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[kellinator]

Courtesy of my darling cousin ariedana, who obviously is out to endanger my life, Wonkette's Debate Drinking Game. It's a damn good thing I'm not planning on being home tomorrow night, because playing this game would leave me either dead of alcohol poisoning or in jail or both.

The author of that apalling piece of antifeminist tripe known as The Rules blames her divorce on bad dental work. Hey, I think I just started believing in karma again!

The Barenaked Ladies are developing a variety show for Fox. I adore the Barenaked Ladies, and their live skits are hysterical, so it's great to see this as a possibility. But since Fox is involved, it'll probably be either really really good and cancelled within five minutes or really really really mind-numbingly soul-suckingly bad.

S.E. Hinton gives up teen lit for sex and vampires. Was everyone in your middle school totally obsessed with The Outsiders, or was that just me?

Order of the Stick: your latest dose of gaming webcomic fun.

Everyone and their brother has already posted this but I can't help myself. Daily Show's "stoned slackers" are not only better educated, they're better informed. Too bad they didn't ask Fox News viewers some questions about Iraq and 9/11 so we could all laugh at them again.

Comments

[rocketmelee.livejournal.com]

Lots. The Rules is entirely about modifying your behavior in order to cater to men and snag a husband as quickly as possible.

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Did you ever see any of those 1950's/1960's marriage guides or home ec text book chapters? The ones that urge you to get all of the house work done promptly (in pearls!), make sure to have a drink ready when Mr. Right gets home, make sure the children are silent, well-groomed, and only trotted out briefly during your cooked from scratch dinner, and make sure that you are always smiling, fetching pipes and slippers, and making sure that you never complain or cause discord? Same idea.

quite the opposite

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

"The Rules" is about not throwing yourself at a man and not being his sex slave or lapdog. It is about attempting to live without the desperate need for a man. It is about turning yourself into a woman who is complete without a man.
So far as "catering", I didn't see hardly anything that could be considered "catering" in it. I saw some advice that tries to show that a man's needs can be different from a woman's and thus you should be willing to adjust your behavior accordingly.

Re: quite the opposite

[rocketmelee.livejournal.com]

It also says things like "Don't be hefty", "Overweight is not The Rules", and "If you have a bad nose, get a nose job".

It's about game playing, and it's about dishonesty. It's about reinforcing stereotypes. And personally, I would never want to be with the kind of narcissist that I would attract by following The Rules.