WTF were they thinking? – Hoyden About Town

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Racebending on Star Trek Into Darkness

By tigtog on 2013-05-15 • ( 19 )

Regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I’m a big fan of the Cumberbatch, and I thoroughly enjoyed his performance as the villain in the latest Star Trek movie so long as I could forget his character’s name:

SPOILERS!

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So who won’t be flying Virgin until they make seat-to-seat delivery opt-in?

By tigtog on 2013-04-27 • ( 10 )

Do you want your airline encouraging strangers to use their inflight “entertainment” system to send their fellow passengers unsolicited gifts of drinks or food (with all the accompanying expectations) in a metal cage high in the air from which there is no way out?

Eyeroll du jour: Dawkins Dawkins Dawkins

By tigtog on 2013-03-19 • ( 9 )

Don’t have time to delve deep on uber-atheist Richard Dawkins tweeting on the ethics of abortion with no reference at all to the person in whose womb the pregnancy would be happening, thought I’d let you at it.

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WTF is Chris Brown thinking?

By tigtog on 2012-09-12 • ( 7 )

Chris Brown Tattoos An Image that looks like a Battered Woman On His Neck – of course he’s denying that it’s Rihanna or even a battered woman at all.

That Reddit rapist thread

By tigtog on 2012-07-30 • ( 7 )

[Content note: rape culture, sexual violence] Liss put up a counter-thread at Shakesville for rape-survivors and allies to talk about their reactions in a safe-space.

Take-home message: beware micro-manipulations as part of a flirt routine – if warning bells are ringing, trust the jangling of our spidey-senses.

This week in Bizarre-Barf

By tigtog on 2012-04-13 • ( 3 )

Glenn Beck has a shiny new toy. He has had a 20 year old movie set of the Oval Office refurbished so that he can use it for a special weekly broadcast to the nation.