that darn kat

"Kathleen is that rare individual whose mere presence lights up a room." - no seriously someone actually once said this about me

  • 18th June
    2013
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Apparently if you are sick of your hair the key is to not cut it for five months, not wash it for five days (slight exagg I hope), wear twice as much eyeliner as usual, and top it off with a So Emo filter.

Apparently if you are sick of your hair the key is to not cut it for five months, not wash it for five days (slight exagg I hope), wear twice as much eyeliner as usual, and top it off with a So Emo filter.

  • 18th June
    2013
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    2013
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  • 17th June
    2013
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nprfreshair: If you haven’t read it yet, we highly recommend that you check out Patton Oswalt’s awesome essay about plagiarism in comedy, heckling, rape jokes, and the limitations of individual perception. It is brave and honest and oh-so-very-very-smart. Here’s a sampling from the section in which he grapples with the latest Internet controversy over a comedian’s rape joke: In this past week of re-reading the blogs, going through the comment threads, and re-scrolling the Twitter arguments, I haven’t once found a single statement, feminist or otherwise, saying that rape shouldn’t be joked under any circumstance, regardless of context.  Not one example of this. In fact, every viewpoint I’ve read on this, especially from feminists, is simply asking to kick upward, to think twice about who is the target of the punchline, and make sure it isn’t the victim. And now you can go listen to an interview with Oswalt here. Image via SubPop So it’s more than a little disheartening that the only way to get men to think critically about rape-related humor is by having a man say this stuff, but at least it’s one of my favorite men? ETA: By which I mean men as a class, not individual men, yadda yadda yadda…

nprfreshair:

If you haven’t read it yet, we highly recommend that you check out Patton Oswalt’s awesome essay about plagiarism in comedy, heckling, rape jokes, and the limitations of individual perception. It is brave and honest and oh-so-very-very-smart. Here’s a sampling from the section in which he grapples with the latest Internet controversy over a comedian’s rape joke:

In this past week of re-reading the blogs, going through the comment threads, and re-scrolling the Twitter arguments, I haven’t once found a single statement, feminist or otherwise, saying that rape shouldn’t be joked under any circumstance, regardless of context.  Not one example of this.

In fact, every viewpoint I’ve read on this, especially from feminists, is simply asking to kick upward, to think twice about who is the target of the punchline, and make sure it isn’t the victim.

And now you can go listen to an interview with Oswalt here.

Image via SubPop

So it’s more than a little disheartening that the only way to get men to think critically about rape-related humor is by having a man say this stuff, but at least it’s one of my favorite men?

ETA: By which I mean men as a class, not individual men, yadda yadda yadda…

(via thegreg)

  • 17th June
    2013
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Marketing chick works because it allows us to harness hundreds of years of denigrating necessary social work by relegating that work to women. The marketing chick has all those soft skills that patriarchy has taught us are undesirable, less useful, less expensive, less valuable, women’s work.

Shanley, “Misogyny and the Marketing Chick” (via theoreticalgirl)

Wow this is absolutely a great essay on corporate/tech culture.

(via bmichael)

Yeah, this piece was awesome.

(via shorterexcerpts)

  • 17th June
    2013
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  • 16th June
    2013
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I know what I used to look like in high school.

beccarue:

It wasn’t pretty, that’s for sure. I remember one time in my high school in New York, the guys were rating the girls after gym class as they came out of the locker room and I got woofed at when I walked out with a friend. Not the good kind of woofing either. I had really bad bucked teeth (never got braces until I was 23) and frizzy hair and all that good stuff going on. When we moved to Northern Kentucky my junior year of high school, there was a really cute boy that lived across the street from me. I was obviously ugly, but he was nice and not mean to me at all, even though he knew I, an ugly girl, had a crush on him. He had a pack of friends that would sometimes ride the school bus home with him and they knew who I was. One of them, we will call him Captain Doucher, ended up being in my math class senior year. One day during free time in class, he was talking loudly with some other guys in class and said “That girl (pointing to me) has a crush on Josh (his friend that lived across the street from me) She LOVES him!” The tone he used implied that I was gross and how dare I like his friend. I was so embarrassed I almost cried in class.

I saw Captain Doucher last night. We took my dad out to dinner in the small town he still lives in that we moved to years ago. The first thing I saw when we walked in was Captain Doucher, who works at the restaurant. I had no idea. I have not seen him in years. And those years have been unkind to him. He saw me. He stared for quite some time trying to place me. My hair looked nice-ish (for once) and my make-up was still fresh and I had on a cute top. I looked nice. And my teeth are straight. He looked like a hot mess. All through the evening any time I glanced up and he was in the area, I caught him staring at me. Yes, Captain Doucher, you know me. You KNEW me. Bet you wish you knew me now, huh?

Moral of the story, never pick on the ugly kids. One day, they will be better looking than you.

You were never ugly and I’m so sorry you felt that way. But obviously what I thought doesn’t matter if that’s how you felt :-(. Anyway, great story. My favorite thing about FB is seeing how people who used to be mean to me all look like shit.

  • 16th June
    2013
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  • 16th June
    2013
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wordscanbesexy: heatherbat: callmebliss: hellotailor: rubdown: lovelymoonbeams: stunningpicture: ‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn this is genuinely the first photo i’ve seen of her looking older I didn’t know Audrey Hepburn grew old into a bomb-ass old lady until like, last year. I thought she died young cuz that’s the only pictures I’ve ever seen.  omg <3 she was also the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts. and history remembers her as pretty. \o/ and history remembers her as pretty. and history remembers her as pretty. and history remembers her as pretty. Maybe I’ll watch Sabrina today.

wordscanbesexy:

heatherbat:

callmebliss:

hellotailor:

rubdown:

lovelymoonbeams:

stunningpicture:

‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn

this is genuinely the first photo i’ve seen of her looking older

I didn’t know Audrey Hepburn grew old into a bomb-ass old lady until like, last year. I thought she died young cuz that’s the only pictures I’ve ever seen. 

omg

<3

she was also the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts.

and history remembers her as pretty.

\o/

and history remembers her as pretty.

and history remembers her as pretty.

and history remembers her as pretty.

Maybe I’ll watch Sabrina today.

(via msnovember)

  • 15th June
    2013
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