February 2012
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‘Community’: Alison Brie, Yvette Nicole Brown,... →
synecdoche:
Ganz: There have always been funny women. But in some ways, it takes a while for there to be women who were watching women on television for years and then grow up and think, “I could do funny stuff.” I grew up watching I Love Lucy. She was doing funny stuff.
Brown: It’s the same for minorities, too. Until we get black writers in writing rooms and as studio executives, it’s going...
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Mad Men-Inspired Books Will Serve You in the... →
I don’t usually do this - but that first book? Analyzing Mad Men: Critical Essays on the Television Show? It includes an essay by me? And it’s on AMC’s website! Which means that it is slightly possible that Jon Hamm is in some way aware that I exist? (Probably not still, he probably doesn’t read his own show’s website, but dare to dream!)
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I think a sure sign that I’m getting old this year is that when I got an invitation to a thing that’s happening tonight, I accepted it and looked forward to it for like two days without realizing that it was at the same time as the Oscars. I mean, it’s not like I wouldn’t have accepted the invite; just in the past I would’ve probably thought hard about it, if I...
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Watchbmichael:
Paris Hilton’s “Drunk Text” is the song of the year as far as I’m concerned. It is the weirdest, worst, best, most technologically advanced song I have ever heard. It’s like futuristic robot anthropologists (think about that) tried to document the year 2007, but they did it from the vantage of 2020. This music is the equivalent of the bald-headed/mono-hued jumpsuit future dress code...
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“It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to”
vs
“It’s my birthday, I’ll get high if I want to”
- and the replacement of crying with getting baked, and all the Drake-tears that underlie that statement and how profoundly Drake that is.
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“your silence will not protect you.”
– audre lorde, “the transformation of silence into language and action” in sister outsider: essays and speeches (via youthfulindiscretion)
important!
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In Praise of Von Trier-ian Excess, Or: Someday,... →
spaceshipignition:
A lot of people point to Antichrist as supposedly irrefutable evidence of von Trier’s misogyny; I wish I could just go with the flow there and agree with most people, but the thing is, I can’t. In terms of Feelings, I find almost too much meaning in this film, and sort of identify with this woman who outright feels so much, and displays those feelings—no matter how ugly,...
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feministfilm:
synecdoche:
A (hopefully) comprehensive list of television shows that have made tears-as-lubricant jokes within the last two weeks:
Are You There, Chelsea? (“At least we can use his tears as lubricant.”)
2 Broke Girls (“I can’t afford lube. I just use my tears.”)
I must admit, I don’t understand this at all. We all know tears dry on their own, and that makes for terrible...
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“To be honest, I felt hysterical: that Victorian word for the tantrums of...”
– The Rejectionist: Special Guest Post: Meg Clark on Jonathan Franzen
I love Meg.
(via champagnecandy)
my brother told me once about some comics character, i think maybe one of the x-men? whose superpower, in a hilarious attempt at “consistency” in the physics of whichever comics universe he...
“Jerks make good stuff sometimes (what’s up, Kanye), and Chris Brown has...”
– Why, Rihanna? | The Hairpin
No one wants to talk about this anymore, and I have already addressed how I feel about people judging Rihanna (they shouldn’t, I get this is an intentionally provocative move, but seriously, there is not a “right” way to be a survivor of domestic abuse,...
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Unbest: What Music Meant in 2011
unbest:
In early December 2011, as the great year-end listmaking bonanza began once again to sweep the Internet, we started wondering: What if there was an outlet for writers and fans to celebrate the music that meant the most to them over the course of the previous year, regardless of who made that music or when it was released, without having to worry about lists or rankings or points or...
POP FEMINIST PERBLOG: One thing that probably... →
rgr-pop:
is that she is maybe the hardest-working and most talented and versatile and good at her job cast member that SNL ever had. How the fuck long did they pay Jimmy Fallon to fuck up every line he was given? I think Maya was maybe the best cast member ever in those terms—the best at her job for the…
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Though SNL has many many race issues, I (as a white lady) didn’t have a huge problem with Nasim playing Nicki, other than the fact that the impression just wasn’t very good. I don’t think it’s a big deal for a South Asian woman to play a half-South Asian woman even if they are different nationalities?
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A SINCERE REQUEST FROM FEMINISTFILM TO NBC
missdelaney22:
fsufeminist:
feministfilm:
Let Jay Pharoah do things. He’s more or less the only dude on your staff who is talented, but—oops—God knows you can’t give more than one black man airtime in a week.
Hire. A. Black. Woman.
Seriously. Please?
THIS. I’d do so many awful things with Jay Pharoah, he’s mad talented.
And more black women plz.
And Asian women! There are so many...
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“in 1965, after keeping a journal for seven years, i concluded that i had nothing...”
– priscilla lang, “we called ourselves sisters,” in the feminist memoir project: voices from women’s liberation. i never have any idea what i’m talking about when i start. ”YOU WRITE TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS.” (via karaj)
I need to read this quote every single day.
I think we all need to read this...
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Rihanna, Chris Brown and Horribly Irresponsible...
perpetua:
I’m pretty grossed out about the notion that Rihanna is collaborating with Chris Brown again. I don’t really have any particular investment in her as a person and only occasionally care about her music, but in terms of cultural narrative, I think she is sending a poisonous and tremendously irresponsible message to her audience. The idea of “role models” can be very corny, but this...
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Who Sings songs to Black Girls?
blackamazon:
Chris Brown
Chris Brown all I hear about in what passes for feminist discussion has centered around Chris Brown.
Does HE deserve a second chance.
Is he worth it?
Why do women support him.
And every person with out a blink without a flinch mocked the girls.
I have never heard Chris Brown do that.
ANd i remembered that when I literally gasped at the sheer AMOUNT of girls who...
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cordjefferson:
According to the complaint, Jennifer _________ moved into a Sullivan’s Island home in 2006 with the couple’s four children due to her husband’s “adultery, addiction to marijuana and alcohol, abusive behavior, physical abuse, sexual addictions and frequent abandonment.”
Jennifer _________ purchased the Sullivan’s Island beach house in 2006 for $3.65 million, according to...
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“Here’s my theory: some girls just want to go apeshit. They want to scream and...”
– The Paris Review + Hanson = omg (via rachael-maddux)
I love this piece! It’s so great. Also this:
Okay, it was mostly about sex. It was about Taylor Hanson grinding those beautiful hips of his into the keyboards. OH MY GOD, we would think, clearly and explicitly imagining being pulverized...
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“Placing domestic and intimate relationships outside the boundaries of legitimate...”
– n 1: Female Trouble
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“To generalize enormously, the less privileged the background, the more intense...”
– I had somehow managed to avoid reading this Schwyzer piece until now. It fucking sucks. It’s gross and classist and racist and sexist and violent and horrible and it’s also fucking hurts me. Fuck this guy. Fuck him for “herding” not just sluts but poor sluts and then making money off of turning them...
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25 Extremely Upsetting Reactions To Chris Brown At... →
britticisms:
We’ve failed a generation of women. We’ve failed a generation of men. That’s the only thing I can take from this. We’ve told women that they don’t matter. We’ve told them that their bodies are up for debate. We’ve told them that their voices are nothing. We’ve told men that this is alright, that violence is okay, that anger is the appropriate emotion for frustration. What else is...
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“At the beginning of her book Opera, Or the Undoing Of Women, the French theorist...”
– Ann Powers
This is one of the few obits I’ve ever read on a musician that’s given me chills.
(via katherinestasaph)
I think I’ve hearted this piece every time it’s come up on my dashboard. Every time I’ve tried to say anything else about Whitney I come back to this.
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isabelthespy:
mootpoint:
Thinking about Lana and Britney and Beyonce and the “Being a Girl and Losing” genre, and finishing Jonathan Franzen on Edith Wharton in this weeks New Yorker, which I started on the plane. I finished House of Mirth a couple of weeks ago, so I was like, okay, let’s talk about Edith Wharton! Franzen starts out with how hard it is to sympathize with Lily Bart:
On the...
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I'm Not Okay With Chris Brown Performing at The... →
Taking a break from thinking about Whitney Houston for this:
And, this week, Grammy producers confirmed that Chris Brown will be performing on Sunday’s show.
“We’re glad to have him back,” said executive producer Ken Ehrlich. “I think people deserve a second chance, you know. If you’ll note, he has not been on the Grammys for the past few years and it may have taken us a while to kind of...
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“Those photos of women finding salad hilarious are absurd, but they’re also,...”
– Laughing and crying « Emily Magazine
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Thinking about Lana and Britney and Beyonce and the “Being a Girl and Losing” genre, and finishing Jonathan Franzen on Edith Wharton in this weeks New Yorker, which I started on the plane. I finished House of Mirth a couple of weeks ago, so I was like, okay, let’s talk about Edith Wharton! Franzen starts out with how hard it is to sympathize with Lily Bart:
On the surface,...
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"watching LDR do this lyrical melodrama while...
karaj:
militantmaudlinist:
It is possible for for someone to be highly intelligent, and yet have no information. This condition—usually associated with youth or prolonged adolescence—results often in boredom, the existential progenitor of nearly every significant art and cultural movement.[…] Boredom, a brililiant and brazen stupidity, is dazzlingly preemptive. When the bored youth is no...
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