tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1684580413329419992024-02-19T06:15:51.154-05:00No Cookies For MeA look into the mind and concerns of a 30-something male feminist from Michigan with a geek-on for video games, comics, movies, and ordered lists.
Now with more library goodness!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-90366522228061373592012-10-01T13:40:00.000-04:002012-10-01T13:40:45.475-04:00Remember MeSo, Capcom has a new game coming out, I guess? So their Facebook advertisement tells me.
It's called Remember Me. No, not that one, but this one. I don't see any punctuation in the title, so I guess it's a command.
It would be easier to remember her if something other than her butt was the focus of the ad, though. The funny (sad) thing is that there's actually a lot of other things happening Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-34903019496609899772012-08-09T09:51:00.002-04:002012-08-09T09:51:44.389-04:00Detroit Institute of Arts millage passesI love the Detroit Institute of Arts. In a city that has a bad reputation around the nation, the DIA stands out and shows the spirit and beauty that Detroit still has. It's no secret that Detroit has had a lot of problems in recent years, but seeing institutions like the DIA still welcoming anyone who wants to come makes me smile. And, frankly, the DIA is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-30067579794539086642012-07-16T11:41:00.003-04:002012-07-16T11:41:39.627-04:00Race and sexy times...There was a long conversation happening over at feministe in the comments section of a post called "Sex, Lies and Fetishizing Race" by Anna Lekas Miller. The primary focus of the conversation is, as you may guess, about the fetishizing of race and ethnicity. It's a very interesting conversation, and it's started to explore where the line between "harmless fetish" and "racist fetish" is.
Also, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-28312274177660862662012-07-04T14:28:00.003-04:002012-07-04T14:28:33.729-04:00Left 4 Dead... aloneI'm sitting at my partner's house right now, and her roomie is playing Left 4 Dead (or L4D2, I'm not sure). I really enjoyed the L4D games when they first came out, and spent a lot of time playing them a few years ago (has it really been four years? I think it has... ugh.).
The first few times I played L4D, they were downright spooky. The people I was playing with were relatively new to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-31544730000942550882012-06-19T11:19:00.001-04:002012-06-19T11:29:28.794-04:00Those damn kids...There's an article on NPR right now about music downloading. Well, to be more precise, there's a response by David Lowery to an article written by a college student about music downloading. David raises a number of objections to file sharing and illegal downloading (some of which are really on point, and some of which, I think, seriously miss the mark). I think that David's main points--that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-55996747135742981112012-06-08T11:56:00.002-04:002012-06-08T11:56:30.845-04:00The cost of applying fines...
..a mother with her three young children explains that coffee accidentally spilled on the picture book while she was reading to her youngest daughter. Her daughter was excited and knocked the cup out of her hand. The clerk takes the picture book, opens it, examines the pages and points out the damaged areas to the mother. 'We have to charge you for this, you know, we can't repair it. We will haUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-43543785005226707112012-05-16T10:18:00.002-04:002012-05-16T10:18:38.414-04:00Nice guys...It's interesting to me how widespread the use of Nice Guy to refer to a particular type of guy is. I have coworkers who use the phrase (with obligatory scare-quotes as they say it), and it's the sort of phrase that's come up on other websites I visit.
The Annals of Online Dating is focused on Nice Guys today, and a particular quote jumped out at me. On one guy's profile he's talking about what Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-1741293486475092642012-05-15T16:53:00.000-04:002012-05-15T16:53:36.841-04:00On Monsters...There's a piece up on Feministe about abuse; there are a lot of really moving comments from people who faced abuse and the sorts of emotional and mental consequences of that abuse.
One of the things that I sometimes struggle with--and I'm sure that I'm not alone--is the way that we tend to dehumanize the perpetrators of violence. It's something that I've noticed in the past, and I work not to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-82323921312506773822012-05-11T15:51:00.001-04:002012-05-11T15:51:54.333-04:00Misc....I'm very out of practice writing, I've realized. I keep starting to write posts, and nothing comes out. There are numerous reasons for this, I'm sure. I don't read as many blogs as I used to, I don't have any interest in getting into shouting matches against particular people, I'm less interested in just tearing things apart and being snarky, and, you know... I don't write that much. It's hard toUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-43774404412857531292012-04-26T12:34:00.000-04:002012-04-27T09:16:11.624-04:00Advertising posers...Via Wandering Librarians, there's an article up on tor.com about a particular pose that crops up a lot in advertising involving women characters. I'd go further and say that the particular "looking-over-the-shoulder-butt-shot" is pretty common in animation and comics, too. Hell, it's become one of the "go-to" poses for women and girls in comics, even comics that are, in large part, marketed as "Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-56561636138015241202012-04-17T19:24:00.002-04:002012-04-17T19:53:34.624-04:00On circumcision...In almost every conversation about FGM I've ever seen, someone brings up circumcision, and draws a comparison pointing out that women don't seem bothered by it, and that everyone is silent on the issue. This is one of those issues that drives me a little crazy; here's an opportunity for men to campaign for an issue that they care about, and where an argument can almost certainly be made that Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-87481488165548717692012-04-13T10:30:00.003-04:002012-04-13T11:38:03.423-04:00Great Graphic Novels for GirlsAs the "about me" blurb suggests, I'm a fan of comic books. When I was a kid, we spent many summers driving down to Georgia to visit my family in Valdosta. As it turns out, Valdosta is hot in late July/August. Really hot. Really really hot. Going outside to play during the day just wasn't that much fun, but, lucky for me, one of my uncles had been an avid comic-book reader when he was younger, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-30623695116862577262012-04-11T16:28:00.002-04:002012-04-11T16:50:18.342-04:00A quiet return...According to this thing, it's apparently been about two and a half years since I put anything up. That's a long time. Lots of things have changed in my life in that time, including my relationship with the blogosphere (and the internet at large), but I've been dipping my toes back in a little bit here and there, and anyone who knows me knows that I can't shut up for long. I'm guessing my posting Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-55203457171657797742009-08-25T19:29:00.003-04:002009-08-25T19:39:06.602-04:00Briefly...I find the commercials for "Toddlers and Tiaras" so completely disturbing... I'm not sure I have words. I just cannot get my mind around the mentality that says "I have a toddler... you know what a brilliant idea is? To hyper-sexualize my child, dress her up in leather and chains, and have her act seductive for an audience!" I'm reading Lolita for the first time right now. How "Lolita" has come Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-86444530830473611322009-07-08T08:23:00.002-04:002009-07-08T08:26:42.252-04:00Read on another site:British poster says: "When your house is on fire the fire department doesn't ask if you have insurance, do they? [If they do that system is a fucking disgrace]. And if they don't, why is a house considered something the Government is duty bound to safeguard but not the health of its country's citizens?"Why, indeed?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-83400998165612438802009-06-12T14:03:00.003-04:002009-06-12T14:41:44.537-04:00Shooting zombies in the face with a side order of racism and sexism, please.A couple of months ago a friend of mine picked me up a copy of Left 4 Dead for my birthday. Given my love of video games, and the fact that I loathe the undead, it seemed like a perfect match. As far as the game itself goes, I think it's pretty solid. It's a lot of fun most of the time, despite a few bugs and the controversy around the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2. For those unfamiliar with the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-76773565527423410442009-06-08T19:04:00.003-04:002009-06-08T19:06:47.823-04:00Regarding Shadow of the Colossus...Tycho, at Penny Arcade, had this to say: The dread starts at the very beginning, simmering in your gut, and it never gets better ever - hour upon hour. You know immediately that you are engaged in something like evil, if not evil itself, but our appetites as players demand that we seek objectives and conquer them - and the game scourges us for this dereliction of conscience. The technology at Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-22203368931416121272009-06-06T11:41:00.003-04:002009-06-06T11:58:32.715-04:00Deadliest WarriorSometimes I find myself watching shows and I think to myself "Oh, dear lord, this show is so clearly aimed at dudes, why am I enjoying this?" And yet, Deadliest Warrior has totally sucked me in, because it's exactly the sort of stupid geeky debate that guys like me had when we were in our teens. Except that now they've got "experts" and a computer program (named Slytherin!) to try to determine Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-84831390944801819322009-04-27T13:37:00.003-04:002009-04-27T14:02:31.643-04:00I don't even know what to make of this story...So... this is a weird and disturbing story The short version: A guy in Meshchovsk, Russia, tried to rob a hair salon at gunpoint. As he was collecting the money, the owner knocked him down, tied him up with a cord, and then locked him in a closet. Instead of calling the police, she told him to drop his pants or she'd turn him over to the police. After that, she spent three days feeding him viagraUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-78871726549210862482009-04-23T23:14:00.002-04:002009-04-23T23:30:35.784-04:00Regional differences?So, I picked up Wii Fit last week, and only got around to using it this week. I'm very surprised by it. I don't expect that it will get me in the best shape ever or anything like that, but I've heard from several people that it helped them stay on a routine and that it was good as a warm-up or as a supplement to working out, or for days when their regular workouts weren't going to cut it. So, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-17937339873728701512009-04-15T20:18:00.003-04:002009-04-15T21:10:39.526-04:00Long time no see...Warning: Long, navel gazing, meta post about posting ahead.So, I've largely been lurking on other people's blogs for the last year or so, and, in the process, I've been seriously neglecting this little corner of the intertubes. I've been meaning to update or write about a million different things at different times, and I just can't seem to get around to it, which is actually a meme that has Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-19832967265363976672009-03-02T12:06:00.002-05:002009-03-02T12:12:34.136-05:00Thought of the day...Women of color and queer women are women. We are women. Our issues are women’s issues. They are inextricable from our womanhood. They are part of our feminism, and part of we want feminism to pay attention to, because these things are women’s issues. Your version posits that there’s regular women, who just do feminism, and then there’s those allies who drag those regular women in the trap of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-88393250361957462352009-02-21T13:33:00.003-05:002009-02-21T13:55:30.139-05:00Thank you everyone...I'm still having trouble talking about this, so please excuse if the language/structure seems... formal? Stilted? I just... this is very hard to talk about, otherwise. So, about a week after my last post, I got a phone call from my mother, back in Michigan, at about 11:00 at night. I was elbow deep in washing dishes at the moment, so I didn't pick up the phone when it rang or see who it was, but Unknownnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-32731929596360337852008-11-26T09:44:00.008-05:002008-11-26T10:24:36.776-05:00It's good to know that women at *either* extreme can expect shaming...Well, now... this thread is really interesting. Lauren, over at feministe, posted about a series of photos of female body builders, and how she found them interesting because, in her words: It’s interesting to me that many female body builders who work on attaining what are considered masculine traits play up their feminine characteristics, perhaps to counteract the kind of physique that is Unknownnoreply@blogger.com48tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168458041332941999.post-38014355524014848122008-11-10T19:16:00.002-05:002008-11-10T19:45:39.701-05:00So... what is an adult again?This story is very sad. Details are still coming out, so it's hard to say what to think of everything, but one thing really strikes me as... well... odd. The story: A child, 8, shot and killed his father and his father's friend on Wednesday. The current report is that this was not a spur-of-the-moment thing, either, but that the child planned the attack out. There's speculation that he might haveUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4