EmanuelaOrlandi posted:hopefully that's a biden reference in his username
it's a reference to joe lieberman
The mistake is in seeing this ambient threat of real physical violence as contingent or accidental, as a hangover from a patriarchal past that can be ameliorated by extending formal freedoms to women, instead of necessary and systemic. This merely ends up formally institutionalizing her unfreedom, for example by legalizing prostitution.
One of the ways that this contradiction is experienced subjectively by individuals is in the question of pornography. By watching pornography, am I thereby contributing to the suppression of women, or am I merely engaging in just another of the activities of consumption that, however regrettable from the perspective of an ideal society, is an inevitable part of simply living our lives in society as it actually exists?
Instead of opting for self righteous moral masochism and condemning individual behavior, the question should be kept open and the ethical vertigo insisted upon and not papered over. The only way out is through real, collective political action that will radically transform the prevailing economic and ideological conditions of society themselves, transforming ourselves in the process.
Who was the chick you had in your avatar in LF?
australians are still the worst
discipline posted:that whole magazine is worse than, like, even the economist
Not suprising if you know anything about Gavin Mcinnes
discipline posted:even matt taibbi's dad is a wealthy NBC producer
Have you seen this?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/blog/2008/feb/14/skinsblog
funniest backlash against journalistic nepotism ever. The dude’s article is hilariously dumb and he gets brutalized
In a follow up article it said he was sick and angry for 3 months because of the response he got lmao
Players on a cash-strapped Greek soccer team now wear pink practice jerseys with the logos "Villa Erotica" and "Soula's House of History," two bordellos it recruited as sponsors after drastic government spending cuts left the country's sports clubs facing ruin.
Other teams have also turned to unconventional financing. One has a deal with a local funeral home and others have wooed kebab shops, a jam factory and producers of Greece's trademark feta cheese.
But the amateur Voukefalas club — whose players include pizza delivery guys, students, waiters and a bartender — has raised eyebrows with its flamboyant sponsorship choice.
"Unfortunately, amateur football has been abandoned by almost everyone," said Yiannis Batziolas, the club's youthful chairman, who runs a travel agency and is the team's backup goalkeeper. "It's a question of survival."
Prostitution is legal in Greece, where brothels operate under strict guidelines. Though garish neon signs advertising their services are tolerated, the soccer sponsorship has ruffled some feathers in the sports-mad city of Larissa. League organizers have banned the pink jerseys during games, saying the deal violates "the sporting ideal" and is inappropriate for underage fans.
Batziolas acknowledges the sponsorship took his team by surprise. "They didn't believe it in the beginning," he said. "But when they saw the shirts printed, they thought it was funny."
Near-bankrupt Greece is struggling to meet creditors' relentless demands to slash spending and keep the euro as its currency. As Greece heads toward a sixth year of recession, drastic budget cuts have hammered many ordinary people: Retirees have been left to cover their own medical expenses, children have lost school bus services, and sports teams have scrambled to find sponsors as businesses close under the burden of emergency taxes.
Brothel owner Soula Alevridou, the team's new benefactor, has already paid more than 1,000 euros ($1,312) for players to wear her jerseys. The team is appealing the game ban, but that doesn't worry the 67-year-old Alevridou, who says she's only in it because she loves soccer.
"It's not the kind of business that needs promotion," she said, dressed all in white and flanked by two young women in dark leggings at a recent game. "It's a word-of-mouth kind of thing."
Her businesses, plushly decorated pastel-colored bungalows where 14 women are employed, have weathered the country's financial disaster far better than most, and she readily acknowledges her success.
"If we don't help our scientists and athletes, where will we be?" she asked. "Greece has educated people, cultured people and good athletes. It's better to help them than take our money to Switzerland."
Alevridou watched in disappointment as her team lost its fourth straight game, 1-0, despite her promise to players of "a special time" at her businesses if they won.
tpaine posted:how did he type that with no eyes. i call shenanigans
“There is a video on YouTube named Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv. If you search this, you will find nothing. The few times you find something, all you will see is a 20 second video of a man staring intently at you, expressionless, then grinning for the last 2 seconds. The background is undefined. This is only part of the actual video.
The full video lasts 2 minutes, and was removed by YouTube after 153 people who viewed the video gouged out their eyes and mailed them to YouTube’s main office in San Bruno. Said people had also committed suicide in various ways. It is not yet known how they managed to mail their eyes after gouging them out. And the cryptic inscription they carve on their forearms has not yet been deciphered.
YouTube will periodically put up the first 20 seconds of the video to quell suspicions, so that people will not go look for the real thing and upload it. The video itself was only viewed by one YouTube staff member, who started screaming after 45 seconds. This man is under constant sedatives and is apparently unable to recall what he saw. The other people who were in the same room as him while he viewed it and turned off the video for him say that all they could hear was a high pitched drilling sound. None of them dared look at the screen.
The person who uploaded the video was never found, the IP address being nonexistent. And the man on the video has never been identified."
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