Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Bikini 60
This is the sixtieth anniversary of the bikini. You can read all about it here on Wikipedia’s page about bikinis, and the reference page that describes Micheline Bernardini, the first bikini model.
I thought this paragraph was kind of interesting.
After modelling in a bikini [Barnardini] returned to her normal life but was critisized by many feminists for exploiting women, by helping men expose the female body in yet another way.
See? They were against fun even back then.
Hey I got a question…and it should be easy to answer this after six decades to think about it. What does forcing women to wear more clothing, have to do with equal-pay-for-equal-work, and equal rights in general?
How do you go about improving womens’ lives, when you criticize models for modeling, essentially trying to coerce them into doing only the modeling which receives the approval and blessing of you and your overlords? How does it make women free, to control them in this way?
There are millions of “feminists” in this country, both men and women, who consider themselves to fit that plural only because they want women to be protected from violence, to enjoy all the rights that they should, and to be paid a fair wage. But! — would never deign to tell women what to wear or to tell men what they should be looking at. So who are, or were, these people criticizing bikinis? Are those, or were those, really “feminists”? Maybe we need another word. We could call them “anti-gender-difference-people” or “anti-male-fun-people” or something.
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