@ceejeemcbeegee is not here: Heh. You know one of his dunderhead buds is gonna nickname him "da Beeb" at some point, and for a minute he's gonna walk around thinking it's cool.
@TheFormerJuneBronson: I think it's OK, it's common enough that people won't think you're taking it from Brady. Whereas my preferred girl name is Violet which everyone will think I like because of Jen Garner. But it's not! I liked it before they used it!
When I look at promotional photography like this, I am:
a)thankful that typography communicates horror very effectively
b) in awe that some creatives just don't know when to substitute a horrific photograph with compelling typography. Instead. You know, do us ALL the favor.
I think my least favorite word in the English language is "golddigger." Because, at least bitch, cunt, whore, slut, etc. have the kind of reputation where people know it's mean to say it. Like, my father doesn't usually use those words around my grandmother, for example. You don't usually hear those words (except maybe bitch) on television. And there is at least a small contingent of women who are reclaiming the words--using cunt to actually mean vagina, in a good way; Tina Fey's "bitch is the new black;" I use the word slut occasionally as a descriptive term not a value judgment; whore...I'm sure there are people who use the word the way I use "slut," maybe, or something.
But "golddigger" is presumably something people can say in "polite" conversation; Kanye wrote a song about it. It's as insulting as any of the above words, more insulting than "bitch," even, and it implies so many things about women that are gross and insanely misogynist. And people just use it like, whatever, we all assume that women are money-grubbing hos who only get pregnant and have babies so they can milk their babydaddy for all the money he's worth. And fathers who don't help raise their children? LEGITIMATE AND SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEM. Unlike, say, women who have babies just for child support. Because raising a child is actually really expensive. And fathers should try to actually, i dunno, fucking FATHER their children instead of just assuming that $$ is enough? I am so impressed by single mothers who DAILY raise children not to be total fuckwits with fathers like that. Like, seriously, that has to be harder than, for instance, running an oil company or invading a country or making shitty movies or writing shitty songs. Or being football players, motherfucker.
I wish so, so much that Kanye had never written that song. I mean, I love Kanye! He said that George Bush hates black people! He spoke truth! Parrhesia motherfucker! Speaking truth to power! All his other weirdo things can be explained or rationalized or ignored! But he had to ruin it by writing one of the most secretly misogynist songs of the decade. Ahh misogyny! You ruin everything!
@Penny: Holy shit, yeah. I am so glad I don't watch the View. I would've been dying of embarrassment and awkwardness even though it was happening in my TV.
@Remedios Varo can't see no huevos.: Reality television is really doing us a modern service by capturing modern cultural anthropology on film. We can now watch sprawling ethnographic studys of many of America's fame-whoring indigenous tribes. Jersey Shore brings to light the daily habits of the rare Guido/Guidette species, much like Flavor of Love brought us the Ghetto, and Rock of Love brought us the Trashy tribes. It is invaluable what MTV, and VH1 are doing here, by promoting cultural understanding. God's work really.
@Diziet_Sma: I think what it really means is that we are right on schedule for our onrushing decline and fall.Ronald Reagan - George W. Bush - Pauly D,
Q.E.D.
@BitingThrough: I just realized it was meant to be sarcastic. I can't help rising to the bait, though; the dumbing down of culture - especially TV - does actually annoy me :/
@Diziet_Sma: Picture me with a hook in my mouth, I didn't catch the sarcasm either. I totally agree with your reaction, though. Now please pardon me while I go chase some kids off of my lawn.
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Poor kid.
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a)thankful that typography communicates horror very effectively
b) in awe that some creatives just don't know when to substitute a horrific photograph with compelling typography. Instead. You know, do us ALL the favor.
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That sounds like a typical kind of day around here.
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1. Oh, even more childlike behavior, Tiger. That'll fix everthing.
2. Um, wait...that sounds like most days at Casa de BetteD...
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Whatever, I bet he doesn't sing Sweet Caroline for Audrina.
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How's that workin' out for ya, Tiger?
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You wouldn't have to ask me twice.
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But "golddigger" is presumably something people can say in "polite" conversation; Kanye wrote a song about it. It's as insulting as any of the above words, more insulting than "bitch," even, and it implies so many things about women that are gross and insanely misogynist. And people just use it like, whatever, we all assume that women are money-grubbing hos who only get pregnant and have babies so they can milk their babydaddy for all the money he's worth. And fathers who don't help raise their children? LEGITIMATE AND SERIOUS SOCIAL PROBLEM. Unlike, say, women who have babies just for child support. Because raising a child is actually really expensive. And fathers should try to actually, i dunno, fucking FATHER their children instead of just assuming that $$ is enough? I am so impressed by single mothers who DAILY raise children not to be total fuckwits with fathers like that. Like, seriously, that has to be harder than, for instance, running an oil company or invading a country or making shitty movies or writing shitty songs. Or being football players, motherfucker.
I wish so, so much that Kanye had never written that song. I mean, I love Kanye! He said that George Bush hates black people! He spoke truth! Parrhesia motherfucker! Speaking truth to power! All his other weirdo things can be explained or rationalized or ignored! But he had to ruin it by writing one of the most secretly misogynist songs of the decade. Ahh misogyny! You ruin everything!
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My heart just died.
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If you're worried about it, stop writing about them!
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Q.E.D.
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