October 2011
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dethus asked: You beat me to it and put it in better words. And by it I mean the tomboy/tide commercial absurdities. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that.
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If I survived my childhood as a tomboy, you can... →
hellogiggles:
From Our Readers: IF I SURVIVED MY CHILDHOOD AS A TOMBOY, YOU CAN TOO!
by From Our Readers
Here is a post that ends with, “It gets better, I promise! I even wear dresses now! Here I am a year ago in a formal dress to prove it to you…”
It is a post that closely follows one discussing how offensive a particular Tide commercial is: ”I can only imagine that...
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“They’re wanting to head to the campground around 3. I got a BB gun.”
– A text from Marcie regarding our upcoming camping adventure.
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I'm going camping this weekend.
In Texas.
(When you leave Austin, you enter Texas, yes yes?)
The other day Marcie told me about a team-building event that went on with her department (SQL server admins and the like) and for the rest of my existence the term “team-building” will be an awful euphemism thanks to a friend in a touring band telling of a European band’s means of team-building exercises involving...
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“Look kid, I don’t want you to “get by” working two jobs and 60 to 70 hours a...”
– Daily Kos: Open Letter to that 53% Guy
(via hotelechozulu)
Pride in this trendy variety of first-world “suffering” displayed by “the 53%” = stockholm syndrome + oblivion to privilege.
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“With some frequency, strange men, suddenly, out of the blue, instruct women whom...”
– Miss Manners and Smiling | Alas, a Blog
J and I rant about this with regular frequency.
(via hotelechozulu)
This. Endlessly. Today I overheard a mid-50s man say, “hello, pretty lady, where’s your smile?” to a receptionist as he entered the building. It’s no different than her saying, “hello, bald...
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I just remembered that I most definitely pulled a...
last night on the JFK airport security asshole who, after a stream of discouraging, degrading verbal abuse upon my opting out of the body scan, finished off with “well then, you’re just going to have to get a pat-down, is that what you want?” as if it were a shaming punishment for not streaming through the line of zombies (who all have a choice to opt out but don’t…!)...
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“With some frequency, strange men, suddenly, out of the blue, instruct women whom...”
– Miss Manners and Smiling | Alas, a Blog
J and I rant about this with regular frequency.
(via hotelechozulu)
This. Endlessly. Today I overheard a mid-50s man say, “hello, pretty lady, where’s your smile?” to a receptionist as he entered the building. It’s no different than...
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