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Intern Jasmine’s Links Of The Daysian
Northwestern University student Lawrence Dai either loves French food or painfully bad movies–he’s watching Julie & Julia every day for a year, and (Surprise!) blogging about it. [The Lawrence/Julie & Julia Project]
According to his OKCupid profile, Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has “Asian teengirl stalkers.” Can we just say: definitely, definitely NOT IT. [Gawker]
In related news, someone on Quora wants to know: “Why do some Asian girls like white guys?” [8 Asians]
Chinese architect Dai Fei created this very “Mork” egg home intended to be an inexpensive alternative to Beijing’s high cost of housing. Nanu nanu! [China Daily]
One step forward… Doctors Nat and Kat are the first all-woman team to win The Amazing Race. [AP]
Two steps back… Hooters opens their first restaurant in Tokyo. [Slate]
Euna Lee recently spoke to the Academy of Art about her captivity in North Korea with fellow journalist Laura Ling. Lee’s new book about her experience, The World is Bigger Now: An American Journalist’s Release from Captivity in North Korea, is out now. [AcademyArt.edu] Thanks, Henson!
Filed under: Asian teengirl stalkers, Beijing, Dai Fei, Euna Lee, Girl Power, housing alternatives, Julian Assange, Julie & Julia, Laura Ling, Lawrence Dai, OkCupid, Quora, The Amazing Race, The Lawrence/Julie & Julia Project, The World is Bigger Now: An American Journalist's release from Captivity in North Korea, Why do some Asian girls like white guys?, Wikileaks
Shame Ol’, Shame Ol’
Sometime shame is a shitpile: Like when you become suicidal after getting rejected from your top-choice school. Or when you stop seeing friends entirely because your suffering screenwriter budget won’t allow you to fine dine. Or when your cheerleading coach logs into your Facebook account and airs your dirty laundry with the students and staff, exposing you to years of ridicule. Or when your baby papa leaves you when you’re seven months pregnant for a younger, longer-necked actress. Or when your mother disowns you because you’ve dishonored the family by moving in with a boyfriend/marrying outside of your race/having a baby out of wedlock.
But man, sometimes shame is absolutely good and necessary. It’s the stuff that, properly applied, keeps people from gallivanting with party gals in the south of France while their eight toddlers sit at home. Or from jerking their man’s junk on a hotel balcony for the delight of the paparazzi. Or self-destructing entirely at clubs, parties and Robertson Boulevard as if doing performance art for the blogosphere.
Everyone once in awhile, though, shame is simply complicated.
Recently, a married man in Wisconson with a handful of girlfriends found himself at the center of an ugly coup, hosted by all of his disgruntled lovers.
From HuffPo:
WAUSAU, Wis. — A married man who planned to rendezvous with one of his handful of lovers at an eastern Wisconsin motel instead found himself bound, blindfolded and assaulted by a group of women out for revenge, according to court documents.Four women, including his wife, eventually showed up to humiliate the man, who ended up with his penis glued to his stomach in a bizarre plot to punish him for a lover’s quadrangle gone bad, according to the documents filed in Calumet County.
The women involved now face time in the clink for their shameful acts. But let’s talk about everyone involved, and who’s to shame here, for a second:
There’s the dude, who carelessly juggled the women in his life (including the one he exchanged holy vows with) as if they were oranges and not people, which is bullshit. And he ended up catching a beatdown for it, with his wiener glued his gut. Should be ashamed? Definitely. Was the attack on him unacceptable? Yes. But isn’t it kinda hilarious? Sorry, but kinda. I mean hell, it’s not like they cut the fucking thing off…
Then there’s the wife, the true cuckold of the story. No, it wasn’t a good idea for her to get involved in this sick scenario, but her husband was piling at least three other chicks, for crying out loud. It’s humiliating and scarring. She’s not excused, but she certainly had a leg to stand on. Also, I’ve got to give her mad props for getting in cahoots with the ladies to challenge the true adulterer, instead of lashing out at them (they, after all, never put a ring on her finger).
Lastly are the girlfriends, who found themselves subjugated to not only being “the other woman,” but “one of the other women.” What a demotion! The interesting thing about these ladies is the variety of their shame, which I feel might only really be present because they all got caught.
One certainly has her tail between her legs, if only to soften the blow of her reprimand:
“I am disturbed. I am upset. I am having a hard time handling life; an emotional wreck,” Wendy Sewell, 43, of Kaukauna, said in a telephone interview from her home. “I am ashamed.”
But sometimes photos tell a different story. Sewell’s counterpart, “an-other woman” Michelle Belliveau, seems to say it all in her mug shot:
“Yeah, I Krazy Glued his dick. And I’d do it again to the little fucker!!!”
Filed under: Cuckolds, Dicks, Disownment, Extramarital Affairs, Girl Power, Glued Penis, Mistresses, Mug Shots, No Remorse, People Who Have No Shame, Revenge, Shame For Everyone, Shame That's Funny
Asian Girl Power
Two studies published in the last year suggest that Asian-Americans–of Chinese, Indian, and Korean descent–prefer having boy children, and there may be a growing trend among us to get male progeny through sex-selection procedures (in vitro and sperm sorting) and even abortion.
We don’t know how sound these findings are, but we’ve seen this cultural bias in play, in our own families and in others’. To which we say:
1) Dude. LAME.
2) Get over it, people. New country, new culture, new rules (i.e. you make the rules, dumbass).
3) Sorry to get totally cliche, but girls fuckin’ RAWK. I mean, helloooooooo?
(No Asian Girls = No DISGRASIAN = Sadness and Despair.)
[NY Times: U.S. Births Hint at Bias for Boys in Some Asians]
Thanks, Jasmine!
Filed under: Abortion, Cultural Biases, Girl Power, Grrrl Power, Male Heirs, Preference for Boy Children over Girl Children, Riot Grrrl, Sex-Selection, Sperm Sorting
