[TW: mention of self-harm]

“As soon as teenage girls start to profess love for something, everyone else becomes totally dismissive of it. Teenage girls are open season for the cruelest bullying that our society can dream up. Everyone’s vicious to them. They’re vicious to each other. Hell, they’re even vicious to themselves. It’s terrible.

“So if teenage girls have something that they love, isn’t that a good thing? Isn’t it better for them to find some words they believe in, words like the ‘fire-proof and fearless’ lyrics that Jacqui wrote? Isn’t it better for them to put those words on their arm in a tattoo than for them to cut gashes in that same skin? Shouldn’t we be grateful when teenage girls love our work? Shouldn’t that be a fucking honor?

“It’s used as the cheapest, easiest test of crap, isn’t it? If teenage girls love a movie, a book, a band, then it’s immediately classified as mediocre shit. Well, I’m not going to stand for that. Someone needs to treat them like they’re precious, and if nobody else is ready to step up, I guess it’s up to us to put them on the path to recognizing that about themselves.”

a character from The Devil’s Mixtape. This book, you guys. (via psychetimelapse)

(via diva-viva)

Source: psychetimelapse

25460 Notes/ Hide

  1. judanal-beads reblogged this from takerusbutt
  2. pleasedontfadeaway reblogged this from takerusbutt
  3. takerusbutt reblogged this from camoccino
  4. camoccino reblogged this from thepanicmoon
  5. smoretirades reblogged this from leupagus
  6. bonesache reblogged this from mytimehaspassed
  7. leairan84 reblogged this from leupagus
  8. radiergummi reblogged this from dinglehoppersaplenty
  9. crow-with-a-silly-hat reblogged this from no-surrender-no-retreat
  10. funkypunkr reblogged this from leupagus
  11. didispellitrite reblogged this from young-avenger-wiccan
  12. giunellatanadelconiglio reblogged this from young-avenger-wiccan
  13. young-avenger-wiccan reblogged this from theforbiddenloser
  14. theforbiddenloser reblogged this from jane-potter
  15. jane-potter reblogged this from leupagus
  16. shinka reblogged this from seascape
  17. nightkey reblogged this from bluemoon-darling
  18. seascape reblogged this from sparklyfox
  19. bluemoon-darling reblogged this from thephilophiliac
  20. crowbegotten reblogged this from opal-love
  21. thephilophiliac reblogged this from wosetyler
  22. carobsue reblogged this from cumaeansibyl
  23. jeffersonstarshipz reblogged this from odense
  24. sunrunner reblogged this from chicken-nugs
  25. yourlocalfreak reblogged this from harrysighles
  26. odense reblogged this from leupagus
  27. curi0sity-killed-my-inn0cence reblogged this from chicken-nugs
  28. chicken-nugs reblogged this from opal-love
  29. memattbe reblogged this from redridinghoodandthesourwolf