I totally thought of it myself, I swear
Things you may hear me say soon:
“There are chemicals in the brain called neurotransmitters…”
Sites I may link to from time to time:
They come for her jokes, and stay for her epic beatdowns
Sady wins the internet. (with [BONER] jokes!). I’m still trying to figure out how a mansplaining, boner-obsessed, “feminist if it will get me laid” dude came to a site with the word “beatdown” in the title and didn’t think he would get one for patting all the ladies on the head and thanking them for playing “but let me show you how it’s done”-ing the crowd. But thank Grover Cleveland that he did it, because it whipped Sady Doyle into the most hilarious righteous frenzy I’ve ever seen. And he didn’t stop there, either – he proceeded down the list of every item on the Derailing for Dummies list:
“You’re Being Hostile”, “But That Happens To Me Too”, “You’re Being Overemotional”, “Don’t You Have More Important Issues To Think About”, “You’re Not Being Intellectual Enough”, “Your Experience Is Not Representative Of Everyone”, “You’re Not Being A Team Player”, “You’ve Lost Your Temper So I Don’t Have To Listen To You Anymore”, and “You’re Damaging Your Cause By Being Angry” among others (thanks to commenters for assembling that list.)
If you too love the hell out of goofy boner jokes or just want to bring sunshine into your day, please read the whole post but I would be remiss if I didn’t highlight the cherry on top:
And now, Freddie? Now, I’m Sady fucking Doyle. Of Tiger fucking Beatdown. Which gets roughly one hundred fucking thousand pageviews per month. And if you don’t like my jokes, motherfucker, then what you can do is, you can just. Fucking. LIVE WITH IT. Because these jokes, this secret little mode of resistance that I developed because I had no other options, have become the way I pay my rent. And neither you nor your various Serious Theory Friends nor God himself nor ANYTHING short of my own unexpected and sudden death in a car accident can fucking stop me. This is maybe self-aggrandizing, but you know what? I’m fine with that. I made myself who I am today, and she’s a pretty fucking great lady to be. And the thing is, if you can work harder than I have, if you can write better than I can, if you can equal or surpass my accomplishment, I’ll aggrandize you, too. God knows I don’t hesitate to sing the praises of people like, I dunno, Choire Sicha or Jessica Valenti or Jill Filipovic or Josh Fruhlinger or Clay Shirky, all of whom have done way better work than I have. But you can’t do even as well as I have, Freddie. Can you? Which is part of this whole deal. You’re not better than me, and it makes you sad.
When I grow up, I wanna be Sady (fucking) Doyle.
Once you’ve laughed your ass off, check out the two epic follow-ups regarding Freddie and his Boners:
Thank You For Subscribing to the Newsletter for the We Don’t Care About Freddie’s Boners Foundation
[BONERS], For Fun and Profit: The Extent To Which You Don’t Care About [BONERS], Revealed!
And if you just haven’t had enough of funny feminism, you know who else is funny, too? I Blame the Patriarchy. Tasty stuff.
links for 2010-04-11
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Not that we're redo-ing the kitchen any time soon, but some handy reference info.
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We do not have a triangle at our house. And we sure need one – our kitchen layout sucks.
links for 2010-04-10
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Very simply, it acknowledges that good health can best be realized independent from considerations of size. It supports people–of all sizes–in addressing health directly by adopting healthy behaviors.
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I want one to put on some of my neighbors steps.
links for 2010-04-09
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Um… a… strange photos. yeah
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Guys – if you cheat on your fiancee, she gets to keep the ring. Sorry, that's always been the rule, and it always will be, until they stop the idiot practice of engagement rings altogether. May that day come soon.
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An excellent counter-point to prudish argument that Erykah Badu's video is inappropriate because children would "find nudity disturbing." Far from it.
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“A one-legged Coots is better than no Coots at all.” I wish my obituary would turn out this colorful.
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a Jewish Photographer who documented Eastern European Jewish life before WWII – and how he consciously defined his work to influence how we think about that culture and in the process hid away some of his best work.
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No. Really? I can't imagine why.
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Chicago has "the most extensive and sophisticated video surveillance system in the United States" and all cameras are linked together. No wonder I'm so ill at ease in that city.
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8 pages of article on Lady GaGa. You'll probably read the whole thing.
links for 2010-04-08
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8 pages of article on Lady GaGa. You'll probably read the whole thing.
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The always delicious Sady Doyle reviews Patti Smith's memoir and tangentially some other writings by women about sex, and how they are received by the masses (often not well, as it turns out.)
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Since when is it okay to celebrate traitors who fought the government over their right to own their fellow man? This is not something to be celebrated – it's something to pretend never happened in your family or in your state.
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Funny while playing Risk. Not so funny when you're talking about the country I personally live in.
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A Java port of Quake II, using Google Web Toolkit to compile it into JAVASCRIPT (!) that runs in your browser, without plug-ins. This is not your grandfather's Flash app. This is the new shit.
links for 2010-04-07
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So they held a "fake" prom for the lesbians, and had a "real" prom across town, organized by the homophobic parents, teachers and school officials. Check out some pictures of the douchbags.
Mayor Greg Ballard’s Many Tax Increases
Now that campaign season is rolling around our Mayor Ballard — whose original campaign charge was all about repealing property taxes in Indiana — is hauling out one of his favorite talking points: claiming he held the line on new taxes. Ballard was whipped into office on the froth of the anti-tax rabble after Governor Mitch Daniel’s repeated property tax bungles statewide.
In reality? Not at all true on the “holding the line” claim. The Indianapolis Times puts together the facts, with the help of an observant letter-writer (Melissa De Groff) to the Indianapolis Star:
The statement in the editorial “Recycling beats trash talking,” March 27, that Mayor Greg Ballard has held the line on tax increases simply doesn’t hold water. Ballard was elected on widespread anti-tax sentiment, vowing to repeal the bipartisan-supported income tax hike enacted to fund 200 additional police officers, and promising no new taxes during his administration.
It looked good in the paper. But more than two years into Ballard’s term, Indianapolis residents are still waiting. Instead of a full repeal of the income tax, Ballard delivered a fraction of his promise. Instead of no new taxes, Ballard has solicited 30 tax increases: one sewer rate hike, two water rate hikes and 27 user-fee hikes (“Indianapolis wants to boost user fees,” Dec. 23, 2009). And instead of “holding the line” on city spending, each of Ballard’s budgets have increased the property tax burden on residents.
World-class cities need to push forward continuously, like Eli Lilly and EnerDel do in the corporate world. That’s why additional recycling opportunities merit additional exploration. But “holding the line” won’t cut it, especially when Ballard hasn’t earned the praise.
links for 2010-04-06
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Joanne McNeil takes to task the folks in new media for their (mis)use of the term "curate" and "curator" when they really are talking about content selection, content aggregation and context analysis.
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One line of javascript that lets you empower CSS selectors.
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The real-life singing nun was gay (yay!) and killed herself and her partner (not yay at all!) in a suicide pact over their financial ruin. Grim ending for Sister Smile.
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A new book exploring the great gender disparity in science and technology, and the causes, including limited access, lack of resources and exclusion from social networks.
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She ripped up a picture of the pope in 1992 specifically to protest childhood abuse by the church – 18 years later, people understand what she was saying, thankfully.
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This is awesome – the ACLU has been fighting the attempt to "patent" two genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer. The patents would limit women's ability to get genetic screening for those diseases and drive the price of screening up. Good on the ACLU for fighting this fight!
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Helvetica was not invented by the Nazis. It's more complicated than that – just go read the post. 🙂
links for 2010-04-05
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I deliberately try not to fill my calendar. I choose not to say Yes to everything. For to do so would make me too busy, and I think, less effective at what my goals are. I always want to have some margin of my time in reserve, time I’m free to spend in any way I choose, including doing almost nothing at all. I’m free to take detours. I’m open to serendipity. Some of the best thinkers throughout history had some of their best thoughts while going for walks, playing cards with friends, little things things that generally would not be considered the hallmarks of busy people.
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The Floating Market, inspired by Neil Gaiman from his best-selling book Neverwhere.
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