sorgere del sole

I AM SO WEIRD! I LIKE WEIRD NERDY THINGS LIKE LORD OF THE RINGS! I KNOW WHO GOLLUM IS! I DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT BEING ONE OF THOSE “NORMAL GIRLS” WHO LIKES CLOTHES AND STUFF, SO I JUST WEAR ADORABLE VINTAGE DRESSES BECAUSE I AM REALLY EDGY! ALL THOSE NORMAL BIMBOISH GIRLS ARE SEXY, BUT I CAN’T GET DATES BECAUSE I AM A BEAUTIFUL THIN WHITE WOMAN WHO LIKES OVER-ALLS! I AM SO HOPELESS AT NAVIGATING THE SOCIAL CONVENTIONS OF MY WEIRD LITTLE UNIVERSE THAT I NEED THREE MEN TO HELP ME LIVE OUT MY WEIRD LITTLE LIFE!

"Zooey Deschanel’s character in The New Girl is probably the clearest example of this right now, as that entire show is based around how quirky and eccentric and, as a result, lovable, Zooey’s character (I think her name is “Eyeface”) is. Except she’s not so much “eccentric” as much as she is “bad at being alive and functioning socially, in the present.” One of her main conflicts in the pilot is that she has a date at a fancy restaurant, but doesn’t know what to wear so she puts on overalls! Classic Eyeface! And one of the male characters on the show goes goofy-eyed and clearly starts falling in love with her instead of, say, yelling, “You’re 27 years old, how do you not know how to dress and function yet? Get your shit together."

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4 Pieces of Relationship Advice Movies Need to Stop Giving | Cracked.com (via golden-notebook)

(via squeetothegee)

Oh, I love this paragraph in particular:

Hollywood is still teaching women that “dumb” is “attractive,” they’re just hipsterfying it. I don’t know when it happened (maybe after Clueless?), but sometime after the ’90s, “Quirky Eccentric Weird Chick” became the new Bimbo. She’s just as insultingly one-dimensional as the archetypal Ditsy Blonde Bombshell Valley Girl character that was all over the place a decade ago, except now she wears vintage knee-socks and listens to The Smiths, and that’s supposed to be better, for some reason.

(via nunmoreblack)

vandesin:

“Will Zooey Deschanel find love in her new show? She’s so WEIRD and QUIRKY who would ever be attracted to that LOL. I’m sure Zooey is a real nice gal but I want Hollywood to stop telling me I will like this.”

- Kate Beaton