Come on, Petey! They're just pictures. And we're just a cartoon! (Family Guy/adultswim.com) |
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Bouie on politics, policy, race |
The most striking photographs from Ferguson, Missouri, aren’t of Saturday’s demonstrations or Sunday night’s "riots"; they’re of the police.
Image after image shows [formerly civilian] officers clad in Kevlar vests, helmets, and camouflage, armed with pistols, shotguns, automatic [military assault] rifles, and tear gas.
What’s more, Ferguson police have used armored vehicles to show force and [intimidate] crowds [by stated US policy abroad -- "shock and awe" and a willingness to commit war crimes with impunity].
New "piercing" helps you shut up |
This would be one thing if Ferguson were in a war zone, or if protesters were violent -- although, it’s hard to imagine a situation in which American police would need a mine-resistant vehicle. More
What about the sex?
Did singer-songwriter Lana Del Rely really [sleep] her way up to the top or did Lady Gaga? |
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Emma Sulkowicz protests Columbia U. (NYM) |
It sounds odd, but we live in a rape culture. We have for a long time. It's taboo to talk about -- not to do, but to talk about. Raped? Shut up. Molested as a kid? Never speak of it, not in this family! Harassed at school? Get over it, and stop overreacting; you should be glad they're paying attention to you. (LOL, Irony is fun). It's a mad, mad world!
And while males seem all bad, how about we point some of that wagging finger at the other half, too, the contributors, enablers, colluders? If kids get mad for being molested, they seem to get much madder that their "protectors" kept silent or turned a blind eye -- betrayal, betrayal!
Queen of f'n everything? (shopkitson) |
It's not the American Way, okay, in business maybe. Because the business of America is business, but "America" only refers to the USA; forget all of the rest of America, like that whole continent down there, or massive lands to the north.
Oh, Quagmire, will you stop already! |
It's not just the force, there's plenty of coercion, intimidation, and shaming when it comes to sex. Oh, the shame of it all! We've normalized graphic, violent porno, so much so that that seems like "sex" to US, not just to perpetrators but to enjoyers of sex.
10-y-o sex toy found in woman's V |
Junior Anti-Sex League: 1984 (DU) |
Even the cool Eastern religions aren't exempt. It all keeps the Sex Wheel turning, doesn't it? The dysfunction and shame, the excitement and titillation.
Dukkha of injustice is a bitter, bitter thing. |
- VIDEO: Colombia U. student protests rape and school inaction: Carry That Weight, Why be ashamed when the university and the alleged perpetrator are not? (NY Mag)
- Jen Lawrence's boobs show Net is bad for all women
- Jen Lawrence earns rare praise from Fashion Cop Joan Rivers (RIP)
- 50 Best Joan Rivers Jokes (vulture.com)
- Response to celebrity nude photo hacking is rooted in "blaming women"
Which one will YOU be? Prole, Police, Party Member, Undesirable? (boingboing.net) |
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