Friday, February 18, 2011

friday fun and frivolity

good reminder!
Interesting and important: campuses define consent differently (why?).


All my dreams come true.

QuestionableContent is a webcomic drawn by a local dude and it's set in Northampton so it obviously references Smith a lot. But this one also mocks UMass bros just a bit and made my day.

Gay man hanky code: fascinating.


The greatest love of all: love for self! I love everything Sally writes about body image/self love.


Reporter sexually  assaulted in Egypt in the midst of all the celebrations in the streets. I tried to find if this has also been happening to Egyptian women, but couldn't find much. If you've got info, please share it below!


Crappy things people do before breaking up with you. Truth.

Much love,
The Sheriff

4 comments:

  1. Re: the picture - Notice that all three women have similar proportions - they're just different sizes. I don't like how mainstream media and body image activists use dress sizes rather than proportions. I guess they don't want us to run out to grab measuring takes and calculators? I don't think the size 16 woman is necessarily the same type of size 16 as the "average" woman. She's very well-proportioned, likely with an approximate 0.7 waist-to-hip ratio (as with the other two). Many people today have more of an apple shape, which actually means that they're a little rounder around the tummy area and their "size 16" looks nothing like Caroline's. Anyway, none of the women's heights are listed in the picture, so it's hard to really say anything about their bodies. At my height (5'2"ish), a size 8 might make me look more like Anna than Tillie.

    On consent: Asking-asking and verbally agreeing for certain acts is probably seen as cheesy by many, both men and women ("can I hold your hand" and expecting a yes or no answer can really kill the moment. Honestly, if a guy actually asked me that, I'd dump him right there - I'd see him as some sort of loser not worth dating. The yes/no answer is about body language. If someone moves away, then it's a definite no (duh). If he/she takes the other's hand or allows his/her hand to be taken, then that's yes. Of course, hand holding isn't really sexual activity anyway. With kissing and brief hugs? Again, body language. Going all the way, however, is another story.)

    Gay hanky: OOKKKKKK

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  2. hey! me and men have the same preference. also, tillie there is not a size 8.have you seen my ass? THATS a size 8, bitch.

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  3. I agree on the proportions versus dress size point. I would not have pegged Tillie as an 8, but she does seem pretty tall so that could be why. She probably has somewhat wide bone structure (broad shoulders and the like) compared to someone shorter, who could be a 4 or 6 with the same proportions.

    Not that dress sizes mean anything. One can be a 4 in one store and an 8 in another, after all. At one time I had one pair of pants labeled 0 and another labeled 9 and they fit me almost the same. The 0s were just too short and the 9s were a little too long.

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  4. This is british sizes, so tillie is smaller.

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