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    Nov
    26th
    2011
    This is my kind of obscure 90s pop culture reference.

    This is my kind of obscure 90s pop culture reference.

    (Source: inspectorspacetimeconfessions)

     
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    Nov
    18th
    2011
    A whole lot of puzzle pieces just fell into place. (Via twentypercentcooler:Just killed another career, it’s a mild day.)

    A whole lot of puzzle pieces just fell into place.

    (Via twentypercentcooler:Just killed another career, it’s a mild day.)

     
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    Nov
    3rd
    2011
    n8rnate: Houston blogger, Kathleen McKinley, better known as “Texas Sparkle”, wrote a piece this week about the onslaught of suicides among LGTBQ teens in which she not only blames the loving parents and caring adults in the lives of these teens and young adults, she blames the victims for coming out in the first place. She goes so far as to say, in response to a reader’s comment: “*note: Let’s see. Being in the closet for a few years vs. being dead. Yep. I choose the former. “ Yes, because rather than seeking support among your family, friends, and peers, you should hide who you are, because otherwise, kids, you are just asking for it.  This only scratches the surface of her vitriol. And the fact that she goes on to respond to commenters with furthered ignorance and snide comments that seek to degrade and shut them down shows what an ignorant and irresponsible person she is.  But hey, remember kids, this is your fault, and how dare your parents accept you for who you are:  Why in the world would you give teenagers a REASON to tease you? Oh, yes, because the adults tell you to embrace who you are, the only problem? Kids that age are just discovering who they are. They really have no idea yet.  The adults tell you to “come out,” when what we should be telling them is that sex is for adults, and there is plenty of time for figuring out that later. I think shows like Glee make it WORSE for gays teens. This isn’t just a mistake we have made with gay teens. It’s for all teens. We have created a culture where girls think it’s perfectly fine to dress like a hooker, where boys think one night stands are just a part of growing up. We have sexualized our kids with movies, music, and culture, and now we have viruses like HPV running rampant before they even go to college. We should all be ashamed of ourselves.  The 15 year old who committed suicide had started a “Rainbow Club” at his high school. Was there NO ADULT anywhere that could have said that maybe that isn’t such a good idea? Oh, no. Because that would be politically incorrect. Good grief. The idea of a high school club based on who you want to sleep with is absurd to begin with. I don’t think there’s anything more to add. Nathan, you’re awesome.

    n8rnate:

    Houston blogger, Kathleen McKinley, better known as “Texas Sparkle”, wrote a piece this week about the onslaught of suicides among LGTBQ teens in which she not only blames the loving parents and caring adults in the lives of these teens and young adults, she blames the victims for coming out in the first place. She goes so far as to say, in response to a reader’s comment:

    “*note: Let’s see. Being in the closet for a few years vs. being dead. Yep. I choose the former. “

    Yes, because rather than seeking support among your family, friends, and peers, you should hide who you are, because otherwise, kids, you are just asking for it. 

    This only scratches the surface of her vitriol. And the fact that she goes on to respond to commenters with furthered ignorance and snide comments that seek to degrade and shut them down shows what an ignorant and irresponsible person she is. 

    But hey, remember kids, this is your fault, and how dare your parents accept you for who you are: 

    Why in the world would you give teenagers a REASON to tease you? Oh, yes, because the adults tell you to embrace who you are, the only problem? Kids that age are just discovering who they are. They really have no idea yet.  The adults tell you to “come out,” when what we should be telling them is that sex is for adults, and there is plenty of time for figuring out that later.

    I think shows like Glee make it WORSE for gays teens. This isn’t just a mistake we have made with gay teens. It’s for all teens. We have created a culture where girls think it’s perfectly fine to dress like a hooker, where boys think one night stands are just a part of growing up. We have sexualized our kids with movies, music, and culture, and now we have viruses like HPV running rampant before they even go to college. We should all be ashamed of ourselves.

     The 15 year old who committed suicide had started a “Rainbow Club” at his high school. Was there NO ADULT anywhere that could have said that maybe that isn’t such a good idea? Oh, no. Because that would be politically incorrect. Good grief. The idea of a high school club based on who you want to sleep with is absurd to begin with.


    I don’t think there’s anything more to add. Nathan, you’re awesome.

     
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    Oct
    31st
    2011

    On Faces

    This weekend, Phoenix Coyotes forward (and former Edmonton Oiler) Raffi Torres attended a team Halloween party with his wife.  The couple dressed like Jay Z and a pregnant Beyonce Knowles, complete with darkened skin.  Unsurprisingly, there are people who don’t think that’s okay.  Also unsurprisingly, and infinitely more depressing, is that there are a lot of people who think it’s perfectly okay, that people who were upset by it are wrong and making something out of nothing.  Some of these people have asked if people would be offended if black people dressed up in whiteface (Answer: Not very much, though they hated the movie) or if Torres had dressed up on a poncho and sombrero, itself ignorant of the fact that Torres is of Mexican and Peruvian descent, so if anyone could dress up as that stereotype and claim clean hands, it could possibly be him.

    I don’t think Torres is racist.  There’s zero evidence that he actually dislikes black people, and I’m inclined to believe part of the defense of him that’s cropped up, which is basically that he’s not racist and that his costume was intended to be a genuinely admiring one.  However, I’m also surprised that Torres, who has weathered disgusting racial slurs and stereotypes his whole life, wouldn’t stop somewhere along the way and think, maybe this will sends the wrong message to some people.  Because whether or not it’s a minstrelsy show - which it wasn’t - and whether or not he meant it as blackface - which I don’t think he did - someone of light skin darkening their skin to appear black will always bring up the spectre of blackface.  In a sense, it doesn’t matter whether Torres meant for it to be blackface because to thousands of people it will be, and being ignorant of that absolves Torres of racism but not of a certain degree of racial insensitivity.

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    Oct
    28th
    2011
    I want to project this onto skyscrapers at night, I love it so much.

    I want to project this onto skyscrapers at night, I love it so much.

    (Source: atsween)

     
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    Sep
    23rd
    2011

    Breakdancing Har Har

    Interviewer: So why do you write these strong female characters?
    Whedon: Because you’re still asking me that question.

    -(Via mckelvie, who you should give all your money to because he makes purty drawrins)

    Man, isn’t this just the truth? Especially in the wake of Laura Hudson’s brilliant article about the disrespect of women that’s inherent in so many superhero comics, which got a lot of wonderful, positive responses and also a bunch of ignorant “Women just imagine these things” responses. It is extremely depressing that as far as our society has come in many ways, there are still people who are genuinely surprised when a woman doesn’t like being told that being “sexually liberated” means being a dead-eyed sexual amnesiac who sees men as large swatches of skin tone to let put their smaller swatches into her vagina.

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    Sep
    15th
    2011
    [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

    plays: 150

    Man, what a great song from a great band.  I am not exaggerating when I say that there are nights I played this more than ten times in a row, bouncing around, doing air guitar and singing my best Corin Tucker wail. Goddamn, it’s boss.

    If you like loud, pounding guitar rock and badass women who play it, that whole album, All Hands on the Bad One, hell, the whole Sleater-Kinney discography, is deserving of all your money right now.

    Seriously.  Right now.

    jonahray:

    Sleater-Kinney - You’re No Rock ‘n’ Roll Fun

    (via purns)

     
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    Sep
    14th
    2011
    Absolutely. I didn’t expect to like Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III’s Batwoman story in the pages of Detective Comics.  The company’s titular monthly series, a Batman series, with someone else on the cover?  It felt wrong. Then I actually read it.  Kate Kane was one of the best new characters I’d seen in ages.  She felt so well-realized and so real that I couldn’t help but become a fan.  The art certainly helped - it’s gorgeous like nothing else in the industry and I wanted more more more. Then the arc ended.  Rucka left DC.  Eventually, the company announced an ongoing Batwoman series for the character, but various delays kept it from coming out. Until now. It’s good.  Like, real good.  So good I can’t believe you’re not reading it already.  Stunning.  Need more convincing?  I talk about it at relative length here. Welcome back, Kate Kane. (Art by the fantasmariffic kateordie)

    Absolutely.

    I didn’t expect to like Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III’s Batwoman story in the pages of Detective Comics.  The company’s titular monthly series, a Batman series, with someone else on the cover?  It felt wrong.

    Then I actually read it.  Kate Kane was one of the best new characters I’d seen in ages.  She felt so well-realized and so real that I couldn’t help but become a fan.  The art certainly helped - it’s gorgeous like nothing else in the industry and I wanted more more more.

    Then the arc ended.  Rucka left DC.  Eventually, the company announced an ongoing Batwoman series for the character, but various delays kept it from coming out.

    Until now.

    It’s good.  Like, real good.  So good I can’t believe you’re not reading it already.  Stunning.  Need more convincing?  I talk about it at relative length here.

    Welcome back, Kate Kane.

    (Art by the fantasmariffic kateordie)

     
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    On Household Cleaning Supplies

    I have to say, I am completely amused by all the uproar about a recently-published study in Pediatrics that was reported to have found that “Spongebob ruins attention spans.”  And not just because a scientist got published (and probably paid) for writing an article that actually includes the line describing “a very popular fantastical cartoon about an animated sponge that lives under the sea.”  No, I’m amused because the study is a giant pile of shit and nobody in the media - or the official goddamn journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics - has apparently noticed.

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    Sep
    9th
    2011
    Stephanie Brown, you were Boss HOGG.  I’ll miss you, but I know you’ll be back. (Via thebirdandthebat: Don’t mess with Stephanie Brown.”)

    Stephanie Brown, you were Boss HOGG.  I’ll miss you, but I know you’ll be back.

    (Via thebirdandthebat: Don’t mess with Stephanie Brown.”)

     
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