slow motion crawl: today during art class, first period →

thingsiatethatilove:

meltzer:

So, I don’t know why at least five people went off on me for asking someone to not grab people’s asses against their will, during that class and throughout the day. I could go into how movies likeSuperbad and other anecdotes of rape culture encourage this kind of thing because it’s like…manly? Or something? But the feminism club I tried to start at school - no one wants to join. No one wants to hear that their favorite Judd Apatow movie or Taylor Swift song is sexist. So I am kind of at a loss, here.

Sigh. Tavi, if it is any consolation, Emily and I started devising your coursework for when you move to NY and my friends take over your education, 19th century, Education of a Lady-style. I can teach French, Cultural Criticism in a Thousand Words, and will coteach West Coast Appreciation with Alice and Molly. Emily will teach Maximizing Email Wars, a class on Francesca Lia Block’s oeuvre, and Yoga. Elizabeth will be Fashion, Crafts, and Art History. Kara will be Queer Theory, Gender Studies, Performance, and will teach some kind of Teen cultural studies class. Jon will teach Drivers Ed, Math, Music Appreciation, and some kind of class on Magazine Studies with Elizabeth. Claire will teach Science Fiction. Jona will teach a class on Nirvana. Doree will teach trend reporting and History or whatever she has a masters in. We will all come together to do a mega advanced class on the ’90s. Obviously. 

I feel like this is all the information anyone really needs, anyway.

Lol, I would like to join Tavi in taking everyone else’s classes that they’re teaching at this academy, especially Jon’s Driver’s Ed class and the class on whatever Doree has a master’s in.  I am going to crack dumb jokes and disrupt the classroom, though, be warned.

Emily and Marisa and Thessaly and I all took a cooking class at Brooklyn Kitchen last night, which involved us watching the instructor make like six dishes at once, and also whispering and giggling to each other pretty much constantly, and halfway through Emily turned to us and said something to the effect of, “It’s now clear what all of us were like in high school, as though it wasn’t before.”