* File under INVALUABLE. This should be required reading for every journalist and blogger that gets near a sex story of any kind: How To Spot an Internet Sex Research Hoax (The Sexademic)
* It’s okay to stop sending me links about this, and please do note that I’ve previously posted about it – BUT I highly recommend that you read this post, including great pundit interviews: Inside the Northwestern Fucksaw Debacle | What Really Happened (rabbitwrite.com)
* First, I’m keeping this blog a Sheen-free zone. However, it is essential to note that he’s got a massive record for beating (and shooting) women, and never gets called on it – most likely because the women are labeled “gold diggers” and/or are sex workers. I think the NYT is like that bi-polar aunt, careening between fascinating insight and utter mental babbling. That said, this is the op-ed everyone’s talking about this week: The Disposable Woman (NYTimes.com, open in Incognito window to avoid login)
* I don’t care what the controversy is, I’m visiting this sushi bar on my next Tokyo visit: Hot Women Serving Cold Fish Make for Raw Feelings in Tokyo (WSJ.com)
Image from Explicte Art’s Girls With Glasses Gallery.
P.S. I was just searching your recent posts for the article you shared earlier about FB following it’s “customers” around the ‘net — very creepy …
And I only just now read the New York Times article you linked to, “The Disposable Woman” — brilliant, perceptive, great analyses in this article of general and insidious cultural percepts toward too-many women …
Thanks, Violet.
P.S. at the risk of being presumptuous — (culture is not my own…?) — however: sounds as if your Northwestern University is much more progressive, more honest, and one which I’d much prefer to attend over your Oregon State(?) University …
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Okay about your choice of a Sheen-free zone …
… however … how about a mention of the brilliance and beauty of the Sydney Mardi Gras :-) All our love to you from ‘down under’ (and we Aussies don’t even mind the double-entendre occasionally) ma chérie Violet :-)
P.S. As a girl with naturally curly hair and glasses since I was 9 — thank you, thank you, thank you ;D
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Internet hoax? Like, um, er, “Web Porn Induced Impotence”? Did you follow one story with the other by accident or is that your famous sense of irony?
Either way, I love it!
Now, I want to try and make you jealous by saying I’ll pop over to that sushi place this next week, and let you know how it is… but I can’t. And it has nothing to do with me being a decent human being (because I’m not).
It’s because that restaurant is in Akihabara, and the whole “maid-fetishism” trend that’s taken over that town has really started creeping me the hell out. It was cute for a while, but a buddy and I made the mistake of going into a maid-bar one day while there, and… I don’t want to talk about it. Shudder….