i'm maura johnston. i edit maura magazine and write all over the place.
and i’m saying this as someone who is currently in the throes of some not-insignificant psychic pain, but jesus christ the old ‘we do what we want and we don’t care about anything and that makes us so rebellious’ attitude is so fucking wearying. how are you even a person, i don’t understand
“Dudepins”.
The most facedesk thing about this is the revelation that this lame joke site is the THIRD “male version of Pinterest” to launch recently. It is to despair. Think about all the times women have had to adapt to an 80% male online thing, but then a social network gets big with an initial skew in the other direction and OH NO THEY ARE POSTING RECIPES this wrong must be righted forthwith.
Hey, so you know how I keep posting links to thoughts from people who can’t quite wrap their minds around this “racism” thing? Would it surprise you to learn they only came to appreciate Pinterest as a thing that the women in their lives could use to improve their lives?
Hey, given that the entire media-industrial complex has spent much of the last decade telling its consumers that the 18-to-34-year-old straight white male is the American Default Way Of Being, why shouldn’t that lesson be internalized by, well, everyone?
Because what the mainstream media really needed was more privileged-dudes-operating-under-the-guise-of-being-“geeks” perspective.
(Source: The New York Times)
WELL THAT MAKES ONE OF US, THE WAITRESSES.
1. sandwiches
2. macaroni and cheese
3. a quick slice when i’m in a hurry
4. dumplings
5. biscuits
6. seriously i’m really bummed about this sandwich thing
7. croissants
8. english muffins
9. nice big ribbony pasta
10. bagels
God, it seems like she’s been around (in her current “hey look I am edgy and also BOOBS” form, anyway) for so much longer than two years. Ugh!
