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Amazing read, and probably one of the best uses of the web ever witnessed.
Carefree 80’s glam meets stringy-haired Satanism with delightful results.
Kate Harding, awesomely deconstructing stupid beauty memes.Two minutes of Googling phrases like “favorite female role models” yielded answers including: Oprah, Nancy Pelosi, Tina Fey, Waris Dirie, Shirley MacLaine, Dame Judi Dench, Queen Elizabeth, President of Argentina Cristina Kirchner, and J.K. Rowling and Ellen DeGeneres, twice each.
But if men aspire to sleep with 22-year-old women who can pass for teenagers, and women aspire to be 51-year-old lesbian talk show hosts, we’re at an impasse. So it’s much simpler if we just tell women what they chiefly want to be is attractive to straight men, over and over, until they internalize it.
86 Year Old Vet on Marriage Equality: “What do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?“
Alas, a blog » That Glorious Day When Jesus Founded America
Understandably, current parallels [between Hitler and Obama] are frightening
Billionaires for Wealthcare: Let’s Save the Status Quo

