You Can Not Go Wrong When Stealing Your Father’s Clothes

Edmond Simpson 'Twilight Eyes' (06-19)

@mrgryphon - The thrill, the fear, the hope, oil on paper, 2021

Nico Delort, a freelance illustrator based in Paris, France

Steven Yeun shot by Hyea W. Kang for GQ Korea (2022)

Cat overlooking the sea - by  Andrew Hitaylenko, Russian

Al Pacino behind the scenes of The Godfather (1972)

— Louise Glück, from “Timor Mortis.”

six poems for tamar by yehuda amichai // sleeping in the forest by mary oliver // stopping by woods on a snowy evening by robert frost // stanzas written in dejection near naples by percy bysshe shelley

a conversation about how you feel is not supposed to end in an argument

I am increasingly annoyed with "boys will be boys" and "dudes rock" in response to videos of men, say, digging a hole at the beach or doing tricks on a trampoline. I'm not a hater and I enjoy seeing people have fun, but men are just given the space to be whimsical and carefree in a way that women are not. Girls are expected to be caregivers from such an early age, sexualized earlier, effectively denied a childhood. I'll see a video of a guy giving random people on the street hugs and everyone observes that "all the women ignored him but the dudes had his back," and it's like well yeah, women are used to being harassed and have their guards up. And I want to see women get their own "dudes rock" treatment without being considered immature in a way that reflects on their entire gender, labelled "manic pixie dream girls" (a term used in media criticism not to be leveraged against real people just living their lives), or denied the kindness reserved for men with a sense of childlike wonder.