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    The Gay Thread

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    Oh.My.God :mad3:

     

    Pediatric endocrinologist Maria New—of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University—isn't just trying to prevent lesbianism by treating pregnant women with an experimental hormone. She's also trying to prevent the births of girls who display an "abnormal" disinterest in babies, don't want to play with girls' toys or become mothers, and whose "career preferences" are deemed to "masculine."

     

    http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/06/29/doctor-treating-pregnant-women-with-experimental-drug-to-prevent-lesbianism

    Twilight or Harry potter?

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    I found this on tumblr. Harry Potter is obviously better. :naughty:

     

    Time's Five Reasons We Love Harry Potter More Than Twilight

     

    1. A Better Universe

    Like George Lucas, JK Rowling is so great at creating worlds that it more than makes up for whatever flaws her writing suffers from. Think about all the wonderful things we know about Rowling’s wizarding world: Where they shop, what they eat, what kind of prejudices their societies have. Consider all the wonderful little side-characters she stacks the stories with: Neville Longbottom, Arthur Weasley, even Lee Jordan, the Quidditch announcer. We know them.

     

    By contrast, what do we know about the world of Twilight? Three things: Good vampires don’t bite people. Vampires and werewolves don’t like each other. Vampires like baseball. That is all.

     

    2. Better Acting

    Let us examine the state of both franchises’ werewolves. The werewolf in Twilight is played by human action figure Taylor Lautner. Lautner is a undoubtedly a nice boy, but no one would disagree with the assertion that he is more famous for his workout regimen than anything he’s done on screen.

     

    The werewolf in Harry Potter is played by acclaimed British thespian David Thewlis. Have you even seen Thewlis’s gripping performance in Mike Leigh’s Naked, Twihards? No, of course, you haven’t.

     

    3. Better Villains

    It might not be exactly fair to compare Harry Potter and Twilight on this issue; after all, Lord Voldemort is one of the greatest villains in recent pop-culture history. (He got the the Final Four in Techland’s super-scientific March Madness villains bracket.) Voldemort is a genocidal dictator who scares people so much they won’t even say his name. He wants immortality and will do anything (even drink unicorn blood!) to get it. He killed Harry’s parents — and tried to kill Harry —when our hero was just a defenseless little baby. Shoot, just writing this is making me glad he’s not real.

     

    But even without being compared to Voldemort, the bad guys in Twilight are weak. A villain played by Cam Gigandet (What is this, The OC?), Michael Sheen (Oh no, it’s Tony Blair!) or Bryce Dallas Howard (Come off it, I saw Lady in the Water) just isn’t scary enough for me. You could make the case that Bella’s inevitable aging is the real villain of Twilight, but come on! This isn’t Star Trek — invisible intangible villains aren’t going to cut it.

     

    4. Healthier Attitudes Toward Sex

    Twilight is basically a supernatural version of Secret Life of the American Teenager: Everyone talks about sex all the time, and how BAD and HORRIBLE and AWFUL and WONDERFUL it would be. In Harry Potter, no one talks about sex at all. Having been weaned on Jane Austen adaptations, NewsFeed much prefers stuffy British repression over American teenage wangst.

     

     

    5. It’s Lasted Longer

    The members of NewFeed’s generation have grown up with Harry Potter. We got Sorcerer’s Stone from the library in elementary school, waited in line for Order of the Phoenix in high school, dressed up for the Goblet of Fire movie with our freshman dorm in college. The years-long gap between films and movies filled us with anticipation. Each new release — as numerous trend pieces show — is an event.

     

    Twilight is much more ephemeral. The books have only been out since 2005, (which, if you’re counting, is when the second-to-last Potter book was released.) The films, rushed into production in case the trend dissipates, are even worse: the first movie came out barely a year and a half ago. There’s no waiting around, but there’s also no growing old with the characters. Twilight is undoubtedly a commercial entrprise — over $1 billion internationally for just the first two films — but it’s simply not a lasting cultural one.

    How do you feel right now? part 2

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    I know! it's so quiet here.. :blink:

     

    On the First day, we walked around times square.. we took a subway to Central Park, 2nd, We went to the Statue of Liberty, Dylan's candy Bar, the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum and we took a tour of Brooklyn, and yesterday we went to the observation deck of the Empire State building.. Dylan's Candy Bar.. and Central Park again. :lol3: we ate Italian. :naughty: but we didn't get to go to Macy's. :sad:

     

    I told my Parents I was gonna live there, and I think they're scared now. :teehee:

     

    That sound fun. I definitely want to live in either NYC or Georgetown.

     

    Did you go to the Bodies Exhibit? I almost threw up when I went :naughty:

    How do you feel right now? part 2

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    Glad to see I'm not the only one. :aah:

     

    We flew into Charlotte, and rode around the downtown area.. it felt so weird, there was.. No one.. compared to NYC, actually depressing. :aah:

     

    If I see a picture of NYC it makes me want to cry, I am in love. :lmfao::wub2:

     

    I know! It seemed so quiet when I got back. I missed all the beeping horns and sirens going off at night :naughty:

     

    What did you do there?

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