Fingers crossed, Jilli. You need a break and Giant Tech Company needs a housegoth!
I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jan 30, 2012 3:05:12 pm PST #19177 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Sophia Brooks - Jan 30, 2012 3:07:04 pm PST #19178 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Couldn't she have had make-up on her legs and be sweating a lot?
Consuela - Jan 30, 2012 3:10:30 pm PST #19179 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Dude, some days. I dunno.
I'm in an online discussion about street harrassment, with this conservative Republican attorney who is shocked! shocked! that women get harrassed in public so much, and why hasn't anyone done anything about it? Why isn't it called out in popular culture?
And he seems to think that if we can just isolate and shame "the pervs", that everything will be all better. As if there's a bright and definable line separating the pervs from the rest of this culture. As if popular culture, with the way it sexualizes every woman between 10 and 40, isn't in part responsible for the pervs.
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Atropa - Jan 30, 2012 3:15:04 pm PST #19180 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Fingers crossed, Jilli. You need a break and Giant Tech Company needs a housegoth!
I have been informed that the hiring manager knows who I am, remembers me from around Microsoft, AND has a copy of my book in his office. Please oh please oh please.
IO (shallow, but good)N, Pete went to the local cupcake place and brought me back two (TWO!) GF cupcakes, chocolate and chocolate salted caramel. I had half of each, and they are DELICIOUS.
Amy - Jan 30, 2012 3:18:42 pm PST #19181 of 30001
Because books.
All kinds of job~ma, Jilli!
if we can just isolate and shame "the pervs", that everything will be all better.
::smacks forehead:: Well, duh. Why didn't we do this sooner?
Consuela - Jan 30, 2012 3:20:39 pm PST #19182 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Why didn't we do this sooner?
And now all the Hollywood types are pervs and that's why Hollywood representations of women are so demeaning.
Sigh.
amych - Jan 30, 2012 3:22:49 pm PST #19183 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
So, perv = someone with an opinion I don't want to espouse in public, but won't actually do anything about? Handy definition. I'll have to keep it in mind.
Typo Boy - Jan 30, 2012 3:22:50 pm PST #19184 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
In terms of diabetes test strips. Target and Walmart both have store brands of glucose meters where the test strips don't cost and arm and a leg. I'm just saying.
Jesse - Jan 30, 2012 3:23:08 pm PST #19185 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Happy birthday, Anne!
I can't with people in our culture.
Consuela - Jan 30, 2012 3:26:35 pm PST #19186 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So, perv = someone with an opinion I don't want to espouse in public, but won't actually do anything about? Handy definition.
Well, it's more like he fails to see "the pervs" as existing in a continuum with a whole bunch of other toxic elements of western culture, like the madonna-whore dichotomy, and the sexualization of women in the media, and the push-back against feminism. That stuff's all inter-related, and in fact includes things that are toxic to men, like the way sitcoms and commercials (and Judd Apatow) portray men as emotionally immature and irresponsible, and women as obsessive goal-oriented harpies.
... argh. But hey, the work day is over and I can go home and do dishes like a responsible member of society! (And then make oatmeal-whiskey bread.)