June 2013
32 posts
“The attacks on Coppola’s upper-class upbringing — by far the rule, rather than the exception, in Hollywood — resemble nothing so much as the cries of nepotism directed at Lena Dunham, whose success has also long since surpassed whatever leg up she may have had. It’s hardly a coincidence that they’re both women, or that neither has made any attempt to hide where she came from. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to take issue with Coppola’s work, or Dunham’s, but there’s also an insidious bias at work, a tacit assumption that women’s art is always about themselves while men can stand outside and objectively comment: Women feel; men think. That Coppola might be capable of both is apparently more than some critics can swallow.”
—Does Sofia Coppola Have a Problem with Privilege, or Do Her Critics? by Sam Adams (via wildthicket)
I punched a guy bc he was making rape jokes and one of the things he said was “what’s the difference between yes and no? Nothing” so I asked him if he’d care if I punched him in the face and he said yes but I did it anyway since there’s no difference between yes and no and that’s the story of how I gave someone a bloody nose
“We start to confuse convenience with joy, abundance with choice.”
—Apple Inc.
“‘If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
