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Cosmarxpolitan: Sex advice from Karl Marx

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:55:00 +0000

Rife with double entendres and political wordplay, here is your new favorite dishy Tumblr, Cosmarxpolitan, in which Karl Marx rations out sex advice for your average proletarian gal.

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“The Legend of Zelda” gets a feminist makeover

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:32:00 +0000

Brooklyn-based cartoonist Aaron Diaz is getting a lot of attention on Tumblr for his drawings of The Legend of Zelda’s damsel in distress taking on the hero’s role.

“For a long time I've been conscious of the fact that female protagonists are in short supply in the gaming industry, but beyond making entirely new properties, I didn't think much could be done to rectify it,” Diaz told the Daily Dot in an email.

After watching pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian’s new series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games however, Diaz was inspired to draw concept art for a possible video game called The Legend of Zelda: Clockwork Empire.

Mean Mad Men Tumblr shows that admen are all mean girls at heart

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:35:00 +0000

The Internet loves a good Tumblr mashup. Taylor Pearce has delivered us another one, pairing quotes from the Tina Fey movie "Mean Girls" with a show that has almost nothing similar, "Mad Men."

Pearce explains on the Burn Book of the Tumblr, Mean Mad Men:

After seeing Mean Girls, Girl World was forever changed: consoling someone when they were sick was replaced with “boo you whore,” fabulous was switched with “fetch,” and girls grabbed their boobs when there was a “30% chance it’s already raining.”

Then AMC decided to grace the earth with Mad Men and suddenly I found myself wondering WWJD- “What would Joan do?,” questioning if it’s ever too early to drink if you’re on Roger time, and daydreaming about whether I would have caught Don’s wandering eye.

In the end, if you’ve ever quoted Mean Girls, or cried during Mad Men*, you’re in the right place.

Credit for all images to Taylor Pearce's Tumblr, Mean Mad Men.

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New Tumblr: Actresses without teeth

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:22:00 +0000

There are some Tumblrs that are exactly what they sound like. Then, there are Tumblrs that are exactly what they sound like, but that doesn't mean you're prepared for what you are about to see.

"Actresses without teeth" is one such blog ... and it is terrifying. (Don't say we didn't warn you).

h/t Bobby Finger

Literature meets television in Slaughterhouse 90210

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:12:00 +0000

If you're a) a literature nerd and b) a pop culture junkie and haven't yet discovered Slaughterhouse 90210, go check it out right now. It's a Tumblr founded in 2008 by Maris Kreizman, editorial director of digital content at Barnes and Noble, that, as its name suggests, pairs poignant passages from literature with popular moments on TV -- and the result is hilarious.

Kreizman told Salon via email:

"Slaughterhouse 90210 is a celebration of books and TV and they ways they intersect, blending high and low culture to create something entirely new. I've been an avid reader all my life, and I love TV too--I don't think the two have to be mutually exclusive. I love discovering new writers and raving about their books, and if pairing their quotes with photos from Mad Men or Girls or Jersey Shore exposes these authors to new audiences, all the better."

Slideshow: Obama and Biden, laughing together

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 21:33:00 +0000

A new Tumblr, called Barack Obama Laughing With Joe Biden, is exactly what it sounds like: A place to find pictures of the president and vice president enjoying each other's company. Though there is infinite documentation of the phenomenon, we were inspired to pick a few of our favorites:

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Obama and Biden laughing

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:41:00 +0000

Pictures of the President and Vice President yukking it up

Anti-blogging hackers attack Tumblr

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:41:00 +0000

Deviant hackers operating under the purposefully provocative title GNAA (which stands for something we cannot publish) waged war today on Tumblr bloggers. The group claimed to have propagated a worm through 8,600 blog sites -- including those of the Observer's BetaBeat, USA Today and the Daily Dot -- replacing content with the following expletive filled message:

Dearest Tumblr users,

We have taken the liberty of upgrading your (rather tasteless, we must say) blog to our premier GNAA Deluxe Gary Niger... Signed Edition! This is in response to the seemingly pandemic growth and world-wide propagation of the most... WORTHLESS, CONTRIVED, BOURGEOISIE, SELF-CONGRATULATING AND DECADENT BULLSHIT THE INTERNET EVER HAD THE MISFORTUNE OF FACILITATING.

Kids hate-tweet Obama, echoing what they hear at home

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 21:06:00 +0000

The reelection of President Obama has hardly dimmed the enthusiasm of hardcore GOP racists. Even Mitt Romney, not too many hours after his hasty but graceful (for him) concession speech, is already out on the airwaves bitterly claiming it was the president’s promises of “gifts” to the unwashed 47 percent (read: minority) that got him reelected. Paul Ryan blames the unexpected high turnout of the “urban” vote (if you feel at all that the GOP uses the word "urban" to mean anything other than black, please refer to this video of Lee Atwater and the birth of the GOP’s “Southern strategy”). Karl Rove, who should have his own TV show called “The Biggest Loser,” has been petulantly invoking a high “urban” turnout, even bafflingly labeling a large and enthusiastic voter turnout as “voter suppression” — he must mean that lots of minority voters are considered suppressors of the white vote.

Dan Savage launches blog thanking straight gay-marriage supporters

Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:20:00 +0000

Sex columnist and gay rights advocate Dan Savage has launched a blog called Straight Up Thanks, honoring straight men, women and children who helped "win marriage equality in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state, and who helped us defeat an anti-gay marriage amendment in Minnesota." The blog invites members of the LGBT community to publicly thank their straight friends who "worked phone banks, knocked on doors, spoke out, gave money" by submitting pictures of them to the site.

Those who didn't support marriage equality can watch this instead.

New Orleans sends a love letter to New York

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 18:18:00 +0000

Sometimes, you just need to hear it from someone who's been through it. That's the poignant idea behind NOLA to New York, one of the most touching online responses to Hurricane Sandy.

Former New Orleans resident Andy Kopsa started the Tumblr while stuck waiting — in the Big Easy, as it happened — to get home to New York in the wake of Hurricane Sandy earlier this week. In an acknowledgment of both her immediate travel plans and the fate of the Big Apple, she tweeted Wednesday, "We have a long, long road ahead." And so Kopsa used her time to create the Tumblr, and put out the call to encourage "Katrina survivors [to] talk to New York."

The debate’s biggest loser: Memes

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:09:00 +0000

For the final, foreign-policy-themed sparring match between the two men who would be commander-in-chief, expectations were high. Fake Twitter accounts and Tumblrs and gifs were all at the ready. Why, then, did Monday's testy confrontation between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney ultimately prove something of a letdown? Where are those glorious debate memes of times gone by?

It seems like only three weeks ago we were idly watching the first presidential debate when a seemingly out-of-left-field remark from Mitt Romney turned into a collective WTF. And no sooner had the candidate uttered the words, "I'm sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I like PBS. I love Big Bird. I actually like you, too. But I'm not going to keep spending money on things, borrowing money from China to pay for it," than "Sesame Street's" beloved yellow Muppet became a bona fide Internet sensation. Soon after, the phrase "binders full of women" became a brilliant Tumblr — and entered the lexicon just in time to provide Halloween costume inspiration for everyone not yet locked down with Honey Boo Boo or Potato Jesus. And in between, there was every single gif-worthy, laughtastic moment of Joe Biden during the vice-presidential debate. Malarkey!

Oh, joy! “Binders full of women” goes viral

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:52:00 +0000

In a heated, divisive election year, if there's one thing Democrats, Republicans and the undecided can agree on, it's this: We're pretty much just watching the debates for the memes now.

You know it the easily exploitable moment it happens. It's when Mitt Romney trains his cool cyborg eye on Jim Lehrer and says, "I’m sorry, Jim, I’m going to stop the subsidy to PBS. I like PBS. I love Big Bird." It's when Uncle Joe from Scranton cannot keep a straight face around the guy with the backward baseball cap. It's when a candidate declares his commitment to moving women forward in the workplace by stating, "We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet. I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Could you help us find folks?' And they brought us whole binders full of women."

Binders full of women. Whaaaaaa?

Pinterest’s anorexia dilemma

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:25:00 +0000

It's a lesson that keeps getting learned on the Internet: You can't make bad things go away with a flick of the delete key. So when, last month, instant meme generator Tumblr and beloved cat lady destination Pinterest updated their terms of service to discourage pro-eating disorder sentiment, they did not, in fact, actually cure eating disorders.

The attempt to tamp down the shadowy pro-eating disorder community has been raging nearly as long as the community itself has existed. It's a well-intentioned effort. But every new opportunity for social media is also a new opportunity for like-minded spirits to converge in anonymity. You don't have to look far online to see the vibrantly sad and scary pro-ana (as in anorexia), pro-mia (as in bulimia) worlds alive and well and starving themselves to death.