Okay: the game isn’t about mowing down men. It’s about male privilege and what male privilege feels like. The game’s rubbish, of course. But the one thing it does well is show how what you may think is an innocuous compliment feels in the context of a woman’s life. You approaching a woman in the street and being what you think is politely flirty is a different thing when, down the street, someone’s suggested that maybe you’d like to suck my dick and you’re a fucking bitch if you don’t. From her perspective, it’s a culture of harassment she has to either politely deal with or ignore. From your perspective, you’re just showing how you feel. That your passing desire means you get to derail a woman’s life whenever you feel like it is the absolute definition of male privilege. —“The Proposition: So, Hey Baby Then…” Keiron Gillen, Rock, Paper, Shotgun
You wanna be your dog;
the topography of crime;
smite the statuary of the idolaters!
strike down the slick scoopers!
As a firm Kinsey 6 with 6 being the gayest ranking on sexologist Alfred Kinsey’s 1-to-6 scale of sexual orientation I understand the resistance to putting choice and homosexuality in the same sentence. My same-sex attractions were awakened in me at such a young age that they felt as much a part of me as my limbs. In the late 1990s, when I was coming out, had someone told me that I had chosen my deepest, most tender and passionate affections, it would have been like telling me that I had chosen the arms and legs I have. But I have plenty of desires, like throwing my fists in the faces of conservative Republicans, which for one reason or another, I don’t act on; my desire for women is not one of them. Biology is not destiny, and I am the architect of my own life, as is everyone. —“The Gay Option,” Stephanie Fairyington, Dissent (via)
God, like the Pope, commands few divisions these days;
almost everyone is mostly alone a lot of the time;
“stiff gook rimming,” resurrected
The hand of Drudge heavily influences what is read in the papers, viewed on television and debated in national politics. Where is the liberal Drudge? With Democrats controlling so much of the information flow from the White House and Congress, why does a conservative have a monopoly on “the Drudge factor” while liberal Democrats are reduced to reading Drudge, reacting to Drudge and dishing dirt against their opponents to Drudge? Why does Fox News have a huge ratings advantage over MSNBC, even after sweeping tides for Democrats in 2006 and 2008? —“The Drudge factor,” Brent Budowsky, The Hill
Read with authentic Flatbush accent, please: dem guys still don’t got no cultcha;
okay is right except when it isn’t;
run toward the bull not away;
in memoriam: Mother Teresa, warmonger
