(via bmichael)
This shit’s so patriarchal.
Have you ever wanted to read a column called This Week In Patriarchy?
Well you’re going to, soon. So get hip.
I LITERALLY just had to have this conversation with a drunk asshole music snob of one of my bf’s friends the other night who was bitching about it and rambling about conspiracy theories and all that bullshit.
It’s like, look: do not even act like you know what happened. You were in the fourth fucking grade. And, don’t even try to pretend like Live Through This is not AMAZING album. Courtney was a talented artist and musician in her own right, with her own problems to contend with. Move on with your lives, please.
If Kurt had lived, he’d be just as much, if not MORE of a mess than she is right now. He’d be like Ozzy Osbourne x 1,000. Can you imagine what HIS twitter feed would look like? Jesus fuck.
(via haleygrrrl)
It’s so pathetic that people still talk about Kurt’s “murder” by Courtney; that this is something worth talking about after all this time. It’s been almost 20 years, and you’d think people would grow tired of throwing stones…
I’m so fucking sick of the whole deal. Kurt and Courtney were/are very gifted musicians. They had a partnership based on a lot of common ground (abandonment issues, childhood crap, drugs, music, pain and anguish) and I would go as far as to say that neither of them were worse for the other, that they both had their shit that they flung at each other…like any marriage/partnership out there.
SO MUCH love right here. Had to reblog this.
This is why there aren’t more girl music critics.
Sports Blogs are to Culture as Joe Morgan is to Baseball Stats
Fuck all you sports bloggers who are calling out Ben Roethlisberger. Especially you, Deadspin: The blog that regularly rewards its readers for submitting stories of attempted date rape. The blog vacillates wildly between upbraiding the media for covering a sex scandal and, you know, generating hundreds of thousands of pageviews by covering the selfsame sex scandal. It’s the blog that promulgates the already popular notion of athletes enjoying limitless access to sex.
What Roethlisberger has done is (very likely) maximally reprehensible, but his actions are made possible by the larger culture of sports, which is of course not in one of those airless, unpressurized spaces. The general social course of humanity—its telos, if you will—has been toward power becoming less centralized and more distributed. State of nature, social contract, end of slavery, universal suffrage, blah blah blah. Now, it’s the case that in nature, people with more power get to fuck literally and figuratively the people with less power. One of the marks of a great society is the attenuation of this state of affairs. You can make the argument that men should have power over women because they are better/faster/stronger/whatever. But an analogue to our historically expanding knowledge is the growth of empathy, which has created an increasing mutual understanding of shared humanity among progressively larger and larger communities: The men all hang tight together, then the men and women who look similar, then the men and women who are more proximal, and so on. All of a sudden, the United Colors of Benetton are trapped attractively together on an island east of Fiji as the first black President of America passes healthcare reform.
What don’t you get about No Means No Unless You’ve Won Two Super Bowls (NMNUYWTSB)?
Man, Zizek is so right. I mean, it’s basically proven a fortieri that communism is the way to go, right? I just returned from the USSR, and let me tell you, whooo boy, life is good, there.
The first paragraph of Valerie Solanas’s Scum Manifesto, laid out by katie maclachlan (curate:beetx).
This is so sexist! Not only does it reduce men to being physically sex objects, but it advocates violence against them! And overthrowing the government? Good luck paving roads, managing international relations, and running the prison system—Lady Gaga’s music video showed, basically, how well women would do running a jail. I think it’s so funny that women always have a hissy fit about man-on-woman sexism, but they’re so quick to advocate woman-on-man sexism.
sadydoyle-deactivated20100329 asked: Dear The Patriarchy,
I hear the sexy teens of today engage in a practice known as "sexting!" It is like texting, but... SEXIER, is my understanding? Anyway, this seems like a great way to win the respect and affection of those around me. My questions are threefold: (1) Since sexting is so hip and friendly, do I need an iPhone to do it? (2) Is there an app for that? (#) What does any of this have to do with that one golfer?
miss u, SD
I ran someone off Tumblr like a drunken Jackson Pollack. (Is there any other kind?)
