Source: wilwheaton

anticapitalist:

Our real first gay president

The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.

The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.

There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.

Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:

I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.

James Buchanan, our only bachelor president! Anybody watch The Angry Beavers? Because that sentence was supposed to be exclaimed in Dag’s manic shouting.

(via wilwheaton)

Let’s really analyze this whole thing to calculate the most pleasurable experience possible.

littleleaguecomic:

Little League #40 by Yale Stewart

Characters © DC Comics. Creative content © Yale Stewart. 

Reblogs are always appreciated!

Also, like Little League on Facebook!

Archive

Thank you to my girlfriend, who suggested they play with ponies, and to Ashley Guillory, who helped me out with the MLP references!

Love it. Except I was super disappointed to read the blurb after the comic and find out that Yale Stewart is not actually a Brony. :(

deluxvivens:

Stop Street Harassment has a post about it.

Reblog a thousand times.

(via howmanywomen)

ghastly-h-crackers:

You know, it’s been quite some time since I last drew some sweet, sweet, tentacled lovin’. So here is Kiki and her new boyfriend.

I find myself just delighted for Kiki. I hope that Chibi Sue has found similar happiness.

ghastly-h-crackers:

Missionary Freddy.

I do so love Ghastly’s work. Also, please Freddy, never stop drawing your own Chick Tracts.

A Nerdy Girl Talking about Geeky Things: On the Objectification of Women

geekyjessica:

As women, we need to stop looking at other women and assuming they are dressing a certain way for male attention. Every time I go out and there is a woman there dressed in a tight dress, or whatever, shaming starts immediately. Not always to her face. But it’s there.

There seem to be people who…

Huzzah!

Son of Baldwin: A Complete Guide to Hipster Racism

sonofbaldwin:

http://jezebel.com/5905291/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racism

There’s been a lot of talk these last couple of weeks about “hipster racism” or “ironic racism”—or, as I like to call it, racism. It’s, you know, introducing your black friend as “my black friend”—as a joke!!!—to show…

This thing is long, but really really good.