“Not That Flattering”
So, I put this picture of me up as my Twitter profile yesterday. It’s a behind-the-scenes moment from a photo shoot - as you can see I am hiking up my shorts so something can be fixed on my leg. I love how these weird hands are in the picture and it’s unclear what I’m doing. I’m a comedian! I like to put dumb pictures of me on the internet! It makes me laugh! This photo tickles me! It is not supposed to represent the highest depths of glamour or show a beauty so great that people must turn away.
One of my male Twitter followers wrote to me, “Usually like yr profile pics, but this 1 isn’t my fav. Hiking up hose is an unflattering posture for anyone.”
He is now blocked.
Someone wrote me, “How can you block him? He’s nice!” Nice? Who cares who is nice? I’m sure everyone is nice.
See, men only get to talk to me that way ONCE on the internet. If they are fans. Tough shit. They can be a normal fan who supports my work with their money and their laughs and if they have something to say it shouldn’t be advice on how I should present myself in photos.
It’s the only thing I can do to keep pointing out subtle differences in the way male fans talk to their male vs. female stand-up favorites. It might be hard for him to understand that sometimes the Little Comedy Lady puts up FUNNY pictures and I’m not always posting things to get my looks and body approved by men. Chew on that!
Sorry if I sound angry. As I type this I don’t feel angry but I’m more than at my “labia saturation” with nonsense.
p.s. Men shouldn’t write about clothes. “Hose?” Where on earth are the pantyhose in this picture? I haven’t worn pantyhose since my First Communion in 1980.
Jen Kirkman is my favorite and the photo in question is fabulous!
Running Playlist Part 7
This is a new find. Haven’t added it to the playlist yet but Ted Leo can do no wrong by me.
I always have some Ted Leo and the Pharmacists on a running playlist. Lately I’ve been into the tempo of their cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World .
Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi - More Goals Than Many Clubs in Europe’s Top Leagues
- Cristiano has tallied more goals (40) than 12 of Liga BBVA clubs this season.
- Both players have scored at least as many or more than 9 different clubs from each of the other top European leagues (England, Germany, Italy).
- Cristiano’s strikes account for 38.5% of Real Madrid’s 104 league goals; 41.5% of Barcelona’s 94 goals are courtesy of Messi (39).
This is interesting: it shows that 1 out 40 goals for Cristiano Ronaldo was individual, while 10 out of 39 for Messi was individual. That rather upends the narrative of Ronaldo as a selfish, individualistic player.
Hat
1900-1918
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
I can’t even deal with all these extravagant gorgeous hats. I’m over here making “come to mama” noises.
Hat
1910s
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Oh how I want a wide brimmed hat with extensive plumage.
Magical Deductions ⚡☂: ok lets see if that thing with glasses chicks suddenly becoming super...
ok lets see if that thing with glasses chicks suddenly becoming super weird feminine when they whip off their glasses works
woop
well that was anticlimatic wait
wait
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON
What that is dumb and does not happen.
Look,…
(Source: sassylesbianluka)
We challenge all of the GOP Presidential Candidates & All Republican / Tea Party members of Congress to PROVE that their sudden politicizing of birth control is NOT a Women’s Rights issue by passing legislation that prevents Men from getting Erectile Dysfunction drugs or penile enhancements unless:
- They are married
- Can pass a fertility test
- Are of an age where they can raise a child
Reblog this if you’d like to see The GOP treat men the same way they treat women.
Oh my god that would be awesome. Fucking conservatives are all in a rage about birth control pills, but they can give fuck all about boner pills.
The fact we have such publicly strong acceptance of fucking boner pills, and yet you don’t see the same kind of “horny pills” for women plastered in advertisements everywhere you look says a lot about how our society is set up.
I’m all for this.
(Source: ihatepeacocks)
gq:
The Problem with Reese Witherspoon
Problem #1: In her new movie, This Means War, we’re supposed to believe she’s an object of desire capable of setting off a violent feud between Chris Pine and Tom Hardy. Nice try, Hollywood.
Here, GQ’s Lauren Bans lays the smack down:
In real life, two men do not fight over a Reese Witherspoon. Reese Witherspoon as the vertex of a love triangle is a Hollywood inception dream architected specifically for ladies. Her characters aren’t designed to be fully dimensional people; they’re everywomen templates onto which you’re supposed to graft your own face. Most actresses have to choose early on whether to cater to men or women. Reese chose women. Or maybe women chose her. She’s pretty in a conventional way, but not too pretty. She’s hardly ever overtly sexy. She’s the kind of celebrity who, under her photo in fashion magazines, you’ll find a headline like “How to Nail A Preppy Look This Fall.” She likes talking, or at least pretends to like talking, about love and kids and her humble upbringing.
Over the past few years, it’s become hard to separate the offscreen Reese Witherspoon from the one onscreen. Partly because maintaining her acting career as the Everywoman necessitates acting like the Everywoman all the time. Her magazine interviews feel like Sweet Home Alabama fanfic. Reading one of them is cheaply cathartic, the way seeing one of her romantic comedies is like Look at the good things that happen to a nice, regular woman who doesn’t give up hope! Reese always presents herself as the I-can’t-believe-this-happened-to-me girl, and she’s great at it. When, years down the road, she starts doing I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter commercials, I’ll buy multiple tubs.
Read the rest here.
OK, now write this article about the 8,000 male actors, eg Vince Vaughan, in the same but genderswapped position.
