Hey everyone, If you’re here, it’s probably...
Hey everyone,
If you’re here, it’s probably because of this post I wrote about the Kickstarter “Above The Game.” “Above The Game” was successfully funded this morning, raising 800% of its target goal. Unfortunately, the product it’s funding, I think, was pretty repugnant.
Basically styled as a book on “how to meet women,” what the content really did was tell men how to exploit some the awful systemic pressures we put on women, to take an overly aggressive role, and never take no for an answer in order to get sex. Some of the excerpts were pretty disgusting, even in their proper context - context the original author removed when I had linked to it - and it forwards a rape culture, no matter what its proponents might tell you. Even the section which the author, Ken Hoinsky, stresses the importance of obtaining consent ends with the phrase, “wait a few minutes and try again.”
So, yeah.
I was upset because this is a really grotesque, upsetting thing being funded on a platform I am bonkers for. So I posted that thing calling for people on the internet to speak to Kickstarter and ask asked for it to be taken down, and holy crap when I woke up and my post was everywhere. Currently at around 7K notes, my second most popular post has 8 Notes, and is a man in a Food Court wearing a Batman t-shirt, seen below:
So all day people have been reaching out to me for comments and questions and telling me to link this thing or that thing and do I have screenshots and telling me I’m overreacting and giving me some degree of either praise or harassment.
This is Important.
Kidz Bop - “Thrift Shop”
lol ok
didn’t you just say something about managing your stress level?
Scene: Mellow Mushroom, and the waiter just brought my tea with four lemon slices on the rim
I look at the lemons and laugh because four? Really?
My sweet, innocent 14 yo son throws his arms up, laughing, and yells, “Hey! It’s a lemon party!”
And that is the instant I died. He asked why I was laughing so hard and dying and when I explained why (sorta), then HE died.
Greatest thing I will read all day, hands down.
does that look like the face of a man who cannot play the drums for 24 hours straight
Ta-Nehisi Coates in comments to his article on teaching writing at MIT (via Jamison Foser)
Wonderful.
I’m amazed at how civil the comments can be in Ta-Nehisi’s articles (given the general shittiness of comments) but this is a good reason. Ban people for being terrible! It’s a miracle.
Without fail, every time I write an article, some dude (it’s literally never been a woman) will either email me or comment on the piece to say something haughty about my (apparently terrible) use of grammar. Ta-Nehisi is absolutely spot on about it destroying intellectual inquiry and sincerity.
I only read TNC when someone links to him, but I’ve never read an article I didn’t like. This little bit of badassery right here might be enough to make me a regular.
Courting Sketchfest: “Fun Game We Play” by Joselyn Hughes. Recorded Live at Stage Werx.
ME ME ME ME
This is fantastic, Joselyn. I have the AC running so it was hard to hear on my little laptop speakers so I had to get my face reaaaaally close. So that was awesome.
