Ah, the story of my life, too little for regular porn, too big for midget porn. Back to the drawing board.
Relatedly, anyone who mentioned on the Sitcom thread they like Brit Sitcoms, you must, must MUST check out "The Thick of It". Malcolm Tucker is magnificent.
How do you even find shit like this? Well, I get how, Google is a wonderful thing, so maybe the better question is why? Why were you searching for naked midgets?
That's the real question, right there. That midget actually looks almost exactly (minus the midget part) like a girl knew from my hometown who once asked me to marry her.
I'm 85% convinced that this is the problem right here. If you followed a lot of contemporary feminist writers/columnists, you'll notice that a very disproportionate amount of them live in New York/New England - likely due to the general East Coast media bias. So you end up seeing a brand of feminism very much influnced by the writers' white middle/upper-middle class backgrounds, many of whom whose writing seems ignorant of their race & class privilege. As far as that particular article is concerned, the underlying point that women have an unfair expectation to be excessively nice is correct - very often assertive behavior that isn't considered out of the ordinary for a guy will get a woman labeled a bitch. However, I think it's an exaggeration to suggest that Kate Upton is in the same position of being forced to be nice to some stranger than if it were a woman in her office being pressured to be extra nice to her coworkers.
Said no, sorry. Considering at the time I was 18, home on leave from basic training, and about to ship out to Europe for 15 months, it didn't seem like a very good idea.
Exactly. She never would have had to bring it up at all, but she saw it, loved it and praised it right away. From all evidence, she just seems to be doing a nice thing. Mila Kunis (at the peak of her popularity right now) did it for that American soldier, I never heard any backlash for that. What Upton is doing is "creepy"? She's two years older than him. Just because she's on paper an "adult" and he's a "teenager"....doesn't make any difference at all. Two years is NOTHING. This is why so many guys can't stand feminists is because of the reprehensible, uber-stupid ones like this man-hater and Germaine Greer have given them a shitty reputation that will take them infinity to dig themselves out of. And because of this, rational intelligent feminists-- which there are lots of-- get thrown into this unfortunate pigeon hole.
Something is just odd with her face in that second picture. But 1 and 3, I'm about as on board as you can be with a midget.
Yes, the reductive "East Coast media bias." Most members of the media tend to be liberal because they are educated (which means trending towards the left) and/or live in cities which also trend to the left on a majority of issues, but that occurs in cities throughout the U.S., which have had more people than rural areas for decades. You're absolutely right about the white and upper-middle class backgrounds, however. Marcotte is useless, don't get me wrong. I think the larger problem is that feminism as a movement often is willing to accept many of the more militant elements. I honestly think it's similar to GOP politicians who kowtow to the Tea Party. Women who would normally be open to nuance feel like criticizing a certain subset can demean the efforts overall.
I don't think it's sexist or anything, but isn't it kind of rude to pull stunts like these? It puts the celebrity in a terrible "Go to some dweeb's prom or look like an asshole in public" situation; it's kind of gossip-rag hostage taking. Upton goes, it's a story. Upton doesn't go, it's also a story. "Famous model thinks she's too good for fan's request."
I don't know, she could have just pretended she never saw it and I'm just throwing it out there that this girl has probably had some creepy shit sent to her since she blew up. Or, she could just be a twat like Cameron Diaz and treat all fans with scorn and contempt. Usually like you are saying the media has a way of putting the star in this situation, but Upton (from what I read) knew about it and responded to it before the media did.
She totally could, but someone like Upton does a lot of interviews. If this was famous enough for her to hear about it, odds are an interviewer would eventually ask her. It just seems weird to potentially put someone on the spot like that. I'm not saying he's a terrible no-good bad person for doing it or anything. Maybe it's that I just have a really excessive aversion to inconveniencing other people.
So, a SWAT team just raided an environmental science lab in Vancouver. That's just straight up fascism. There's been a few similar instances lately, I do not like at all the direction our government is taking. Lowering taxes and diminishing the size of the government? I can agree with that. Reducing civil liberties and harassing scientists who work on rebuilding ocean floors is just shady as shit. Edit: Sorry, this might break the ''no politics'' rule. I just haven't seen anyone, left or right, who thought this was remotely close to a good idea.
I disagree. I think Feminism needs its more "militant" voices otherwise the movement waters down and fails to stand for anything significant. The problem is that a lot of the more "militant" feminists beliefs and voices are steeped in a large amount of Feminist theory, which doesn't get communicated adequately once it filters down to the blogsphere and op/ed level. So you end up with a viewpoint that looks hostile and arbitrary because the writer either doesn't understand the deeper theory or feels she has to dumb it down so people not imminently knowledgable in Feminism can comprehend it.