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    Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"

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    Image of La Chica Lucy La Chica Lucy
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    When are people going to realize that if MILLIONS OF WOMEN AROUND THE GLOBE are willing to risk cultural shaming, severe bodily injury, and death itself because they do not want to give birth, NO ONE can stop them from taking those risks, no matter how many damn laws you pass. It's pure misogyny: We will force you to undergo bodily torture for nine months and risk death just to give birth. Oh, and then you're on your own. Fuckers.

    (sorry for the shouting) #antichrist
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    Image of Dancingfrog Dancingfrog
    11/05/09

    @La Chica Lucy: I have a real problem with this kind of thinking. Pregnancy isn't "torture"; birth can be very safe when it's supervised by a qualified physician or midwife. I think there needs to a be a real effort to curb the need for abortions in the first place and make sure that a much higher percentage of pregnancies are wanted ones. That means making sure that men are taught from an early age that there is never a good reason to rape a woman, that rape is any sex that doesn't involve full consent. Contraceptives need to be made more available and more affordable, and more mainstream so women can choose their relationships based on what's comfortable, not on their financial situations . And, BC needs to be more effective, which can only be done if the money is put into it, and maybe more BC methods for men, too. There needs to be more support for women who do want to keep their pregnancies - more prenatal support, more midwives and OB/GYN's, more flexible career options.

    Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare - rare because women should be able to access resources to prevent unwanted pregnancy and shouldn't be at such high risk to be raped, not because pregnant women are forced to not have abortions. #antichrist
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    11/05/09

    @Dancingfrog: I know pregnancy can be safe and not all pregnancies are torture. My point is these people do not care about women. At all. If they did, all of the things you describe above (which I agree with) would already be happening. #antichrist
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    11/05/09

    @La Chica Lucy: Ah - sorry for the misunderstanding! #antichrist
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    discrimination is a major threat to the mental health of African American women.

    As an African American man, I can only offer my two cents but, uh, duh. In other news, water is wet. #antichrist
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    Image of jenrobe jenrobe
    11/04/09

    @Trulymadlyme: BREAKING NEWS: fire is hot and that cigarette you're smoking? Bad for you. #antichrist
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    11/04/09

    @jenrobe: Also? Gravity. Still the law of the land. #antichrist
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    11/04/09

    @Trulymadlyme: Are you sure? I think we'd better commission a study to find out. I'll start the grant application process now! #antichrist
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    Image of brenbrowning brenbrowning
    11/04/09

    @Trulymadlyme: It seems that it should be obvious, right?
    I did my senior capstone for my BS last year in "Reducing stigmatization of mental illness among the African American population of Portland" (longest title ever), which really opened my eyes to the extent of the discrimination and lack of cultural competence amongst mental health professionals. There is a clinic in Portland through OHSU that offers culturally competent care specifically for African Americans and Africans as well as SE Asians. I enjoyed working with the providers at the clinic. #antichrist
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    11/04/09

    @brenbrowning: Maine? Or Oregon?

    But yes. A part of the mental health issues of pretty much every single brilliant African American I knew in college and law school is derived from the fall out of racism. You do deal. But it can sting. And depending on one's resilience, it can be utterly debilitating. It's fascinating work and I'd love to learn more about what you do. #antichrist
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    11/05/09

    @Trulymadlyme: Oregon.
    My professor for the capstone is an African American man who has mental health issues that went undiagnosed for decades in large part because of his race. Either he didn't fit "the mold" of someone with those disorders, or it wasn't suggested that he seek treatment because within his community there was a feeling of distrust of medical/mental health professionals (understandably!). I took every class from this professor I could as an undergrad and am now applying to do the MSW program at the same school to learn more from him. I am trying to find my place of where I will be able to best serve people of color within the mental health/human services field. It was heartbreaking and infuriating to learn and see how people of color in my community were being treated when they tried to seek help. #antichrist
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    Image of JinxyMcDeath JinxyMcDeath
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    The ass was what concerned them, not the fact that he's obviously in the midst of fucking that girl? #antichrist
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    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    'The imagery is "dream-like," which makes it somewhat removed from reality, and thus inoffensive'

    This sounds like the logic that concludes something can't be offensive if it was intended as a joke. I mean, I'd support a poster with an entire ass hanging out. But the "logic" makes me giggle. #antichrist
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    I am so saddened and scared by the death of the three college students in North Dakota. The thought of being trapped and frightened and waiting for help that never comes is terrible. I hope that their families and the women that received the distress calls find peace. #antichrist
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    Image of BytheSea BytheSea
    11/04/09

    @Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.: I'm pretty sure they drowned. it was a car, not a submarine. #antichrist
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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    Oh British Ad Standards Authority, there ain't no good guy, there ain't no bad guy, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.

    By which I mean, that poster makes me want to bone. A lot. #antichrist
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    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    11/04/09

    @jigglyball: Especially if the partial crack in question were James McAvoy's.
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    Image of jigglyball jigglyball
    11/04/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: I would need to excuse myself if that were McAvoy's ass. #antichrist
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    11/04/09

    @jigglyball: seconded. #antichrist
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    Image of WaltzingMatilda WaltzingMatilda
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    I feel like ranch dressing often makes an appearance as a co-conspirator in many trashy crimes.

    This is all anecdotal, of course.

    And strange, of course. #antichrist
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    Image of elliotellsworth elliotellsworth
    11/04/09

    @WaltzingMatilda: i find the throwing of ranch dressing simultaneously gross and hilarious. i think it is perfect for revenge. #antichrist
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    Image of BeckyIva BeckyIva
    11/04/09

    @WaltzingMatilda: That's because Real Americans know that everything (and I mean everything) tastes better with some ranch. And thus we always have it on hand!

    Related: I am considering experimenting with a sweet ranch dressing that could be used as a sauce on desserts. #antichrist
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    Image of dangerslut dangerslut
    11/04/09

    @WaltzingMatilda: There ain't nothin' trashy about Ranch dressing. #antichrist
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    Image of WaltzingMatilda WaltzingMatilda
    11/04/09

    @dangerslut: Ha! Of course not. Plus, we all know that ranch dressing doesn't mean to get involved in these crimes.

    He's totally innocent.
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    Image of jenrobe jenrobe
    11/04/09

    @BeckyIva: I lived with an American for two years, and Ranch dressing was one of the best things I got out of that household arrangement. That and, you know, a lifelong friend. Who is my lifelong friend in part BECAUSE she introduced me to the glory that is ranch dressing. Mmm. Ranch. Great, now I want some. #antichrist
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    Image of itsonreserve itsonreserve
    11/04/09

    @jenrobe: Search foodblogsearch for buttermilk dressing, ranch's original name. So many tasty looking recipes. #antichrist
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    11/05/09

    @itsonreserve: Oh my god. That website... surely it is the work of the gods? Thank you so much! MORE experiments to carry out on my current flatmates. #antichrist
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    11/05/09

    @jenrobe: I'm sure it is I often bring it sacrifices. There is no other explanation. #antichrist
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    Image of cocobanal cocobanal
    11/04/09

    In reply to Willem's Ass "Unlikely To Cause Sexual Excitement" • Malia: "I Just Like Having Knowledge"
    So do I, Malia! I just wish I had more students like you--most of mine only want to know something if they think they are going to use it in the future, and amazingly, they all seem to have crystal balls that tell them exactly what they will and will not need to know in the future.

    Sorry. Frustrated teacher rant. #antichrist
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    11/04/09

    @cocobanal: Preach it. I feel like I say so many times, "Fix this! If you send out resumes and cover letters that look like this writing, not only will they not hire you, they will laugh about you to all of their friends!" Maybe I should hire my friend who works in HR to come in as a guest speaker.

    I do believe some of them have a passive-voice relationship with their studies. There is no sense that they have an active role in their education. They just sit there with their mouths open, accepting whatever comes along, and each paper/test/graded unit is another kind of event that just happens. Failing happens. Grades happen. Improvement, if it happens, just happens. Having once been like that myself, it's incredibly frustrating not to be able to get them to see, as I once did, that if you just DO THE WORK, suddenly the world is a much better place. #antichrist
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    Image of cocobanal cocobanal
    11/04/09

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: I hear ya. One of the classes I teach includes cover letter and resume writing. It's scary to see what they consider a good letter, and writing a resume is one of the things the students swear they won't need in the future. RIGHT.
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    Image of limber limber
    11/04/09

    @cocobanal: My cousin just had a revelation: he excitedly told me that he had a big WWI test coming up, but he'd started reading the materials like they were a novel, and it had been really interesting! And he aced the test!

    He really is astounded by the concept that learning history like a narrative rather than as a rote recitation of dates and names can be fun. It's like he invented fire, he's adorable about it. #antichrist
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    Image of philoclea philoclea
    11/05/09

    @TheFormerJuneBronson: Yo. yo. I've been kind of depressed lately about teaching -- mostly about my own role in it, but part of the problem is that I can't tell what's due to my incompetence and what's due to their lack of trying.

    This is what comes from receiving a set of papers that are, on average, worse than the last one. Yay. #antichrist
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    Image of TurtleWexlerKickedMe TurtleWexlerKickedMe
    11/04/09

    In reply to Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
    We all know that if it's not Thomas Kinkaid, it's not art, anyway. #artssake
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    Image of Island of Misfit Toys Island of Misfit Toys
    11/04/09

    @BB: The Franklin Mint objects to your statement. #artssake
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    Image of AuntieEm (robots from the year 2000 > zombies) AuntieEm (robots from the year 2000 > zombies)
    11/04/09

    @Island of Misfit Toys: @BB: you bothe got hearted for this, brilliant #artssake
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    Image of colormeroutine colormeroutine
    11/04/09

    In reply to Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
    I am forever amazed by the things people chose to give a half a shit about #artssake
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/04/09

    In reply to Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
    If all of the art he selected had been art professor type fare, he would be another arugula eating limosene liberal who windsurfs with John Kerry. His collection would have been seen as a testament to how out of touch he is with "real" Americans whose idea of art may or may not be a life sized cardboard cutout of Jeff Gordon and a light up picture of a blonde Jesus, and a cutesy sign hand lettered with purposefully childish writing that says something like "Life Is Not The Breaths You Take, But The Moments That Take Your Breath Away!!!!!!!" I mean really. If I were the President, I'd just say fuck all y'all haters and buy a bunch of puppy posters interspersed with some original Jasper Johns and, like, concert posters. #artssake
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    11/04/09

    @morninggloria: Cutesy hand-lettered shit that is usually hand-lettered overseas by someone making starvation wages. The irony of mass-produced cute folksy crap for sale at WalMart just absolutely makes my blood boil, and meanwhile my nice older lady neighbors wonder why I don't have a cute hand-painted scarecrow/ pumpkin/ duck/ santa claus on my porch. #artssake
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    Image of GirlFailer GirlFailer
    11/04/09

    @morninggloria: Personally, I feel like a Thomas Kinkade log cabin would add a special something to the White House. #artssake
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/04/09

    @Leucadia: Nothing more American than willful, self interested myopia. #artssake
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    11/04/09

    @morninggloria: Or that Monet forgery from Thomas Crown, that was painted over "Dogs at Cards".

    And a Public Enemy poster. And maybe one of Eminem, to balance it out.

    Now I'm curious as to what they had on the wall in the East Wing in GWB's White House.
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    Image of phantom lady phantom lady
    11/04/09

    @Rooo sez BISH PLZ: Nascar posters. autographed. of course. #artssake
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    Image of GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11) GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
    11/05/09

    @Leucadia: I was given one of those little, generic, hand-painted inspirational signs as an engagement present. "Live. Laugh. Love." I'm pretty sure that is like the gateway sign that every married couple MUST have before they move on to more annoying signs. I got two more as a wedding present ("Friends. Faith. Family" and "No matter what, no matter where it's always love if love is there!"). If only my Southern aunt could see my hovel of a West LA apartment that is furnished almost entirely by Ikea. I don't mind getting mass-produced crap if it's useful like a pot. But if you're going to get me something that seems heartwarming and personal, maybe it would be nicer to actually get something that doesn't sit in the home of every single person you know.

    I wouldn't mind the painting in controversy, if it's been sent back... #artssake
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    11/04/09

    In reply to Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
    Hmph. What kind of an art scandal is this? I don't see either elephant poop or a religious figure in that painting. #artssake
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    Image of msAnthrope msAnthrope
    11/04/09

    In reply to Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
    that sucks having to select artwork for reasons other than maybe it just appeals to you a lot. i hate that some people make selecting artwork this intense intellectual process. #artssake
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    Image of stacyinbean stacyinbean
    11/04/09

    In reply to Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
    They both look like I could have made them in 3rd grade with construction paper, what's the freaking problem? #artssake
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    Image of xeniaster004 xeniaster004
    11/04/09

    @stacyinbean: thats the worst attitude towards art. Oh you could've made it? but you didn't, so seriously.
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    11/04/09

    @xeniaster004: Yep, I agree, that is the worst one.

    Looks can deceive, and what seems simple in art is often extremely difficult to accomplish. Kind of like any other field, where the masters make it look so easy that the neophytes assume it is. #artssake
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11/04/09

    In reply to Art In America: Painting Gets Pulled From White House Following Furor
    So, wait....these people are pissed because this painting looks similar to another painting?

    If that's the bar we're setting, then we should just burn down the National Portrait Gallery right now. #artssake
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    11/04/09


    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: I rotated Matissse's Snail 90 degress CCW, and stretched Watusi 14% and overlaid them just for shits and giggles. #artssake
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    11/04/09

    @bklyn155: I like yours best of all. #artssake
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    11/04/09

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: I didn't wanna brag, but I was thinking the same thing ;) Maybe I can get it into the White House, I'll call it The Art of Compromise! #artssake
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