no boys allowed in the room!!!!

I know I had Poochie merch as a kid but I can't for the life of me remember what it was

But I have a feeling it was the notepad and stamp. "If it wasn't for Poochie I would never have been able to tell boys that they're cute. Thanks Poochie!'

Wait someone actually deleted that post? I thought it was nice! :(

is ward fowler a dude??

Yeah, I think so.

well,

has any dude post ever survived on this thread?

roxy for president

otm

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mollykateri/13-90s-teen-death-novels-that-actually-exist-421u

I feel like these would be of particular interest to La Lechera.

omg fucking cystic fibrosis -- i knew more about this dumb disease even though i didn't know ANYONE or anyone who knew anyone who had it.

One year for "dress up as a character from a book" day at school, I wore my jammies, coughed a lot, and told everyone I was Alex from Alex: Life of a Child.

Holy shit fucking Frank Deford wrote that!

(for those of you who do not read the Chicago Thread, I hate Frank Deford, he's such a grumpy old asshole.)

One of my best pals plays the title role in this:
http://www.cfvoice.com/info/becoming-christopher/index.jsp?usertrack.filter_applied=true&NovaId=4029462066891421904

POOCHIE

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130211/NEWS/130211006/Sources-Shooter-was-father-of-ex-optometrist-who-kidnapped-kids

One of the women killed in this morning’s courthouse shooting was Christine Belford, a 39-year-old woman who was involved in a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband, law enforcement and legal sources said.

Belford was at the center of a court fight with her ex-husband, David T. Matusiewicz, who kidnapped his three young daughters in August 2007 and took them on an 18-month odyssey to Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico and Nicaragua. In March 2009, authorities discovered Matusiewicz, his mother Lenore and the girls – then ages ages, 4, 6, and 7, one of whom is autistic -- living in a dirty and cramped trailer.

THE MAN KIDNAPPED HIS DAUGHTERS FOR TWO YEARS AND TOOK THEM TO LIVE IN A TRAILER IN PANAMA despite one of them needing medical/psych care, which presumably she was not getting. After being caught and doing time for that and for bank fraud, apparently he fell far enough behind in child support that he was due for a court visit to discuss it. Well, not anymore, because today David's FATHER went to the courthouse and shot Christine Belford (and another woman).

I can't distill want I want to say about this into a coherent post. Something about women's bodies and fertility and who controls those things, and the comparatively small number of men who feel entitled to those things and cheated when they don't control them, and how bitter and final their vengeance is when they've been thwarted.

greeeeeat
people are awful

sorry -- that's the outrage i can muster atm
not because it's not terrible, it's obviously terrible, but because i can't connect it to fertility and women's bodies any more than i can connect it to any other travesty of modern life
people are the worst

Also something about the vast majority of women homicide victims being killed by male family members (or ex-family members).

"the comparatively small number of men who feel entitled to those things and cheated when they don't control them, and how bitter and final their vengeance is when they've been thwarted."

Die in a fire, men's rights movement.

(Also, I posted this on the Chicago thread (because I did not expect anyone to be talking about this anywhere else), but Wilmington DE's chief of police was at a gun control round table with Joe Biden in Philadelphia when this happened.)

I saw that post-script in the version of the article that dayo posted this morning! Ironing.

yeah everything about that story is terrible.
i guess i am at max cap for horrible human behavior currently and cannot become outraged if i also want to get my laundry done and teach people how to describe things tomorrow

i didn't mean to be flip, just trying to conserve energy :(

i guess the current fashion for MRA rhetoric has made it seem like a new legitimacy is being given to such men's sense of entitlement over their offspring? even if the only "legitimacy" is that of a vocal hardcore, who can make the link to the question of individual liberty because the state tends to not be on their side.

I think the MRA stuff is obviously a backlash to the world changing toward incrementally greater parity for women, which is where the world should keep right on going, but the death throes of each stage are so explosively violent and damaging.

http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=347

lol

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/world/asia/zen-buddhists-roiled-by-accusations-against-teacher.html?hp&_r=1&

One monk, whom Ms. Stubbs said she told about the touching, was unsympathetic. “He believed in Roshi’s style, that sexualizing was teaching for particular women,” Ms. Stubbs said. The monk’s theory, common in Mr. Sasaki’s circle, was that such physicality could check a woman’s overly strong ego.

It seems to be the kind of thing that, you get the person as a whole, good and bad, just like you marry somebody and you get their strengths and wonderful qualities as well as their weaknesses.

You know, like how when you're assaulted, you get both the good AND bad qualities of your assailant!

this is like the feminist and the cowboy - the sequel

such physicality could check a woman’s overly strong ego

way to put uppity bitches in their place.

Women and their overly strong egos just need to be sexually assaulted into submission!

~zen~

happy valentine's day, ladies

http://s3-ak.buzzfeed.com/static/enhanced/webdr01/2013/2/8/15/enhanced-buzz-21889-1360354926-4.jpg

Long lost bros...

http://assets.thehollywoodgossip.com/photos/full/paul-ryan-time-magazine.jpg

I kiss you Roxy!

http://www.cbc.ca/live/images/michael-bolton-valentine.jpg

also

http://worldofwonder.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/tumblr_lze2qqIc7d1qg5hdfo1_5001.jpg

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/don-draper-approved-sexist-ads-of-the-week

By now, to a large extent advertisers don't have to spell out this stuff anymore because the advertising worked - we internalized the messages as truth. I think it's interesting to look at these ads as milestones on the path from the days before companies made up fears of odor in the "vaginal area" to sell products to today, when the message re: our filthy smelly snatches has been fully internalized and can be referenced with a picture of a woman in white pants smiling or just the word "freshness."

haha, I actually posted this to my band's fb page

Wait I can't even get past the first one. So many things. So many! But mint?! Mint smelling vagina just seems so damn weird.

don't they have mint-flavored/scented condoms?

the fact that scented tampons are still commercial available infuriates me - if only because I have accidentally purchased them and they are the WORST things ever

i'd rather wear a scented tampon than one of those horrible-looking menstrual pad/belt contraptions my mom did when she was a teenager

good point

not that scented tampons aren't gross

Scented tampons are weird and gross and bad for you too.

I guess the do make mint condoms but I assumed that was for blow jobs so you didn't taste latex? Tbh I never used one so never thought about it. I mean how many people actually use condoms for blowjobs is another convo but yeah.

lol it raises so many questions that you don't want to think about

xp - I always thought of it as a like a "don't acknowledge the 4th wall" kinda thing with the 4th wall being the condom, as in you would not let the condom get in the way of stuff you'd normally do without it as a barrier, i dunno

definitely weird and gross to put perfume in your vagina imo, but i have a weird attraction to anything scented, so this is conflicting in an odd way

lol