February 2012
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[trigger warning: rape, sexual assault] Rape Is a... →
It all went well…
until reaching the “What can I do to prevent it?” section of the article, where you realize only women are adressed and they actually are the ones who should neither drunk or high, they should walk in groups, take defense class, blah blah blah…
How many letters are there in “victim blaming”?
clientsfromhell:
Client: I need this translated from English by Monday.
Me: Are you ok with the price per page?
Client: Yes.
Me: Are you OK with the number of pages?
Client: Yes.
On Monday…
Me: Here is the document translated. That would be 200 euros.
Client: Oh, I thought it would be 30 or 40 euros. You just keep the document I don’t have that much money.
Especially typical of friends...
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“I don’t “dress like a woman”, I dress in drag. Women...”
– Ru Paul on Twitter
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“The rumors are real: rebel film director Abel Ferrara plans to shoot a film...”
– Abel Ferrara Reveals Plans For “The DSK Affair” Film - Worldcrunch
redlightpolitics:
I expect this to be a trein wreck of epic proportions. Ferrara loves shocking aesthetics and one of his most memorable cinematic moments is when, in Bad Lieutenant (which he directed some time in the early ’90s),...
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“When you see someone you identify with, who has a body that could be your body,...”
– Margaret Cho, in her Shut Up Karl post after Karl Lagerfeld said the singer Adele was fat.
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Artist star Dujardin under fire for 'sexist' ad →
Hollywood’s new darling Jean Dujardin is back in trouble in France after the Oscar frontrunner’s face appeared on the streets of Paris between a woman’s legs in a poster denounced as sexist.
“America doesn’t see the funny side of this type of salacious photos,” Le Parisien daily said.
I can assure Le Parisien that many of us French don’t find it...
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Don't call me 'babe' on the bus, please →
The thing is though, I personally find terms like “babe” coming from men to be overfamiliar, sexist and patronising. I’m allowed to interpret their words in that way, it doesn’t make me irrational or oversensitive. It doesn’t mean I don’t have a sense of humour or that I should be grateful for the attention. It is interesting to note that lots of the critical...
January 2012
44 posts
