Today I have a guest post up on Overthinking It, where I spend too much time talking about blood and Greeks and heroes in the Harry Potter series. Have a taste! Voldemort’s mistake is to think that shedding the blood of others will increase his power. In fact, it increases his enemies, as many of [...]
Archive for the ‘Gentlemen’ Category
November 6, 2010
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Pilot Versus Ballerina
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Ladies, SocietySometimes, if you are not a cis white dude, life will up and smack you in the face for not being a cis white dude. Even if all you are doing is sitting around typing crappy prose on your laptop. I was doing just that when the love of my life started scrolling through the [...]
Tags: clothes, feminism, masculinity, video games
September 10, 2010
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Hamm Reduction
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Society, TelevisionHere is what you discover when you start reading the latest ode to Jon Hamm from Details magazine: Hamm swears at bikers. While wearing madras shorts and a baseball cap. Because they impede him from going 140 in his borrowed fancy car, a silver Mercedes that is not yet available for purchase by the public [...]
Tags: feminism, masculinity, Television
August 31, 2010
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Nathan Rabin Fails at Modeling and as a Human Being.
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Ladies, Sartoria, SocietyIt may seem like a clever move to self-deprecatingly refer to your own article as a “lousy blog post”, but it doesn’t mean the phrase does not ring true. If there is one set of ads I would purge from all the internets given the chance (and the POWER), it is the marketing campaign spat [...]
August 11, 2010
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Vodka is for Lame Babies — Take My Word For It
By aliciaaho in Drink, Food and Drink, Gentlemen, Ladies, SocietyPreviously on this blog, I wrote about Caskstrength’s troubling rules for drinking like a man. Today, we’re looking at the first of those rules: No vodka. Vodka is not manly, says Caskstrength. “How so?” you ask. It just isn’t. I have harped on this for too long so I’ll make it crystal fucking clear, there [...]
Tags: dipsography, feminism
August 1, 2010
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The Drink-Like-A-Man Trap.
By aliciaaho in Drink, Food and Drink, Gentlemen, Ladies, SocietyOne night, four of us ended up at Seattle’s lovely Mistral Kitchen for dinner, because the rumor mill had it that the cocktails were pretty good. The rumor mill underestimated by a mile. The cocktails were more than good: they were fantastic. Maybe the best cocktails I’ve ever had: well-crafted, unique, and utterly delicious. And [...]
Tags: dipsography, feminism
April 27, 2010
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E-reader Ads and Gender Bias: A Rebuttal
By aliciaaho in Gentlemen, Ladies, Society, The Arts, WritingSo lately — on Shakespeare’s birthday, in fact — there was this Huffpo post by Jason Pinter, which then meandered through the blogosphere until it reached my habitual environs (NPR’s delightful Monkey See Blog). The article alleges that there are not enough books for men because of a publishing mantra: men don’t read. So there [...]