December 2011
47 posts
Adventures of Comic Book Girl: Mary Sue, what are... →
adventuresofcomicbookgirl:
Looks like this essay was needed, so I went ahead and did it. Not sure I said everything I wanted to say, but I tried.
So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects…
“Nobody tells an actor, ‘you’re playing a strong-minded man.’ We assume that men...”
– Meryl Streep, on being told that she often plays “strong-minded women.”
(via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
Meryl Streep for President
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“The average homosexual has 1,000 or more partners in a lifetime, and the average...”
– Ron Paul
This is so accurate, it’s like he knows me oh my God
(via autumn-and-eve)
I wish I had 1,000 or more partners… @_@
(via lucypaw)
Damn, I need to stop slacking. I’ve got 999 more to go before I reach my quota! No, wait … I’m pansexual, so that’s, like, even more queer, right? So my...
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Magical Peen, a working definition
Chez Melissa, we have adopted a term for a particularly sexist and ubiquitous trope, The Magical Peen: When a competent, intelligent, strong female character is magically rendered incompetent, weepy, dumb, and uninteresting after an ‘intimate’ encounter with the Magical Peen of the Romantic Interest/Peen Bearer. See: Homeland (Carrie), Fringe (Olivia Dunham), and most paranormal...
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WatchJust in time for the holidays— Winter Steele!! Cintra Wilson’s AWESOME puppet!biker chick on an EPIC quest to find her man! Yes, it’s classic Liquid TV! Remember when MTV didn’t suck! (if you do, you’re old as dirt like me)
Ain’t but one man alive who ain’t gonna wuss out on my violent way of love. I’m gonna find you Crow Dickerson and when I do...
Store Decides To Integrate Boys’ And Girls’ Toys;... →
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cassket:
A UK toy store has eliminated its girls’ and boys’ toys sections, instead grouping toys by category. A blogger has claimed this decision as a victory, but the store says it’s just responding to customer confusion.
According to the Mirror, the toy store Hamleys has replaced its pink and blue signs with red and white ones, and changed its organization to group toys by...
“I think it’s odd that you can’t joke about rape, when people joke about murder...”
– Donald Glover (via witch-or-not)
More than one in four women are murdered? hot damn! I guess that makes rape HILARIOUS then. And yes, murder is sooooo funny, too. Violence as a whole…just, comedy gold, mirite?
(via fuckyeahfeminists)
Off On a Tangent: Crime Novel Favorites of Mine in... →
offonatangent:
By and large the year in crime was pretty good, though since it was the first time since 2004 where I did not have a regular column by the end of the year, my reading was not quite as organized as it had been in the past and was more wide-ranging across a number of genres. (Now I *really* tip my…
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Watchyvynyl:
G△Z△ - GHOTNC
Not really sure what the hell this is, but its heavy drone overtone match the gorgeous, mysterious dystopian sci-fi future perfectly. This is exactly how I envision 2156 when the alien overlords have overtaken earth and begin building their structures.
“Aural/Visual Explorations” by Swedish art collective Anima Farm presumably led by one Gaston Dupuy. Listen to more on...
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“The sadness I feel about Lindsay has more to do with the media’s casting of her...”
– Margaret Cho blogs about Lindsay.
Over at the always hilarious, always angry, Requires Only That You Hate, acrackedmoon asks the question: lesbians, where are the lesbians?
This is a question that has been bothering me for a while, particularly since the #yesgayYA discussion veered almost immediately into being all about the (usually white, cis) boys. I’m so used to this inevitable turn that every LGBT discussion seems to take...
“One of the things she said to me in our 1997 talk was, ‘my beauty was my curse,...”
– Carmelo “Nino” Amarena recalls interviewing Hollywood-starlet-turned-inventor Hedy Lamarr, whose radio system for remote-controlling torpedoes laid the foundation for technologies like Bluetooth and wifi. (via curiositycounts)
FY Lesbian Literature!: sffic: At thirteen... →
sffic:
At thirteen desperately watching TV, curling my long legs under me, desperately reading books, callow adolescent that I was, trying (desperately!) to find someone in books, in movies, in life, in history, to tell me it was O. K. to be ambitious, O. K. to be loud, O. K. to be Humphrey…
Fuck Yeah! Queer Music: WE ARE NOT CONTINGENT: An... →
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adjunctmanifesto:
We are the non-tenure track faculty who now constitute two-thirds of the instructional workforce at universities and colleges across the nation. We are frequently invisible to administrators, yet we are the first professors and instructors that…
The top 10 anti-gay foes spend three times as much...
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think-progress:
Hate has got some deep pockets.
-Joe
“Take, for instance, “The Man of Law’s Tale,” the fifth of the Canterbury Tales...”
– Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature by Emma Donoghue
(or: How All the Authors You’ve Ever Heard of Wrote Lesbian Love Stories and No One Told You)
Shalom, motherf*ckers
shitmystudentswrite:
Our house was a constant target for drive-by shootings and mazel tov cocktails.