September 2011
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“In response to a string of at least 10 unsolved sexual assaults in Brooklyn, New...”
– Oh, okay. (via synecdoche)
OH MY GOD.
(via aatombomb)
I get where the officers are coming from, but damn they’re stupid for putting it like that.
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What the actual fuck
(via anotherdrunkentirade)
I’m sorry. You “get where the officers are coming from”? No. Unless you meant to say...
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“This might be the last simple place left in the NFL. A place where fans navigate...”
– Les Carpenter on Buffalo and the Buffalo Bills. (via washingtonpoststyle)
I must disagree with this author’s take. I don’t think Green Bay has gone “corporate” - just because we have remodeled our stadium does not mean that we have lost that tradition and nostalgia. Green Bay is, and always will...
“I cannot help asking, even more than I usually do when I watch scripted...”
– Linda Holmes, “Congratulations, Television! You Are Even Worse at Masculinity Than Femininity!” - Monkey See Blog, npr.org
She argues that major networks would never air a show in which an attractive woman instructed an unattractive woman in how to be more “feminine,” but I...
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“[Daphne] Guinness’s clothing collection, which she keeps in her homes in...”
– from Rebecca Mead’s New Yorker profile of Daphne Guinness, “Precarious Beauty.”
I would like to know who helps Daphne Guinness move.
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What Girls Need - VICE Magazine →
To Cool The Fuck Out About Other Girls
A thing I wrote for VICE about why girls hate each other (they do!) has turned into the thing I get the second-most emails about. (The first-most was a story about how everyone in the 20s hates themselves. Hole-in-one, right?) Half of them are like “Yeah, right? Girls are whores.” NO, FUCK! Fuck you guys.
Also, I got a job offer this week from a...
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“According to statistics, 17.4 percent of women in the U.S. have survived a...”
– MS Magazine: Rape is not a joke
via beejo
I’m past the point of thinking that anyone on the facebook staff is even a reasonably good person, but here’s a standard example of rape culture.
Those statistics can be found here and here.
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“There is a grave and sinister new threat facing our college sons nationwide....”
– Vajazzling, The Newest Threat To Your College Son | ChristWire
I don’t think that “having babies” is really the goal of vajazzling.
(via mar-see-ah)
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“The idea that you might end up in a job that doesn’t allow you to be who you...”
– Miranda July
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“I think it’s overblown. I have no idea why I’m getting this attention. I don’t...”
– Alessio Rastani, on his BBC interview yesterday, from BusinessInsider.com
Links to his Youtube channel,his Facebook fan page, and his website, LeadingTrader.com, indicate that he is actually a trader, albeit with mediocre taste in reading material and music: he lists Angels and Demons among his...
“I felt like I’d walked into an American teen movie. I picked up the red cups. I...”
– Emma Watson on her first frat party at Brown
Quote of the day: it’s fall and I miss college.
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Watch1 in 3 women will have an abortion in her lifetime, but we almost never talk about it.
Not really. We may talk about abortion as an “issue,” but we rarely have real conversations about the real women who have abortions, their lives, and why we all need access to basic health care. The 1 in 3 campaign is a grassroots movement to start a new conversation about abortion — telling our...
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I’m obsessed with horoscopes. Not just any horoscopes, but specifically, the ELLE magazine horoscopes. I get it - if this were Project Runway, Nina Garcia would probably tell me I have a problem of taste. I’m like an English major who refuses to read anything other than the Gossip Girl series. But I’m obsessed to the point that I have religiously consulted the ELLE horoscopes at...
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"Flick Chicks" by Mandy Kaling
austinkleon:
Women in the movies who don’t exist in real life.
A list by Mindy Kaling (a.k.a. Kelly from The Office). My favorite:
The Ethereal Weirdo
The smart and funny writer Nathan Rabin coined the term Manic Pixie Dream Girl to describe this archetype after seeing Kirsten Dunst in the movie “Elizabethtown.” This girl can’t be pinned down and may or may not show up when you make...
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kileyrae:
The New York Daily News catches up with some of the Wall Street protestors roughed up by the NYPD this weekend.
inothernews:
“I’ve been out of jail for two hours and I’m back. I’ll take the disorderly conduct charge and be proud of it.” 19-year-old RHEANNONE BALL, who appeared on the Daily News’s front page pinned to the ground by at least two police officers. She was holding a...
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carry-onbaggage:
I will always be impressed with the ability of people who’ve known you at your worst to bolster and support you during unexpectedly emotional and unspeakably strange, difficult experiences. I continually admire people whom I’ve failed, people of whom, at times, I’ve expected too much or to whom I’ve painted too vulnerable, unflattering of a portrait of myself. People who, in...
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“About 20 percent of all photos taken this year will end up on Facebook....”
– Your terrifying Facebook statistic of the day, courtesy of geek.com.
WBEZ: I Hate The Green Bay Packers. I Just Don't... →
“They have cabins up here. And they speed in their Volvos, and what have you, to their cabins in northern Wisconsin. On our free roads.”
Brilliant.
Thank you to gasp-shock for this exceptional link.
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“Blaine shows up to announce that he’s decided to transfer to McKinley. Adorbz....”
– Glee Recap: Beat It - Vulture
I can’t thank you enough, jennyjennybobenny, for linking this, because reading this part at work made me snort out my laughter in such a grotesque manner that several co-workers asked me if I was choking. I mean, that half-vest-bib, right? What WAS that?
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AmeriCorps: Today's Depression-era CCC →
As President Obama and Congress seek ways to create jobs today, the lesson of the CCC should be well remembered. Skeptics will say that it was World War II, not the New Deal, that ultimately ended the Depression — and they have a point. But what they forget is that in its early years, through the CCC and related efforts, unemployment fell sharply from 24.8% in 1933 to 14.2% in 1937....
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“On the plus side, women write and produce and star in more TV than ever. But if...”
– from Hank Stuever’s ”Bunnies, Babes, and Broads: What Is TV Trying to Tell Us About Women?” in the Washington Post that has been make its tumblr rounds today.
I think this commentary is a lot more interesting than the tired point about Zooey Deschanel - we know she’s made a...
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Growing set of state abortion restrictions... →
Remapping Debate has created some shocking graphs depicting abortion restrictions by state. Click through to the link to move the information around and view it on a state-by-state, restriction-by-restriction basis.
As feministing points out, these graphs prove what we should already know: focusing the abortion movement on the legal right to do something that is already legal is becoming more and...
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you might not want to read this one
So. I have been away from the internet for a while, and during my absence, I had an experience that I’ve gone back and forth about blogging about. My experience was, sadly, not particularly unique or shocking, but for me, it was not only uncomfortable and violating, but it also made question some of the standards to which I hold myself as a feminist and an advocate for other women. Whenever...
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“When you make comments that fly in the face of what 98 out of 100 climate...”
– John Huntsman (via mar-see-ah)
Governor Huntsman, thank you for being the only sane one on a stage of crazies.
(via kileyrae)
Huntsman kind of makes me wish I could vote against any Democrat without the fear of voting against women’s rights.
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