I am… really fucking burned out. This is me: From Hyperbole and a Half. I’m, uh, on the SYSTEM FAILURE end. So I’m going to be gone for a while. A week, maybe two. I’ll still be on Twitter and Tumblr, if you need your Ozy fix. Entertain yourselves. Talk about ponies or webcomics or…
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Fox News: Be Abstinent Until Marriage, Mimbos.
Steven Crowder apparently waited until he got married to have sex, and would like to tell us all about it. In general, I am happy for Mr. Crowder. He waited until he got married to have sex and had a very enjoyable loss of his virginity. I’m glad! I think everyone should have the right…
Boy Scouts Covered Up Sexual Abuse of Children
Unknown numbers of boys have been victimized by a rape culture that’s simply taken for granted.
Link Roundup
I literally have so many tabs open that my Internet is going HURPSLORPBORKFUCKYOUOZY, so I am going to put all the links here now and then hopefully it will stop vomiting when loading pony fanart on Tumblr. Chris Brown, noted abusive fuckhead, gets a tattoo of Rihanna/a woman who got beaten up/some Day of the Dead…
Highest-Ranking Catholic Cleric Convicted in Child Sex Abuse Scandal
About freaking time. Father Robert W. Finn was convicted of failing to report child sexual abuse since he did not report a priest, Reverend Shawn Ratigan, who had hundreds of lewd pictures of young girls, many of them taken with a personal camera. As a bishop, he is the highest-ranked US cleric ever convicted of…
Even “Comprehensive” Sex Ed Is Kind Of Faily
A recent NYCLU report on sex education in New York’s schools has shown that even the so-called comprehensive sex education which students get in schools is far from anything remotely resembling what I would consider actual sex education. For instance, a fifth of schools did not mention in their sex education classes that sex was pleasurable.…
This Week Is Homophobia Week or Something
Apparently I am not allowed to swear in the titles of articles anymore! However, I assume no one will have any objections to me calling the infestation of homophobes that has shown up this week assheaded cockmongering fuckwitted douchefaces, because that is in fact what they are, and also no one has said I can’t…
Why Do Women Live Longer Than Men?
Conventionally, it is assumed that the reason for the remarkably persistent gap between men’s and women’s lifespans is cultural. Men are less likely to seek physical or mental health care when they’re in pain or injured or ill, less likely to get routine preventative care, less likely to eat nutritionally and exercise regularly and floss…
New Means Available To Prevent HIV
The rate of HIV among young gay men, particularly in urban areas, continues to rise. (It’s also important to remember the ways that AIDS disproportionately affects some marginalized groups, such as young black men.) However, some new developments in HIV prevention have offered some new options for people. Most exciting for me is the development of…
Both Men and Women Value Work, Family
From the Department of Fuck You, We’re Totally Winning: Men and women are increasingly equally likely to value both work and family. According to a Pew research study, two-thirds of women say that career success is one of the most important things or very important in their lives, while 59% of men say that career…
Love And Relationship Expert Knows Nothing About Relationships, Love
Apparently Amy Poehler and Will Arnette have broken up. My reaction is “…they were married?” which I think is the reaction of most people, with a few diehard fans of both having a few tears. (No judgement. If Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer broke up I would probably stop believing in love.) However, some Patti…
Progressiveness In Rap Music
Unfortunately, I have a case of terminal whiteness (Things Ozy Has Literally Said: “That 99 Problems is a nice song!”), so I haven’t talked much about rap music here, what with the not knowing anything about it or anything. However, recently, a couple of interesting anti-kyriarchy and rap music things have shown up on my…
Links!
A method of reconstructing penises that have been lost in accidents (so far only tested on rabbits). Science is Cool. An interesting article about the distress privileged people feel when their privilege is lost. TW for abuse. Sir Roger Moore comes out as a survivor of domestic violence, thus becoming one of the most prominent male celebrities…
Black Men Who Have Sex With Men At Disproportionate HIV Risk
(This article has been ripped off from sourced from this report.) By the time a black gay man is 25, he has a one in four chance of having HIV. By the time he’s forty, he has a 60% chance of being infected with HIV. Black men who have sex with men are the only population…
The Problem With “Listen To The Marginalized”
I have read a lot of “okay, so I’m convinced about the existence of [sexism/racism/classism/ableism/queerphobia/whatever], what do I do now?” articles. Inevitably, they will contain a section about how you need to listen to members of Marginalized Group X. If you want to be less racist, then listen to black people when they tell you…
College Football Player Kicked Off Team After Outing Himself
Jamie Kuntz, a former football player at North Dakota State College of Science, was kicked off his football team after kissing his boyfriend at an away game that he was filming. The coach insists that he was kicked off the football team for lying when his coach asked him whether he’d kissed the man in…