Appropriate? Inappropriate? Cute, campy and fun? Portrays women in a negative aspect? ‘Feminizing’ the democratic process? What do you guys think?
‘Voting is a Pleasure’: Do You Get Off on Voting?
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Category Archives: YouTube
The Infamous Glee Photoshoot for GQ Was Much Creepier Than Y’All Thought
Just when you started to adjust to the idea of Lea Michele and Dianna Agron seductively strutting their high school-themed stuff for the pleasure of male and female GQ readers worldwide, here’s another shocker: the published shoot wasn’t nearly as bad as it could have been, and the lurid …
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YouTube Has to Reveal Anonymous Commenters and the Death of Online Anonymity
A judge in New York has ruled that Google, who owns YouTube, must identify several commenters who recently made crude remarks on a woman’s YouTube video.
Carla Franklin, a Columbia Business School Graduate, filed the suit against Google in order to determine the identities of 3 people who had posted comments on her video containing the words ‘whore’ and ‘skank.’
From the New York Post:
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The “It Gets Better Project”– Who Can Participate in Saving Gay Youth?
You might have by now heard of Dan Savage’s new initiative to help suffering gay teens: The It Gets Better Project (IGBP). Appalled by the rash of gay teen suicides that have recently been covered in the media, Savage decided that it was time to get a message out to the hoards of gay youth who were struggling to exist in a heterosexual world: it’s gets better, and we’re going to tell you how. Savage put a call out to his many readers, asking them to upload videos to the IGBP YouTube channel, so that gay youth could see that there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and there was a reason to hold on to hope. The channel already has over 1,000,000 views, which is extremely encouraging.
I was particularly pleased to learn about this initiative. There have been many pleas from celebrities, such as Ellen DeGeneres, Sarah Silverman, and piles of others, but this project is different because it gives a direct call to action: your story can help save a life. I find the idea of actual involvement — not just donating money or raising awareness — to be a true means of causing change, and I applaud Savage for starting this project.
Except, perhaps not everyone take part …