you’re the prettiest girl i’ve seen. that was not a question it was a fact. that’s it.
but you’ve not seen me
…you may have already come across the news that Vivien Leigh, the actress who played Scarlett O’Hara in the classic Gone With The Wind, was apparently bisexual. Oh wait, did I say bisexual? Because obvs what I meant was “a hot mess off-screen" and “a slutty bisexual who battled mental illness for most of her adult life and didn’t give a damn who she slept with.” Sorry, I get those confused all the time. According to a new biography, when Leigh wasn’t lounging around in velvet gowns with tiny waists, she was having sex with both men and women, including actress Isabel Jeans and “at least two” other women who remain nameless. Presumably the biography expands on the mental illness element, but the article doesn’t, leaving us to wonder whether bisexuality itself is supposed to be the “illness” in question. Also, it would appear that Leigh’s husband’s former wife was a lesbian, which is weird and I don’t even really know how to fit that in. In conclusion, we get that it’s been a slow news week – we’ve been hurting too on that front – but I would argue that The New York Post titling their Vivien Leigh biography article “Vivien ‘Lay,’ Scarlet Woman” was kind of unnecessary.
The art of taking offense needlessly on the internet is not hard to master.
Last Thursday, Cee-Lo Green (one half of Gnarls Barkley) debuted “F**k You” from his upcoming album, ‘The Lady Killer.’ The song has now racked up almost 2.5 million views, with even 50 Cent…
Prominent Republican official and former George W. Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman has come out as gay, saying that “It’s taken me 43 years to become comfortable with this part of my life… It’s…
Slate does an all-access, totally non-exclusive interview with Kanye West, the would-be king of hip-hop.
If you are over an ex-girlfriend and you know you no longer want to be with them. How do you you let go of the pain they put you through, meaning how do you fully move on from someone?
you put it in a box
or a book
or a day
the pain.
and you just leave it there.
do you want to go back and get it? pick it up and roll it around in your hands?
don’t.
but what if it misses you? what if it needs you?
no. leave it.
one day you’ll accidentally come across it and realize you’d forgotten that you’d put it there. it’ll look different. it’ll feel different when you push on it. you’ll show it to other people and they’ll say, ‘oh yeah. i remember that. it remember it being bigger.’ and you’ll say, 'mhm. but i think we were just smaller.’
Can you offer any practical advice as to overcoming an ED? I have bulimia, I want to stop this and I know I have to speak to someone. But do you have any advice riese?
you need to speak to someone, a professional. there are some things we cannot take into our own hands
after all you know what your hands can do (if you still need them to do what you do, or if you ever did), and this is one of them.
there’s nothing i can do or say… i am a person on the internet. but i do think that you are beautiful and your body is beautiful and you shouldn’t hurt your body because it loves you and wants to hold you. it wants to hold you for as long as it can and it doesn’t want red knuckles and grey teeth and a hummingbird heart and a sore throat and dizzy spells. it wants to run and think and be free and open to the world.
EDs aren’t sustainable in the long-term, and the sooner you get treatment, the more life you’ll have to live ahead of you where you can look forward and not be a slave to your secret. EDs may seem like a best friend, but they’re totally the worst friend ever.
Get professional help. And talk to your friends about it. Make them hold you accountable. Get a doctor. There are specialists. Get treatment. Please.
mhm
