Cuz Date Rape is Such a Yuck Yuck
I’ve never been so happy to be out of the loop of pop culture and into other things. I’m relieved I’ve never felt the need to hypothecate my humanity by entertaining myself with idiotic garbage, or finding the stuff rolled out by Gawker Media the least bit interesting, or entertaining.
I passed by this this via Majikthise earlier and followed the links. I’m compelled to post this.
Obligated might be a better word choice.
First we have a former Gawker Media minion barring her soul in the New York Times Mag, ( they bought it of course which is all the more telling), and now we have Alex Balk former Gawker editor and current Radar Online Executive Editor, posting an email, on his tumblr, from Richard Blakeley – Gawker Editor ( appropriately called “a tiny cocked piece of shit” by Attackerman ) entreating a couple of lines, for a future post, on how to best date rape someone.
Now I have no idea really if the email was authentic, or if Balk made it up, but either way the individual who wrote it, or posted it as a joke, is rather ill minded and yea probably cursed with a flaccid short one.
The link on the tumblr looks like it leads to a story at boinkology, another little haunted house of misogyny, yet there is no story there, so maybe even the vile have their limits.
Not to violate copyright laws I will paraphrase what I read in this supposed email from Richard Blakeley to Alex Balk.
( These are adult men )
Hey dude I’m penning an article for bionkology on where to go on a first date rape
There’ll be bunch of answers, some mine some belonging to others. Give me a few sentences of where you’d take a girl on a first date rape ( he goes on to give an example) yuck yuck….
That this kind of thing is demotic is a sad fact of where we are on this, my 23rd birthday.
And yes I’m going to post this again, because it rocks.
I want a piano, if anyone is taking my list. ;)
Peace.
Happy birthday, O! Did the piano I sent get there?
Still waiting.
The tracking number is rack3t.
Happy Birthday Cooper…ah 23…I remember those years…….****flashback blurry haze*** I was a young lad***
anywayz… Yes, I wish you all the best with what my mental telepathy wishes can provide…
The email rape thing, looks like a lot of hype to do nothing but get us to click away at pointless controversy/hype…
Now….I never understood men’s need for rape. Masturbating is so much quicker & less problems..So I won’t argue rape. It’s cruel & needless. I’ve never contributed to sexual violence unless asked upon…& even then I was scared to bite the nipples too hard for fear of biting them off…
Now…Child pornography that’s a hot topic….
It’s a big deal..Several countries banning together to outlaw child pornography & unlawful to possess it.
I’ve been surfing the net seen 1999 I I have NEVER once come across child pornography. I have seen images of women in the early 20’s to late teens pretending to be minors by being very skinny or dressing in daisy dukes….but other than that I’ve never once seen a shred of this so called cp run rapid on our web.Feel free to test this - Google anything child or porn related & you’ll find nothing…How can they outlaw an urban legend, something that doesn’t exist…Don’t know..
My next question is 200 million men are at home masturbating to “fake” child pornography, & less than 1 percent actually goes out & molests a child…how is it that the so called child pornography is bad? I’d have to think guys staying at home in their own privacy, not harming others is far better than the ones who actually go out & harming children…..agree, or no?
dude!
tmi.
waaaaay, tmi.
Except the link leads to nowhere.
Child pornography is bad, and there is no indication that i percent is the number - likely from what we hears coming out of the woodwork years later , it is significantly higher than that.
Something is wrong in the head of someone who jerks off to children. Geesh
“Something is wrong in the head of someone who jerks off to children. Geesh”
Certainly, although most are likely Judges, lawmakers, people holding political office & outstanding citizens such as yourself that try to be the merits of all that is right in the world , but seldom offer any realistic apporch to anything, but to respond with…”be like me”…..If only everyone could be like you we’d all be part of a perfect world..with complete order.
Unfortunately that’s not reality, nor possible.
But keep thinking all order can be contained, give yourself purpose, the illusion of depth, & ego…..what’s always worked seems to have worked so far…..
Hey Coop,
Happy birthday! Mine was yesterday - how cosmic is THAT?
Peace and blessings, almost - twin.
Hope you get much more than a piano . . .
Same to you dear Harriett.
Geminis rock.
Happy 23rd!!! (I’ll have to give you one of the pianos off my back, the ones I lug around the basepaths of your average weekend softball game…whenever I play again. On 60-day DL.)
My meager gift: your biorhythms and horoscopes for today.
You’re at your physical peak +100, Emotionally trending upward (above zero) but trending negative on your intellectual cycle. In 5-6 days you’ll reach critical points on the intellectual and emotional cycles but on opposite spectrums.
Go for a jog, keep up that Norman Vincent Peale attitude, and don’t think too hard for a while…it will hurt.
Passion is also running high right now. So if your in the mood…that works.
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Given your birth, and mine, for a goof, we are considered emotionally 76% in sync, intellectually 94% but only 25% physically. Basically means nothing, but it’s a fun numbers sorta of crap I can mindlessly share on a Saturday.
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Your birthday horoscope (LA Times): You’re love-crazed in August. There’s a game worth playing in October. Cancer and Capricorn delight you. Your lucky numbers are 6, 39, 22, 15 and 30.
Geminis(Mercury News): Words, words, words; the more the better. Ideas, concepts, sales strategies, or anything else that gets their mind going, keeps them happy and out of mischief.
The way to a Gemini’s heart is via the mind. Intelligence and an ability to converse turn them on. Geminis are not particularly emotional, and too much soppiness can be a real turn-off.
A love of change and dislike of domesticity is the driving force behind the Gemini hyperactive lifestyle. There. always a gaggle of Geminis at trendy spots, where they can be in the hustle and bustle of people and discussions. At times they get so engrossed in conversation that they either forget to eat or simply do not notice that their food has become cold. They prefer light meals and snacking to formal dining and large quantities. Physical exercise is a good balance for their overactive minds and helps to release excess nervous energy. Hang-gliding, boardsailing and cycling are suitable forms of exercise or leisure activities.
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Speaking of astrological numbers and Saturdays, HOW about THEM Cubbies? Best record in MLB. Pennant? Did you say pennant? I thought you could.
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Politics: yes, it is overblown. (I was satirizing the campaigns and the goofs. Too many F-bombs…But seemed appropriate.)
Have an adventurous and hopefully, a surprising day.
Gotta love those horoscopes.
Them Cubs?? You know I haven’t a clue.
I must get ready to head to a trendy spot now. ;)
I’m sorry the world disappoints you. It disappoints me too.
Happy Birthday, wish you were here, at the beach, living the good life, sleeping till noon, working all night……
The piano? Maybe next year when I have a little more money.
Unless I find one sitting on the side of the road.
If anyone is going of find a decent piano on the side of the road it is you - my trash scouting friend.
I think I’ll skip the first part of your post, too disgusting. YUK.
Happy birthday x millions!!!! Mr Lifecruiser is playing and playing his digital piano over here - don’t you here it….???!!! *giggles*
You can go here to get something yummy:
Gourmet photos of Lifecruiser
Or here to get a wrapped gift:
Lifecruiser gift wrap creations
*Opening the champagne bottle*
*bang*
*spraying the whole place*
CHEERS!
ENJOY the rest of your life :-)
((Birthday hugs))
ha, ha, Thanks cruiser.
Happy birthday! Twenty-three… I met Honey when I was twenty-four. What did I do when I was twenty-three…? Mostly drugs, probably. Who knows?
Sounds like th good life. I think I wish I were doing drugs sometimes.
Happy birthday,
Happy birthday,
I luv you
Happy birthday,
Happy birthday,
May your dreams come true
When you blow out the candles
One will stay aglow
It’s the love light in your heart
Where ‘er you go. :)
Thank you that was lovely. You get the most creative comment award.
What a great idea - most creative yet on topic comment of the week.
Happy 23rd! Things will probably get worse (socially) before they get better, but as long as you keep injecting some sanity into the Internet the ripples will gradually build to a big wave for change.
Thanks Francis.
We will keep on will we not?
Hype or no hype the email is not funny, and it makes you wonder about the state of mind of men in this country. I feel for the women I really do, and I’m a man.
I hope you have a great birthday, a piano would be the great gift.
We can all dream.
If not for dreams, what?
Thanks Jacob.
Happy birthday!!!! I can send you a piano man :) Or Doug
I’ll have to take Doug, as we’ve discussed Billy Joel has taken too many drugs.
Happy Birthday.
The Gawker stuff is not surprising, whether hype or someone really thinking it would be hip. It’s indicative of the overall attitude of the simple ignoramus.
The piano would not fit in my car, the gas to deliver it was just too costly. ;)
It’s always ab out the gas.
If I didn’t already believe Gawker sucked, you’ve now convinced me. How can anyone believe date rape should be approached in such an empty-headed fashion?
If the email is real, then Blakely is a blessed idiot. If not, then Balk is an idiot for fabricating it and Blakely for not denouncing it in its entirety. It’s an effort not even worthy of the duncity of gw.
As for the piano, I briefly stopped by a home auction today (this part of pennsyltucky is full of such things this time of year) to look at a library of books and noticed an upright piano out in the barn. It needed some work inside and out. But idea, perhaps? Try googling auction and piano and see what shakes out of the rafters.
Either way stuff like that just hits me in the face because those people are at the heart of this pop internet culture, and it is appalling really - more so if you are a women. And to know there are women out there laughing while white make dick-less almost old men humiliate them is a blight on this culture - sadly most people do not ever see this is so commonplace.
yea I’m a pretty good auction, estate sale buff I just haven’t had the time prior to now.
I’m on it.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEAUTIFUL COOPERINA!!!!
I am back to being absent from the blogosphere (Grrr! Looong story. Short version? Damn in-laws are camping out again… posts to come soon I hope.) though so thankful to have popped in today of all days as I would have been crushed to have missed your oh-so-special day!
23! Dios mio how time flies! Were you not a mere lass of 20 when I first laid eyes on your beautiful words? Wow…
May you be enjoying a very special day and may nothing but a breathtaking year lay ahead of you… as for me, I celebrated your special day by joining in on a March on the Golden Gate Bridge against the use of aerial spraying to eliminate the LBAM… most splendid of days to do that in! :-)
You are OH SO missed!
MWAH…
Moi…
Hahahahaaa!
That should say… “may a breathtaking year LIE ahead of you.”
OY!
My Bohemia, so nice a gift to see you on my birthday.
I know I can count n you to take on the world.
Peace out with the in-laws. ;)
hugs
I do wish you every happiness today on your very young birthday ;)
Nice post. I never fell victim to “date rape”, but that was only because I didn’t “date” much. I did unfortunately get snagged in the usual “street” type in my youth when I ran away from home, but I have survived, and la de f*cking da to the perp. I’m stronger than he is.
Thank you Terry.
hey Cooper !!!
happy happy 23rd !!!
hope you find your dream piano :)
these people who display this sort of moronic behaviour are indicative of what our society turns a ‘blind’ eye to :(
Turning a blind eye is easier for them I guess.
Thanks for the birthday wish, the piano quest continues.
You say it’s your birthday
It’s my birthday too–(not)
They say it’s your birthday
We’re gonna have a good time
I’m glad it’s your birthday
Happy birthday to you.
I got a piano - at Sam’s Club for $100. That’s how my neighbors wish me to play it, too, piano. Pianissimo, actually. Maybe one day I’ll actually learn to play a tune on it.
Can you say Hays Code? I almost miss it.
Wa…you don’t like my video.
I’m a killer on the piano. I can play ” Memories” from Cats with the best of them….., I actually used to play - never well, but find I’d like to start playing for relaxation, as I’m not into recreational drugs. or if I were I’m sure they’d be too expensive due to gas prices… the piano is the next best thing.
That you rose from the ocean to say happy birthday is quite the gift.
Happy Birthday Cooper!! And many moooore *I’m singing, really, it’s singing*
LOL at that video. Wow, I haven’t heard that in sooooo long. That was fun.
23, hmmmmmmm, 23, hmmmmmmm, 23 I declare I can’t remember a single thing from that year. Oh! yes I do. I broke up with my fiance, cried day and night and the rest of the year is a blur.
Thanx Cooper!
Actually, we’re friends to this day, so it turned out to be a very good year. I hope that yours is multitudes better.
Thank you Sheila.
Your voice is awesome, so I imagine you sing quite well.
Happy belated birthday.
Piano’s are expensive. I have seen a few sitting on the side of the road on the outskirts of the city.
Never read Gawker anything, it’s so last year.
The whole joke, no matter who made it, serious or not, is pretty foul.
The society we live in is full of sewage. This is just one example.
Yea, but if they are on the side of the road, I mean literally dumped. they are likely to be useless. Always worth checking though.
I had one and gave ti away which is the biggest problem. It wasn’t great but was tuned to perfection, I just didn’t have room for it in NY.