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"A Rant About Women"

An interesting article arguing that women need to be as ambitious and overly confident (read: arrogant) as men are in order to succeed. 

It’s not that women will be better off being con artists; a lot of con artists aren’t better off being con artists either. It’s just that until women have role models who are willing to risk incarceration to get ahead, they’ll miss out on channelling smaller amounts of self-promoting con artistry to get what they want, and if they can’t do that, they’ll get less of what they want than they want.

There is no upper limit to the risks men are willing to take in order to succeed, and if there is an upper limit for women, they will succeed less. They will also end up in jail less, but I don’t think we get the rewards without the risks.

Good stuff.

I like your taste in men. I clearly raised you well. When you divorce your husbands, send them my way!

My Persian mother

It is, for men, at some terrible level the closest thing to what childbirth is for women: the initiation into the power of life and death.
William Broyles Jr., “Why Men Love War,” 1984
Day 05 - 5 Things That Irritate You About the Opposite/Same Sex

1. I don’t like the way people believe as if there’s some prominent trend regarding how genders behave differently when they have crushes. After years of listening to my guy friends (especially during middle school) flip a shit over the girls they were crushin’ on (“Does ____ like ____?! I saw them talking in the lunch line” or “She sat next to me during English. What does that mean?!” or “She smiled when I picked her first for my team during gym!!”), I’ve realized that there truly there is no trend. Just stupid, unsubstantiated stereotypes.
….So both sexes worrying frantically about their crush’s interactions irritates me.

2. I also don’t give a shit about what evolutionary biologists or whatever say about a man’s innate desire to screw a bunch of women when he reaches a position a power. Boys, keep it in your pants after you tie the knot. I know women cheat too, but that never seems to make it into the headlines.

So cheating on your wife pisses me off.

3. The way that both genders insist on assuming stupidity in the other  (girls can’t do math/science, guys are brainless horndogs) pisses me off too.

4. Girls insisting on spending over two hours getting ready and then complaining about how guys only like girls for their looks. (And giving all of us normal girls a bad rep.)

5. Girls saying they only want to marry a boy for his money, and boys saying they only want to marry a girl for her appearance. That’s generally how it goes. I do the opposite - I crack jokes sometimes about wanting to marry Darren Criss because he’s supermegafoxyawesomehot - but I’m so far from serious. If I marry, it’ll be for love.

But I’ve met people who are serious.

And they suck.