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Your Annual Guide To Holiday Romance - A Response
Equally awesome response from Jamieleigh
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“23. Avoid any guy you meet who encourages you to empower yourself by pursuing what you love. He thinks he’s got women figured out but he’s still hoping what you love is pole dancing classes.”
brb dying of laughter
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Have I mentioned how fed up I am w/ the jabs at pole dancing, esp. by other self-identified feminist/liberal/progressive/whatever people? And esp. as some sort of hallmark example of faux empowerment, ha-ha, silly girls?
(via amberlrhea)ah, that’s a good point i (obviously) didn’t think about! i actually hadn’t considered that the specific example given might involve a jab at people who do enjoy that example, i thought of it just as a poke at guys who support women doing what they want… just as long as it’s something that appeals to dudes (so for example “sucking cock” also would have worked, albeit with points off for lack of subtlety). but, that is a really common stereotype/way of looking at pole dancing (which just to clarify: i have nothing but respect and also copious amounts of envy for people who pole dance, especially as i can’t do any kind of dancing), so i can definitely see how it would be read that way, and also now that i think about it i do wonder why that specific example would be chosen if not to do just that. i dunno, i feel like the joke does potentially work without having fun at the expense of people who like the thing in question (as, again, i think it would be equally funny if you substituted sucking cock for pole dancing, or baking a pie for her dude, or whatever), but the frequency with which pole dancing does wind up being the butt of a joke makes me wonder what would be the point of that example over any others, if not to jab at pole dancing.
LET’S SEE IF I CAN SAY THE WORDS POLE DANCING SOME MORE TIMES.
anyway. that isn’t how the joke came off to me, and i don’t think it’s inherent to the structure of the joke to read it that way. but, since that connotation is so strong, i am leaning towards probably either that was intended or it wound up being a part of the joke for a lot of people, which is gross for the reasons amberlrhea stated.
The Abortion Wars Heat Up - Megan McArdle
AAAAAHH. AHHHHHHH. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
someday I’ll regain access to my brain and post actual responses to this sort of bullshit.
edit: also, please note the part of her post where McArdle confuses Medicare with Medicaid. I know that it’s confusing, but if you’re writing something about it for a place as big as The Atlantic, you might want to fact check…right?
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(via robot-heart-politics) I’m starting to get the feeling that a lot of people who live in big cities think that there are Planned Parenthood offices on every corner across the country. They are mistaken. (via phamos)
oooh, this is going to make a great entry in my “megan mcardle is deeply wrong about something” scrapbook. it’s really filling up!
(via abbyjean)oh my god are you FUCKING kidding me? i am just so fucking appalled by this statement i want to throw up right now.
i remember seeing these all the time when in the months before the movie came out, they were part of the reason i was interested in seeing it in the first place (the other reason was mostly that i had really loved adaptation and was excited that the guy who wrote it had another movie coming out)… i think it’s a really well-done poster.(via androgyny)
OMG unseen Eternal Sunshine poster?
megan mcardle at the atlantic, a major magazine that presumably employs fact-checkers.
see, medicare is an insurance program. you become eligible for it by paying into the system via payroll taxes, similar to paying regular premiums for insurance. then, when you turn 65 or become disabled, you get access to the insurance that you’ve paid for over the years.
then there’s medicaid. it’s a welfare program, because eligibility is determined by income and asset levels, rather than by work history. there are no premiums or payroll taxes that you pay in order to get medicaid coverage.
so women close to the poverty line would likely be eligible for medicaid, not medicare. unless there are a whole lot of women over 65 (the majority of medicare recipients) who cannot afford but want abortions, this is a massive mix up.
YOU NOW KNOW MORE THAN MEGAN MCARDLE REGARDING FEDERAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS. which is nice for you and too bad for the atlantic who employs her to write about such matters.
(via abbyjean)Your Annual Guide To Holiday Romance - A Response
Equally awesome response from Jamieleigh
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(via katoleary)“23. Avoid any guy you meet who encourages you to empower yourself by pursuing what you love. He thinks he’s got women figured out but he’s still hoping what you love is pole dancing classes.”
brb dying of laughter
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awesome
Most of the time, people regard math and creativity (or fun) as two things you keep separate, and that’s a shame. :) They’re a beautiful and elegant combination. Just look at music!
This? is pure WIN.
so this is super offensive!
listen. i have a HUGE tolerance for the fucked up mentality/tone that came about with the help of the “dos and donts” section of vice magazine and allowed men (and women dudes) to make sweeping generalizations about the opposite (or in some cases same) sex.
but this dude is just…well i guess he’s confused. and he thinks that all girls are desperate and crazy and makes some useless allusion to how we should all have perfectly groomed pubilc areas…..which is i think what many dudes in their mid twenties (and like way into their thirties sometimes! yay!) think about girls. sometimes its because they’re ex left them for her dealer. sometimes its because she wanted to start stripping. sometimes its because he got drunk and fucked another girl and she wasnt having none of it. sometimes its because a cute bar tender shot them down. or because girls with glasses and cool haircuts never gave them the time of day.
but i feel bad for this kid. we all have our hang ups and our pre-conceived notions and our deal breakers. but this dude has so many i wonder how he is ever going to have sex again.
frown town dudes.
Dial down the awesome, sneely! Hard to handle on a Monday.
