More proof (as if we need it) that we live in a rape culture
From: Facebook refuses to take down rape joke pages According to Facebook, saying how much you enjoy committing rape, joking about rape, and calling rape survivors liars is just ‘discussing the issue’ and not hate speech. Fiona Elvines from Rape Crisis South London, sums it up well: I can’t find the punchline in ‘I love [...]
More on the Hilarity of the Porn Industry
More on the hilarity of the porn industry from the Guardian, this time an article titled “Money-saving tips for Hollywood” [F]ollow the lead of Steven Soderbergh with Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience, and cast more hardcore porn stars in leading roles. They already perform the most degrading feats for a fee ranging between $1,000 [...]
Because porn is just sooo funny
And journalists are just so lazy The sex bits of porn films are so mechanical – and so completely interchangeable – that it’s only the beginning that gives you any idea of precisely how badly made the film you are watching really is. The acting is uniformly terrible and the dialogue is worse (“Would you [...]
Playboy ruined my Morrissey gig!
So I went to the Wireless festival in Hyde Park on Friday to see Morrissey. The first song played was “The Last of the Famous International Playboys”, so he, and the whole band, came on in Playboy t-shirts (the band’s t-shirts were a particularly tacky turquoise). Morrissey wore his Playboy t-shirt for the first four [...]