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I never understood Runners. Especially on treadmills. The repetitive motion. The going nowhere. The...

Sun, 27 May 2012 19:17:53 -0700

I never understood Runners. Especially on treadmills. The repetitive motion. The going nowhere. The hitting an arbitrary set of miles to fulfill an arbitrary need for exercise. For the past two months, I have become that which I do not understand. At first, I thought I was taking an active role in making myself healthier. I bought running shoes. Nike + so I could monitor the miles I’ve ran, and the days of the week spent doing it. Put a “running mix” in my iPod. All of this to ignore the simple truth of my life in its current state — the repetitive motion, the going nowhere, and the hitting of arbitrary goals to fulfill an arbitrary need to be “successful.” I am running in place. A lot. And my knee hurts. A lot. And I keep running. A lot. Because if I stop…

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women | Cracked.com

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:08:00 -0700

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women | Cracked.com:

It’s like that for most men, most of the time. We’re starving, and all women are various types of food. Only instead of food, it’s sex. And we’re trying to conduct our everyday business around the fact that we’re trying to renew our driver’s license with a talking pair of boobs. So, from about age 13 on, around 90 percent of our energy and discipline is devoted to overcoming this, to behave like civilized human beings and not like stray dogs in a meat market. One where instead of eating the meat, they want to hump it.

Right now I’m reading a book from mega-selling fantasy author George R. R. Martin. The following is a passage where he is writing from the point of view of a woman — always a tough thing for men to do. The girl is on her way to a key confrontation, and the narrator describes it thusly:

“When she went to the stables, she wore faded sandsilk pants and woven grass sandals. Her small breasts moved freely beneath a painted Dothraki vest …”

That’s written from the woman’s point of view. Yes, when a male writes a female, he assumes that she spends every moment thinking about the size of her breasts and what they are doing. “Janet walked her boobs across the city square. ‘I can see them staring at my boobs,’ she thought, boobily.” He assumes that women are thinking of themselves the same way we think of them.

Do you see what I’m getting at? Go look outside. See those cars driving by? Every car being driven by a man was designed and built and bought and sold with you in mind. The only reason why small, fuel-efficient or electric cars don’t dominate the roads is because we want to look cool in our cars, to impress you.

Go look at a city skyline. All those skyscrapers? We built those to impress you, too. All those sports you see on TV? All of those guys learned to play purely because in school, playing sports gets you laid. All the music you hear on the radio? All of those guys learned to sing and play guitar because as a teenager, they figured out that absolutely nothing gets women out of their pants faster. It’s the same reason all of the actors got into acting.

All those wars we fight? Sure, at the upper levels, in the halls of political power, they have some complicated reasons for wanting some piece of land or access to some resource. But on the ground? Well, let me ask you this — historically, when an army takes over a city, what happens to the women there?

It’s all about you. All of it. All of civilization.

THIS.

“Game of Thrones” Review : The New Yorker

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:55:00 -0700

“Game of Thrones” Review : The New Yorker:

Of course, not everyone strips: there are no truly explicit scenes of gay male sex, fewer lingering shots of male bodies, and the leading actresses stay mostly buttoned up. Artistically, “Game of Thrones” is in a different class from “House of Lies,” “Californication,” and “Entourage.” But it’s still part of another colorful patriarchal subculture, the one called Los Angeles.

THIS.

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:43:22 -0700

THIS.

so-treu: inspirationcocoa: I’m reblogging this photo because I...

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:57:53 -0700

so-treu:

inspirationcocoa:

I’m reblogging this photo because I just read this article about how people should subscribe to HBO so GIrls will stay on the air and we will have more shows about women written by women and here is my response:

I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately and it seems like every time they say, “yay for women-helmed shows!” They mean white women. I don’t see Jez or really anyone talking about how we should all support Scandal because it’s written by a Black woman, starring a Black woman and based on a real political strategist who is also a Black woman. That’s f*cking groundbreaking.

And it is.

you mean black women are WOMEN??????????????????

Cosign on all of the above.

THIS.

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:22:00 -0700

THIS.

"She hated the nameless women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have..."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:24:21 -0700

““She hated the nameless women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.””

- Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

You know it was a killer dance party when your ears still ring...

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 11:20:16 -0700

You know it was a killer dance party when your ears still ring the next day and your shoes look like this.

"Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just..."

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 19:13:37 -0700

“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.”

- Anneli Rufus (via paleviolet)

"To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:37:58 -0700

“To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.”

- Flaubert (via nevver)

THIS.

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 23:59:35 -0700

THIS.

The ABC’s of monsters. Aahmazeballs.

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:43:24 -0700

The ABC’s of monsters. Aahmazeballs.

Kill Everybody - Skrillex

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:47 -0700

Kill Everybody - Skrillex

"More and more it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself."

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:38:15 -0700

“More and more it feels like I’m doing a really bad impersonation of myself.”

- Chuck Palaniuk

danirrational: jasoneisener: Jake just wants to dance. This...

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:25:02 -0700

danirrational:

jasoneisener:

Jake just wants to dance.

This is killer. AmericanPsychoHipster.

Cosign on all of that.

slaughterhouse90210: “He was always expecting his real life to...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:43:38 -0800

slaughterhouse90210:

“He was always expecting his real life to begin in a year or two. He hadn’t worked out the details, but he vaguely hoped that suddenly he’d be doing different, better work and living in another city far away with new, superior people, even a perfect lover.”
—Edmund White, Jack Holmes & his Friend

thestriversrow: The newest poet on The Strivers Row - Zora...

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:56:50 -0800

thestriversrow:

The newest poet on The Strivers Row - Zora Howard performing “Waffles” at The Dean’s List 3: Graduation

iamdonald: Zebra Katz - Ima Read (ft.Njena Reddd Foxxx)

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:26:30 -0800

iamdonald:

Zebra Katz - Ima Read (ft.Njena Reddd Foxxx)

Oscarmetrics: Viola Davis, The Help, and Hollywood's Ongoing Issues With Race

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:21:00 -0800

Oscarmetrics: Viola Davis, The Help, and Hollywood's Ongoing Issues With Race:

Co sign on that.

Kristen Bell’s Sloth Meltdown (by TheEllenShow) This might...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:52:19 -0800

Kristen Bell’s Sloth Meltdown (by TheEllenShow)

This might just be the funniest thing I’ve seen in years. Really.