that darn kat
January 2010
“Eggs Benedict with spinach, grilled portobello, roasted peppers and blue cheese Hollandaise sauce”
—what I am probably ordering for brunch
“Let’s talk about how many times a woman gets called “intimidating” just for being correct, and for not seeming unsure about how correct she is, in the course of an average lifetime. Let’s talk about the weird hostility that a girl faces if she walks into a room of guys and doesn’t seem dead set on making them all like her and feel like superheroes.”
—Tiger Beatdown › Girl Culture and the Race to the Bottom: About that Rant About Women (via bthny) (via halvgal) (via tiredofbeingignored)
“Saying the US and Europe “have no moral authority” to control the aid going to Haiti, Somali pirates say they plan to donate booty from their hijackings to the relief effort. The pirates have taken in more than $150 million in the past 2 years, by one estimate, and now aim to redistribute some while thumbing their noses at the Western powers. “They are the ones pirating mankind for many years,” a spokespirate tells Agencia Matriz del Sur.”
—Somali Pirates Will Donate Booty to Haiti « Repeating Islands (via curate) (via bonesarecoralmade)
Today's mission: clean out my closet
For some reason, I wish I could do this while watching defunct reality shows including Rich Girls, Gastineau Girls, and Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.
Yes, I actually watched all of those. I also loved the one where Lisa Loeb was trying to find a boyfriend.
I also still believe that Nick and Jessica will eventually get back together, like Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner (ideally sans the suspicious death).
“As you know, the BBNC will bring together the greatest 64 rollers in the country. They will compete at Full Circle Bar for the title of #1 Skee-Ball player on the planet. I can’t officially say “in the universe” because supposedly there is an alien on Neptune that’s averaging three High 5’s per match this skeeson, his name is Gleep Glop.”
—I love the guys who run my skee-ball league.
Listen
Fleetwood Mac - Little lies
You can’t even tell Stevie added her backing vocals during post-production!
I don’t know when this is from because I just searched my dash to see if anyone had blogged it because I wanted to listen to it. Anyway, this is exactly what I like about the song: It highlights exactly what Stevie Nicks adds to Fleetwood Mac. The song’s just kind of going along in an OK manner — and, look, I like Christine McVee — and then out of nowhere comes this ethereal voice that is just, like, significantly more awesome and charismatic than everyone else’s, and even though it sort of sounds the way your mom’s does when you’re in bed dreaming and she’s yelling at you from somewhere outside said dream to get out of bed, suddenly the song is fantastic.
Anyway, this one’s dedicated to my lovely friend from high school who said “I’ve honestly always thought you looked like her…” re: that lady with all the Oscar noms.
“That’s so awesome. Is the guitar yours?”
—
”..so what you gonna do, little buckaroo?”
Why yes! But I am a colossal poseur and can’t actually play it (yet).
I will never, ever, ever--so long as I live--understand the desire to resist (and actively hold back) progress
I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand.
There are a lot of LGBT people in this world. So many, in fact, that everybody undoubtedly knows and cares for at least one. By choosing to limit social progress you are negatively impacting that person’s life.
I don’t understand. I don’t understand. I don’t understand.
@katoleary
Question: Is that a Slash t-shirt in your icon? If so, you’ve moved yourself so far up my “<3” list.
Yes. I will post the big version of the picture now.
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“Have you, sir or madam, considered that:
- Women cannot behave poorly without it becoming a reflection on their entire gender, and/or having their behavior attributed to their possession of a vagina as opposed to just, you know, their personality. Women can be shitty people without being shitty women, and that is why I am a feminist.
- Men have the privilege of being blissfully unaware of the things they do that oppress half the population, which causes a) oppression of women and b) shitty broken lives for men, who are now unable to fully connect with or derive joy from one entire half of the population that no longer fully trusts them, and that is why I am a feminist.
- Others are made uncomfortable when I describe the blatant injustices done worldwide due to the cultural segregation of gender because they see ways in which they have participated in this or support it and it’s scary and frustrating and sad and unhappy to realize that you have hurt many people that you love out of ignorance and you didn’t ask to be raised that way, and that is why I am a feminist.
- Stereotypes exist pretty clearly to benefit the current social order, and when somebody enacts the stereotype perfectly, it becomes evidence for the stereotype, and when somebody acts in the complete opposite of the stereotype, they are exceptions and also fall into other very convenient stereotypes (dyke, fag, liberal). And most stereotypes, if you examine them closely, are full of the kind of survival habits that a person would develop were they being abused terribly, so perhaps it is not a surprise that abused populations behave in these ways, and perhaps it is not a surprise that the people who abuse them take these habits and use them as an excuse for further abuse, and that is why I am a feminist.
- Men are boxed in by expected gendered behaviors nearly as tightly as women, and often experience consequences as violent and deplorable as women do when stepping out of those boxes. (The big difference is, when men stay in their boxes and perform their gendered behaviors well, they only experience the internal dissatisfaction of having their feelings and inner lives destroyed; men will not be attacked for acting as men. Women can be attacked for staying in their boxes and performing well, because even if they act like the perfect woman, they are still women, and still worth less than men.) Men, like women, must sacrifice an enormous portion of their personality and needs and desires in order to behave as their expected gender, and not ever ever ever behave as the “opposite” gender, and that makes men and women have shittier lives together. Masculine gendered behaviors couldn’t exist without something to define themselves against, something they are not, something they are different than, and that thing is our sick cultural idea of femaleness, and that is why I am a feminist.”
Amazing. Thanks to Kelsium for linking to this earlier.
