the thing that really annoyed me about that progression of a beer palette thing that went around a while back is the idea that light ales and pilsners are the default to which you return. Bullshit. I’ve done stage 3 plenty, and I love me some bitters, cream ales and other british beers. Germany and Poland can suck it.
inthefade:
because the author thinks fifteen year old girls should be thinking about uhh…
And so that’s what I hope for my hypothetical unborn children, whether it’s from Gaga or another powerhouse female who owns it on stage: pop music that shuns tired Dawson Leary cliché in favor of your drama, disease, love, revenge, and (when you’re ready) your dangerous ambisexual kiss in the motherfucking sand.
If this person has a daughter some day we’ll see if she really wants to push the ideas of drama, disease, revenge and ambisexual sand kisses or whatever the fuck on her. I think her tune will change.
I’m not saying I love Taylor Swift’s music because I honestly have never heard one of her songs. I’m just saying that fifteen year old girls are still girls. They’re not young adults, they’re not women, they’re not even seventeen. They’re still kids. Let them be kids without pushing sexuality at them at every turn.
I love when people who don’t have kids are always going on about how they are going to be the “cool” parent and make sure their kids are cool and punk and anti-establishment and all fuck you society because the second you become a parent that shit goes out the window.
Nobody’s telling you your daughter has to think about sex at 15. But. If other girls at your daughters school do, she should not start slut-shaming just because Taylor Swift does it. I think you missed the large point of the article - not that Taylor Swift teaches girls to think about something other than sex - it’s that Taylor Swift teaches the Madonna/Whore complex straight out of a right-wing, fundamentalist, anti-sex, anti-womyn, abstinence-only playbook.
from in the fade
nikography:
“You don’t discontinue a system because of potential misuse, you build solutions to the misuse.”
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- equalitopia
okay. everyone is spazzing out because LGBT was left off of a directory nomination form (that is probably still being ironed out). and this quote just kind of ruins the whole argument. the reasoning that people might abuse this (and trust me, they WILL abuse it) is perfectly valid. and maybe tumblr just hasn’t found the right solution yet. not everything is an attack on the LGBT community, calm down.
and let me warn you, when you make requests like that- you don’t really know what you’re asking for. i say this because if you did know what you were asking for, you’d offer an actual solution. “build solutions to the misuse” comes dangerously close to humans/arbitrary people monitoring and/or approving YOUR content.
how do you really expect them to monitor fake nominations (e.g. “i’m submitting my straight friend to the gay category lololz~11”) from the real ones? email people to ask about their orientation? have a single human make a judgement call that may or may not be accurate? (oh my god, you guys would FREAK OUT all over again if that happened)
so that said, sit and think for a minute about what problems really could come of this at the moment. and then relax. maybe if you’re so inclined, offer a solution.
If the recommendations are purely a tally of how many people recommended a tumblr in a 1-week period, they’re pretty worthless. I’m betting on their already being mods hand-picking the winners. Any sane directory for LGBTQ isn’t just “so-and-so is gay and writes about kittens/music/posts-pretty-pictures”, it’s about LGBTQ topics, which is pretty easy to ascertain on a quick glance.
from humachine
