i'm temporarily sitting in a starbucks to download things i need since my internet is down
it smells like moldy cream cheese in here and there’s babies everywhere… what the fuck
July 2011
I’m at my parents’ house for the weekend to study away from my rowdy roommates… and of course the internet goes out and won’t be fixed until monday. Oh well, maybe I’ll actually focus now.
"Censored Cover Raises Question: Why Are Breasts “Obscene,” But Not Chests?" →
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Click HERE to read this super interesting article.
“Clearly not. All women’s bodies are targeted by this law, and men’s bodies are given a pass, breasty or chesty as they may be.
Unless that man’s gender is ambiguous; unless he does just enough femininity to make his body suspect. Indeed, the treatment of the Dossier cover reveals that the social and legal ban on public breasts rests on a jiggly foundation. It’s not simply that breasts are considered pornographic. It’s that we’re afraid of women and femininity and female bodies and, if a man looks feminine enough, he becomes, by default, obscene.”
Ding ding ding ding ding ding.
Censorship is screaming “YOUR BODY IS AN OBSCENITY!!!”
he’s pretty
“I don’t understand. Number one, I don’t understand a transgender, I don’t understand, is it a guy dressed up like a girl or a girl dressed up like a guy? And we’re funding this for, I don’t know, what does it say here? We’re giving them $3,210?”
—Mayor Rob Ford, Ladies and Gents (referring to Toronto’s Pride Parade … yeah, some assholes elected this guy. He also has problems with “orientals,” people who bike or use public transit, and women)
crunch time
although I lurk tumblr to procrastinate, I’m currently studying for 4 exams I have one after the other next week so I will be more absent than usual. see you soon tumblr
