August 2009
9 posts
“The fact is that nothing in The Ugly Truth is new. Most of its messages are...”
– The ugly truth about The Ugly Truth | Sady Doyle | guardian.co.uk (via robot-heart)
“American sociologists studying more than 8,000 middle-aged people have concluded...”
– More here (via gauntlet)
“because of reality television, everyone imagines they can just be a fashion...”
– anna wintour (via sarazucker) (via buyhercandy) (via unicornology) (via missworld)
July 2009
52 posts
spiers:
fek:
Maybe the reason the masthead there’s devoid of women is because of the scrutiny they’ve recieved since the post Spiers/Coen/Oxfeld area (when “early” adopters were reading blogs).
Remember: Gould, Shafrir, Shnayerson and McClear. The reception they got, often regardless of what they wrote, was visably different - from management, readers, and other media outlets - than anything...
“Just because some cute girl likes the same bizarro crap you do, doesn’t make her...”
– –A little girl in the trailer for 500 Days of Summer (via frangry)
“Facebook.com is not important. What’s important is that more and more people are...”
– “As these tools evolve (and capabilities and uses merge), let’s remember that the tools we use aren’t as important as the behaviors they create.” Mike Arauz: Facebook.com Is Not Important (via somethingchanged) (via literarypiano)
Triple J’s Hottest 100 of all time: a social... →
heute-und:
inthetrees:
(via somethingchanged)
Facebook Makes You Fail, Twitter Makes You Callous →
(via blimpsarecool)
“The old-style lecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a...”
– Don Tapscott on the impending demise of university at Edge288 (via Edward Harran, who always seems to be able to find a reference for my current state of mind) (via lanipauli)
“I did feel bad for her. Men will never know the kind of humiliation of having an...”
– Dan Radcliffe. Between this and his cougar-loving, I kind of love him. (via jgh)
“Players pick various outfits and make-up while they hang out, exercise and...”
– Ridiculous Life Lessons From New Girl Games | GameLife | Wired.com
In the nature v nurture debate about the differences between the sexes and our attitudes to relationships, important to note the continued promotion of ‘find a man!’ as a major activity of womanhood to girls.
Ugh!
(via...
Lessons from the Rape Culture →
procrastinatrix:
I’ll be mulling on this thinky piece on “grey rape” by SugarLeigh over at Shakesville for a while.
“Twitter is for old people, teenagers do not listen to the radio and a mobile...”
– news.com.au report on Matthew Robson’s insights into digital media consumption (via lanipauli)
“For every Alison Goldfrapp, Karen O and Meg White there’s another handful of...”
– (via ladybands) (via heute-und)
“It’s much easier to believe in our importance when we view ourselves within...”
– Johnny Thakkar in “The Withering of Narcissus: Playing Tyrant on the Internet” for The Point (via britticisms) (via somethingchanged)
“Of course it is fashionable to look fey and feeble, because this suggests you do...”
– Hadley Freeman (via The Cut) (via thetwelfth)
“He enjoys life — as do all who are spared the curse of intelligence.”
– H.P. Lovecraft, in a letter to Anne Tillery Renshaw, 14 June 1922 (via ontheborderland) (via literarypiano)
Sexy And The Gender Binary →
via sexismandthecity
“In fact, though Michael and I drifted apart over the years, we never really fell...”
– Paul McCartney denies Michael Jackson Beatles rights rumor - EW.com
(via apsies : soupsoup: joemuto)
Reminds me of the way I feel about my old friends.
“As much as we get praised for loving our full bodies, many young white women...”
– Serena J. Riley, from this awesome, awesome essay: Black Booty Body Politics at Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture (via mariadiaz) (via rosasparks)
I want to expand on the black women's bodies...
rosasparks:
I regularly hear this crap, from so-called enlightened folks.
My step MIL ALWAYS manages to insult me, as do many women, who I know through mom-hood.
My fave comments include, ‘well, it looks good on you, but wouldn’t look good on me.’
‘You carry your weight so well. I could never have a chest or ass like that, I’d look like a blimp/chubby/any other obnoxious word.
‘Your...
“Twitter users tend to “follow back” all their followers up until about 150...”
– Stats about Twitter (via somethingchanged)
“From my experience, 27 percent of the people who work in media (and I’m using...”
– Will Leitch, The Real Reason You Should Hate The Media (And That Includes Us)
Why are entertainment and art mutually exclusive?...
jasencomstock:
pantspantsrevolution:
There are two reasons to like an artist. One is music, one is entertainment. One is art, one isn’t. It’s perfectly okay to like bad music as long as you’re aware of why you like it and you don’t take it seriously.
See also: Kelly Clarkson.
There are two types of people in this world. Kelly Clarkson fans and liars.
Is marriage worth it?
squashed:
Sandra Tsing Loh concluded her Atlantic article, “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” (via getmesomethingtoread):
Avoid marriage—or you too may suffer the emotional pain, the humiliation, and the logistical difficulty, not to mention the expense, of breaking up a long-term union at midlife for something as demonstrably fleeting as love.
I believe this—and the whole article—is meant to...
Avoid these: foods you're better off not eating →
via nutritionista
