoid “leading him on”? In high school, I found out my best friend of 2 years liked me. Having to tell him I didn’t feel the same way and being immediately ex-communicated via Facebook status (“Thanks for wasting my time”) was one of the worst things that ever happened to me. Were our two years of friendship invalid because I didn’t want anything more? Was all our time together really wasted because there was no hypothetical pay off?
Guys who do this and claim to be “nice guys” are the worst misogynists because of their sense of entitlement toward a woman. They make investments in property and expect their dividends. They are fake friends. They are selfish. And they will jump at the chance to vilify you and victimize themselves when their attempts at manipulation don’t work. Clearly, “friendzone” is the remnant of a phenomenon that has plagued women since the beginning of time: women are not independent creatures. Our love lives exist only in the context of a man’s desire. When we make independent decisions, we are subject to a host of derogatory terms. “Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”. “Friendzone” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “no”.
Can I just say that this has happened to me a fair few times. 99.9% of the time, after I have told a guy that I don’t feel the same way, I have been deleted as a friend, ignored and verbally abused by his friends who called me a ‘slut’.
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Photo challenge day two.
I will be seeing Brand New for the 11th time on the 11th.
I’ve just turned my ask box back on and this was the first message I got! Thank you very much, you’re kind :)
GPOYT.
Creepy cat is creepy.
‘Jane has schizophrenia’
not
‘Jane is schizophrenic’
What’s the difference, I hear you say? Try this:
‘Jane has cancer’
vs.
‘Jane is cancerous’
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People are not defined by their physical health. So why should mental health be any different?
The prevailing Zeitgeist in psychotherapy is the integration of leading systems of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy could be enhanced by the integration of the profound insights of psychoanalysis, the powerful techniques of behaviourism, the experiential methods of cognitive therapies, and the liberating philosophy of existentialism.
Although some psychotherapists insist that such theoretical integration is philosophically impossible, ordinary people in the natural environment can be remarkably effective in finding practical means of synthesising powerful change processes.
” —In Search Of How People Change