I had plans to do something else with my evening, but instead apparently what you're going to get is me having an extended spate of emotional reactions to Arkham Knight, the fourth game in the series, which husband is currently playing and I am somewhat indifferently watching him play, until last night, when I was abruptly and aggressively not ( Read more... )

*I am nearly done with
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I am prefacing this with the following: I like Lady Gaga's music. I find her fashion frequently incomprehensible and bizarre in a way I do not get and that doesn't appeal to my aesthetic sense, but that's neither here nor there.

But I read this post, From the "You're Not Helping" Files, by yuki_onna today, about some choice things that Lady Gaga said in ( Read more... )

Every post of yuki_onna's* is basically more awesome piled on top of the already epic awesome that came before.

Like today's post, which has a lot to say in comparatively few words about gender dynamics and the construct of heterosexual marriage as it exists in today's society. It's brilliant ( Read more... )

I. Super Bowl. WHAT.

( Blathering here. Probably NWS for language. )

I am absolutely sickened and disgusted by this game of "support the rapist" that is going on in Switzerland re: Polanski.

Too bad I am also unsurprised by the game of "support the rapist."

( rant goes here )

I'm too sick still to make a coherent response and analysis, but this post is pretty fucking amazing. (briefest of synopses: it's a fandom-friendly analysis of how fanfiction serves as a way of keeping female artists from doing "real" work, in much the same way that female artists historically have been downgraded based on gender; before we knew ( Read more... )