February 2011
Healthy people are poor consumers →
weirdfish:
“very-high-level marketers have managed to create a nation of people who typically… are tired and unhealthy and vaguely dissatisfied with their lives, respond to boredom, dissatisfaction, or anxiety only by buying and consuming things, have disposable income but can’t find a more fulfilling line of work without losing their health insurance, create health problems for themselves… are...
Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews: The Proposed... →
lazybookreviews:
I do not care why you want an abortion. You want an abortion? That’s good enough for me.
I am so happy to have my tax dollars pay for it. I would rather help a struggling young woman pay for an abortion than a) more unnecessary construction near my house, b) more subsidies for the corn and…
January 2011
You have no legal right to sex. →
syntheticpubes:
Rather than asking deep questions about unenumerated rights retained by the people (the benchmark of the Ninth Amendment), the court tiptoed around the issue of sex by protecting the psychological space in which it occurs. Sex became a nameless something that couples did when making decisions about family planning.
Spend 10 minutes learning some shit today, let it marinate in...
Soup: CYNICAL TIMES, with Sady →
youngmanhattanite:
sadydoyle:
People LOVE it when the oppressed seize power!
Provided they’re far away. And not targeting you. And aren’t looking to constrain any of your immediate comforts or privileges, or correct any of the assumptions you use in a day-to-day context. And you can…
sugarlou:
sometimes i can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the SVU blog-posts i’m not writing
WatchI have a job interview in the morning (!!!!!!!!!!!!) so before I go to bed I’d like to make sure you guys start the weekend with my favorite Videogum entry of all time. Happy weekend, everybody.
Land and Dobson Blame Feminism For the Fact That... →
hellocarrot:
James Dobson recently appeared on Richard Land’s radio program to discuss his latest book “Bringing Up Girls” during which he warned that if parents don’t pay close attention to their children, the culture will drag them off to Hell while the two men lamented that their amazing daughters cannot find any good men to marry, and it is all feminism’s fault.
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The feminist movement...
“The most important thing in a relationship is that you and your partner love the...”
– Daria (via fuckyeadaria)
Javier introduced me to cashews on pizza. Our relationship is 2 legit 2 quit.
“Time was passing like a hand waving
from a train I wanted to be on. I hope
you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“Jerome Bell gets through with the loudest version of “Let’s Get It On” you’ve...”
– Paul F. Tompkins’ American Idol recaps on Vulture are why there’s an internet. (via daveholmes)
“I hate nothing more than when millionaires have cheap accessories. Last year I kept seeing Paul McCartney wearing those suspenders with the clips. SIR Paul McCartney. CLIPS. Let me tell you...
Wolf-whistling: not flattered →
moreapologies:
sequinedk:
According to an MSN story, women secretly love street harassment. Fiona H Halliday is exasperated.
Signing into MSN to read my email the other day, an annoying window popped up telling me what rubbish I could read on MSN. Doubtless these articles are mostly always nonsense, but I was shamefully intrigued by ‘Secrets girls don’t want guys to know’. I have no idea...
“The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term ‘globalization’ to...”
– Noam Chomsky (via soupsoup)
Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to... →
If you fail to respect what women say, you label yourself a problem.
There’s a man with whom I went out on a single date—afternoon coffee, for one hour by the clock—on July 25th. In the two days after the date, he sent me about fifteen e-mails, scolding me for non-responsiveness. I e-mailed him back, saying, “Look, this is a disproportionate response to a single date. You are making me...
