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No, srsly?

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Mardi Gras Kitcats

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Deric, my husband worked with a temp agency to some success but I can't remember what it is. I'll ask him, though.

Here is your feminist RAGE for the day. Do not read if you are already feeling overwhelmed with negative emotions about our big dumb world.

And mad hugglez to Sarah and her mom. I would go to the movies with your mom!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah there was a blurb about the performance at the Children's Museum. Mostly talked about the kids' activities, but the band was namedropped and they played a recording of music and parade with laughing kids and such.

Supposedly there are photographs on CPR's site but I can't find them right now.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

That's exciting about MDD on NPR!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Feminist rage, part deux: http://feministing.com/archives/006542.html

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

That IS exciting. Thanks for letting me know Dan, otherwise we would have had no idea.

I don't see on anything on their website yet either but there is a photo of five dudes with sousaphones and blue tracksuits, so close enough.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Please tell me that MDD wears matching track suits, even if it's not true, because that's awesome. Even better, tell me that you wear marching band uniforms.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Here is your feminist RAGE for the day.

I'm not sure that stops with, or even begins with, feminism. There are so many things wrong with that.

I hear that in Asian cities the wealthier women sometimes get surgery to make their eyes more round.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell me lies. Tell me sweet, little lies.

xp - no, there is lots of racism, classism, and capitalist manipulation in there, too. And that is true about eye surgery. And women in the US get their vadges tightened and lifted.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually we do have matching track jackets. And matching dickie pants/shirts, hoodies, letter jackets, etc.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost lifted where?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

or did you mean lifted like shoplifted?

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I take a holistic view of oppression in that I think you can't fully separate sexism, racism, and classism because that they are of similar origin - those in power trying to preserve the heirarchy that gives them their power and privilege. Similarly, even oppressed groups can find a stake in preserving the hierarchy to hang on to whatever power/privilege they are allotted. I think that the methods of oppression differ depending on the target group, and that those on the receiving end experience the impact of racism/classism/sexism in different ways and to different degrees, but I think its all of a piece. This is just a great example of that: the "whitening cream" is definitely a feminist issue (because it's targeted to women generally, who are told that their entire value is in their looks, and to dark-skinned women, who are told that they are even less valuable than light-skinned women) as well as a race and class issue.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Lifted like they have their labia tightened up so they don't dangle so much. Dangly labia. It's the scourge of rich women everywhere.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link

WITH LASERS

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

THE FUTURE IS NOW

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure there's a "five finger discount" joke in there somewhere.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Doc, I need to have my labia lifted because I'm always getting them caught in my designer hand bag."

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My next band will be called The Dangly Labia.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My comment would have been funnier if I could have come up with the name of an actual designer with the current hot commodity hand bag but alas I cannot. Which is for the best, because I can't afford to have my labia lifted right now.

TEMP AGENCY: New Office Temps.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

This is just a great example of that: the "whitening cream" is definitely a feminist issue (because it's targeted to women generally, who are told that their entire value is in their looks, and to dark-skinned women, who are told that they are even less valuable than light-skinned women) as well as a race and class issue.

no, you're right.

I almost take this as a good sign, though. India is in the middle of some heavy social transition if the powers that be are being this heavy-handed about keeping the ladies down. And using capitalist means to do it! What a world.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

(re: temp agencies - folks have mentioned New 0ffice, or signing up w/ Northwestern's own temp pool.)

O the dangly, gangly, mangly...

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

My next band will be called The Dangly Labia.

Bad call, bro.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I have thoroughly enjoyed talking about my labia on the internet.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

And we loved hearing about it.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

LADIES OF CHILX: TELL US ABOUT YOUR LABIA.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link

The Labia Monologues.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Which is for the best, because I can't afford to have my labia lifted right now.

two sided duct tape or maybe velcro could help?

My next band will be called The Dangly Labia.

there was one awesome band name from this weekend but i forget what the hell it was now. all i can remember was thinking of starting a rev. horton heat-esque psychobilly/gospel revival band called the crystal methodists.

― chicago kevin cleaned a lot of plates in memphis (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG awesome.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

In a newspaper in DC I saw an ad for a plastic surgeon who did various procedures, one of which was "Westernization surgery"

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Westernization surgery"

I wonder if it's some kind of package deal. Eyes rounded, tits enlarged, labia tucked, and asshole bleached.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

It's very important, you know, to have a perfectly pink, shaven asshole. I won't even go NEAR a woman who doesn't have that.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

oh no I'm in THAT mood again. I'm sorry chilx. I'm going away now.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My Lady Has A Beautiful Anus

How do I love my lady's anus? Let me count the ways.

Have you seen her? Have you seen my beautiful lady and her anus? Unless you are an ex-boyfriend, her proctologist, or an art student in that class she modeled for, you probably have not have glimpsed the fairest orifice on God's green Earth. For this, you have my deepest sympathies.

I would put my lady's anus up against any of the legendary anuses of the past: Helen of Troy, Joan of Arc, Marie Curie, Eleanor Roosevelt.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33388

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe the best Onion article ever.

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Anus kills thread?

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Sometimes, it's as if I'm gazing through a taut, puckered window into her very soul

― Metrosexual Healing (crunkleJ), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Anus kills thread?

What labia could not do, anus can.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

So true. So, so true.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

let's... uh... talk about something else.

I went into a cleaning frenzy yesterday. Aired out the apartment and went to town on it. There's not a lot of clutter, since I don't own anything, but cat hair. Oh, cat hair. How you torture me.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Kenan, Do you want some clutter? I can give you some, real cheap.

Anyone want bigger/larger breasts? Read Here!

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I meant to say bigger/smaller, but I was thinking bigger is better, so...

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Cat hair is ridiculous. There's a dude named Dizzy crashing on my couch right now, and if I had known that would happen I would have cleaned off the carpet of cat hair that covers it.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost you scared me. apparently that only happens in prepubescents. because i love lavender, and do not want to give it up.

― teasing your poultry (kenan), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, it's not too late. He'd probably still appreciate it. And maybe be less Dizzy.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you throw a blanket or something on top of it to create a protective shield between him and the hair?

Kenan, the study was on prepubescents, but you never know...

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I have nothing to say about any of today's conversation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell us about your labia, John.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

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