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"He slept that night in his own country and he had a dream wherein he saw God's pilgrims laboring upon a darkened verge in the last of the twilight of that day and they seemed to be returning from some deep enterprise that was not of war nor were they yet in flight but rather seemed coming from some labor to which perhaps these and all other things stood subjugate."
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy


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Bachmann is the first 2012 GOP presidential candidate to be on Fallon, although she’s certainly not the only one who’s been caught in her own deceptions. She’s also the lone woman remaining in the field, which makes me wonder if Rick Perry or Rick Santorum would have been greeted by this particular Fishbone track had they been first to Fallon’s couch. The answer, sadly, is “probably not.” Casual sexism in politics and entertainment and, you know, the rest of the world is of course nothing new, and it’s something that as a consumer of the Internet crushes me on a near-hourly basis—even though I’ve aesthetically internalized it enough to enjoy songs like, say, “Lyin’-Ass Bitch.” But it kills me when it’s used by smart people who I respect against someone like Bachmann, who has no shortage of completely legitimate reasons to inspire ire. Calling her a bitch is too easy—it glosses over the actual concrete problems with her as a candidate—and more importantly, the woman-specific use of “bitch” toward people who allegedly “deserve” it only serves to further crack open the door to it being used against any woman who’s trying to make her way in a male-dominated field.

Maura Johnston has some smart things to say about The Roots choice of walk-on music for Michelle Bachmann.  (via villagevoice)

Yeah, I am kind of over The Roots for this. It’s very junior high school, and it’s definitely knee-jerk sexism. Which fuck you very much. 

(via capitalnewyork)

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    Yeah, I am kind of over The Roots for this. It’s very junior high school, and it’s definitely knee-jerk sexism. Which...
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    Does it mean I am casually sexist if I heard this and thought it was because...the “lyin’...
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    okay im sorry. am i the only person in the world that no longer associates the word bitch with women only? honestly i...
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