July 2008
65 posts
“…Once you see an American Apparel store go up in a neighborhood, you can...”
– Rage Against the Man-chine: I hate sweatshops. Now, which one of you wants to suck my dick?
Heh. My rent’s pretty locked in, so we’re staying — at least for now. I’m sure if we move, the new building owners are going to double it.
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American Apparel found a way to objectify women to... →
What a shocker.
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Sexual harassment okay as it ensures humans breed,... →
Human rights activists say that Russian women remain second-class citizens and are subjected to some of the highest levels of domestic abuse in the world.
“The hipster represents the end of Western civilization—a culture lost in the...”
– Douglas Haddow: Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York
(via lezbehonest)
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Teh Laydeez Are So Cute When They Try To Blog →
NOLAF →
OK. This is one big Tositos commercial.
But. Saving this as an example of what a Flash-based site should be in the year 2008. Transition-y menus are so 2002.
“We are in the midst of a political movement to concentrate private wealth into...”
– Matt Taibbi: It’s a Class War, Stupid : Rolling Stone
“Talking about your blog is the social equivalent of talking about your dog. It’s...”
– Big Contrarian
via 43folders
An Open Letter to Omnicom President-CEO John Wren:... →
The commenters miss the point entirely. It’s not about some PC-notion of not “offending” anyone — it’s about condoning violent behavior against perceived gayness/effeminacy, which is a very real, very deadly problem.
Cripes, people. If you can’t see why these ads are offensive, imagine them with the effeminate/gay behavior swapped with a gross carciature from...
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Walking While Female →
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“The idea that women’s public sexuality can so precisely mirror traditional male...”
– Twisty Faster: Pornulation empowerfulizes us, say humorous ironic hottie
Twisty lays it out: burlesque aint feminism.
I first encountered burlesque a few years back at Ladyfest Seattle. It seemed really f-d up to me that a festival that was supposed to be celebrating women’s artistic talents...
First Women's Rights Convention, 160 years ago... →
July 19, 1848: one hundred and sixty years ago today in Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men gathered to discuss “the social, civil and religious condition and rights of Woman.”
via Reclusive Leftist, who made a chart tracking how many of the original goals of the convention have yet to be met.
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WatchA new Target Women.
Why isn’t Sarah Haskins on the Daily Show yet?
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Perez Hilton » Miley Almost Naked! →
The comment thread to this post on Perez Hilton gave me hives.
They hacked the girl’s phone, found some personal photos, and then all too happily piled on the insults: slut, ho, whore, etc. etc.
The double standard is amazing. Everything in our sexed-up culture insists that this is how a hot chick is supposed to behave — and then when she does, she’s instantly branded a slut.
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“I think it’s unconstitutionally unfair that only heterosexuals are allowed...”
– Kevin Cullen: Tilting at windmills - The Boston Globe
Oy.
Misogyny disguised as progressivism? Check.
Assumption that entire readership of Boston Globe is straight and male? Check.
Lesbian invisibility? Double check.
Out-dated, lame-ass humor? Check.
Nice job there, dude.
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Elizabeth Dole proposes naming AIDS prevention... →
The irony meter is apparently broken.
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“I must say I also agree with many in the liberal blogosphere who believe that...”
– Jon Swift: The Obama New Yorker Cover
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Mass. Senate votes to let out-of-state gays marry →
The Massachusetts Senate voted Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay couples from marrying in the state, a law that critics say was originally aimed at interracial marriages…
An analysis by the state Office of Housing and Economic Development found repealing the law would draw thousands of couples to Massachusetts, boosting the economy by $111 million, creating 330...
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Please blow up the entire planet. I'm serious... →
Skinny women in designer outfits, striking poses under the eye of a professional photographer and orchestrating exhibitionist “WTF moments” on Vimeo = “living differently” in the “NonSociety.”
catbird:
We, as a species, should not continue to exist. I can’t see any good coming from it.
Juno Lied →
The woman in front of us has practically done her grocery shopping here, and is paying in dimes and quarters. We wait for five minutes, Courtney watching the door for my mom.[who is in the car, innocently thinking we are getting pads.] Finally the woman is done, and I plop the pregnancy test on the counter. The clerk is in her late forties, and looks at me, pops her gum, and says, “I’m...
Stay classy, Florida.
The Miami Herald:
A disabled foster child whose liver is failing has been removed from a Central Florida hospital’s organ-transplant waiting list because hospital administrators fear the state’s shaky child-welfare system cannot ensure he has a permanent home in which to recover.
Shands Hospital in Gainesville removed the boy, 15, from a waiting list for organ recipients after...
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“This is a hard decision for me personally because, frankly, I don’t like him. I...”
– Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, titled, exceedingly wealthy, Chateau Lafitte sipping, estate-owner (among other things) utters perhaps the most “Hypocritcal Thing Ever Said on Television” when asked about her opinion of Senator Obama.
“Elitist” = code word perhaps, for...
“It’s like discovering that there are sexist tropes on Sanford and Son reruns,...”
– Norbizness, with an apt metaphor for the current situation progressive voters find themselves in; especially concerning recent revelations about Obama’s opinions on FISA, marriage equality, and reproductive freedom.
via I Blame The Patriarchy
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eatPES - Home of the Twisted Films of PES →
PES has a new short up: Western Spaghetti.
Rubick’s Cube garlic, Post-It butter. Yum.
(And I totally want one of those dollar trees.)
“Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”
– President George Bush’s parting words at the G8 summit in Japan
He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.
Ugh. What a douche.
Telegraph (via somethingchanged) (via pgwp)
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WatchI came for the barbarian Mikal Gorbachev and erotic twinkies, but stayed for the communist poster graphics combined with b-movie-esque live-action ridiculousness.
So amazing, I watched it twice.
(See also: Putin as dance club anthem.)
via about-today:
A video for a tribute song to Mikal Gorbachev by Russian metal band ANJ. It involves zombies, lasers, an axe-wielding barbarian Gorbachev, and...
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WatchA reality TV approach to life.
(And as a sidenote, why anyone would want to get even within 10 feet of Flava Flav, never mind compete over him?)
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