In the eyes of the world, my husband is a bad guy. In my eyes, however, he's just Roman.
Alexander pushed his unruly black curls back from his face and said, "Well, obviously Richard will be Caesar."
"Because we all secretly want to kill him?" James asked.
Richard arched one dark eyebrow. "Et tu, Bruté?"
"Sic semper tyrannis," James said, and drew the tip of his pen across his throat like a dagger. Thus always to tyrants.
Alexander gestured from one of them to the other. "Exactly," he said. "James will be Brutus because he's always the good guy, and I'll be Cassius because I'm always the bad guy. Richard and Wren can't be married because that would be gross, so she'll be Portia, Meredith will be Calpurnia, and Pip, you'll end up in drag again."
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If someone has only themself their whole life, on-guard against everyone aside from themself at all times and all places, never being close to anyone, never feeling anything for anyone, only loving themself… wouldn’t that be miserable? Being a bad guy… is too painful.
And a part of me is... Sick...
“Just a bad day,” I finally squeaked.
“This looks like more than just a bad day…but we can go with that story if it makes you feel better,” he said, reaching out to brush a tear from my face.
All thoughts escaped me as I watched him bring the tear to his lips.
He licked it off.
And he seemed to savor the taste.
“There, now we can share the bad day,” he murmured with a wink, completely unrepentant for the weird as hell thing he’d just done. A shocked cough came out of me.
But a part of me also felt a little bit better.
Because now it kind of felt like we were connected.
And I couldn’t help but like that.
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I shook my head as I relived the moment I’d found Blake. Kidnapping her and taking her with me to some remote island didn’t seem like a bad idea at the moment.
Because now that I’d found her…Now that I could breathe…You could fucking bet I would never let her go again.
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Perhaps this is so because women have decided to award themselves the grand prize of Officially Oppressed Minority. They can do no wrong. How convenient. But even if we accept this baloney, the facts don’t add up. Women are not in the minority and some bad women do exist. Even so, let’s put reality aside for a moment and consider the trend. No one cares about your side. The rule is this: You’re the bad guy because you’re the man.
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Belki de bunun nedeni, kadınların Resmen Ezilen Azınlık büyük ödülünü kendilerine vermeye karar vermeleridir. Yanlış yapamazlar. Ne kadar uygun. Ancak bu saçmalığı kabul etsek bile gerçekler bir anlam ifade etmiyor. Kadınlar azınlıkta değildir ve bazı kötü kadınlar da mevcuttur. Yine de bir an için gerçekliği bir kenara bırakıp trendi değerlendirelim. Kimse senin tarafını umursamıyor. Kural şudur: Sen kötü adamsın çünkü sen erkeksin.
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When a woman gets out of a bad marriage, what does she get? Applause! Cheers, flowers, congratulations. Everyone is so proud of her for taking charge of her life and getting away from that awful beast. Friends throw parties, support groups gush all over her, self-esteem oozes from her pores. But what happens when a man decides to leave his wife? Just the opposite! Everyone rushes to the wife’s side. Overnight, a nice guy becomes a creep, a cheat, a crook. Judges punish you, friends desert you, the world condemns you.
It doesn’t matter if your wife was the world’s worst woman – unbearable and loathsome. It simply doesn’t matter. It’s like this: When a woman wants out, she’s good; when a man wants out, he’s bad.
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Bir kadın kötü bir evlilikten çıktığında eline ne geçer? Alkış! Şerefe, çiçekler, tebrikler. Hayatının sorumluluğunu üstlendiği ve o korkunç canavardan uzaklaştığı için herkes onunla gurur duyuyor. Arkadaşları partiler veriyor, destek grupları onun her yanından fışkırıyor, özgüveni gözeneklerinden sızıyor. Peki bir adam karısını terk etmeye karar verirse ne olur? Tam tersi! Herkes karısının yanına koşuyor. İyi bir adam bir gecede bir sürüngene, sahtekara, dolandırıcıya dönüşür. Yargıçlar seni cezalandırır, arkadaşların seni terk eder, dünya seni kınar.
Karınızın dünyanın en kötü kadını, dayanılmaz ve iğrenç olması önemli değil. Bunun hiçbir önemi yok. Şöyle: Bir kadın çıkmak istediğinde iyidir; bir adam dışarı çıkmak istediğinde kötüdür.
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'What am I doing with these people?' Guy thought. 'They are so good, and I'm so bad. I'm not part of their family, but if I try hard to live with them, that other man inside me, the bad one, will go away. He must!'
"There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between"
“I hoover the car, I put up all your certificates and I don’t make you feel guilty for not having sex with me. I AM NOT A BAD GUY, I just have a bad personality. It’s not my fault. Some people are just born with fucked personalities. Look at Jake. He is so creepy. It’s not his fault. Why the bassoon?! You wanna know what the bassoon is?! It’s a CRY FOR HELP.”
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"You always wanted the nice guy; too bad you got the fucking villian."
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She was mine.
Even if i have to steal her.
I am not opposed to pornography legally or morally, but I think it is bad for men for several reasons:
Pornography creates unrealistic expectations of what people should like and what sex should be like.
Pornography addicts men to bodies and body parts.
Pornography can easily become a substitute for a real sexual relationship.
Pornography creates a trance in which men can be sexual while staying distracted from their shame and fear.
Pornography compounds shame because it is usually hidden and used in secret.
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Başladıkları işi erteledikleri, kaçındıkları ve bitiremedikleri için acı çekerler. Acı çekiyorlar çünkü geçmişte hiçbir zaman işe yaramayan şeyleri yaparak kötü durumu daha da kötüleştiriyorlar.
Suffering because they procrastinate, avoid, and fail to finish what they start. Suffering because they make a bad situation worse by doing more of what has never worked in the past.
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"+Normal insanlar aşık olduklarında, hoşlandıkları kişiye randevu sorarlar. Bu hiç aklına geldi mi?
-Öyleydi ama sen o yarım akıllıyla birlikteydin. Ve randevu istemek de -bilmiyorum- yeterli değildi.
+Yani kaçırmak tek seçeneğin miydi?
-En mantıklısı buydu."