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    Marriage Equality Avatar Efficacy

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    Mail Bag Wednesday – “Cheerleader”

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    What Every Man Should Know

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    Mail Bag Sick Day + Bonus Puppy Footage

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    The “Gray Area” of Rape Culture

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    The R-Word

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    Misogyny’s Impact On Health

Brad OFarrell

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  1. Creamsicle: The Best Meme

    I love memes. A lot. But I think Creamsicle became my all time favorite meme in about 12 hours. Let me explain. It all started with this image:

    The image was posted by tumblr user beekkake as a parody of special snowflake syndrome. Beekkake is a Homestuck fan, and Homestuck fans, god bless them, have a subtle troll-based sense of humor. Most people reblogging the image didn’t realize it was a parody and were outraged by the implied slut-shaming. Then, in the midsts of heated feminist arguments, someone suggested that those two girls should just kiss and make up. Then something AMAZING happened.

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  2. Demons Are Real, And They Vote

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    I’m an openly gay man who is almost indistinguishable from a straight man. It’s not a conscious effort, and it’s actually kind of a hinderance; my lack of a ‘gay voice’ makes meeting guys in public next to impossible unless I make the first move. Another side effect of this is that I often forget that most people I interact with don’t know I’m gay, so whenever I experience homophobia it’s disorienting.

    Yesterday my friend Mike biked over to my apartment in Queens to help out with this freelance Photoshop project. When he buzzed my door, he didn’t come in immediately, so I went out to the lobby to see what was holding him up. He was talking to this young guy who was apparently having trouble getting in touch with someone in the building. In situations like this I like to pretend I’m a deaf-mute, but Mike let this guy borrow his phone.

    It was clear as we were talking to this guy that he was slightly unhinged. He called his friend 10 times in a row and kept asking to try one more time. Mike has a slight ‘gay voice’ and once this guy picked up on it things got surreal. He started asking Mike if he was a demon. He asked Mike over and over if he was a demon. And then he started asking “Am I going to go to hell forever? Please! Just tell me! Am I going to go to hell forever!”

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  3. Opinion: Nerd Minstrelsy Must Be Stopped

    Via http://ourvaluedcustomers.blogspot.com/

    “Nerd Minsterlsy” is a pretty succinct description of a recent trend in pop-culture that describes media that masquerades as ‘nerd culture’, but from an outsider’s perspective. While this type of media is wildly popular to non-nerds, and quirky people misidentifying as nerds, it’s usually dismissed by actual nerds as pandering garbage. It’s so upsetting and so embarrassing that I generally try to avoid it, but today it crept back into my life. This morning while updating my 3DS firmware I received a notification from Nintendo:

    “Nintendo Video adds to the stretch of 3D music videos with a hilarious video from chip tunes experts I Fight Dragons! If you love video games, you’ll love following the band’s adventure through space as they battle alien monsters to “Save World Get Girl.”"

    Oh boy! I love video games! Chiptunes experts? Sign me up! So I launched 3DS Video and watched I Fight Dragon’s hilarious adventure through space, and my thought process was this: “Oh huh! These chiptunes sound more like basic drum loops! Maybe they’ll pick up later? Oh there’s singing, huh! Great, I’ve always wanted to see a chiptune band incorporates- oh no- oh- oh no what is this.” Read More »

  4. Life Cheat Sheet For a Newborn

    Hi Max! You were born about a week ago and I accompanied you on your first walk yesterday. It’s pretty great being a baby! You’re not even an ugly baby so that’s awesome! Good job! You should probably just focus on eating and pooping for the next decade or so, but when you decide to jump on the sapience bandwagon I’ve got some advice for you — because my miserable life is full of regrets, and that’s what advice is! When you take advice from people older than you it’s like you get to have the wisdom of regrets without actually having to make the accompanying mistakes. So listen up!

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  5. Stigma-Bending: Avatar Is Not Just For Kids

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    Avatar: The Last Airbender is an American-made anime-inspired cartoon that originally aired on Nickelodeon from 2005 to 2008 to both critical and commercial success. It’s about a group of preteens who traverse a fantasy world based on Asian mythologies in an attempt to master “element bending”, which is the practice of using martial arts to telekinetically manipulate the four classical elements. People have been telling me to watch it for years and I declined for reasons I still don’t quite understand. I’m an open-minded nerd and I can enjoy children’s entertainment, I guess, but for some reason I felt like Avatar was too kid-oriented for me. Maybe it’s because I just read Harry Potter and was less than blown away. Or maybe it’s because I quietly gave up on peer-hyped kids shows like The Misadventures of Flapjack and the first season of Adventure Time. (Though I did end up coming back to the latter in season 2, what a great show that turned out to be!)

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  6. Carrying Pokemon Into Adulthood

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    I recently signed the lease on my first non-roommate apartment, and in an attempt to get truly settled in, I began unpacking a lot of boxes that I’d been lugging along with me for years. This included a box full of about 600 Pokemon cards that I collected in middle school, and a bunch of various plush dolls of Nintendo characters. One of the perks of this apartment is that it’s a few blocks away from my best friend’s apartment, and he’s having a baby any day now. Well, his girlfriend is having the baby. (An intentional baby!) So I donated all of my Nintendo dolls to their kid’s toy chest, which was a little more of a “Toy Story 3 moment” than I’d like to admit.

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  7. Lhasa Apso: The Manliest Dog

    It’s national puppy day, so we’re gonna tell you all about the coolest fucking dog in the world: The Lhasa Apso! What’s the matter? Too insecure with your manhood to handle it’s glorious Fabio mane? It’s time for you to get over your issues and learn about how this particular puppy is objectively awesome.

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  8. Barber Shop Conversations are the Worst

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    There is no place in the entire world where “guy talk” becomes more mandatory than when getting your haircut. When work conversations turn heteronormative, misogynistic, or bro-ish, you can pretty easily duck away from the water cooler. But when you’re getting your hair cut, you’re physically unable to move. And you have to do it at least once a month for the rest of your life. Sure, it’s not a period, but what an awful thing to have in your life.

    My biggest problem with barber shops is that they always want to talk about girls. I’m extremely out; the CEO of my company follows me on Tumblr and I’ll reblog naked dudes without even thinking about it. But I can’t come out to my barber, ever, because your relationship with your barber never gets deep enough for that to not be TMI.

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  9. Male Body Issues: of Scrubs and Waterfalls

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    The body image issues that women face is a well-trodden subject. One that I am neither qualified nor interested in talking about.

    But the body image issues that men deal with is something I think about a lot but rarely hear discussed. Male body image issues is a complicated subject and I think the best way to explain it would be to describe my personal experiences.

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  10. Don’t Be That Guy: Gaming Etiquette

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    Video games are more culturally relevant today than they’ve ever been before. I know a lot of people who became friends because they played the same multiplayer game, like Halo or Smash Bros or Pokemon, but then their friendships evolved beyond that. I know a lot of people who had the wonderful shared experience of clearing all 9 worlds of New Super Mario Brothers with their girlfriend or boyfriend. In fact, my mother met my half-brother’s father through a co-operative online multiplayer card game.

    Multiplayer gaming is definitely a legitimate cultural construct, and as such, it can be easily spoiled by some awkward faux pas. Let’s look at some behaviors that should be avoided.

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