December 2011
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Songs of 2011
Okay, here they are, my utterly subjective top songs of 2011. The only criteria - I fell in love at first listen:
EMA - The Grey Ship (my artist of the year)
Frank Turner - I Am Disappeared
Imaginary Cities - Hummingbird
Touché Amoré - ~
Emika - Double Edge
Adolar - Tanzenkotzen
Coincidence or not, the respective albums are also my favorite albums of the year. Can’t really rate them...
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“. This idea that a woman should be the defender of her sexuality falls in with...”
– dating, sexy consent and a question… « Diary of a Lipstick Terrorist
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“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
– Mario Vargas Llosa
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"Ron Paul is not a kindly old libertarian who just...
Just a link for people who need a kind reminder: “Ron Paul Is a Huge Racist.” Found this text via a post on champage candy, where I also found this gem of a description of the non-apology of claiming that racist words are not your own but a ghostwriters:
“Don’t worry if he writes racist rhymes, he writes racist checks”
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“Compared to the European Union and the US, Portugal drug use numbers are...”
– Time to end the war on drugs - Richard’s Blog - Virgin.com
Oh wow. Apparently, Portugal legalized ALL the drugs and - it worked! At least that’s what the results of a study, summed up by a young blogger named Richard, look like.
Interesting.
(via nerdcore)
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“There were things I expected about Barack Obama when I cast my vote for him....”
– Shakesville: The Not-War in Pakistan
Yes, Obama’s foreign policy is something I’m quite disappointed with, too. Okay, he defined the war in Iraq to be over (for US soldiers), and Hillary Clinton is doing an okay job as Secretary of State, but apart from that? Not much change to believe...
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“I think the greatest poetry… is revealing to the reader the beauty in something...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via writers-bloc)
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“Because if you were trans and being held in solitary confinement for a year and...”
– Tiger Beatdown › In or out? More thoughts on B. Manning.
Private Manning, alleged Wikileaks source and currently in custody and facing manifold charges, is probably a trans*woman. Good text on why that is probable - and why she did not out herself as trans* under there circumstances, raising...
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“This basic extension of empathy is one of the great barriers in understanding...”
– A Muscular Empathy - Ta-Nehisi Coates - National - The Atlantic
Possibly the best, most interesting response to the whole “If I was a poor black child”-business - and it goes way beyond that.
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“Indeed, a majority of singles are hoping to walk down an aisle one day—even...”
– The Marriage Paradox: Why We Say It’s Outdated But Get Hitched Anyway - Lifestyle - GOOD
The Marriage Paradox. So true. I also think that marraige is no loger “necessary” and possibly even outdated.
Yet I’m engaged. Why? Out of tradition? For symbolic reasons? Because it...
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How the fuck could McQueary see what he says he saw and Sandusky not be immediately sent to (metaphorical) hell and turned in to the right authorities? (Serious trigger warning for description of child abuse.)
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“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Balentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he goes down on Michelle Williams. (via feminishblog)
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“There’s just one teeny tiny problem: couch it the trappings of edgy rebellion...”
– Girl-on-Girl Victim-Blaming Action (or, The Most Terrible Time of the Year)
Go read this one last text on victim blaming, rape culture, drinking, risk taking and (internalized) misogyny and then have a wonderful weekend full of pretty, fun and (con)sensual stuff.
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A Good Men Project?
Hm. I usually only read the Hugo Schwyzer articles on Good Men Project, and considered it to be a pretty nice site. I still think the starting point of the page is a valuable one: It is a good idea to discuss how to be “better” men, fathers, husbands; what more constructive, positive, new masculinities could look like.
Sure, one of its weaknesses is that is quite heteronormative from...
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Rape Culture Awareness [TW]
Over at the Good Men Project, Nikki Brown is asking the important question: Why Are So Many Good Men Accepting of Rape Culture?
I already wrote about the topic yesterday. I hope I made it clear that in agreeing with Schwyzer’s point about men as potential rapists I do not mean to accept rape culture as I an inherent, natural … thing or that I accept that “all men are...
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The discussions of the last couple of days have reinforced my impression that rape culture is the new ultimate inconvenient truth. Wonder if Al Gore will ever make a movie about it?
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“It seems that the blame game in the mainstream, whether through the minimization...”
– Being a Dude Is a Good Thing by @TMatlack — The Good Men Project
Yes, being a dude is a good thing! But that’s pretty much all I agree with.
Usually I appreciate the “Good Men Project” pieces. But this? Not only is it heterocentrist/sexist (yes, despite the nod to gay marriages)...
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“In our culture, where rape and harassment and abuse are so common, men have lost...”
– In Rape Culture, All Men Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent by Hugo Schwyzer — The Good Men Project
Rape culture is an excellent example of how sexism and sexist structures hurt men, too - and that it would help men, too, if they take up feminist positions.
I made the mistake of skimming through the...
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“Wright is being diplomatic, but the study has major political implications—it...”
– Civic Pride Makes People Happier Than Ethnic Pride - News - GOOD
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“You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as...”
– Charles Baudelaire (via emes) (via idontlikemyhairneat)
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