brain bleach, please!

[jeliza]

I need a nice quote about love for a book I'm doing, so I made the seemingly logical move of looking on pinterest.

(ETA: it's a boudoir album, so I'm hoping for something more grown-up than schmoopy.)

Oh. my. god.

So much patriarchal bullshit ("take care of your wife like a daughter" wtf), insanely dysfunctional bullshit, scary ass obsessive bullshit...

Also, but more rarely, truely horrible typography.

I was going to link but I decided I like you all too much.

I found *one* that I like, but I don't know that it works for my purpose, I don't think it's an accident that it is a quote from a famous novelist instead of, say, a self-help book or relationship book. (The 7th one on this page, and no that is not a pinterest link.)

Comments

[garpu.livejournal.com]

I thought about starting a WTF board. If you really want barf-worthy things, check out my mom's pinterest boards. (Can DM you her user name, if you want.)

[boonedog.livejournal.com]

Yikes. Thank you for sparing us. Except that one quote which goes from patriarchal to downright super-creepy-incest-like.

I've started to notice that many of the love songs I hear on the radio would apply (sans sex) to how I feel about my daughter - the whole giving my life for her and giving up everything of my own to take care of her kind of thing - but if a person wrote that song for ME as their girlfriend/wife/partner I would feel creeped out and suffocated. "Fix You" by Cold Play? Ugh! "Someone like you" by Adelle? Yeah, if I'm married and I see in your face it isn't over for you, I'm going to feel really guilty and uncomfortable and sorry for you - is that a good thing to you? I could go on but I will spare you as you so kindly spared me from pinterest.