Headline of the Day

"Seth MacFarlane states he will not return as Academy awards host." Hahahahahahahahahahahaha no, ya think?

Take Your Boobs to the White House Watch

Jonathan Martin at Politico: Dems 2016: Will Hillary Clinton obvious the area?The ranks of Democratic governors are full of ambitious political figures boasting records that will most likely play well with primary voters in 2016.But even while they eye a change from the statehouse towards the Whitened House, there's broad recognition one of the chief professionals that generation x of Dems might have to wait more than four more years to consider their place as Leader Barack Obama's heir.Broad recognition. Har har. See what he did there?This is an unparalleled scenario, noted a few of the governors: an initial lady-switched-senator-switched-presidential candidate-switched Secretary of Condition with 100-percent title ID and deep recognition who'd, indeed, make history because the nation's first female leader...."It is simply a really unique situation by which an very qualified candidate having a lengthy good reputation for public service that has been fully vetted is thinking about running for that presidency," noted [Democratic Governor of Missouri Jay Nixon], who easily won reelection this past year to his second term in conservative-leaning Missouri. "She's titled to her duration of analysis. It will, I believe, in lots of ways freeze the area until she more clearly states what she would like related to the relaxation of her existence."How generous of Governor Nixon to concede that Clinton is "titled to her duration of analysis." But allow it to be snappy, wouldja, Hilz? You will find Males waiting to create choices!

House of Cards

Has anybody viewed (or began watching) House of Cards, the united states remake from the old United kingdom miniseries in line with the book in regards to a callous politico? It is a Netflix production, and Netflix made the whole series available via streaming on February. 1. Iain and that i just finished the entire factor last evening, and that i thought it was a very compelling, frequently brilliant and frequently infuriating, show.There's A great deal to discuss concerning the female figures within the show especially (and that i recommend Leigh Kolb's piece at Bitch Movies with that subject), and so i figured I'd open a thread for discussion.Due to the strange (but wonderful, for me!) means by that the show was launched, many people might not have seen the entire season yet, while some have previously seen the entire factor, so let us make sure indicate spoilers, instead of general comments concerning the figures, and individuals who haven't seen the entire factor, please continue but be careful.

Petition Update

The petition asking the Federal government to prevent while using "spouses, moms, & kids" rhetorical frame that defines women by our associations with other people has become at 2,200+ signatures and counting. Continue the teaspooning!Yesterday, Shaker catvoncat noted in comments:So apparently you are able to go [here] to talk about your reaction to the SOTU speech by highlighting a passage and leaving comments onto it. This can be a different way to get our voices heard about this problem, for individuals who're interested.catvoncat shared her response, that is restricted to 400 figures, here. It was my submission, which you are invited to borrow simply or perhaps in whole, whether it's useful: Central to anti-violence advocacy is regarding women as autonomous creatures, an idea that is compromised by reductively determining women by our associations with other people. By mentioning to "our" spouses et al, the Leader seems to become speaking to males *about* women, instead of speaking to males *and* women. I'm area of the union, too. Why don't you, simply: "We all know our economy is more powerful when women..."Teaspoons ahoy!

Photos of the Day

U . s . States Leader Obama utilizes a magnifier to experience a game title with children inside a pre-kindergarten class at school Levels early childhood learning center in Decatur Feb 14, 2013. Obama travelled to Georgia to push his intend to ensure high-quality preschool, revealed throughout his Condition from the Union address now. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]Obama high-fives children inside a pre-kindergarten class. [REUTERS/Jason Reed]LOVE.[Aside: Jason Reed—still my personal favorite news digital photographer. Love that guy!]

Tweet of the Day

Formally prefer to welcome #PeterDinklage from #GameOfThrones to #XMEN #DaysofFuturePast Super excited!&mdash Bryan Singer (@BryanSinger) Feb 14, 2013Peter Dinklage = LOVE.X-Males = LOVE.Peter Dinklage + X-Males = LOVE SQUARED.*swoon*

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Scritti Politti: "Perfect Way"

One Billion Rising

[Content Note: Violence.]A few individuals have requested me basically have ideas on a single Billion Rising, that is an invite to 1 billion women "and individuals who love these to Go Out, DANCE, Rise, and DEMAND an finish" to violence against women.Zerlina's ideas here pretty much capture my very own:1 Billion Rising, whilst not perfect, comes with an attract me like a survivor of violence. Sure, dancing is not likely to prevent a guy from carrying out an action of violence, but there's something very effective about children and allies getting together to bop, because dancing generally is concerning the physical movement of your body. There's liberation for the reason that autonomy. ...To be sure with a few of the critiques of 1 Billion Rising, namely, it does not really address what causes violence against women, it really brings awareness. Clearly, getting awareness for an problem is essential, but it is not sufficient to be able to really solve the issue. Dancing is not likely to change rape culture, but when it can make a survivor be at liberty and in charge of her body, if perhaps for any couple of minutes today, dance on.And tell me when One Billion males are rising.That last bit might seem flippant, but particularly juxtaposed with Jess' publish, it is not.I do not personally feel linked to One Billion Rising like a survivor, however i am truly thrilled for anyone that do. I value awareness-raising, despite the fact that this specific event does not excite me should not whatsoever be construed to imply that I can not or don't be thankful has excited numerous of people that take presctiption my team, promoting against violence.So: What is your opinion? I am especially curious to listen to from Shakers with physical disabilities to limit the opportunity to dance about whether you are feeling One Billion Rising is broad enough in the invitation to become including individuals who might dance in a different way or can't dance whatsoever.[P.S. I can not stop hearing Tom Sturdy saying "The Billion Increases!" inside a Bane voice.]

Photo of the Day

Republican Senator Marco Rubio was assigned with giving the GOP SOTU rebuttal last evening (transcript here), and, since you may often hear Around The ENTIRE INTERNET, he'd an excellent awkward moment by which he lunged nearly offscreen for any bottle water. Soon after, Jessica (scATX) texted me the above mentioned picture she required, that we am discussing together with her permission, that is in some way millions of occasions more amusing in my experience than the usual regular old screencap. I chuckled until I had been crying.Anyway. Personally i think for that guy. I usually get cottonmouth after i speak, and that i always must have water nearby. It isn't he needed water. Dude's human. When I noted on Twitter last evening, it had been only so extremely and amusingly awkward while he and/or his GOP handlers had unsuccessful to place water in easy achieve. More excellence in GOP planning!For the information of his rebuttal, it had been total garbage. Clearly.

Daily Dose of Cute

Matilda: Professional Wacky Factor

In The News

[Content note: homophobia, gun violence]Monday Morning:The Town of La has set up $a million in reward money in order to to catching Christopher Jordan Dorner. A physician has designed an application to calculate how big your erection. It's known as the Predicktor, clearly. Superman hates fags: Electricity Comics is employing noted homophobe Orson Scott Card to create a brand new Superman series. (FYI.)Ohio Mayor Mary McAngus resigns after frequently calling gay officer "queer". Buh bye!Mike Piazza, New You are able to catcher, is certainly not gay.I discovered a homemade anti-gay Chick tract yesterday. Sadly, there have been no sketches. A prisoner who attempted to smuggle a telephone into jail by hiding it in the rectum was tricked when his butt began ringing. Should have use it vibrate.Arctic expert forecasts the ultimate collapse of ocean ice within 4 years. We are accomplished for.

Question of the Day

You've been assigned with casting a large-screen adaption/reboot from the classic sitcom Laverne & Shirley, and you've got to cast the roles of: Laverne, Shirley, Lenny, Squiggy, Mr. DeFazio, and Carmine. You aren't bound by gender, nor are you currently needed to cast them just like any particular race, age, physique, etc. The DeFazios may become the Nguyens or even the Joneses within the rewrite, for example. So: That do you cast?Laverne: Rachel Dratch.Shirley: Melissa McCarthy.Lenny: John Carroll Lynch.Squiggy: Ian Gomez.Mr. DeFazio: Gene Wilder.Carmine: Questlove.[Formerly: The Exorcist: Episode IV The Matrix.]

Tweet of the Day

[Content Note: Othering disablism body fat prejudice.]So, this tweet goes round the internets today...Are you currently albino? Then I really want you within my video. Email: musicvideocasting2013@gmail.com&mdash JARED LETO (@JaredLeto) Feb 6, 2013Jordan Catalano Jared Leto most likely thinks he's being super edgy by attempting to put individuals with albinism in the video, but using individuals with noticeably different physiques as substitution for just about any authentic artistic instinct is really fucking tired and tiresome, I can not even think about a metaphor tired and tiresome enough to sufficiently explicate it.The totes edgy auteurs of the garbage typically defend their circus art with a few sanctimonious lipservice to inclusion or the good thing about human diversity or some colossally unbearable routine about how exactly we are all freaks within our own way, however the appropriation of noticeably different physiques may be the complete opposite of inclusion: It's Othering.And most of the people whose physiques are recommended with this specific kind of Othering—the physiques of individuals with albinism, the physiques of individuals with dwarfism, individuals with less (or even more) than four complete braches, individuals with superfat bodies—are people whose physical variations will also be disabilities. To fetishize albinism because of its aesthetic, for instance, delicately elides the health problems that many individuals with albinism face.Defenders of the farcical bid at "inclusion" like to toss out that fetid rhetorical about why individuals with noticeably different physiques accept come in such projects whether it's so offensive, the reddest of all of the herrings. Once the only possibilities for visibility are Othering, those who take individuals possibilities can not be blamed: They are not selecting between "token albino in Jared Leto video" and "lead inside a serious movie whose casting director is available to casting somebody that ends up having albinism, climax irrelevant towards the plot."That's another demonstration of tasking people with finding methods to systemic problems. It's neither just nor reasonable to anticipate one individual to bootstrap a person's method to an entire cultural overhaul in the way we regard physiques like their own. Even the very best teaspoon continues to be just one teaspoon.Further, I understand that you will find, for instance, superfat ladies—always a popular staple of super edgy artists who're gleefully horrified through the exposure of body fat flesh—who happily and happily take part in circus art, who might even think it is personally strengthening. Also it can concurrently be personally strengthening on their behalf and profoundly disempowering for me personally, when i watch a superfat body, noticeably different in the same manner mine is, used and Othered. To become the one that volunteers to experience freak is an extremely different place rather than be the one that watches, powerlessly, hir body implied to become freakish.If Leto and the cohorts aren't thinking about perpetuating the gross Othering of individuals with noticeably different physiques, they need creating projects where being you aren't albinism (or whatever) is not the price of admission, but is rather not really a barrier to participation.Obviously, Leto's newest movie role is really as a trans lady, and so i doubt he will lead the charge on non-appropriative and non-exploitative art.Anyway. This jogs my memory of 1 of my personal favorite movie moments ever, from Residing in Oblivion, by which Peter Dinklage's character takes the film-within-the-film's director to job for using you aren't dwarfism inside a dream sequence: Nick [Steve Buscemi]: Look, Tito, it isn't that large of the deal. It is a dream. Strange unexpected things happen inside a dream. All I really want you to complete is laugh. Can you explain that this type of problem for you personally?Tito [Peter Dinklage]: Why does it need to be considered a dwarf?Nick: What?!Tito: How come my character need to be a dwarf?Nick: It does not need to be a dwarf.Tito: [laughs contemptuously] Then exactly why is he? Would be that the only method for you to get this to a dream—put a dwarf inside it?!Chip: No, Tito, I—Tito: Maybe you have were built with a dream having a dwarf inside it? Are you aware anybody who's were built with a dream having a dwarf inside it? NOOOOOO! I do not have dreams with dwarves inside them. The only real place I have seen dwarves in dreams is within stupid movies such as this! "Oh, allow it to be strange place a dwarf inside it!Inch Everybody goes: "Whoa whoa whoa, this should be a fuckin' dream there is a fuckin' dwarf inside it!Inch Well, I am tired of it! You are able to take this dream sequence and shove up your ass![Tito storms the crew changes irritatingly Nick looks stricken and perplexed and collapses into his director's chair.]Perfect.

Question of the Day

You've been assigned with casting a large-screen adaption/reboot from the classic sitcom Laverne & Shirley, and you've got to cast the roles of: Laverne, Shirley, Lenny, Squiggy, Mr. DeFazio, and Carmine. You aren't bound by gender, nor are you currently needed to cast them just like any particular race, age, physique, etc. The DeFazios may become the Nguyens or even the Joneses within the rewrite, for example. So: That do you cast?Laverne: Rachel Dratch.Shirley: Melissa McCarthy.Lenny: John Carroll Lynch.Squiggy: Ian Gomez.Mr. DeFazio: Gene Wilder.Carmine: Questlove.[Formerly: The Exorcist: Episode IV The Matrix.]

New Girl Open Thread

"It is a terrible table!"[Spoilers are earning sturdy tables from newspaper and hiding tape herein.]Oh girl! There's a great deal to discuss following the episode following a EPISODE! Jess and Nick coping The One Thing in totally expected ways: Jess really wants to talk it, and Nick really wants to literally moonwalk from mature discussion. A lot LOL at Nick's evasive moonwalking!Meanwhile, Jess is unhappy that Mike really wants to fist-bump her first factor each morning. In tangible existence, this may be solved by Jess saying, "Hey, you realize, it kinda annoys me when you wish to fist-bump me hello!Inch that Mike would most likely respond, "Oh, okay. I will not do this any longer," but this can be a sitcom where we have to feel okay about Jess and Sam's relationship being Certainly Condemned, therefore it is the fist-bump heard 'round the planet.Really, it was the fist-bump heard 'round the world—or "terrorist fist-jab," should you work with Fox News—but you receive my drift. THAT FIST-BUMP WAS IMPORTANT.Not to mention everything returns around towards the fist-bump when, in the finish from the episode, Jess mentions the fist-bump to Nick before mattress, simply to have Nick immediately leave her with his fist goodnight. "Too early?Inch LOL! OH NICK Burns Do Not Ever CHANGE.Also: Other things! "I literally haven't stated a thing for like over an hour or so.Inch "Yeah, I saw through space and here we are at one minute, but that is not the purpose!Inch "You appear such as the fortune teller in Large." "Are you able to drive for the reason that dress?" "I am a squirrel. You are my nut. Winter's coming, and I'mma store you within my oral cavity, girl." "Blammo! THAT happened!" "Making this very cheap." "This can be a strange date. I usually thought we'd go bowling before we visited an Indian marriage convention." "You had been just like a dog and my mouth was just like a bowl filled with dog milk!" "I'll Calcutta bitch!" "He's such terrible shape! You might have wiped out him!" "Can there be another physician in the home?Inch "Get the garbage together, India! Schmidt—OUT."[Content Note: Sexual violence.] On the serious note, this episode underlined a really fundamental trouble with doing "ironic" humor, especially around rape culture. The smoothness from the convention organizer, an Indian lady who strongly comes onto and sexual harasses Winston, was certainly supposed to have been a send-from the modest, sexually passive, exoticized virgin that female Indian figures are reduced in Western media. However it was eminently easy to mock that trope without crossing the road into drawing her like a predator. This episode might happen to be written prior to the highly promoted recent rape situation in India, but that is the issue with "ironic" rape culture humor. It brings up awful facts about how a world works, and who the actual potential predators and sufferers are usually, for anybody so what to give consideration around the world. I frantically hope they there will reconsider the effectiveness of this kind of commentary. I understand they may be wiser than that, and that i hope they'll.Talk about!

Open Thread

Located by radishes.This week's open threads happen to be introduced for you by root veggies.

Open Thread

Located with a Wood Duck.

Daily Dose of Cute

Livs.

Quote of the Day

"Hillary has changed our understanding—no, our definition—of foreign matters. Diplomacy is no more just the ability of controlling relations along with other nations. The large issues—war and peace, terror, economic stability, etc.—remain, and she or he has handled all of them with firmness and authority, with poise and confidence, with good will, when appropriate. But it's not the praise of diplomats or dictators that'll be her legacy. She worked with plenipotentiaries, but her focus was on people. Foreign matters is not nearly treaties, she trained us, it comes down to the suffering and aspirations of individuals impacted by the treaties, made or unmade. First and foremost, diplomacy should refocus attention around the powerless. Obviously, Hillary wasn't the very first secretary of condition to advocate for human privileges or make use of the publish to boost understanding of abuses or negotiate humanitarian relief or pressure oppressors. But she was the first one to concentrate on empowerment, particularly of ladies and women."—Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist, author, professor, and commentator, on Hillary Clinton's legacy (or at best some of it) as Secretary of Condition.

This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Content Note: Misogyny gender essentialism heterocentrism.]Normally, I would not even link around the world Internet Daily, home of these newspaper luminaries as Chuck Norris and David "The Lesser" Limbaugh, however this is remarkably terrible even through the WND's peerless garbage standards:Actual screencap of actual headline and clearly perfect stock photo.It is simply an excellent article SORRY TO SPOIL THE SURPRISE OF GREATNESS For You Personally with terrific things like:In spite of your beauty and brilliance, it may be your attitude that's stopping you against getting a husband and keeping him.And:Suzanne Venker in her own hot era, How to find a Husband making Peace With Marriage...problems the sexual revolution and feminist movement from the last 4 decades for convincing women not to require more of the associations. ...But exactly how can women find males who're good husbands, fathers and companies? Don't turn to feminists for that solutions, Venker alerts. ...Venker stated the feminist movement has trained women to prevent requiring males – for anything in existence – from companionship to financial support or perhaps childbearing.And:Venker describes the feminist culture has produced unnecessary marital strife for just one large reason: "Women are bitter. They are defensive they are competitive and they are prepared to pounce... [E]quality is definitely the aim. Women wish to prove they are strong and capable and should not be screwed with. For them, that's energy. But all ladies finish up doing is showing to males how angry they're. And who would like to be around someone who's mad constantly?InchVenker alerts women to prevent attempting to contend with their husbands and also to take away the "boss hat" once they go back home – because marriage is all about love, not competition and aggressiveness."Maybe women think being b-tchy is of interest since that is what they are drawn to. Women love men who aren't sweet. They gravitate toward males who're confident, accomplished, company, filled with themselves. Women are forever passing in the nice guy in support of the jerk. However, you can rarely turn this around. Males do not want a b --tch for any wife. So you shouldn't be one."I am talking about, that's some solid advice immediately. It's almost TOO GOOD, really. If Venker is not careful, she is going to GREAT ADVICE Dr. Phil out of the job, which could be kinda bitchy.Or otherwise? I am unsure whether it technically makes a person a bitch to visit all "boss hat" in public places. Are men that do not desire a bitch for any wife okay with bitches as co-workers and/or professional rivals? Anti-feminisming is difficult. Maybe most of us must resolve to defer to males whatsoever occasions, just just in case.[Via HyperVocal.]

In The News

Your family In News Reports correspondent, Deeky W. Gashlycrumb, MD., is off as they moves into his new evil lair apartment.[Content Note: Terrorism hostility to agency misogynistic violence.]Chuck Hagel wasn't super throughout his confirmation hearing. I suppose individuals are surprised at this? Has nobody met Chuck Hagel before?Two dead yet others wounded, some seriously, following a suicide bomber hits the united states embassy in Ankara, Poultry.Congress, probably the most ill-outfitted group in the united states to deal with technology issues, will fight over internet privacy in 2013. I am sure they'll make best wishes choices!The Department of Health insurance and Human Services is anticipated to announce today that religiously affiliated companies "will have the ability to opt from supplying their employees with insurance policy for birth control methods" within an exception towards the birth control mandate. Talking about good choices!Within an actual good decision, Congress passed a brand new law being an amendment towards the National Defense Authorization Act which "imposes an excellent along with a prison sentence as high as 5 years on individuals in prison for delivering women younger than 18 overseasInch for female genital cutting.Hawaii legislators, in the request of Aerosmith the almighty Steven Tyler, have suggested legislation "to safeguard celebs from paparazzi, giving famous faces energy to file a lawsuit over undesirable beach photos along with other pictures around the islands." It's strange in my experience that we should have laws and regulations to safeguard anybody from the undesirable photography! How come people so terrible?! Do not take pictures without permission, you knuckleheads!It is really an actual headline on the planet: Hillary Clinton Requires a Relaxation, How Strange Is The Fact That?Japoneses researchers have recorded the very first real-time video of ideas developing within the brain. Neat!Want. Wanty-want-want!

Photo of the Day