January 2012
56 posts
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.
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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...
