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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?

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!

oh my god are you FUCKING kidding me? i am just so fucking appalled by this statement i want to throw up right now.

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.

Your Annual Guide To Holiday Romance - A Response

Equally awesome response from Jamieleigh

(via markyb)

“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