Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Fat Patients, Fat Patience #FatAcceptance
- Untitled May 17, 2024Thinking of that time that Degas painted the actress Ellen Andree sitting and looking pensive in a cafe, and Monet saw Degas' painting and decided to find the same actress and get her to pose in the same cafe so he could do his own version.
- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Defending Free Speech
- Untitled May 17, 2024My niece dyed her hair pink but there are bees here and now they follow her around because they think she's a big flower.
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Category Archives: Sexism hurts men
Moving towards equality, but in the wrong direction
Via You’re Reading Too Much Into It, The New York Times reports on a new trend: super-skinny male models. Where the masculine ideal of as recently as 2000 was a buff 6-footer with six-pack abs, the man of the moment … Continue reading
Posted in Fat, fat and more fat, Feminism, sexism, etc, Sexism hurts men
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That’s The Way We Became the Brady Bündchen
So photos recently surfaced of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and supermodel Giselle Bündchen on vacation in Mexico together, hanging out and being schmoopy and generally doing the kind of things one does when one’s on vacation with one’s … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, sexism, etc, Sexism hurts men, Sports
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Dodge Rams Are For Girly Men
Real men, it appears, drive Chevys: A lot of commercials make sexist appeals to insecurity about masculinity, but this one is impressive because it’s just so pure. The Dodge Ram has a heated steering wheel! Manicures! Pro football players! Unstated … Continue reading
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Male circumcision could be outlawed in Denmark
Via BigFred:
The Kristeligt Dagblad newspaper has reported that several parties in the Danish Parliament are considering legislation that would ban circumcision on boys as well as girls. After an intense week of discussions by MPs, it appears that the proposal for a ban covering both genders is gaining traction.[…]
At the centre of the debate is […] Continue reading
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On Boys’ Higher Accidental Death Rate
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new report out, about accidental deaths among children age 0-19. The most likely time for a kid to die in an accident is when they’re aged 15-19; the second most likely time is in the first year of life. (See the chart on page 25). […] Continue reading
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We Know How To Stop Prisoner Rape
In a letter published in The New York Review of Books, David Kaiser of Just Detention International argues that we could significantly reduce prison rape, if we genuinely wanted to. “Since 1980 the murder rate inside prisons has fallen more … Continue reading
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Two Brothers Targetted by Homophobic Violence; One Dies
From Pharyngula, an article about how two brothers who were holding each other’s arms as they walked were assaulted, and one of them killed, because passersby in an SUV thought they were gay: [Jose] Sucuzhanay (suh-KOO-chen-eye) and his brother Romel, … Continue reading
Posted in Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues, Sexism hurts men
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