January 2011
just a Holocene voyager: Who The Hell is Seth Rogen? →
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[Michel] Gondry also recalled his humorous experience while promoting the film in China: “When we went to Beijing, Seth and I only had two questions! And if they had wanted to ask us something, it would be like ‘How was it like working with Jay Chou?’ There’s no doubt…
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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?”
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If someone could gif Rob Lowe pointing and grinning at the end of the new Parks and Recreation promo, I'd love you forever.
Here ya go: http://tashzky.tumblr.com/post/2855618380
Oh, I meant the part at the end of the promo you put up earlier, where it says “new Parks and Recreation” next to him. Thanks anyway though :)
The fatwa factory
Those who believe such vehement reactions are justified need to rethink their definition of ‘honour and dignity’. Honour that gets disrupted because of a woman’s appearance on a reality show but remains unscathed when over a 1,000 infants – most of them girls – are killed or abandoned to die. This is nothing short of hypocrisy.
In a country, struggling with insurgencies, poverty, inflation, and failure of governance, what Veena Malik did or said on a reality show should be the least of our concerns. But it seems as though moral policing has become our favourite past time. To be more precise, such slurs are actually called ‘slut-shaming.’ What this means is that when a woman acts in a way that is not considered acceptable in the society she lives in, she is verbally attacked and slandered in order to rule out her credibility; in order to divert focus from the main issue.
Veena Malik is just one example how certain factions of our media have resorted to moral policing and even advocating fatwas on anyone and everyone. Never mind that we have never pushed for fatwas against suicide bombings, honour killings and many other heinous acts justified in the name of Islam.
We are in crisis,” said Susie Weekes, of Construct Inc. in Great Barrington →
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“The money we’ve raised to help people in the past has lasted us a full year. Last year, we ran out in June. This year, at this rate, we’re going to run out in February.”
If you’d like to help Construct, you can do so here: http://www.constructinc.org/CONSTRUCT/DONATE.html
