March 2012
I meant opinionated in EVERYTHING ELSE. I never once implied that overweight people are lazy. I meant it was simple for me to lose 50 lbs once I decided to "eat slightly less, and do significantly more" STOP assuming you know my intentions.
Your intentions don’t matter. My focus is on your words, and the message they create.
You're so much of a know-it-all that it's off-putting. I'm all for being opinionated and informed, but you take it to an annoying level that makes it impossible to want to converse with you. Just keep it to yourself.
This has been zero opinion and all information. I acknowleded that weight loss is not a simple thing for most people. A post like yours is off-putting, and the above reaction to my having made such an acknowledgment is flippant.
Congratulations on managing your weight, but my point all along, and once more, is that despite your emphasis on what a “simple” thing weight loss is, it in fact is not how it works for the majority of human beings. Your post implies an offensive bootstrapping attitude of “I accomplished this thing, and anyone who can’t is just lazy.”
Technology fatigue.
Check.
On Hunger Games:
- Marisa: I'm not interested. Don't care. What's it about?
- Jason: Children fighting to the death in a post-apocalyptic society.
- Marisa: Oh, that sounds interesting.
George R.R. Martin on writing women
- George Stroumboulopoulos: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?
- George R.R. Martin: You know, I've always considered women to be people.
Brett's solo tour starts next week!
This is when and where you can bring him whiskey:
April 3: Knoxville, TN at Longbranch Saloon
April 4: Springfield,MO at Lindbergs Bar.
April 5: OKC, At the HiLo with Garret from Red City Radio. Also, drunken heckling provided by the other members of Red City Radio.
April 9: Arlington, TX at Center House
April 10: San Antonio, TX, at El Ten Eleven with Menzingers, Cheap Girls, Sidekicks, and Captain We’re Sinking. My poor liver.
April 11: Austin, TX, Chris’s house
April 12: Pensacola Beach, FL The Break, 10pm, FREE!
April 13: Birmingham, AL at The Dan
April 14: Durham, NC at Almost People HQ
This too, is amazing. Brett is one of my favorite human beings and I’ve talked a lot about his old band, The Riot Before. I caught what wound up being their last (or if I’m wrong, their last big) show, at Gainesville Fest in October and I’m happy to see that he is
- A: already touring solo post-band breakup, and
- B: hitting Austin.
April 11th! I will be there and so should you.
Gendered toy advertisements, remixed. →
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This is amazing.
Hi, my trampoline arrived.
Best idea. Great life. Bye.
“But I think misogyny is rooted in something else, something Wong does hint at before scrambling away to make more jokes about how women can’t know what it’s like to really feel sexual desire. It’s hard to talk about, because it cuts right to the bone in something humans don’t like to talk about, but it’s about the will to dominate. I think men become misogynists not because their intense horniness short circuits their brain. It’s because they feel entitled to have women in a submissive position to them. They want to live in a world where women are considered automatically dumber, where women are expected to clean up after them, wipe their brows, and kiss their asses, all with a smile on our faces and without asking much more in return but an occasional bit of jewelry and a door-opening, which is just as much about the man feeling more powerful as it is about being nice to the woman. They want to control women sexually, not because they’re more horny, but because sexual control is just one more form of control. Misogynists especially dislike women having reproductive control, because if a woman can’t control her pregnancies, she’s going to be more dependent on a man, and they believe that makes it easier for them. If women are dependent, you don’t need to be nice to your wife to get her to stay. She doesn’t have a choice, and that’s how they like it. They believe in their hearts that women are inferior, and fear that if they’re disproved in this contention, their entire sense of self will crumble, because that sense of self is all built on being a “man”. They get angry and mock other men they believe are trying to hard to be pleasing to women—-genuinely pleasing, not faux “build skyscrapers” pleasing—-but men who take care of their looks to be sexually attractive (they get dismissed as “metrosexual”) or men who treat women with respect. Those men are seen as undermining the united front to artificially lower women’s standards. It’s not an accident that the biggest misogynists are the first to flip their shit at the idea of swapping out big greasy burgers for some broccoli on occasion. [….] Either way, stop blaming sex for misogyny. If all men wanted was women to fuck them more, the English language wouldn’t even have the word “slut” in it.”
—Amanda Marcotte’s Misogyny isn’t caused by male horniness, a response to David Wong’s 5 Ways Modern Men are Trained to Hate Women.
Pond
When you have swam in the sea
a lake will no longer do;
everyone else has been a pond
but the ocean was always you.
-Tyler Knott Gregson-
WIGGLE YOUR TUMBLR NAME(S) AROUND. →
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UNWASHED NERD TARTLETS -or- DAUNTLESS, TENDER WRATH.
Rolls right off the tongue.
Phone call with my 90-year-old grandma who has Alzheimer's.
On my new job:
Wooow. Neat! I bet you learned a lot by watching your mother sell things on eBay. No, really. She is so good at the computer. I bet that’s where you got it!
On my new job being based in Manhattan:
Oh, that is great. It’s so convenient! I used to just hop on the train from Brooklyn into the city. 10 minutes! So convenient. Where do you live?
On being reminded that I live in Texas:
Oh. Texas! WOW. That’s nowhere near New York! What are you doing in Texas?!
On one of her sisters’ recent moves into the same assisted living facility:
Well, it’s going fine. We were never cozy. Not the same generation growing up. But now we are. We’re both old. Same generation, now.
lacey answered your question: Look what I cleaned up.
I forgot what it looked like before. :(
Nothing I was ever happy with; especially the most recent one, which was two columns and stretched the chats out into nearly-unreadable things.
This layout makes my brain feel much better. It’s my first paid one, but it was worth the $9.
Look what I cleaned up. →
wanderlustandtethers.tumblr.com
Much better, right?
Sit down, Ned. The only think that’s spoooooky is how daft you are.
This isn’t about a shooting. If Zimmerman hadn’t shot Trayvon, he would have attacked him without a gun. He would have killed him with his own hands.
I love how every white guy who comes into this debate a month fucking late has to pull out his logic card because we can’t haz have logic, right? Logic is the white man’s, amirite?
Actually, this is about a shooting. This racist guy shot an unarmed black kid. Shot. You know, with a gun. I’ve put in bold the thesis of your “argument”, which is hypothesis, by the way. Back up your work. Didn’t you learn that at school? Probably not. But that’s OK.
There’s only one way to shoot someone with a gun and that is… (drum roll please) with a gun. America has a serious gun control problem. End of story. If Florida didn’t have such insane gun laws, this wouldn’t have happened. If George Zimmerman wasn’t a crazy racist, this wouldn’t have happened. But racism didn’t kill this kid. A gun did.
If you want to play with the fire you’re gonna get burned, kiddo. Come back when you’ve got something good for me. Until then we’re just going to be playing asshole-tennis over here.
Ned Hepburn, this is making my blood boil! I’ll acknowledge that yes, guns are bad. This is something most people recognize and acknowledge. However, a gun did not make this happen. Loopholes in gun laws did not make this happen.
What most people (especially those blind to their privilege in society) either don’t recognize or will painstakingly deny is this: we live in a society that enables and perpetuates both sneaky and blatant institutionalized racism, sexism, classism and xenophobia. If we didn’t, there would be zero tolerance for the assailant’s actions and zero of these dancing debates.
“Next thing you know your name is changed and you are wearing gems! When all you wanted was a party.”
—And then someone piggybacked on the sentiment.
“I love the ‘we just wanted to throw a party’ thing because 99% of the time the person means they wanted to throw a… wedding. ‘We just wanted to have a party with bridesmaids and ushers and a white ‘party dress’ and a tuxedo and someone making us do wedding vows and maybe have part of it in a church even though we aren’t religious so our parents will pay for the party and register for party presents because OMG everyone MADE us make a registry cause they WANTED to get us party presents and then we wanted to have a party reception after the party. But I HAD to change my name because I have no connection to my father, OR I DO have a connection to my father but I want all of my family to have the same name cause it’ll be ‘easier’ and we’re taking the dude’s name JUST BECAUSE for no reason.’”
—Something stated by Roxy in a different part of the Internet in response to popular excuses made by those taking part in a privileged, exclusionary and misogyny-rooted cultural institution.
the life chromatic
pww:
the soul is simple —
it’s conniving.
contriving to be less satisfied.stay put
every fiber stay put.
but those cells kinetic
will burst.an orange blossoming
all at once
feet flushed
and face first.how did you
come up with that?
don’t say
intellect.admit perhaps
we pattern
after happenstanceand
speaking of
derivations on chancethe resolution comes
inevitably it comes for you.a crash.
a hush.
or abrupt
- Me: I got a mini trampoline.
- Marcie: What?! Amazing.
- Me: Yeah. I figured... my shins hate running. Jump roping is no better. Biking is ok but I wanted something more. And then I thought, 'I really like bouncing around.' And then it hit me. I don't know why it took this long to consider such a genius idea.
- Marcie: Oh and you can probably look up different trampoline workouts on YouTube!
- Me: No way. I'm just gonna put some wrist weights on and jump around like this [use your imagination] all day every day in the privacy of my own home.
I just bought a mini trampoline.
