April 2010
33 posts
Lady Gaga's "Telephone" and the Postmodern
iisabelle:jhnbrssndn:newleft:
After watching the now-infamous video twice, I’m convinced that it is indicative of postmodernism in every sense of the term.
Pastiche. The video has it in spades. It references other forms of media (Tarantino, exploitation films, Thelma & Louise) left and right, while parodying none of them. This is because parody relies on an underlying normative standard,...
Thin Privilege 101 →
guesswhatsvegan:lipstick-feminists:rojaporcelana:gandhilove:
Not all women’s bodies are oppressed equally. Just because all women feel fat does not mean all women are fat. There is something unique to being fat, whether a person is a man or a woman, that makes that person uniquely oppressed in this society. And failing to acknowledge that is thin privilege.
Consider some of the privileges you...
“I am no friend of the word should, and usually it’s a track mark for some...”
– Carol Queen (Elements of Sex-Positivity | CarnalNation) (via sexisnottheenemy) (via dwam)
“The more queer porn is out there — in this case featuring trans and...”
– Jiz Lee » Penetrating the Mainstream’s Gender Gaps (via sexisnottheenemy)
Le Tigre - New Kicks
We are gathered here, we...
“The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with...”
– (via adeandabet)
This is why SEVEN OF NINE is like, the BEST CHARACTER EVER. In the sense that the above is an overcomplication of a driving character-theme of Voyager, embodied by a human-cum-cyborg protagonist. In a spandex catsuit. (via okokilltellyou, malloreigh)
“Why ban small boobs? I can only assume it stems from paranoia that flat chests...”
–
Now Australia Is Banning Small Boobs
(via iisabelle:annierachel:yaldabaoth:indefensible:cankerbloxxom:buyhercandy)
Australia. Is banning. Small boobs.
Fortunately I don’t live there, so I can pretend like it’s comedy and go about my day for a bit until I remember again, but, uh. What.
(via...
“I’ve never understood why so many men have allowed themselves to be brainwashed...”
– Nick Eriksen, senior BNP leader (via Women more troubled by bag theft than rape, BNP candidate claims | Mayor) (via schbank)(via bmckinney) (via robot-heart-politics)
UPDATE: The BNP has removed Nick Ericksen from its list of candidates for the May 1st elections. As TheAppallingStrangeness points...
