Yesterday, my father called me and told me not to get gout.
Hey, can we talk about John Stewart's facial hair? I think he looks hot (minus the marshmallow fluff); Patty hates it. But we both want to know, WHY this grooming change. Anyone?
No one told me, NO ONE TOLD ME, that the actor who plays Arthur in Inception is that kid from Third Rock from the Sun. I read Arthur/Eames porn yesterday and now I feel dirty, not in the good way.
You know what's awesome about Inception? You (read: me) can write something really long and smart about it and be totally wrong. Awesome interview with Dileep Rao here.
Hey can anyone tell me if Chocomize is related to Chocri or which came first or whatever?
How to measure yourself for custom menswear. Note: specific instructions from specific retailers/designers, etc, may vary; listen to them first. Also note: if you are female bodied there's stuff obviously not included in here that you'd want to consider for both fit and presentation/illusion; if you have a question, ask me.
I have, because of its upcoming conference in New York and a series of awesome "Tourist, don't be a asshole" things people are writing for it, become aware of BlogHer. Would anyone care to shed some light on this thing? Since my main reaction is one of (inappropriately) blaming women for being timid about speaking or existing online mixed with (moderately more appropriate) generalized rage that it should be this way. What is BlogHer? Do you use it? It is a good thing? Why should I shut my face? Help, help, I'm being confused! (ETA: For some reason, several commenters have assumed that my theoretical discomfort with BlogHer comes from some issue related to SAHMs, despite the fact I, in no way, mention motherhood in this item; more on what I was trying to puzzle out in this comment).
I take back everything I said about Torchwood being a soap opera. Angel is a fucking soap opera. Cordy is evil (which throws us back to just which Powers were up to what when they had her ascend back when, and was that the beginning of the planning for the current narrative apocalypse?); Angel is still Angelus; Wesley just had to chop off his dead ex-girlfriend's head; Gunn is blaming Fred for the kiss she never got around to consenting too; and, OH YEAH, Cordy is pregnant with another fucking demon baby (is this 3? 4?) and this time she says it's Connor's and she's been banging the Beast. WHAT THE FUCK, SHOW? WHAT THE FUCK?
On the other hand, since they put Angel/Angelus in a cage, I gotta say the acting and the directing has really tightened up and is pretty masterful.
It's Tuesday. Does you know what Tuesday means? White Collar and Covert Affairs. Still working on the Auggie/Jack fic, but it's working. Also thinking someone should write a Covert Affairs/Inception crossover. You know you want Auggie hunting Arthur down in dreamspace, right?
Meanwhile, much to Patty's relief, Project Runway starts Thursday.
I think we're going to try to see The Kids are All Right this week.
I'm slightly intrigued that everyone has thought my moment of pause is related to SAHM for some reason as I have never mentioned moms of any sort.
For me the moment of pause is a response to a sort of free-floating idea that women can't play on the broader internet but must remains in a safe space.
Now having safe spaces is really good and I'm a part of safe spaces, including some women-only spaces (despite a certain degree of gender offness I feel about that), and some people have absolutely, positively had experiences that means these are going to be the dominant (or sole) spaces for them because that's what's comfortable and that's all FINE.
But I got online in 1990 (as an embarrassing article in Sassy Magazine will attest) and the idea that women should be scared online is one that really bothers me (and one that was pervasive then -- there are no girls here and they wouldn't want to be and it's bad for them), even as some women do have every reason to be scared online.
Knowing noting about BlogHer, other than its name, my first reaction was that it was about telling women that this space, the BlogHer space, was the only okay space for them. This, apparently, isn't what BlogHer is, although that was my reaction based both upon my own biases and their branding (which I admittedly explored for about five minutes).
I think I was more responding to the comment above and to general stereotypes I tend to see about the organization rather than your specific concern, sorry! A lot of backlash against the group on the internet has sort of been in the form of, "Oh, those mommybloggers, they couldn't possibly have anything important to say." (Which I assumed probably wasn't your perspective anyway, but there's definitely often an overall tone of wariness about the feminism of a network made up primarily of SAHMs and cooking blogs. I think I (and perhaps other people who are familiar with the organization) assumed that that was where you were coming from. Apologies that I misinterpreted!)
I would say that I don't think BlogHer is designed to restrict women. I admittedly know more about the people who participate than the organization itself, but from my experience with it and having seen a lot of posts about it from the people involved, it's more of a social network to allow women to meet other women with similar interests, and to encourage women to get involved in the blogosphere, and also to support those who are already there.
It's all good. You were just the lucky winner of the third comment on that theme and I was puzzled.
And I admit my biases here aren't all good here, hence my not getting it and including the item in the first place, but how people want to shape their families and raise their kids, totally not my business, concern or source of bias.
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xtricks has another installment in what I can't seem to stop calling Teh Buttsex Series! The concluding list of "what is not in the butt" made me laugh so hard I am ashamed.
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For me the moment of pause is a response to a sort of free-floating idea that women can't play on the broader internet but must remains in a safe space.
Now having safe spaces is really good and I'm a part of safe spaces, including some women-only spaces (despite a certain degree of gender offness I feel about that), and some people have absolutely, positively had experiences that means these are going to be the dominant (or sole) spaces for them because that's what's comfortable and that's all FINE.
But I got online in 1990 (as an embarrassing article in Sassy Magazine will attest) and the idea that women should be scared online is one that really bothers me (and one that was pervasive then -- there are no girls here and they wouldn't want to be and it's bad for them), even as some women do have every reason to be scared online.
Knowing noting about BlogHer, other than its name, my first reaction was that it was about telling women that this space, the BlogHer space, was the only okay space for them. This, apparently, isn't what BlogHer is, although that was my reaction based both upon my own biases and their branding (which I admittedly explored for about five minutes).
But none of that, anywhere is about SAHM.
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I would say that I don't think BlogHer is designed to restrict women. I admittedly know more about the people who participate than the organization itself, but from my experience with it and having seen a lot of posts about it from the people involved, it's more of a social network to allow women to meet other women with similar interests, and to encourage women to get involved in the blogosphere, and also to support those who are already there.
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And I admit my biases here aren't all good here, hence my not getting it and including the item in the first place, but how people want to shape their families and raise their kids, totally not my business, concern or source of bias.