The World Is Ending
June 25, 2009 § Leave a comment
In other WTF news of the day, my brother’s friend is having his birthday party at a nightclub this Sunday. Sure, it’s non-alcoholic, but really?! What kind of uninformed parent takes 13 and 14 year old kids to a juice bar [that supposedly caters to 16-23 year olds] where they’re supposed to dance?! Really? A huge group of little teenagers dancing at a club? What the crap!
Also, Burger King just needs to stop. My favorite fast food place is slowly becoming loathsome because of its offensive advertising.
The Early Days
June 8, 2009 § Leave a comment
From what I can tell, this looks like a woman with a tiny head and huge breasts:
It is, according to Economist.com, “probably the oldest human statue yet discovered,” carved from a mammoth tusk.
An interesting discovery, yes. The short blurb ends with this: “[…] this discovery adds to the evidence that human thinking—or male thinking, at least—has hardly changed since the species evolved.” I just glanced over these words and exited the page, but something caught my eye and I backtracked. “Male thinking,” really? Who’s to say that this wasn’t carved by a woman? It may be easy to wrap this statuette in a stereotype, and I know that comment was meant to be light-hearted, but I refuse to be taken in with such an easy joke.
What The FKCU?!
May 6, 2009 § Leave a comment
I almost had an aneurysm when I flipped to the third page of June’s Nintendo Power and saw an advertisement for this:
[“Your stylist holds the key to popularity.” ?!!??!?!??!?? Unbelievable.]
It’s called Drama Queens, for Nintendo DS. The ad said:
Fashion, Guys, Career…like, how can one girl deal?
Chelsi stole my boyfriend but Hayden is totally crushing on me — must be because of the little black dress I bought after landing a promotion at Fashion Boutique. Step aside, ladies! The competition to be the most popular queen diva is fierce in this ultra-dramatic 3D board game!
Play in four environments from the shopping mall to the fashion runway
Show up to three friends that you’re most popular in two multiplayer modes
Juggle boyfriends, best friends and promotions around Drama Spaces
I can barely contain my outrage, but I will try to express it without resorting to expletives.
I Can’t Not Share These
May 1, 2009 § Leave a comment
The advantage of reading the blogs of gay men is that we generally have the same taste in men [visually, at least]. So when I saw these vidoes on BambooNation, I was pretty excited.
For example, this unbelievable Nike ad:
I almost died.
This video is also lovely; it features male underwear models jumping around pointlessly [but beautifully] on a trampoline [there is also a full-length version]:
There was also little video of soccer players stripping off their jerseys that can be viewed here.
Is it okay for me to objectify people like this? Probably not. Can I make the excuse that since images of barely-clothed women are so prevalent, it’s only fair that I indulge in my own way? Again, probably not. However, I do believe that my reaction to seeing a hot guy differs from the reverse situation. My response is to usually just stare [subtly, most of the time] — I don’t go jack off later.
On Wednesday, my sociology class met in a computer lab at the library for an introduction to using the databases for our research papers. Because of the different environment, I was sitting next to people I don’t normally see [it’s a big class]. There was a guy sitting near me in shorts who had perfect legs — long and lean, with a defined calf muscle. I can’t describe them without sounding creepy, but he was definitely a runner. Flawless legs are pretty hard to find, so it’s a good thing I had heard the library research lecture twice before, because I really couldn’t pay attention [well, it was also boring as hale]. He had some sweet kicks too — Nike Shox, which I usually dislike, but he was really working them. They looked kind of like this, yet not exactly:
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