02 2 / 2012
"I swear to god I will lose my mind if I hear the “sex sells” fallacy one more time. Sex does not sell. If sex sold, we would see penises where we see boobs. Naked men would be on everything that naked women are on. Sex isn’t what they’re selling you. They’re selling you an impossible, pornographically fueled misogynistic idea of the perfect woman."
(via littlelightx)
Yes.
(via psdo)
Oooh and even worse is that female sexuality is only (largely) accepted when it’s through a male lens; that is, a woman being sexual is only accepted when a guy can also get off.
(via remierk)
02 2 / 2012
Reginald Watts!
I saw this guy last night! I also saw Garfunkel & Oates, and they were great and cute and funny but this guy. He’s an actual beat genius. Or maybe he’s just really playful and likes to mess around with the equipment and is also famous because he’s come up with some freaking awesome stuff. He’s also hilarious. He had a song about “tuber-closeness” or keeping your potatoes close to you! And guess what, he also slunk sexily around the stage singing about pussy but I couldn’t tell if it was cats or actual pussy - I think it changed? The lead-in joke was about actual pussy, anyway. A musical about pussy, in fact.
And the last thing you need to know about last night is Reggie Watts’ hair is an entirely separate entity.
(via shlabam)
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01 2 / 2012
I haven’t seen the video, but the idea that Nerd Life is better, I think, means that having an active curiosity, and seeking to understand the world around you, is the best way to live. It’s about a mindset, not a culture. I don’t now.
The active curiosity and desire to understand the world I like. The “I am this way [in this case, curious] and you are not so therefore I am better” mindset is what I have issues with.
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01 2 / 2012
I’d say there’s actually a fair amount of belief of hierarchy among nerdfighters. I repeatedly see GIF sets of John Green deriding or insulting people who are stupid or have stupid hobbies. It’s just hard to have a movement built around being nice.
This is what I don’t like! It’s all, “Hey, I was made fun of for having the ‘wrong’ hobbies but guess what: I think your hobbies are wrong! What now?” (or, “I just want to be accepted so I’m gonna start my own club and exclude you!” It never works out well, did you learn nothing from Saturday morning cartoons?)
The problem is the word “Nerd,” I think. Given its derogatory history, it’s a divisive word used to define a specific group of people.
John Green was spot-on when he said, “Being a nerd means you like things,” because being a nerd does mean you like things. Yet they (apparently) have to be the weird things, the counterculture, the intellectual, the crafty, the lesser-known, the hobbies of the underdogs. Jock sports nerds and mainstream pop culture nerds and grease-monkey car nerds and yuppie tech nerds are goddamn everywhere, but they’re not accepted as part of the “nerd culture” (as far as I’ve seen) because they’ve been on top already (really because they sneer at the D&D basement-dweller nerds, the most-portrayed nerds in recent times). “Nerd” needs to become all-encompassing because anyone can be a nerd as long as there’s passion and knowledge.
The “nerdfighter” movement at large seems like it isn’t about just having passions or passionately liking something anymore, because the truth is practically everybody has a passion. There is hardly anyone who straight-up doesn’t like anything, not even hipsters. So now you have a bunch of underdog nerds with an even more inflated sense of entitlement (we have entitlement issues, you know it’s true) openly hating on “mainstream” nerds and it’s just the same circle with players in different positions.
It’s hard to have a movement based on being nice, but the movement (if you want to call it that) should be focused on self-esteem and self-worth and basically, what Leyla said: not being ashamed to like what you like how you like it. Just applied to everyone.
Hate begets hate, you guys.
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01 2 / 2012
Voldemort is Awesome | Draco and the Malfoys
I know you will totally, unmercifully
Destroy all non-believers
Forgive me for this indulgence.
01 2 / 2012
"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books."
(Source: larmoyante, via sylvysparrow)
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31 1 / 2012
I was gonna go out and get pre-work beer but instead I downloaded a bunch of Star Trek ringtones.
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31 1 / 2012
![This I understand and can get behind.
I am nitpicking semantics and it’s getting in the way of rationality.
Saying “[x] is better than [y]” (like “nerd life is…better than regular life”) though always at least connotes some kind of hierarchy and that makes me uncomfortable.](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyol6tBENm1qa9htqo1_500.png)
This I understand and can get behind.
I am nitpicking semantics and it’s getting in the way of rationality.
Saying “[x] is better than [y]” (like “nerd life is…better than regular life”) though always at least connotes some kind of hierarchy and that makes me uncomfortable.
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