Wickedness

He didn’t want to believe. He wanted to know.

—Ann Druyan’s (Carl Sagan’s wife) response to an interviewer who asked, “Didn’t [Sagan] want to believe?” (via ikenbot)

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Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

—Carl Jung (via perfect)

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Women are expected (celebrities are no exception) to smile, look pretty, and generally be a ray of sunshine in everyone’s lives. When someone as famous as Stewart doesn’t, the whole world freaks out.

If women are not smiling and happy, then they are probably whiny, difficult, a bitch, or PMSing–or so the world and media seems to tell us. Why can’t Stewart have a blank expression? Last time we checked she’s a very popular movie star and very in-demand, which must be stressful and not as much fun as everyone would think.

Plus, why fake a smile when you know every single person taking your picture is practically demanding a smile, while simultaneously judging every single aspect of your outfit? Not to mention that even if you do smile and then suffer some sort of unfortunate wardrobe accident (nip slip, crotch shot, etc), that they will viciously turn on you in a second?

Stewart also gets a lot of negative comments about her apparent lack of glamour or style and infamously wearing flats or sneakers when she “should” be wearing platform pumps.

This also bucks the gender expectation that women should willingly and happily physically suffer in order to look good (which she did big time, when presenting an award Sunday night). Stewart tends to throw that out the window, wearing Converse with haute couture as she pleases, and why not? What’s wrong with comfort and sticking to your guns instead of being pretty eye or arm candy?

Kristen Stewart, it took us a while to get here and we apologize for the delay, but we salute you and all your surprisingly subversive acts of independence and dare we say it–feminism.

—Kristen Stewart: Disrupting Gender Roles One Blank Expression at a Time (via her0inchic)

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You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck you want.

—Kathleen Hanna (via a-great-strange-dream)

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