Sophie lives in BK, works, writes, plays music, puts on shows and uses twitter.
A few blogs I run or help run:
flavorpill.tumblr.com
thepermanentwave.tumblr.com
sadjams.tumblr.com
spiralringnotebook.tumblr.com
pseudoprofoundelectronicartists.tumblr.com
silentdraperunners.tumblr.com
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"I get the sense that asexuality is part of her hippie aesthetic." →
About one of the most resolutely sexual albums of the last few years. A shame that Grantland’s huge audience is exposed to this level of crude misrepresentation masquerading as coy/self-effacing insight.
I dunno, it might help to include the surrounding paragraph:
“tUnE-yArDs is essentially one person, a somewhat androgynous American woman named Merrill Garbus. This is her second album. I get the sense that asexuality is part of her hippie aesthetic, because I just looked at the tUnE-yArDs Wikipedia page and noticed that the wiki writer put a lot of effort into never using gender-specific pronouns.”
It’s fairly clear that he means ‘asexual’ in the associated meaning of androgynous, or neither one gender (‘sex’) or the other. Of course, unfortunately asexual doesn’t mean quite that, rather implying the absence of sexuality altogether. I’m not trying to save Klosterman’s thesis here (save for objecting to the crude dismissal of it altogether) but the response points up the equally unfortunate fact that sexuality is generally seen in an exclusively gendered form. Really, if you’re talking about tUnE-yArDs being androgynous*, that is in no way sufficient to assume she is asexual (or to assume that is the inference on the author’s part); it’s simply a commentary on gender, not sexuality. Bad choice of words, not a bad idea.
I don’t know if I like tUnE-yArDs at all, but I find Klosterman’s** article a bit more interesting than the panties-twisting/chest-thumping going on around it.
*if anything, she’s acameral
** incidentally, how come people don’t make more of the (probable) fact that ‘Klosterman’ means “man in the monastery (cloister)” in German?
Also don’t really get the androgynous thing. She wears pink frilly stuff onstage. Sigh.
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Listen to this amazing interview with Melissa Febos, author of 'Whip Smart,' about her 4 years working as a dominatrix. →
Seriously incredible, everyone should listen.
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Bennetts reports that “the researchers were forced to loosen their definition in order to assemble a 100-person control group.” Funny, an objective researcher might have narrowed the definition of “buying sex” to, you know, buying sex. Instead, says Farley, “We finally had to settle on a definition of non-sex-buyers as men who have not been to a strip club more than two times in the past year, have not purchased a lap dance, have not used pornography more than one time in the last month, and have not purchased phone sex or the services of a sex worker, escort, erotic masseuse, or prostitute.
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wow.
Nice to know the cover is just as formulaic as the content…?
Humans gravitate towards the left.
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A Question For You, Revisited
You are in a hypothetical scenario in which you are having sex with a (at least somewhat) famous singer or rapper. In the background, one of their songs is playing on repeat, and they are singing along with it the entire time. Which singer do you choose, and what song would you want it to be?
This is a question with inherently creepy answers but I’ve gotta go with Andrew Bird and “Why?”. Specifically this version of the song.
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Happy Easter! It’s Bisexuality Comics: PART FOUR. With a vengeance?
Parts 1, 2 & 3 live under the tag “my comics” as well as some other goodies.
Why do people keep going for coffee with that girl?!
^^^^
If you’re in a committed relationship with someone of a specific gender, are you still bi? Yes, bi can describe desire, attraction… or a relationship. Not necessarily both at once.
Umm in response to the second commentary, I think those people are referring to the tendency of young girls to “fake” attraction to other girls in order to get male attention, via the fetishization of lesbianism. Which is obviously totally demeaning to women who are actually attracted to other women and indicative of our culture which demands that girls do whatever it takes to win male approval.
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Quote reblogged from Stand Up For Women's Health with 13 notes
My friend Haroon calls this fear the “ham sandwich” effect. Like me, he’s a first-generation American, born to a religious family. He’s Muslim. His parents would tell him not to eat pork because it’s evil and God will send you to hell. They had a similar attitude about sex. But he was 16 and curious, so why not? He sat down one day, bought a ham sandwich, ate it and then threw up. He tried again, though, and was eventually able to eat ham sandwiches like any other American. It was the same way with sex.
Modern Love - Eating the Forbidden Ham Sandwich - NYTimes.com (via standupforwomen)
Interesting, sad article.
Source: The New York Times
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Why? - “Good Friday”
Horniness is everywhere in music. Listen to the radio and, chances are, 4/5 songs are, on some level, about wanting sex. So why is it so surprising to hear Yoni Wolf actually say that word in “Good Friday”? Maybe because the type of sexuality he’s talking about is a fair amount creepier; sucking dick for drinks at a bat mitzvah and jerking off in an art museum. Or, more likely, because we’re unaccustomed to hearing it in our music, and, furthermore, Wolf is well aware of that. We know that we’re used to hearing horniness unfold in descriptions of smell, taste, and feel, but he’s too fucked up and far gone to give much of a shit. It’s as if he’s so accustomed to and desensitized by the feeling that it barely even registers to him anymore. To him, sex is so closely linked to desperation that horniness will only bring up thoughts of doing lines in bathrooms before breaking down and crying. The same sights and feelings that might excite us only cause him discomfort, and now he’s forcing us to share that same discomfort with him.
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Unhappily for many people here, it is also famous for being featured on lists of good places to go “dogging” — that is, to have sex in public, sometimes with partners you have just met online, so that others can watch. So popular is the woodsy field below the ridge as a spot for gay sex (mostly during the day) and heterosexual sex (mostly at night) that the police have designated it a “public sex environment.
