December 2010
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Weekend Reading, pt. 1
It’s been a busy week. Let’s kick things up a notch.
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Elizabeth Blair, “Strip Clubs: Launch Pads For Hits In Atlanta”, NPR.org
“Misogyny and the Backlash Against Assange’s Accusers”, Feminist Frequency - awesome roundup of essays and news articles on the subject; a great place to start reading and/or looking for more information
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Lipstick Feminists: playing for both teams? you... →
lipstick-feminists:
“so you’ve never been with a girl?” my friend asked. this was a few years ago, i was a sophomore in high school at the time.
“no, not yet anyways.” I replied.
“you can’t be bisexual then! You’re making shit up.”
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“One of the reasons I haven’t engaged with your arguments, so much, is that they...”
– Well, gawrsh, I guess I just done went and posted about this again.
And it’s 4:23, and I’m awake again. One more night of this; one more night of severe distress; one more night of attacks, both Internet and panic; one more night of lying in my bed, eyes closed, praying I’ll be able to sleep but I...
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“Let me be clear: “Who Will Rape Me?” is not an illustration of how I secretly...”
– Hay Ladies! goes online, and Andrea Grimes, whose aforementioned essay (“Who Will Rape Me?”) provided some fresh perspective on the subject, should be welcomed with a big YAY.
Get ready for some posts about fabulous women in...
lipstick-feminists:
Mostly from this meme.
Everything’s queued up for the day.
-Amy
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Did the recession prevent teen motherhood? →
“It’s a surprising idea, that teenagers are keeping it in their pants because a baby isn’t a prudent choice in the current economic environment. Foresight isn’t what we expect from those creatures of impulse — and, indeed, when is a baby a practical economic choice for a teen? It also struck me that the teen birth rate isn’t the same as the teen pregnancy...
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Today in language.
“Mostly ironically longing for the day I’ll be able to keep a straight face as I say I call shenanigans”.
(via)
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“Must be difficult for news teams, struggling to shed light on this immense...”
– In loving memory of CB, via
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Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen... →
The Guardian TV columnist calls it quits, reminding us he’s also one of the people behind Dead Set, Screenwipe and Newswipe, and offering quite a few good points on why the twain shan’t meet anymore.
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You Are Here.
My Persons of the Year for 2010:
Jessica Valenti
Sady Doyle
Jaclyn Friedman
Thank you for a much needed wake up call. Here’s my commitment never to become a Shut Up Barbie again, nor to allow being painted as one.
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“Bootleg copies of that tape became he love sexing with a minor.”
– Landing on a freshly trolled Wikipedia page: makes you speshul, doesn’t it.
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“I’m glad to hear that you think that the choice of an entire culture to demean,...”
– ” You know, I can write as many Tumblr posts as I please about needing to step back from this, but dudes are STILL gonna send me e-mails about how I should calm down because this whole date rape investigation is being allowed to draw focus away from “the larger and more important story” of how...
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To which Stephen replied, "I will kick your Prom... →
Colbert + Legend covering The Girl Is Mine.
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“My husband’s clan is not Catholic, yet his 4 year old niece was enrolled...”
– (via)
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“Michael Moore is being protested because it looks like he told a huge, damaging...”
– Sady Doyle
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“Perhaps most egregious of all, “True Grit” will not be nominated...”
– Sean O’Neal, via
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Swedish feminists start a Twitter campaign to talk... →
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"And, of course, That 70's Show remains popular in...
Whoa.
Grazie a tutti quelli che hanno tumblerato / commentato / twittato dopo il post di stamattina.
Qui trovate un elenco di letture possibili: tra poco rimetterò in ordine questa pagina e segnerò tuuuuuuutti i posti dove potete continuare a trovare me.
Nel frattempo, come sempre, liberatevi della scimmia.
un abbraccio
VB
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Because the whole point of writing is pulling some...
1. The whole OMG let’s lose weight and be skinny it’ll be so fun started last Spring, after I singlehandedly deemed myself unworthy of conveying a male POV. Because that character was a charm magnet, and I wasn’t.
2. Every time I write about someone being in love, it seems I gain love - much like I’d gain weight, with the added bonus of said love needing a bloody outlet.
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This is fun.
I’ve never looked better, I’ve never been skinnier.
It doesn’t mean a thing.
Still.
I wouldn’t revert to my previous self.
Discuss. Or not.
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“Sure. Let me be the judge of that, since I have a vagina and all.”
– In case any well-meaning sensitive-dude friend of yours calls misogyny in relation to trivial matters, i.e. Black Swan.
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these go to 11.: i'm in ur parade, peein' on it →
morninggloria:
I don’t get the “If being gay is a choice, when did you choose to be straight?” thing.
Homophobes think that straight is the default, that everyone is born straight and that gay is a choice to deviate from what’s natural. Homophobes don’t think that being straight is a choice because they think…
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“Reiner won’t let cigarettes appear in his movies but has no problem repeatedly...”
– Lunchtime full retard for the soul, via
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“Four years ago, former WNBC anchor Carol Anne Riddell, then 40, met the handsome...”
– Adrian Chen, via
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“This is fun, drunk leopard.”
– Stefon to Snookie, SNL (via maykicksass)
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10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against... →
- via The Guardian
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