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I think the reason I find geek culture so obnoxious at times to engage in is because the people are for the most part the same privileged dips that inhabit mainstream culture, but with the added detriment of a victim complex. They’re still largely white and center their race, they’re still largely…
“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn’t the same thing! But it’s no good. If only they were educated to live instead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
YESSSSSSSSSS
I know Gentlemen is supposed to be the shiznit, but can I help it if I am a 1965 kind of gal?
Oh, snap. Well said, Maura.It never fails: When Bitch sends me an email begging for money that censors out its name I feel badly for everyone involved.
From Katharine Hepburn’s 1981 interview with Barbara Walters:
Hepburn: “I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man…I’ve just done what I damn well wanted to and I made enough money to support myself. And I ain’t afraid of being alone.”
Walters: “Is that why also you wear pants?”
Hepburn: “No, I just wore pants because they’re comfortable.”
Walters: “Do you ever wear a skirt, by the way?”
Hepburn: “I have one.”
Walters: “You have one.”
Hepburn: “I’ll wear it to your funeral.”
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Leonard Bernstein - Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Performed by the New York Philharmonic.
Loveliness.Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, & Russ Tamblyn in West Side Story (1961, dir. Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins)
Photo by Ernst Haas for LIFE Magazine (1960)
