January 2012
56 posts
Some Notes On Rape Culture by Latoya Peterson →
a great explanation of how our culture is a rape culture. i think sometimes people don’t understand what that means because they think, “no, rape is crime!” but we eroticize and normalize coercion and assault in all our media, fiction, advice, reporting.
anyway, great article and i think everyone should read it, though a sexual assault trigger warning should be heeded. there...
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Plot Summary: ”Celeste & Jesse Forever” is about two people who met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, they decide to get divorced and attempt to stay best friends while pursuing other relationships. This plan is not as simple as they had imagined.
Celeste—imperious, successful and driven— is convinced that divorcing the boyish Jesse is the...
A Tentacle Porn Anthology to Raise Money to Save... →
Yes, you read that right. Someone is putting out an anthology of tentacle porn (in written form, not comics), and all proceeds will go to benefitOceana, a charity that works to protect the world’s oceans. All of a sudden, hentai seems oddly… noble. The book is called Coming Together, Arm in Arm in Arm.
Editor Nobilis Reed, who’s also the editor of another tentacle erotica...
to a great extent: on the token female bassist... →
jtwigg365:
one of the rights of people in punk is to suck. to be a shitty ass musician but to still have the space to do it and to learn and grow together and to share music and to create shit.
i’m trying to remember this as i muddle through writing my solo songs.
silentpunk: I am watching 'Game of Thrones' →
silentpunk:
Fantasy. Why is fantasy always in a dark-ages European setting? This is what I don’t like about fantasy as a genre, it always goes straight for the ye olde thing but because it’s ‘fantasy’ they don’t have to be historically accurate or anything; it’s sort of camp in a way.
That is also what I…
oops! meant to reblog instead of reply. i’m not arguing with you, i’m...
10 Black Women Teaching Us About Sex →
heythereladybear:
a list of 10 powerful black women sustaining the spirit of Audre Lorde, speaking our fears about sex, and encouraging us to respect our voice and curiosities. If you’ve ever had a question about sex go unanswered, know that these women are passionate about educating, sharing stories, and spreading knowledge.
THE SEX UNEDUCATED: It’s Official - Condoms... →
onecondoms:
Actors in adult movies in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms in all future adult films to be made. The city’s law was singed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa yesterday.
The law will take effect 41 days from it being signed.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation…
i think eroticizing condom use will be really good for everyone, though i do understand that this will probably...
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: Don't let politics... →
Why This Is Important
As the FDA prepared to lift the controversial age limit on Plan B and make it accessible on drug store shelves for all ages around the country, Secretary Sebelius overruled her own experts! According to a source, the secretary of HHS has never done this before and although she has the authority, this is unprecedented.
Secretary Sebelius’ reasoning is that Teva...
Pharmacies Respond Inaccurately to Teens Seeking... →
this is disgusting.
via scarleteen
But of the pharmacies who said they had emergency contraception available that day, 19 percent said the 17-year-old caller could not buy the emergency contraception under any circumstances. The pharmacies who responded this way usually hung up the phone quickly.
“We were really surprised that so many pharmacies actually ended the conversation at...
silentpunk: cruxofthebiscuit: silentpunk:... →
silentpunk:
cruxofthebiscuit:
silentpunk:
#whyamIwatchingNewGirl?
#becauseyouhateyourself?
are you surviving it? saw one of the episodes last night. HOW DO THEY EXIST.
Arg I know, I just have to be able to know what I’m talking about if there’s to be a slagging off session.
Early…
i actually enjoy this show. it’s the kind of everyday bizarre that i like. like my social...
silentpunk: moth-breath: “You’re so hot, you could... →
moth-breath:
“You’re so hot, you could be a Suicide Girl.” Contrary to popular belief, this is not a compliment. I resent the fact that my “look” is something that’s more often associated with porn rather than punk, or any other subculture. The list of reasons for us tattooed women to reject…
i haven’t really thought about suicide girls in a while. it was always a little...
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white people think of punk as white. →
from a review of White Riot by Golnar Nikpour (which you should read all of):
Whether they paint themselves as “white negroes” (White Riot starts of with a famous essay by Norman Mailer of that name, implicitly tracing punk’s lineage through American bohemian movements) or as “racetraitors” (the authors remind us of the thusly named—and terrible!—’90s HC band), punks are white (often middle...
Grantland Let Me Talk About '2 Broke Girls' →
OK, how baller is it that they have Han enter the bathroom doing a tried and true “so solly” routine, and actually bowing as he walks into the women’s bathroom? I guess that’s kind of the thing with racist imagery: Once it gets so thoroughly absorbed into the cultural lexicon, it kind of ain’t no thing to throw that in without even thinking about it.
biased opinion
i’ve seen very little of either of her sitcoms, though i saw most of some stand up special she had, but it seems to me that whitney cummings brand of humor is to talk frankly about things that still have a few uncomfortable giggles left in their taboo, but the things she says about those taboos are exactly the same things everyone always just said quietly in private about them. there is a...
“With a slight tweak, the meme becomes social critique. Just by adding “to” and a...”
– Latoya Peterson, “Exploring the Problematic and Subversive Shit People Say [Meme-ology],” Racialicious 1/19/12 (via racialicious)
The O Shot and O Spot: Where’s the Science? →
shit like this (the procedure and it’s press release, not my sex professor, which is great) is why we need better sex education AND media criticism studies in schools.
but, it reminded me of a blog post i started writing a hundred years ago, when the bermans had a show i saw just once (and then didn’t hear about the bermans again until recently), and it was just ridiculously...
wtf? →
via sociological images
great dissection of a thoughtless insult
from cracked (of course!)
The comment has since been deleted, but the damage was done. I think what hurt most about the whole ordeal was the confusion. While priding myself on sexual competency, I wasn’t sure I knew what a chick hole was. I’m still not sure. I’m assuming he meant a vagina, but his insult discounted any of the working pieces. He didn’t call me labia or...
Gasmask Island →
first of all, if you think that living in nyc makes you tough meet Miyakejima:
For the past century, the volcanoes have erupted six times. The worst of these occurred in June 2000 when, after a repose interval of 17 years, Mount Oyama erupted. The eruption was proceeded by 17,500 (yes, 17 thousand) earthquakes, which hit the island between June 26 and July 21.
and if you think about moving...
Got 99 problems but Jay-Z ain't one →
otherstuffthatilike:
blairwitchproject:
on another note, not once in 99 problems is he referring to a woman as a bitch.
Is he using a slur to infer that a man is feminine and that femininity is somehow a negative thing? So yeah. Still not cool and perhaps worse.
haha, you are awesome. other people are crazy.
relatedly, i do wish it didn’t take having a baby girl to get a man to...
MISSING: Azaria Owens from Brooklyn, NY →
sequin-stuffed:
Her name is Azaria, she is very friendly and very talkative - 7 years old, natural, brown skin, average build, about 3.5 ft tall.
She has been missing since 11am on January 14, 2012.
She may be wearing a pink coat and pink book bag; she probably has dolls, books, and cookies in this bag. She has multicolored bubbles and click-clack barrettes in her hair. The design is...
'Most runway models meet the BMI criteria for... →
selfsexytime:
By TAMARA ABRAHAM
A magazine dedicated to plus-size fashion and models has sparked controversy with a feature claiming that most runway models meet the Body Mass Index criteria for anorexia.
Accompanied by a bold shoot that sees a nude plus-size model posing alongside a skinny ‘straight-size’ model, PLUS Model Magazine says it aims to encourage plus-size consumers to pressure...
Reblog if capitalism sucks
youarenotyou:
i have never seen this many notes on anything
'subliminal' phalluses in advertising →
kind of the opposite of vulvs.
Math: you're doing it wrong.
flowersforhamlet:
Third graders in in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework Wednesday that asked questions about slavery and beatings.
Another question asked how many baskets of cotton Frederick filled.
Another math problem read, “If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week? In two weeks?”
I don’t even have words.
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holy. crap.
The Why We Broke Up Project →
i think this is an interesting site, but there is no room for my narrative there. i’ve been thinking that an anthology divorce zine might be a good thing to exist, but whenever i think about the process of putting it together, i think, i should be over it by then, shouldn’t i?
