January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
2 posts
Logical Pearl: #challengeporn and my experience... →
logicalpearl:
This is one of those rare occasions where I post something that isn’t fandom-related. This is a double-whammy, as it is also about feminism and my negative experiences with it. If that makes you annoyed, read on—maybe we can have some polite-if-passionate discourse. If you’re going to get nasty…
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
2 posts
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Melissa Gira Grant: Fuck online dating, keep... →
melissa:
On New Year’s Day I got an email from a guy saying my OkCupid box was full. I had set up an OkCupid account when I was writing for Valleywag, but hadn’t logged in since. Mostly I wrote about the mechanics of the site, and not the people I met through it. I used my real name as my login, because I…
I FUCKING LOVE MELISSA GIRA AND HER WRITING IS FUCKING SEX
July 2011
1 post
too many Daves: "Joke people and you make... →
davidquigg:
It’s rare that I want to punch someone. Today, briefly, I wanted to punch Marty Beckerman. I don’t even know Marty Beckerman. The little I knew about Marty Beckerman — the thing that made me want to punch him — was this passage from his new book, which showed up on Andrew Sullivan’s blog:
…
June 2011
5 posts
Erisianisms: The Andro-Aperture Project - my gut... →
kittystryker:
soccerdomme:
You know, I WANT to be wholeheartedly in favor of Kitty Stryker’s Andro-Aperture Project. I think she’s a way cool chick & has a great eye for creating hot smut. I agree with the principles that the world could use more imagery of the sort she is looking for, and that it’d be swell to encourage…
“No, what this is about is MARKETING: framing the produced images...
The Strange Decline of the English Cottage: The... →
I HAVE ALREADY WRITTEN MISS MARPLE SLASHFIC DEARIES NOTHING WOULD SHOCK THAT OLD BIRD
englishcottage:
It is perhaps inevitable that within the vagaries of English slang a word so redolent of the English village, Miss Marple and vicars cycling to give evening sermons, should come to be associated with acts so unspeakable and perverted that they are morally repugnant to your average citizen....
Fantasy
I had a fantasy recently. But probably more of a day-dream. I barely let my mind wander into fantasy-land these days. I know where that ends up.
I went round to your house for dinner I had wine and was being all grown up for the best part of about five minutes.
You were cooking and I asked about your tattoos and then asked if I could see them.
You took off your shirt (we were in a living room...
queer theory reader: Gendering the Bailey Review →
http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/nice-tits-love/
This is an interesting post on gendering of the Bailey Review (UK) but it reminded me of my post on the same subject, and also of Mark Simpson’s work. I have linked to posts that I think draw on Simpson’s work before, as a record of how widespread and accessible his ideas are, in comparison to how little credit he gets!
I...
May 2011
3 posts
March 2011
3 posts
The Swagtorialist: Stealing People's Ideas →
Sometimes people are influenced by others without realising it, but this article by Gavin James Bower on men’s products, ‘narcissism’ and ‘manning up’ is so similar to recent work by Mark Simpson, Daddy of The Metrosexual, that I am convinced it is a straight forward lifting job. I guess that is what tumblr is all about:
theswagtorialist:
How much do you...
Libyans rally against U.S./UN intervention in... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
“No to foreign intervention in Libya’s internal affairs,” proclaims the biggest banner on the platform overlooking Tripoli’s Green Square, swaying gently in the afternoon breeze as giant loudspeakers blare out ear-splitting songs of defiance.
Strangely perhaps, the message is signed by the International Libyan Childhood Association, but it too is doing its bit to defend...
February 2011
3 posts
“‘I guess what I’m saying is that a truly effective movement doesn’t try to...”
– Sady Doyle (and it’s not the same as bowling but: the ACT UP Oral History Project has interviews with just these kinds of hellcats)
Misandry: The Acceptable Prejudice By Mark Simpson
Quiet Riot Girl has kindly brought to my attention the vogue online for dismissing anyone who suggests that men might face sexism as well as women with the retort: ‘what about the menz?’ And it isn’t just feminists using this school-ground approach.
It’s a rather telling phrase because it tries to project the childishness of the people deploying it against the ones they want to shut up. ...
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
42 posts
An Ode to Steve Jobs
Jobs has ruled on i-pad apps
That there’s no room for nudity:
This corporate censorship is crap
All based on one man’s prudity
So if you ever get the horn
Don’t bother with Apple’s squeamishness.
Why not go make your own porn
(and send to me at the usual address?)
“This letter isn’t really about anything, but in the back of my mind I’m thinking...”
– Stephen Elliott (who, as always, is not writing just to me) (via melissa)
"How 'The Karate Kid' Ruined The Modern World," by... →
I think The Karate Kid ruined the modern world.
Not just that movie, but all of the movies like it (you certainly can’t let the Rocky sequels escape blame). Basically any movie with a training montage.
You know what I’m talking about; the main character is very bad at something, then there is a sequence in the middle of the film set to upbeat music that shows him practicing. When it’s done,...
HUSTLE!
I spent the weekend preparing my contribution for 48hrmag: http://48hrmag.com/
It is a fantastic project based in SF. The challenge is to put together a whole magazine in 48hours. The theme was announced on Friday night: Hustle! and everyone has been hustling to get the content and the design finished in time to publish today, 12pm Pacific time, 8pm Uk time. Even if I don’t get my...
