This is really interesting.
Going by Facebook “likes” and what not, there are about 1,215,960 comic fans in the US (at least on Facebook). About 25% (304,700) are women. Percentage-wise, women comics fans are slightly more educated than men. The majority of fans (both men and women) are 18-30 years old.
Here’s where it gets really interesting. Of the women who identified gender preference of romantic/sexual partners, 27,940 are interested in women, or 9% of all women comics fans. Only 1.6% of male comic fans disclosed their orientation to include men. Since many people choose not do to disclose their orientation, we can assume that the real numbers are higher. But it does mean that of comics fans, women are much more likely to openly identify as queer, and that male comics fans are more heterosexual-identified than the general population.
at first i laughed at my friend for joining a Sugar Daddy website.
but then she started getting
fucking Louboutins. for accompanying rich men on yacht parties.
for fucking serious.
am i jealous? quite possibly. rethinking feminist morals as i browse my magazines…
although really- this could be a feminist act? in the way stripping is considered, by some, feminist? … ? …. am i grasping at straws at the moment? maybe. but gawddamn i want those shoes.
my friends are fabulous.
stacy at the abbey, interviewed while snapping a pic of elizabeth taylor’s shrine.
People continue to accuse me of having a ‘coke pinky’.
For the last time: It’s not for cocaine, it’s for that tiny tube on my hearing aids that go way the fuck into my ear canal & sometimes need poking cause they irritate me.
Thank you that is all.
My grandparents told me this over dinner last night. Ever since I can remember, my little Japanese aunt Toni has had, “upwards of 7 or 8 dogs” (# from my uncle). Toni loves dogs, but Toni kills her dogs. Out of love. & that love takes physical form in FOOD.
Akito, the 1st time I saw him (4 months old):
Akito, at Christmas dinner (9 months old):
Once, Aunt Toni was feeding my cousins & I some eel. Now, I love me some eel, & part of that love comes not from the melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness of the meat, but also from the fact that it’s expensive, & rare, so I feel like a cool little shit while eating it. When we couldn’t eat any more eel, I watched as Aunt Toni gave the rest- about 9 good-sized slices- to her poodle, Mayumi. Mayumi died by the end of that summer.
“Oh, poor Toni. She just… loves them too much.”
“At least they die happy.”
“Yes, I imagine they do.”
RIP, Akito
Side-note: the 1 animal Aunt Toni has managed to keep for over a decade is her parrot, Charlie. Charlie loves to say his name, but he speaks in a very thick Japanese accent, like my aunt & uncle, so whenever I see the bird, it squawks “Herro Char-rie!” & I don’t have the heart to explain to Toni why I’m laughing so hard I’m crying.
a conversation between me & the girl who has been one of my best friends since we were 3:
jamie: so, you’re coming to my mom’s 50th birthday party, right?
me: of course! i got your invite online. you were kidding about the strippers, right?
jamie: um, NO, it’s her 50th birthday, it’s gotta be good.
me: of course. who wouldn’t get their mother strippers on her 50th birthday.
jamie: and pot brownies; lots of weed & jack.
me: happy birthday, mom.
jamie: DUH.
she used to beat up the kids who beat me up in elementary school. her mom taught me the word ‘fuck’. i’m excited for this party, strippers notwithstanding.
OMG. my friends, i swear. when she told me she was doing this, i asked: “Do you understand the concept of ‘FOREVER’?”
she responded: “Yes. I love Pikachu. & I love pokeballs.”
i mean how do i argue that?
It healed perfectly and loves showin it to anyone that asks :P
What can i say? I love Pokemon!
she was all “i didn’t make a sign but i’m gonna be a cheerleader” & damn she was.
Jean leading the chants during the Walk For Choice in DT LA.
Yeeeah buddy.
Walk for Choice Los Angeles Feb 26 2011
“1-2-3-4 Open Up The Clinic Door, 5-6-7-8 You Can’t Make Us Procreate”Submitted by http://vivalabeava.tumblr.com/
by far my fav chant of the day
