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Not that I was incredibly active this semester, but Snarky Pussy will be taking a summer break. Please continue snarking and submitting, I will be back in the fall. <3 y’all, enjoy the summer sun!
WRITE-IN MARIO FOR HOTTEST TULANE BACHELOR 2012
For those of you that have been locked in the library without Facebook I will fill you in on the latest snark worthy events. Someone, somewhere has created a “tournament” based competition to discover Tulane’s most desirable bachelorette, bachelor, and freshman girl. The nominees’ pictures are taken from Facebook and you can go through and vote as one girl/guy is paired up against another. The tournament for the most desirable bachelorette began with 64 women in Round 1 and will be whittled down to two women before we discover who the HOTTEST BACHELORETTE AT TULANE IS.
I will not lie to you friends, I was incredibly offended to find out I wasn’t nominated for Hottest Bachelor. I have put many hours into my creation of Mario and I feel I perform him beautifully. I mean…am I not manly enough for you? Do I not wear my hair the right way? Should I be more muscular? WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME? Fo realz, what on earth do I have to do to myself to be nominated??
So please I beg of you, write me in for Hottest Bachelor. I know it will come down to me and that hot Emily’s Entourage guy. Now that would be a wrestling match I would love to partake in. xoxo, Mario
CROSBY IS SO FUCKING AMAZING. REBLOG DIS!
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.Audre Lorde (via loveyourchaos)
(via djkjfjglgk)
This is a video of pledges of a Tulane fraternity campaigning for “Men’s Rights” on campus. It is one of the most well respected Frats (by the administration) on campus, and the campaign (as seen in the video) is clearly a joke. But I think it brings up a fascinating question: Why is joking about Men’s Rights okay and funny? If someone was fighting for “White People’s Rights” or “Hetero Rights,” I guarantee my friends in the fraternity would not be looking at me in the same irritated manner saying “It’s just a joke Marianna, quit overreacting.” What does this say about the publics’ (specifically college students) perception of Women’s Rights, feminism, and gender issues? Greek Life is one of the most heteronormative, homosocial institutions that exists and I think that this event raises fundamental questions about not only frat life, but other institutions that deligitimize gender issues and pose them as a ‘non-issue,’ while still reaping the benefits of the binary. Tulane’s campus is ripe with rape and sexual assault against women, the majority of which (although I do not possess numbers, only first hand tales) happens and is perpetuated within the Greek system. This is just something to ponder, I pass no judgment on these pledges nor my friends in the fraternity merely the system that legitimizes hazing and makes gender issues laughable.
Some favorite quotes from the vid:
“Men—you have the right to win an argument”
“Down with chivalry”
“The supremacy of women on this campus”
Who are you?
For most
I’m the crazy girl
They once met
At a bar.
The girl who
Entertained them
Or they laughed at
From afar.
The girl who wrote
A queer story
In creative writing
Once.
But for the lucky few
Who asked my name
And took the time
To realize
My crazy is my beauty
And my beauty is magical
Are happy they once asked
Who are you?
I am not a woman. And it’s okay.
I just went on the most amazing retreat of my life with the POSSE foundation and Scholars this weekend to Alabama. The theme? Gender and Sexuality Studies. For the first time maybe ever I expressed myself in front of a group and was completely honest with myself and my emotions. It felt amazing. And the best part? Other people appreciated and applauded me for being brave… for CRYING. CRYING! On my gap year I spent the entire time in a tornado of self-loathing for being so emotional. I was in a relationship with a boy who valued rationality and rational thinking over emotions and constantly made me feel weak and crazy for having so many feelings and so many tears. His condescending attitude made me hate myself, my emotions, and consequently, my womanhood.
My feelings make me humyn. They do not make me a woman. Nothing makes me a woman except my choice to perform “woman.” I’ve been struggling to realize that for a long time now. I know what you’re thinking—wow, she’s a dude trapped in a body with a vagina. And that’s the problem. Why do we insist on seeing the world in black and white? Male and female? Masculine and feminine? Hetero and homo? Fuck these binaries, I’m queering it up. If you won’t allow me to be a woman unless I perform my gender in perfect femininity, I will perform what I choose to perform and desire who I choose to desire. I’ve struggled for too long to “fit” in my own “womanly” way that isn’t sorority-y as fuck. But honestly, I’m tired of it. I’m creating a new category, and no one can be in it but me. Fuck your norms, fuck your rules, fuck the laws that suffocate me, and thank you thank you THANK YOU to the people this weekend that applauded when I talked and cried when I cried and opened their minds to incorporate my sense of self into their realm of understanding.
My first sonnet…
For my creative writing class I had to write a Sonnet…what did I choose as my topic? The Jersey Shore. #winning
First Night at the Shore
Greased to perfection, hair standing on end,
Boobs out, heels on, night about to begin.
A little more blush, oh who will attend?
“Cabs are here” Pauly D shouts, with a grin.
Entering the club, the crowds overwhelm,
Throwing back shots, I can barely see,
I feel I am in a different realm,
Not drunk and I already have to pee.
Back from the bathroom I look for my friends,
On a table nearby I spot Snooki,
Vag out and heels up, surrounded by men,
All of them willing to eat her cookie.
New weave falling out, I look for the door
And thus concludes my first night at the Shore.
AMAZING video on racism.
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