Ed O’Neill had no idea that he was meeting Britney Spears in this pic. [Buzzfeed]
Did Charlie Hunnam knock up his girlfriend? [LaineyGossip]
What’s the deal between Amy Schumer & Tig Notaro? [Dlisted]
Vanessa Hudgens wore a leopard-print onesie. [Popoholic]
Claire Danes went jogging, looks great. [Moe Jackson]
This is why Leo DiCaprio loves Nina Agdal. [Celebslam]
I can’t believe Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen are only 30 years old. [ICYDK]
Should we all stop reading books written by privileged white guys? [XOJane]
Some Liev Schreiber, just for CB. [Seriously OMG WTF]
Kylie Minogue sang “This Wheel’s on Fire” for AbFab! [Socialite Life]
so awesome
That photo is adorable! She is clearly thrilled to bits to be photographed with him. Knowing he had no idea who she was is *perfect.*
That pic is adorable, that’s the most genuinely happy photo I’ve ever seen of Britney. The situation is hilarious.
Ed is pushing 80, I can believe it.
He just turned 70 this year. Hard to believe Al Bundy is 70, LOL! He looks great tho.
70. I thought he was older.
Well, he had a rough life while married to Peg Bundy. Chronic food deprivation, working extra hours to keep her in bon-bons, near-death experiences, etc. Although I never understood what kept him from buying food before he got home and cooking it himself… He could have run the vacuum cleaner and done the laundry, too.
Jwoolman, LMAO!! 😀
No joke. JWoolman, if Gemma Teller doesn’t want to clean, do it your own damn self.
Didn’t Peg turn bad, change her name and start running with a motorcycle gang? That’s what I heard, anyway.
Liev Schreiber + Willy Dance = yes please.
I would not be comfortable running in Claire Danes’s shorts. I do not like fabric that far up my craw when I am working out.
Here in Ireland having something stuck in your craw means caught in your throat, I just had a look at the picture and it is not far off.
That’s what it means here, too. I’ve never heard “craw” used to refer to that area or the body before now. Must be an extremely specific regional thing.
-WTF!? Godney bestows blessings upon those who don’t deserve them.
-Not reading any books “by white priviledged men”? So no classics and most of literature of ‘olden’ times? I think this is taking things a bit too far. As much as I want equality and equity, you have to take into account the context. If we did this with not just books but other things created by “white privileged men”, we’d be denying us of many great things. Especially in the arts.
Conversely, think about how much was lost or never recorded because all we cared about was privileged white men.
Let the white men make art; let everyone else also make art. At this point in my life I gravitate more to writers with perspectives I haven’t exhaustively explored before.
You don’t sound like a very fun person to hang around with!!!
What’s lost is already lost. Just focus are making sure more isn’t lost from now on.
But it doesn’t make sense to me to toss away centuries of prior art because the artists were male. If you have a son, do you want his work to be dismissed solely because he is is a man instead of a woman?
It really isn’t so absolute- make sure the opportunities are there for everyone and enjoy the female voices that were not recorded in the past. But be cautious about assuming male voices are not worth a listen.
The actual piece explains that the author spent the first two decades of life in academia, where white cis male authors absolutely dominate the assignments. We shouldn’t be taught racist drivel multiple times without ever being exposed to the important works of women of color, and it’s still happening.
The piece is about compensating for that over-exposure, that privilege, that domination of culture by deliberately exposing oneself to other voices from now on.
Back in college, a literature teacher said something about there being no important female writers. I was just a techie taking a required course but knew enough to loudly tell him the guys could write only because some woman was keeping the kids out of their hair, cooking and cleaning and doing laundry so he could focus on his work…
Of course there have always been women with the same talent, they just typically were distracted by other responsibilities that the men didn’t have, in addition to simply not getting published because it was a boys’ club. The same is true in mathematics and the sciences – it’s obvious that females are just as capable, but they have been deliberately pushed away from such endeavors (not allowed in schools, not allowed jobs when they did get educated). Cultural pressures still exist that keep girls from freely pursuing such interests in the USA, for example, when boys are taught they can do it. It’s all cultural, as is easily seen when we compare different cultures where the relative male/female numbers in such fields can be quite different.
The pressures are not always obvious. Early dating is a major impediment for girls because they are encouraged to spend time and energy on maintaining relationships and other interests can easily get lost even if they avoid pregnancy. Everything pushes them in this direction, starting with toys when they are very young. Not such a problem for boys, they continue other interests simultaneously because the work in a relationship is not on their shoulders. So just delaying dating activities could have a good effect on girls’ choices. In the past, they were married off early to have one baby after another and that stopped any schooling or other relevant activities. Not so sure we’re doing as better on that score as we think.
We need balance in education and culture. I think it’s important to include voices of women and others who are less represented in traditional academia and literature. It’s possible to recognize that the Western male-oriented classics (as we know them) are valuable and at the same time integrate voices that have been suppressed or excluded over the years.
No classics? Oh come on. Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein, was born in 1797. Many of what you think are the “classics” were written by women — Emily Dickinson, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and then more modern times, Agatha Christie novels, Gone With the Wind, Toni Morrison, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Flannery O’Connor. Hell, the Joy Luck Club will be considered classic American lit in a couple decades.
Classic books not written by privileged white men abound, actually. That sounds like a great idea, to not read anything by white men, or men, period. Most of their books have been so boring in recent years anyway. Totally predictable. The same perspectives, characters, sci-fi imaginings that are not imaginative at all. *snore*
+123
I was going to say…there are PLENTY of seminal works by POC and female/non-cis authors out there. We just don’t bother to teach them.
One of the things I actually really enjoyed about the community college I attended previous to university was that the library was adamant about being inclusive where the arts were concerned. They felt that their library should reflect diversity of the student body – so it was actually one of the few places you could find both classic and contemporary work from African, Asian and South American countries.
One other thought: Of course they were “privileged” white men. Everybody who wasn’t financially well off simply didn’t have the time to write poetry or novels or plays even if they somehow had learned how to write. Just making it day to day took enormous effort for both men and women.
The few women whose writing we have from prior times were also “privileged” for the same reason. The less privileged were busy doing all the work to keep the privileged women’s households running. Plus with privilege often came education in days of private tutors for children of the upper crust. Hard to record your ideas if you can’t read or write.
+1234 also
I think Morgana is pregnant. Charlie will make one smoking hot daddy! These two are sweet together.
I need photos of him holding a baby. I NEED to see that.
ahahaha, well maybe she’s just gained a bit of weight, not necessarily pregnant, breathe girl, breathe 😀
Britney is such a sweetheart. She called him “Mr. O’Neill.” So normal! She’s honestly one of those people I’d place in high esteem and follow even if she weren’t rich and famous. And especially since she’s maintained this kind of humility with all her fame and money and troubles in the public eye, makes her even more special in my eyes.
She is such a jewel. <3
I bet on the inside Britney was yelling “I’m hanging out with AL BUNDY!”
Britney looks so cute here! Love her.
OMG it’s Al Bundy!!!