spirit of Marc Loi lives on itt
― badg, Thursday, 9 June 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
i would like judith butler to write a rules tumblr blog
would reblog
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's days like today that I am super thankful for my commute, which involves very limited exposure to the elements. It pays to work in the same building as your train station.
200. There's actually only one woman. She has been replicating herself for untold millennia. Across the ages, her characteristics and needs and desires are exactly the same across all iterations of this single extant woman, incarnated in billions of variable forms. A man is a person. "Woman" is a breed.
This is so OTM I want to give you a medal. Elmo also OTM over and over. Also, good odds that whatever horseshoe is thinking but hasn't posted is also 100% OTM.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
Hahaha okay that bit about my commute is for the Chicago thread. Or maybe it is my advice on how to be a lady:
Never get wet while commuting to work.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that aero post is a+
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
THENo. 891 RULE OF A GENTLEMAN
Women can smell your fear.Compensate by acting like a fucking jackass.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
not all of this is idle male fantasy. there are women that buy into old-fashioned gender roles/codes and shit.
I don't think the point is that ALL of the advice is stupid or that NO people are ever like "this" or "that", the point is that IF YOU ARE LIKE THAT, THEN BE LIKE THAT, AND STOP READING ABOUT HOW TO BE LIKE THAT. Anyone and everyone who has said that this is about constructing a self made of outside advice because of your crippling insecurity otm.
― Back up the lesbian canoe (Laurel), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
ok so there is also this:
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llrsojx31y1qktoezo1_400.png
what in the world
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
THENo. 322RULE OF A GENTLEMAN
Put a towel on the floor by the two-inch gap under the door.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
i mean okay i guess i can read a positive message in that but uh -- xp
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
How to Have Sex Like a Man
1. Engage in intercourse.
2. Stand up.
3. Hold out your hand.
4. Say “Thanks!” and “Goodbye.”
5. Gather your things.
6. Walk to the door with confidence.
7. Open the door.
8. Walk away.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
loll
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llljcyuE2j1qktoezo1_400.png
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llljds1jQ01qktoezo1_400.png
hmmmm...
fuck you girltips
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
also lol Tracer
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lllj5fAXK01qktoezo1_400.png
*sigh*
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:04 (twelve years ago) link
"...bitch!"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llk6wk4SMq1qktoezo1_400.png
this is a pretty clear indicator of a borderline personality, y/n?
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
those kind of sound like random Facebook status updates TBH
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
I thought those girltips were ironic and meant to point out the craziness of the How to be a Lady ones, but I guess not???? I like that there is NO man worth a girl's virginity. None.
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
oh maybe they are!
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah girltips is definitely not the same sort of advice but still horrible and disgusting, also pretty certain they have no satiric intent
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
oh jeez, these are all so, so fucking ridiculous, but I almost can't bring myself to get upset over them bcz it's only a niche thing that only ppl who already feel this way are going to seek out, not some huge widespread mainstream publication. Though OTOH this is, of course, just perpetuating all of this bullshit, and very few things set me off like queer/gender politics (reinforcement of dumb gender roles being a big one). Is it unfair to say that the ladies who eat this kind of shit up are probably just as dull and as the guys?
This is just really fucking stupid, I guess.
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
just, thank heavens for @feministhulk
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llk3ig2a5U1qktoezo1_400.png
brb gonna shoot myself in the face
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like the ladies who eat this kind of shit up are probably 12. maybe the guys, too.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
OH GOOD
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
that last one cannot be serious
― low-rent black gangster nicknamed Bootsy (DJP), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
I was just looking at the rest of the site and yeh, the context suggests that it's probably not satire :(
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llk5l7wP7f1qktoezo1_400.png
FOR SHAME
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
ya dude that jersey shore one is the one where you stop being upset and just ryde and walk away; these probably aren't changing anyone's mind or "teaching" anyone anything in the first place
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lljydftcwg1qktoezo1_400.png
― Jesse, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
okay wendy shalit
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
Ok I call bullshit on girltip #95. Fess up, whomever shopped it.
― the fey bloggers are onto the zagat tweets (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
hah DON'T YOU GET IT??? WE ARE ALL POLITE AND CHIVALROUS ANGELS WAITING FOR YOU DUMB SLUTS TO SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND KNOW YOUR PLACE
― cheese wiz khalifa (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llmf3g8PfH1qktoezo1_400.png
KIP!
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah these aren't "tips" so much as insane person rantings
― horseshoe, Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lllm5lhVHy1qktoezo1_400.png
ok this one is just making me lol
― creme de cassie (donna rouge), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
I CAN'T TURN MY HEART INTO A CONDOM
oh sure i know that steve. i just... idk i just feel horribly for the adolescent kids (and older ppl too i guess) who fall into this advice trap, i guess, even though they end up perpetuating bullshit gender types. it just plays into so many kids' deep insecurities that some obnoxiously opinionated ppl exploit to get followers & reblogs.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
i wonder if people were exposed to quite so much life-crushing idiot folk wisdom before the Internet era, feels like they weren't
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
they weren't basically huge swathes of content need to be machete'd out plus maybe the internet needs to be closed for a few hours each day or curfews put in place or something so that the people that write this crap, the people that read it looking for life cues and the ppl that read it and just feel slightly queasy at it all can have a break from it all and git real or whatever
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Noodle you are forgetting "fax humor"
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
well i was gonna say Trace at one time u had to wait until you were in a horrible job before you got exposed to this shit so much, now it's out there for teens and younger
was also gonna say tho it's not just the internet, i guess reality TV shows have developed their own vocabulary and allowed a whole swathe of street philosophers to get their message out globally
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
i guess there were always wack-ass bumper stickers and t-shirts too plus real men don't eat quiche type books
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
t-shirts and bumper stickers are more like unfunny jokes that get less and less funny, whereas these kinds of blogs really set themselves up as HOW TO LIVE YOU LIFE 4 REAL
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, you're right.
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
good point you made connecting it to reality shows, too
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
i know someone who went abroad for a couple of years in the early nineties...and when she came back she was shocked and sorta mystified at how everyone seemed to be speaking in this new way, sorta like FRIENDS tv series-speak. can't imagine what it would be like to go away at the dawn of the 2000's and then come back to find people's speech peppered with all of the reality tv-isms
― dell (del), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
love the way "I'm just being real" became code for "FUCK YOU BUDDY I WILL BE AS NOXIOUS AND ENTITLED AS I WANT"
― aka best bum of the o_O's (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 June 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link