February 2012
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“Do that thing they do on CSI and it should be fine.”
– A client adamant that an image can’t be too pixelated to be blown up. (via clientsfromhell)
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angelaquarles:
Non-Alphas Need Not Apply: Can only Alpha males get published in Romancelandia?
Recently I received an email from a writer friend who’s agented, but has not had any luck selling her first novel. She told me that her agent says that the problem is that her hero and heroine are too much like real life and that she needs to make them into the romance cliché, and for the male, that...
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Review: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase
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Review: Lord of Scoundrels by Loretta Chase Reviewer: Sam Grade: A Swoon Factor: Someone pass the smelling salts
I haven’t done a review for a little while, and part of the reason (aside from work being very busy the last couple of months) is that I haven’t read something that begged me to share it with other people. Until now. I hadn’t read any...
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Ways Gender-Privileged Men Can Challenge Sexism
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a woman’s, or when you ask a man for information or advice rather than a woman.
Recognize times when...
think4yourself: bebinn: URGENT: SIGN THE PETITION... →
turnabout:
bebinn:
URGENT: SIGN THE PETITION SUPPORTING OBAMA’S DECISION ON CONTRACEPTION WITH NO CO-PAYS
prolongedeyecontact:
From an email from NARAL:
The new policy that will cover women’s birth-control coverage is under attack from all sides.
Anti-choice groups have collected more…
I would really like to sign this petition (as pointless as it is) but I’ve already spent about 15...
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Suck It, Homophobes!
lazybookreviews:
I love political issues in which I have absolutely not a smidgen of respect or pity for people on the other side. It’s so much tidier, you know?
If you think your marriage is threatened or demeaned in any way by legalized same-sex marriage, you are just plain ignorant.
Anyway, mazel tov, gay Californians. And everyone else, because, really, this is good news for all Americans...
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“According to Miss Representation, the organization that launched the...”
– Twitter Talks Back to Sexist Super Bowl Ads | Mother Jones
This is largely what confuses me about sexist advertising. When you want someone’s money why would you silence or ignore them?
Also read: Ten Lady Innovators Best Buy Could’ve Put in Its Super Bowl Ad
(via meganwest)
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Komen's ambiguous apology, by Katha Pollitt →
shananaomi:
“Komen miscalculated by thinking its base cares only about breast cancer: in fact, those women in pink t-shirts and sneakers, raising their thousands upon thousands of dollars a year for breast cancer research, understand quite well that women’s health means more than tumor-free breasts.”
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turnabout replied to your post: ConEd is harassing me about giving them access to…
they finally came when I was home for the gas meter. It wasn’t that bad. (When I called in a reading they didn’t believe what I told them.)
It’s just that I’ve lived here for almost 1.5 years and never had them complain about not being able to access my gas meter. So it can’t be in my...
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ConEd is harassing me about giving them access to my gas meter (or calling in a reading)…but I have no idea where the gas meter is. Pretty sure it’s someplace I don’t have access to myself (definitely not inside my apartment). I’ll bet this is the new super’s fault.
On the plus side, when I finally called in an electricity reading the damage wasn’t nearly as...
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Make-A-Wish grants medieval dream →
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“I swear to god I will lose my mind if I hear the “sex sells” fallacy one more...”
– (via littlelightx)
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Pay Your Fines Online →
turnabout:
nypl:
Paying your overdue library fines just got a lot easier! Now, you can pay with a credit card! Just click “Your NYPL,” then “Fines” to get started.
(No judgment! We know that you loved that book/cd/dvd so much you couldn’t put it down, let alone part with it before you were finished absorbing all possible perspectives…)
S - now we have even MORE excuse to be lazy!!!
I may...
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I’m really enjoying this Luscious moscato. Tasty, $10, and comes with a screw top; what’s not to like?
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January 2012
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conversations I have had via social media with my...
turnabout:
torturing her cats either by dressing them in people clothes or getting them high on catnip
renewing library books online because we’re too lazy to return them
training her cat to attack people (this was actually an unfortunate side-effect of training her cat to do backflips when we tapped on the wall)
They were important conversations, okay.
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“Use the same attention you reserve for riding around buses and garbage trucks....”
– How To Bring A Bike On The New York City Subway
Many of these tips also apply to ginormous strollers—especially during rush hour and especially if no kids are actually in them.
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“To protest a bill that would require women to undergo an ultrasound before...”
– Huff Po (via rachelfershleiser)
This is the most beautiful thing. Can we send her flowers?
(via jaimealyse)
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There’s a notice on my apartment building’s door from a location scout looking for an apartment to use for a Ben Stiller movie. Of course, my first thought was, “No, I could never do that—it would require me to clean my apartment.” Only 10 minutes later did it occur to me that 1) I have no place to stash my cats for a week, and 2) likely they would not want to use...
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Oh, dear. I seem to have spent all weekend playing Fable. In my defense, I almost never play video games; so spending most of two days in a row playing one isn’t too bad, right??
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systematic derangement of the senses.: Musings on... →
meeca:
Heterosexual sex tends to be penis-centric—perhaps even penis-obsessed. The moment a woman tells her friends she’s been intimate with a man, the first question asked is almost guaranteed to be: “Did you go all the way?” “All the way”, of course, does not mean whether or not they engaged in oral…
This is my favorite part:
Can we possibly imagine an intimate encounter where the man does...
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How it works?
Insert a Fake Hymen into your vagina carefully. It will then expand a little and make you feel tight. When your lover penetrates, it will ooze out a liquid that appears like hymen blood, not too much but just the very right amount. And it is better if you add few moans and groans.
I dunno…can they provide a script? Improvising is not my thing.
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Original Les Mis Cast Members Will Appear in Film... →
turnabout:
this is worthy of all caps
COLM WILKINSON! WILL BE IN THIS MOVIE!
This could be fun. Wait, TAYLOR SWIFT is Eponine?? Ugh. (And of COURSE Helena Bonham Carter is Madame Thenardier.)
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“You’d think the very thought of a romance writer would bring a smile to people’s...”
– Remembrance (Jude Deveraux)
I cannot begin to tell you how much I agree with this. It infuriates me that there is a general conception that women are so moronic and infantile that they cannot separate fiction from reality, and that the reading of romance will somehow create the expectation that a...
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turnabout:
First off, what is it like being naked on stage?
I think everybody in the ensemble would agree that baby wipes are essential. This isn’t my first time being naked on stage, but being naked in Untitled Feminist Show feels different. I have no props or words to draw attention away from the loadedness of my junk while I’m trying to be myself, which is a pretty masculine. So it’s...
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! My net worth (according to Mint.com) is now over -$1,000! Net worth = 0, here I come!
Also, I can’t wait to do my taxes. Send me my 1099, bitches!
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A Brief History of Dumb Internet Searches on...
littlehonda:
synecdoche:
tvhangover:
“Cancer” on Gossip Girl in one of their many attempts to make “bing” happen.
“Vampires” on The Vampire Diaries. Seriously, do you know anyone outside of a CW show that uses bing?
“Mutism + Cell Phones” on last night’s premiere of Touch which is a show you can learn more about by googling “Early Edition + better technology”
Speaking of my...
“A recent Boise State University study of 484 heterosexual women showed that “50%...”
– Rachel Kramer Bussel (Our fantasies say less about us than we think | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk)
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“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– angels-and-angles
this is an amazing quote
(via livelaughawesome)
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Abortion safer than giving birth: study →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
That statistic will only matter to you if you care about the welfare and health of actual living, breathing pregnant people. Which I do.
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