February 2012
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“The decline in young home owners is a puzzling trend. Interest rates have...”
– Derek Thompson, “The End of Ownership: Why Aren’t Young People Buying More Houses?” (via theatlantic)
Maybe I’m just dense because I’ve just drunk a glass of mostly shochu with a dash of off-brand Crystal Lite, but what’s puzzling about this? What young people can afford to buy a...
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Classic Trash
lazybookreviews:
It’s The Valley of Horses! Go play.
You heard it here first—or for the 1000th time if you know me not on the internet—I am forever indebted to Jean M. Auel because it was thanks to these books that I learned about the clitoris (though not what it was called). That made masturbation approximately a billion times more amazing. Thanks, Ms. Auel! I raise a glass to...
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According to this article, practicing yoga increases arousal (and makes sex more pleasurable for both men and women!) therefore no one should be surprised that male yoga instructors/leaders sexually abuse their female students/followers. In other words, ladies, you were asking for it by wearing those short skirts getting involved in yoga! You should’ve known not to associate with...
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“The internet’s not broken.
So then why are there so many attempts to regulate...”
– Jeff Jarvis (via wilwheaton)
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It seems a little insensitive to tell your employees that you want to outsource their work…and that they will be training their cheap oversees replacements.
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oliviawaite:
bakerstreetbabes:
Lucy Liu To Play Watson In CBS’ Modern Sherlock Holmes Pilot ‘Elementary’
The name is Watson, Joan Watson. Lucy Liu is set to play Sherlock Holmes’ sidekick in CBS’ drama pilotElementary, whose tweaks to Arthur Connan Doyle’s classic include switching Watson’s gender to female. The project, written by Robert Doherty, is set in present day and stars Jonny Lee...
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“[W]hat is really happening here is, once again, the suppression of women’s...”
– PayPal is Watching You
Ugh, coming on top of the news of Apple forcing DMP to remove their yaoi manga from their iPad app, it sure feels like “shut down [women’s] erotica” week. Fuck you, corporations. You do not get to decide what I can and cannot read.
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“Out of Total Film’s list of the 100 Greatest Female Characters in movies…
Only...”
– Total Film’s 100 Greatest Female Characters: Statistical Breakdown
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Things I really don’t need at the end of the month: Some asshat at Duane Reade charging me twice for Liquid Plumber. That shit’s expensive, and it’s the kind of thing I couldn’t just wait 4 days to buy (fucking plumbing from the 1920s). Looks like I’ll be slightly over budget this month after all. ARGH.
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!! My net worth is finally positive! *happy dance*
(And only a little over 12.5 more years until my student loans are paid off! Damn it, that brought me down again.)
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So, the problem I have with this fluff piece is that I know people who do most of those “quirky” things yet do not live alone. (For example, my mom never closes the bathroom door to pee, often doesn’t get dressed until mid-afternoon, and has no problem walking around the house naked, yet she has not lived alone for over 30 years.) And, c’mon, it’s not like any of...
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DMP has been asked by Apple to remove their BL/yaoi titles from their iPad app, because of “mature scenes in some of the books.” Fuck you, Apple. Not only is your nannying seriously pathetic and old, but this smacks of homophobia. (And this isn’t the first time.) After all, yaoi is characterized by romantic and/OR sexual relationships between men.* If you aren’t asking for...
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here's a big interview i did talking about female... →
lesstitsnass:
yamino:
mooncalfe:
and Fraggles.
…[A] few years ago I was having an artistic crisis of faith — which I have a lot of, lots of doubt all the time — but it led me to being more aware of what I really wanted my work to be and how I wanted it to feel and look, and just what it all meant. The kicker came when around that time I started reading a lot of feminist and sociology...
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“I think part of the reason we have trouble drawing the line “it’s not okay to...”
– (via allthishappened)
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Indian High Court Rules That the Decision to Abort... →
drst:
somepolitics:
In a significant decision, the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week ruled that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband.
“A woman is not a machine in which raw material is put and a finished product comes out. She should be mentally prepared to conceive, continue the same and give birth to a child. The unwanted pregnancy would...
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Okay, Downton Abbey, you’ve won me back (for now). I’ll assume 2.6 was a terrible aberration and am prepared to pretend it didn’t happen.
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Yeah, I’m a liiiiitle bitter that I have work tomorrow. At least the trains will probably be empty…although even the subway will be on a Saturday schedule! Hmph.
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“True gender equality is actually perceived as inequality. A group that is made...”
– - Lucy, When Worlds Collide: Fandom and Male Privilege. (via seaofbadstories)
I might have reblogged this already but it’s so good I don’t care.
(via stfufauxminists)
Kyriarchy in action.
(via transstingray)
Also the study where they had women and men talking in a discussion and when women...
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The Past And The Future Of Famous Logos →
productdisplacement:
via: Buzzfeed
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My Snail Shell: To certain bronies →
eschergirls:
snailchimera:
It has come to my attention that a certain segment of the “brony” community has some complaints about their favorite show; not the entire brony population, which has many cool people in it, but enough of a portion to have a visible internet presence. Namely, they are upset that My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is still written primarily to appeal to and be...
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Escher Girls: This is a comment somebody left in... →
comicartcorrections:
eschergirls:
What’s sad is that, before reading “Iron man”, I was thinking it was a Iron woman because of the ridiculous pose. Comics are screwing me up.
And that’s the thing. We see that pose and we think “woman” because only women are sexualized like that (and ridiculously posed) in comics (and many…
Quoted for the Ever Lovin’ TRUTH.
Be sure to click through to...
jfc, the person I’m supposed to meet emailed me back at 3am this morning to say she was planning to leave earlier but if I could make it over at 9 exactly she would wait for me. I might be able to make it, but I’m thinking I just might skip it—my stomach is acting up, I don’t really want to spend $14.50(!!) to take the LIRR, and I never did hear back from the event...
rivki replied to your post: I am basically the opposite of spontaneous or…
You are not alone. That would make me crazy. I hope he/she [delete whichever is inappropriate] gets back to you soon.
I’m glad to hear that because sometimes I feel like a stick-in-the-mud killjoy for preferring to make plans in advance. But it’s 10:45 and still no word! If she wants to meet at 9am, I...
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I am basically the opposite of spontaneous or impulsive. I hate leaving things up to chance or changing my plans at the last minute (even if those plans are “lie in bed and read”). So it’s making me anxious that I’m supposed to be meeting someone tomorrow morning and they haven’t responded to my email asking when and where we should meet up (they’re the one who...
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Romance Novels, The Last Great Bastion Of...
morecoffee:
Maria Bustillos:
Romance novels are feminist documents. They’re written almost exclusively by women, for women, and are concerned with women: their relations in family, love and marriage, their place in society and the world, and their dreams for the future. Romances of the Golden Age are rife with the sociopolitical limitations of their period, it must be said. They’re exclusively...
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This will be the greatest ABC Family show ever. →
As first reported on EWonline, actress Kelly Bishop will be joining the cast of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s new ABC Family show BUNHEADS. It was previously reported that Tony-award winner Sutton Foster will play the lead role in the new series.
BUNHEADS is the tale of a Las Vegas showgirl (Foster) who impulsively marries a man, moves to his sleepy coastal town, and takes an uneasy role at her new...
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Apparently I have something to say on this.
turnabout:
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ainsleybee:
I don’t have a source to cite, but it’s still worth repeating: Rick Santorum has the best mind of the thirteenth century.
Jesus Christ, I apparently can’t “reply” to this with everything I want to say. Okay:
As @ClinicEscort said, “Reading the Lais of Marie de France, ca. 1160: confirmed that not even in THE ACTUAL DARK AGES was slut-shaming so...
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“This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women...”
– “Virginia’s Proposed Ultrasound Law Is an Abomination” by Dahlia Lithwick
The fact that government would support rape via object insertion, in the name of morality, is so disgusting I can’t even fathom it. Never mind that some of these women might be seeking abortions because they were raped in...
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turnabout replied to your post: Yeah…I think Downton Abbey has jumped the shark. …
I think there’s only the Christmas special left. Until next season where Shirley Maclaine shows up as Cora’s uppity mother from America!!
Damn it, I’m going to have to keep watching for Shirley Maclaine, aren’t I??
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Yeah…I think Downton Abbey has jumped the shark.
(Still, I’m obviously going to watch next week if only for the seance.)
shadyoaks replied to your post: omg, glasses are so expensive. This visit to the…
I get mine from Zennioptical.com. check it out?
Yeah, I keep looking at that site, but I haven’t yet succeeded in getting my optometrist to pony up all the info I need to order prescription lenses….
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I kind of enjoy Valentine’s Day because the larger culture expects me to stuff my face with chocolate and wine (out of pathetic-but-understandable self-pity over being single, of course); whereas on any other day of the year it’s just gluttony.
turnabout replied to your post: I stupidly chose to buy and download a game from…
well that’s some bullshit.
Yes, yes it is!!