What if men were photographed the way women typically are?
Man with eye patch on Broadway.
The bouncer at Blind Barber apparently spends his weekends…outside a barber shop.
GPOYSaturday
In related news, I decorated my apartment (/my girlfriend decorated my apartment and I picked out a pillow with a kitten on it).
Today I went somewhere new with a new new and on the way home I was texting with Sasha, who’s proving to be a really great friend, and wise beyond her years. She told me something that really flipped a little switch in my head, and I feel like it’s something I needed to hear, right when I needed to hear it. I wanna write it down here so I never forget.
“I fucking hate cliches, but one of the best things anyone’s ever said to me, at one of my shittiest times in my life, was ‘Your best thinking got you here.’ Forcing yourself into unfamiliar situations is so hard, and it sucks, but unless you’re totally content with your current situation that has resulted from your current way of doing things, it’s time to switch things up.”
Damn. But. Damn.
In case you guys didn’t know, I’m insightful as shit.
VICE WRITERS
Music Reviews
Rating: X(((((((
Ladies, imagine being a Vice writer. Just walking around everywhere with your entitlement and ennui and midlength penis all gently bouncing in step; wearing a male tank top or a waxed mustache or some shit. Imagine having an ironic, retro-sexist dudebro-voice and getting together with a couple of other white guys and some cocaine and making your not-at-all-different voices all sync up as tautly as your nihilistic senses of humor, then snuggling all up together (no homo!) in a big Bushwick loft of partially employed trust-fund kids while something noninformative is happening on the Internet. What a life. I guess there’s the whole “everyone in the world thinks I’m an asshole” thing to deal with, too, but let’s not split hairs here: Vice writers got it pretty fucking made.Hey Judy Berman,
I work for VICE and I admit that this is fucked up. I see what point you’re trying to make and I agree with it, but take the “s” off of “writers” and realize that these are the words of one person.
Hey Sasha Hecht,
I am glad you, as a VICE employee, see that this is fucked up. It would be great to hear that you, as an editor there, are helping to make sure reviews like this don’t get published again. But I do wonder if you entirely understand where I’m coming from. The author of the Grass Widow thing basically reviewed “being a woman” as though that were one experience characterized by snuggle parties (happy face) and the “rape thing” (minor sad face), so I decided to use his format to treat VICE writers that unfairly. And I agree that it is unfair! The point is to illustrate how unfair it is, not to denounce all VICE writers ever.
Hey Judy,
I should mention that I’m not an editor for the mag, but for the music site, Noisey, and that what gets published in “VICE proper” is out of my domain. I absolutely understand where you’re coming from, especially on the topic of female musicians being valued solely for being “female musicians,” and also making light of rape culture. In fact, if you have the time, I would like to hear your thoughts on a piece that I actually DID have a hand in editing/publishing, I Am Not A “Rock Chick.”
VICE WRITERS
Music Reviews
Rating: X(((((((
Ladies, imagine being a Vice writer. Just walking around everywhere with your entitlement and ennui and midlength penis all gently bouncing in step; wearing a male tank top or a waxed mustache or some shit. Imagine having an ironic, retro-sexist dudebro-voice and getting together with a couple of other white guys and some cocaine and making your not-at-all-different voices all sync up as tautly as your nihilistic senses of humor, then snuggling all up together (no homo!) in a big Bushwick loft of partially employed trust-fund kids while something noninformative is happening on the Internet. What a life. I guess there’s the whole “everyone in the world thinks I’m an asshole” thing to deal with, too, but let’s not split hairs here: Vice writers got it pretty fucking made.
Hey Judy Berman,
I work for VICE and I admit that this is fucked up. I see what point you’re trying to make and I agree with it, but take the “s” off of “writers” and realize that these are the words of one person.
This is the only other person on twitter named Sasha Hecht.
It’s like looking in a mirror…
This is so stupid, I can’t stop watching it.
Have you ever read the comments on delishows.com?
