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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.

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[natf.livejournal.com]

Steve Jobs even called it the iPod at one point in his presentation as well. I think the problem is that the alternatives were worse: iTab (drugs), iTablet (Moses and drugs), iSlate (ancient and out of date) - I cannot think of anything better than iPad myself and did not even think of the Maxipad/CoverFlow connotations until rm tweeted about the jokes she was seeing. Then again, I have not used pads since I was 13 which is a LONG time ago!

[nobodyreally.livejournal.com]

As a geeky woman, the part that got me was that the parody already existed. Worse, if there had been a single woman in the room, she would have already seen it. THAT is why we are dying laughing: the sexism that so many boys in the biz have clung to just bit them in the ass.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it is also funny as hell.