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“Developers don’t explore well-designed apps and sites to learn how to build apps and sites. They spend their time learning from demos and tutorials, which are written by other developers who are trying to explain complex coding concepts, by using contrived, ridiculous examples.”

— Antoine Valot, Nine Nasty UX Truths — Radical UX

“When you’ve worked on it long enough that you start seeing its fundamental flaws: Problems that are not about how it’s been put together (improvable), but about how it works in the absolute (intrinsic).”

— Antoine Valot, Nine Nasty UX Truths — Radical UX

“Songs like ‘Fifteen’ dig up the ancient Puritan ideal that girls can only access power by confidently and heterosexually denying access to their pants.”

— Riese, Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos | Page 2 of 2 | Autostraddle

“Other girls are obstacles; undeserving enemies who steal Taylor’s soulmates with their bewitching good looks and sexual availability. Unfortunately for these mute yet effortlessly hunky jungle-eyed boys, by choosing the ‘beautiful’ girls over Taylor (who is, suspiciously… also beautiful…), they’re m…”

— Riese, Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists, and Weirdos | Page 2 of 2 | Autostraddle

“But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts She’s cheer captain and I’m on the bleachers.”

— Taylor Swift, You Belong With Me

“I hope that you do not let the world condemn you for being too loud, too expressive, too soft; that you do not let it convince you to be perfect instead of real. I truly hope that you celebrate the fact that you are not for everyone, that you are not impressing the kinds of people who were built on…”

— Bianca Sparacino, You Are Not For Everyone

“Alas, to most of America Taylor Swift represents a return to much more conservative morals and values, an anti-feminist heterosexual romantic ideal, and a throw back to the times when paternalism and more subtle forms of racism passed as progress.”

— Kevin Allred, Taylor Swift is a Racist Shitfest

“The song, titled ‘Innocent,’ sees Swift playing judge and jury, offering her verdict that West is finally off the hook. Again, the black man on trial for a crime he was falsely accused of is a familiar occurrence in U.S. history.”

— Kevin Allred, Taylor Swift is a Racist Shitfest

“We do not live in a post-race (or post-racist) society like many would like to believe. A black man stood up and spoke back to the white establishment for an enormous slight of the music and accomplishments of a black woman; that same black woman then ended up having to apologize for and distance he…”

— Kevin Allred, Taylor Swift is a Racist Shitfest

“Beyoncé deserved the award. Something was unfair and West sensed it, but his douchebaggery and Swift’s country-bumpkin innocence completely overshadowed the racial politics of the incident. Even West himself was forced to declare that it wasn’t about race, even though it most certainly was. West’s a…”

— Kevin Allred, Taylor Swift is a Racist Shitfest

“Taylor Swift must be the second coming of Jesus because it’s become damn near impossible to utter a critical word against her.”

— Kevin Allred, Taylor Swift is a Racist Shitfest

“I get down on my knees every morning and give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.”

— Garth Ennis, Preacher Book One

“For every time you say that there's a purpose behind one person's success, you invalidate billions of people. You say there is a purpose to their suffering. And that's just cruel.”

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

“Never plan an act of violence. Just let it happen natural.”

— Garth Ennis, Preacher Book One

“There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.'”

— Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift Possibly Thinks Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Are Going to Hell

“It doesn't matter who you are or how good you got things. Sooner or later, shit goes wrong for everybody. Sooner or later, there comes a time when all you want to do is shout "fuck you" to the world.”

— Garth Ennis, Preacher Book One

“Taylor Swift, a woman who has built a career by slut shaming women, publicly humiliating girls who ‘stole’ her exes, teaching women to not have sex because it will mean they are bad sluts, teaching women that their virginity is everything they have and losing it makes them bad sluts, teaching women…”

— mrsmelchiorgabor, via Tumblr

“If a plane crashes, and one person survives, everyone thanks God. They say: 'God had a purpose for that person. God saved her for a reason!' Do we not realize how cruel that is? Do we not realize how cruel it is to say that if God had a purpose for that person, he also had a purpose in killing every…”

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

“I'm an ordained pastor. But it's just stopped making sense to me. You see people doing terrible things in the name of religion, and you think: 'Those people believe just as strongly as I do. They're just as convinced as I am.' And it just doesn't make sense anymore. It doesn't make sense to believe…”

— Anonymous, Humans of New York

“The video for ‘Wildest Dreams’ perfectly demonstrates the ways in which Taylor continually misses the mark: By seeing life through only her experience (and that of those similarly sociopolitically positioned), she’s unable to notice — let alone prioritize — the needs of the most marginalized. So her…”

— Melissa Fabello, 5 Ways Taylor Swift Exemplifies White Feminism – And Why That's a Problem