I appreciate the work of “When is White History Month?” (screenshots of racist tweets asking that question) but it was so depressing and it’s only February 1st, so I had to unfollow within a few hours.
On Apple probably being a lesbian (Alternate Heading: Suck it, January Jones):
“I’ve been saving my clothes for her since before she was born. I was like, I’ll bet you anything I’ll have a daughter, and she’ll be a really cool butch lesbian and be so above clothes, and I got a very clothes-obsessed child. So if she’s a lesbian, she’s a lipstick lesbian.”
-Gwyneth Paltrow, Harper’s Bazaar
(via nyclust)
Gwynnie continues to win the worst person ever award.
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Yup.
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Oh yeah, that’s really gonna break his balls, if I roll in an hour late. Mark, this is Russell Orgazoid. He’s a creative. I’m a creative. We don’t make steam engines out of pig iron in this country anymore, yeah? We hang out, we fuck around on the Playstation, we have some Ben & Jerry’s. That’s how everyone makes their money now.
Jez, Peep Show s.4, e.4, “Handyman.”
Internet, please furnish me with an explanation as to why, in the age of personal music listening devices, people still feel the need to BLAST their bass-heavy music so much so that the floor of, say, their upstairs neighbors’ apartment literally shakes. Am I supposed to join in this party?
I mean, the link description w/r/t GP is completely misleading. I think what she's trying to say is that her children are growing up with a different perspective than previous generations have, which is true. She doesn't at all suggest that racism is over or something. Also, I think when she says root she's in the process of saying that it's rooted in them, but realizes that doesn't make sense so changes the end of her statement. Just saying, as I still feel lost on the whole GP hate thing.
From context, I can’t quite agree with the “root” thing. I do think she means it’s de rigueur, it’s rote, to see people of color on magazines. I think it’s possible she has associated “rote” with “rooted,” and thus has mistaken the pronunciation.
And I agree that she’s not explicitly saying “our race problems are over, everyone!” But she does have this tendency to make grand declarations with authority and knowledge that she just doesn’t possess. And I think, really, it’s just that she is severely deluded. She’s a competent actress, and I’m sure she shows up to sets knowing all her lines and hitting all her marks and is friendly and professional. But she really is so far deep into herself that she doesn’t ever honestly acknowledge how she achieved the success she has (realtalk: lady has only a high-school education, dropped out of college to pursue her acting career, and landed her first role because her godfather is Steven Spielberg and he cast her in Hook without a screen test), and she talks about her dad — who I’m sure was a nice, talented fellow — as though he effected Social Change. The editor has to correct, in a parenthetical, that “The White Shadow” actually didn’t feature the first interracial kiss, which is what Gwyneth thinks because of course she does.
Gwyneth is annoying because for most people being rich and literally never having had to worry about bills would be enough, but she also needs to project this air of somehow earning and being entitled to all the things a quirk of genetics bestowed upon her. So because of this delicious Snuggie of delusion in which she is constantly wrapped, she will talk about almost anything, regardless of how little she knows about it. For as sophisticated as her “personal brand” is supposed to be, all she has to do is open her mouth and you can immediately tell her intellectual sensibilities lag far behind her interests in food and fashion. And yeah, when you want to sell consumers on the idea that you’re “cultured,” it’s helpful to expand the idea of what cultural appreciation really is, beyond what you can appropriate for your personal use. But again, because of who she is and what she has, it would never occur to her that she’s not qualified to talk about race, or to — god forbid — adopt an air of humility.
She just bugs me, dude. To each his own.
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Gwyneth Paltrow, world-renowned expert on everything, tells us how we now live in a time when Rihanna being on the cover of a magazine means that race is not such a big issue anymore, ya know?
Thanks, GOOPY! What would we do without your critical social commentary?
It’s obvious from the ed. note that she did a whole lot of research.
Guess she missed the n****bitch fiasco.
“And it’s like the way I see it is that I have two little kids who are understanding the world in a time when Rihanna is on the cover of Vogue, and we have a black president. So their eyes are being as if they’re experiencing the world for the first time. All of this stuff is just root — it’s normal stuff for them. And that to me is what’s so incredible.”
Root? It’s root? PLEASE TELL ME SHE PRONOUNCES ROTE AS ROOT.
“Shit White Girls Say…to Black Girls” is not racist (via Futuretalkvideos)
Honestly, it’s still mind blowing to me that this type of video has to be made in order to explain the meaning behind “Shit White Girls say…” but this guy did a better job of breaking it down than I could ever hope to. While this video response is getting lots of praise (as it should) there are still naysayers who insist that the very fact that a white guy is getting props for explaining the real definition of racism and white privilege (something black people have been complaining about for decades) is a cruel twist of irony.
While I agree that the message has been stated many times over, one of my Facebook fans said it best, “If it takes a white man to translate the reality of our societal racism to white people, so be it. He presented the facts it in such a neutral concise way, the truth simple can’t be denied.”
Birds of Prey v3 #2
What to do, what to do? The buzz about the #5 reveal has her on my radar in a big way in one of the least interesting titles of the New 52.
I think even if you’re not into the series, it’s worth buying just for Starling.
She’s all kinds of awesome <3
From what I understand Starling is a brand new character and she is a definite hit for the New 52. I’d buy a monthly series with just her, being awesome, hitting people and shooting things. It’d rock.
Yeah, Starling was created for the series I believe and so far she’s been AMAZING. She’s quickly become one of my favourite characters of the new 52 and the recent developments with her in this months issue have only made me love her even more <3
And I would totally buy a Starling ongoing series. It would be so awesome :D
She is my favorite part of Birds of Prey.
I’d agree with that right now :D In just five issues I’ve fallen in love with this wonderful lady. I was actually a little nervous about whether the new Birds of Prey would be something I would like or not but I have been adoring this series and Starling has been a huge part of what made me love it. She gets so many great lines and cool moments <3
Starling is one of my favorite parts of the new 52, Duane’s doing a lovely job with her!I tried to use her (asleep, for just two panels) in Batgirl, but it got nixed, drat!
First off they nixed her being in two panels doing nothing? Editorial be crazy
Second, Birds of Prey has been a big suprise and a very pleasant one. Everything about it seemed to be a imminent train wreck: Birds of Prey without Oracle? Without Gail Simone? Who was so uninvolved no one even told her Batgirl would be on the team when she was writing Batgirl? When Babs and Dinah seem to be really weird in the first issue preview like they didn’t even know each other? With Poison Ivy on the team and some random chicks?
The “Batgirl with purple batsuit” cover was also taken as a slap in the face by Steph fans.
But honestly, it is a serious contender for best series of the reboot and the best when it comes to series that actually rebooted the content (Unlike Batman and Batwomana nd the Green Lantern books). I loved the pre-boot Birds but I don’t mourn the changes like I do the way the Titans have been screwed with. Rather it feels like the old continuity has been reverentially put into a display case and something cool and intresting and new is been done with it.
The art is great, the action is fast and cool, Starling is a great new character, badass ladies are given the chance to be cool and badass without being exploited or wearing stupidly fanservicey costumes. Dinah is also getting great treatment, being a skilled and powerful leader of her own team of badasses and a first tier hero who should make her League debut soon. Maybe it’s a little lacking in the strong characterisation I associate with the series but that’s all it’s lacking and I think we’ll see more once the opening arc is done with.
The whole way the Bop relaunch (my return to the book, pre new 52) was handled was just awful and embarrassing. I have no good things to say about the way that went down.
But I am DELIGHTED to see the book have a steady and gifted artist in Jesus Saiz. I was so deliriously happy when he came aboard on my run, after all the weird stuff that had gone on previously. He’s one of the best in the business. And Duane is a sweetie and a really talented guy.I was a skeptic, I really thought the concept I was given to reboot the book with was awful, but Duane and Jesus have made it work. I wish them every success and am very glad that the Birds of Prey name still represents something otherwise missing in mainstream comics.
Golden-Notebook: Roslin is such a fascist, and I still love her.
I have a hard time understanding that. Like, I mean, of course you can love Laura Roslin, this isn’t some kind of Roslin-ian/Adamian empire we’re living under, but her behavior after the 1st Earth debacle where she just flat refuses to address her people and hides out in Adama’s room and yet also doesn’t resign for a REALLY LONG TIME? I can’t really forgive her as a character for that, and I can’t forgive the writers for expecting me to continue to like her. Also, while Tom Zarek is a cold-blooded shit, Roslin’s inaction basically seals the fate of the quorum (those poor bastards). I wouldn’t be delighted with a fascist dictator who actually made good decisions but by the end of s4, Roslin is a fascist dictator who makes NO decisions.
(Source: golden-notebook)
Season 4 of BSG, aka the season where Gaeta gets FUCKED OVER ON EVERY LEVEL.
Ugh this season. I mean, I think most of it is fine but those last six episodes are like
Someday I will write a long post on smallgalaxies about how Adama and Roslin are an unholy pairing and I rooted for their destruction throughout s3 and s4.
(Source: golden-notebook)
