1. Compare these. Jezebel’s response to the Match.com spreadsheet guy versus its response to the Match.com spreadsheet girl. Spreadsheet girl used men specifically for free meals and also made spreadsheets to keep track of her victims. Jezebel criticized her for her gold-diggery, but they didn’t utter a word about her use of technology. But they ridiculed Spreadsheet guy, calling him a “creep” and mocking him in the typical smarmy way for creating innocuous profiles of the various women he was seeing. Seeing, no less, through a huge dating website that exists in order for people to create a wider network of romantic connections. A dating site that also, it goes without saying, relies on technology. And a website that *profiles* people too, just like our creepy spreadsheet guy.
2. Again at Jezebel, Dodai Stewart completely misses the mark in her deconstruction of the song “Somebody that I used to know”, which I’ve previously analyzed. Stewart pokes fun at the song which she compares to a whiny dude’s email and calls the narrator a “coward”. But that’s the point. Relationships, especially when we’re young and stupider, are filled with cowardice, avoidance, and emotional manipulation. How many songs actually ever own up to it?
3. Yasha Levine of The eXiled claims that he got scabies from the jail cell he occupied after being arrested at an Occupy L.A. event. Levine, who likes to pretend he’s in a perpetual war zone, says that his doctor told him that he must have contracted scabies in jail, as if the doctor knows how many slags Levine has rubbed against since November.
4. Speaking of Yasha Levine’s scabies, Mark Ames has a piece at The Nation about the Cato Institute in which he thinks that he’s served as the iceberg that dehulled the Titanic.
5. Employee surveillance has cut internal theft by up to 13% at Dunkin’ Donuts. I’m surprised that it is even notable that employees steal. Employees steal. For many, it’s a perq of the job. A restaurant in my town that used an inferior point-of-sale system had $300,000 stolen in one year. They soon went out of business. Some fast food joints do that whole “if we don’t give you a receipt the meal is on us” thing because employees can easily scam by preparing food but not ringing it into the computer and pocketing the cash. Standard fare.
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On your other post someone mentioned the Duke powerpoint girl.
Jezebel on her, here: http://jezebel.com/5652114/college-girls-power-point-fuck-list-goes-viral-gallery
No mention of her being creepy.
The female equivalent of “creepy” is “skanky.”
There was this quote that ‘we have made a society where everyone gets heartbroken at least once.’
Heard a cover of that song before, never watched the original.
“No mention of her being creepy.”
Even if they accept her as creepy, she has shown that women can be creepy too. A veritable trailblazer!
A strike against male domination of the word.
Too many ‘rock’ songs are all about whining about ex-lovers.
I prefer The Vandals take on handling a breakup:
Re: Dunkin Donuts, my understanding is that reciept tracking was the key creative step in the invention of the cash register, and that that’s what drove its sweep through retail. Internally, the cash register keeps track of sales, so that the employee — or, more pointedly, the boss — can get the day’s total. So (as most of us in the audience know), cashing out means
Cash at closing = cash at opening + sales reciepts – cash out (refunds etc.)
Unlike with a cash box, tearing up a reciept once the customer is out the door doesn’t facilitate employee theft.
There was a nearby Quizno’s I frequented when I was in college that did the off record food sales thing a lot. I immediately knew what was up since I had just learned about cash skimming in accounting class. They went out of business a year after I noticed it going on.
Another reason those fucking tip jars should be banned at fast food places. They can just give people free shit, in exchange for tips.
From the Lezebel article on Gotye….
“Let me get this straight: While I was thinking I was in a blissful relationship, you felt ‘lonely’ when you were around me? Dude, if you’re not enjoying yourself, just get the fuck out.”
I’d say Ms. Stewart misses the mark by a quite a great distance. I can only imagine what she might have to say about something like Crime and Punishment: “Raskolnikov — what a dumbass. He shouldn’t have killed that old woman in the first place.”
to be fair to jezebel, most of the *commenters* at least stuck up for excel guy and refrained from calling him a creep, although they did pull out the shaming language for the “misogynist” who dared to discuss the parallels to slut shaming. cracks in the echo chamber…