Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(JDHancock/flickr) If Ariel had normal-sized eyes, we might be less endeared to her—forced to focus more immediately on her disconcerting scaly tail. If Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg were a Disney Princess, as one artist recently rendered her, she’d have no wrinkles, a smirk on her face, and some décolletage. Buzzfeed And…
11 Disney Princesses Whose Eyes Are Literally Bigger Than Their Stomachs Hungry, gals? You must be, because these animated Disney kweens’ eyes are literally bigger than their stomachs. I can’t wait to buy my daughter a waist trainer for her Jasmine Halloween costume!! Tiana Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) Rapunzel Pocahontas Meg…
Alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof wrote that he was never the same after discovering a website with “pages upon pages of these brutal black on white murders.” The pages that left Roof in disbelief were the product of a white-nationalist group subsidized by American taxpayers. The Council of Conservative Citizens Inc. is listed by the Internal Revenue…
The omnipresent practice of denying girls action figures has somehow hit a new low. Remember how in the Jurassic World movie, most of the dinosaurs—especially Chris Pratt’s Raptor squad—were constantly referred to as girls? Well, as Jurassic World action figures, they’ve all been genderswapped into boys. Yes, the packaging for every single Raptor action figure—as…
The day before my friend Tayler Smith and I found out our photo series was appropriated into the New Yorker, I woke up to a text message from another friend. We’re psychic sisters; she has a nightmare one night, I have one the morning after. Her message was a two-liner: “I see your imprint everywhere….
Remember Ello? Ello first grabbed the attention of the tech world last fall by billing itself as the “anti-Facebook” social network, railing against the Facebook’s targeted advertising and offering up a bare-bones ad-free alternative. But as with most aspiring Facebook challengers, its spotlight dimmed as quickly as it began. Now, in a bid to reclaim…
Remember ello? It’s the social network that advertised itself as the indie alternative to Facebook, but was then unmasked as VC funded by XOXO founder Andy Baio. Now they’re back, with more VC money, and their new ad campaign is just as cluelessly disingenuous as their last one. It’s not really clear what ello is…
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On Thursday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” hosts Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade demonstrated a fairly impressive feat for a five-minute segment, denying that racism is a widespread problem in the U.S. then swiftly arguing that it isn’t their fault they didn’t know Dylann Storm Roof, the Charleston shooter, was a white supremacist. Hasselbeck…
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly is fed up with people discussing racism in the wake of the Charleston church shooting.On Wednesday night’s broadcast of The O’Reilly Factor, he denied that there was “an epidemic of racism” in the U.S. and suggested that liberal “race baiters” were making it up.The self-proclaimed white supremacist who admitted to killing nine African-Americans in…