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J.D. Salinger has died.

Boston people! Tomorrow night! Go Rogue! Awesome burlesque and circus show tonight. Go go go go go go. I've seen these people perform and there is some serious star power on that stage.

via reannon: a teacher harasses an eleven-year-old male student by tying his long hair into three ponytails and encouraging his classmates to mock him by calling him "girl" and female names. This is why feminism is everyone's issue and this is why LGBTQ rights are everyone's issues. If being female and/or deviating from any given person's idea of a gender norm weren't considered bad, fuckery like this wouldn't happen. Of course, in the case of a teacher so mean-hearted, I have to imagine they would have done something else appalling on a different issue, given the chance.

Will CBS air a gay dating ad during the Superbowl?

iPad feminine hygiene jokes reach CNN.

Dior has clearly seen Moulin Rouge and just about every movie musical from the 1950s. I am full of love. Really hate Lagerfeld's collection for Chanel this go around though. And I really love Lagerfeld as a rule.

Us: Americans Talk About Love.

51stcenturyfox alerts us to the slightly surreal Dan Savage column this week in which he discusses M/M/F threesomes and Twilight.

This one's from amand_r: Apparently Australia has banned the appearance of small-breasted (A-cup) women in porn because they resemble underage girls. If one extrapolates "logically" from this shit we wind up with sex with the non-buxom being criminalized or something. Australia has also banned porn that depicts female ejaculation. Because the way women's bodies actually can be? Indecent and disgusting apparently. This has me more enraged than I can describe. Look, it's like this, no matter how privileged your body (i.e., mine -- thin, hour-glass shaped, white, no visible disabilities) if it is is female, IT IS ALWAYS WRONG. That's the world we live in.

Comments

[demotu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I didn't actually mean they should do that, just if they felt they had to, small boobs is a stupid first target. Up with acceptance of alopecia! :)

And God, yes - this idea that the government is coming down with "this is what an adult female body looks like", is horrendous on so many levels. Couldn't an A-cup porn star file some sort of discrimination lawsuit, saying it prevented them from earning a living?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I mean, sure a lot of the appeal of a-cup stars in porn is for the "barely legal" market, but if the woman's an adult.... also, seriously? This hits queer porn in all sorts of weird ways -- how are trans bodies going to be allowed on screen? watch about porn for gay women that feature (often small-breasted) butch women?

[demotu.livejournal.com]

And the fact is, however much it squicks you, the "barely legal" market is still legal, qualifiers or not. Plus, most women are nearly or entirely fully developed by 18. My boobs haven't gotten bigger - except due to weight gain - since I was sixteen or so, and I hit puberty rather late!

[natf.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I was a C by age 15 and am now an E (age 42). Using A sized boobs as an age 18 descriptor is nonsensical.