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Fashion is one of the very few forms of expression in which women have more freedom than men. And I don’t think it’s an accident that it’s typically seen as shallow, trivial, and vain. It is the height of irony that women are valued for our looks, encouraged to make ourselves beautiful and ornamental… and are then derided as shallow and vain for doing so. And it’s a subtle but definite form of sexism to take one of the few forms of expression where women have more freedom, and treat it as a form of expression that’s inherently superficial and trivial. Like it or not, fashion and style are primarily a women’s art form. And I think it gets treated as trivial because women get treated as trivial.

Fashion is a Feminist Issue: Greta Christina (via tinybows)(via femmesandfamily)(via lakrymosa)

I've always believed fashion was a noble art but felt constantly guilty about my interest in it. Now I understand better why they made me feel that way.

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Marilyn Monroe on the set of Some Like It Hot, 1958

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I watched Some Like It Hot again yesterday (for the twentieth time maybe). I love this movie and I love how I see new details and understand new meanings every time I watch it.

I'm sure everyone who's ever watched that movie noticed how progressive it is. Can you imagine two of the most famous actors today dressing up as women and playing women for the most part of a two-hour movie? I can't. It's funny how men could dress up as women in a 1950s film and that would be perfectly accepted - and how today this would be such a huge risk for an actor's career to play a woman in a movie.

I think it's very interesting how men are portayed as the "weaker sex" in this movie. They're awkward and clueless and seem to only understand what it feels to be a woman when they have to pass for two women in order to hide from Chicago gangsters. Even though it's a big fat comedy, the subject is handled with subtlety - something a contemporary version of Some Like It Hot would certainly - sadly - fail to do.

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I'm broke but I'm happy. Mood of the day.

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Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip

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So I watched Drive (about a million years after everybody else) mostly because RYAN GOSLING. I loved the music, but I still don't know what to make of the movie. Or even Gosling's performance.

But still, that scene in the elevator was so gripping and heartbreaking. One of the few moments in the movie when the actors actually made me feel something.

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I just drive. Mood of the day.

“I’m giving you a night call to tell you how I feel I want to drive you through the night, down the hills I’m gonna tell you something you don’t want to hear I’m gonna show you where it’s dark, but have no fear There something inside you It’s hard to explain They’re talking about you boy But you’re still the same”

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5 WAYS GAME OF THRONES CHANGED MY LIFE.

Drawings I made for my other blog... because it's Game of Thrones appreciation day!

*a minute of silence for the end of GoT Season 2*

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Garance Doré and Scott Schuman in New York.

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stupid characters limit. As I saying she'll probably do something stupid and lose everything again because that's all she does. And poor Tyrion, he didn't deserve that, but you know what? Tyrion is smart and, unlike Daeny who's always ruining everything for her, he'll be smart and take back his power if he really wants to. I have to start reading the books because I can't wait until next year argh. Don't you also think that Arya and Tyrion would be a good team? They're both so sneaky and smart..

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but in different ways that complete each other, but it probably won't happen, but then again what do I know? I haven't read the books. And yes the Battle of the Blackwater was awesome and Tyrion should take all the credit, because if it wasn't for him the city would've been pillaged and everyone would've been dead before his father and the Tyrell had time to arrive. Natalie Dormer role in GoT is so similar to her role in the Tudors! A high lady who wants to be Queen and uses her body as a tool.

Hey :) I haven't watched the Tudors, but it sounds very good, maybe I should! As for the comparison TV show/books - I suggest you read them before Season 3 (they're very, very good, and you'll have a better insight of the characters) after all we've all have 10 months to kill until then haha ;)

I really love Daenerys's character in the books but to her defense, they kinda botched her storyline in S2. She's not stupid, she's just very young and learning with every mistake. Fortunately they made up for it in the finale... #Dany for the Iron Throne #Oh yeah

Tyrion won't get the credit he deserves, and that will be one of the triggers for his future character development - I'll stop here because *spoilers*! Tyrion and Arya... never thought about it. Sure, they're really smart in their own different ways. But I'm not sure they belong to the same layers of the story. We'll see where GRRM takes these characters...

As for Margaery: I'm curious. They present her as much more ambitious than GRRM does in the books (where her ambition is something hinted, not overtly asserted). I wonder what the showrunners will do with her character in S3.