Serena plays a sport that requires the mental focus of instantaneously letting go of losing points and moving on because there are a lot of excruciating ones no matter how great you are, continual regrouping and re-inventing: dwell on them, you lose confidence; lose confidence and you lose. She is also superbly conditioned, given that a female tennis player may run about three miles in a match.
Serena and her fiance Alexis Ohanian became engaged last December, after first meeting roughly a year and a half earlier, then found out in January that Serena was pregnant. They will be married in the fall after the birth of the baby.
At first I thought, "Damn. There's a magazine for everything."
Then I felt sad. My mortality set in.
This is a magazine that definitely covers a topic most of us don't want to think of.
We are ALL going to die someday.
Yep. We're all gonna be maggot food at some point.
Wouldn't it be f*cked up if someone gave you this magazine subscription as a gift? And you were like, young? Or say you were older? Like, elderly older? Would that make it any better?
Would you be like, "Oh, little Johnny cares about me.."
Or would it be more like, "Oh really? Johnny thinks he's getting my cash huh?.. Plottin my funeral-n-shit? We'll see about that!"
Buying anyone a magazine like this can ensure one thing:
You will NOT be in the will.
Better still, imagine you received this magazine as a warning. You pissed Frankie Knuckles off for the last time, and this magazine is a message..
(Hey. It's better than a horse head).
Well, that pic's a bit harsh. Lets soften it up..
They make horse head pillows now. Cute huh?
But I digress.
The moral of the entry is..
I don't know exactly.
Have your sh*t together cuz you're gonna die one day?
Have yourself a merry little funeral?
Dunno.
-But-
If you need help preparing for said funeral, worry not!
I don't like this chair. I get that some bondage fanatics might find this cool or interesting, but uh.. I'm no bondage fanatic. Tie me up like some kind of rodeo hand and when I get loose, let's just hope you can run faster than me. The thought of a woman being positioned like this so someone can have a seat? Anyone who thinks this chair is appropriate doesn't need a seat. What they really need is..
Serious slappage.
G-String clad cowboy optional.
This "bondage chair" was created by Allen Jones ca. 1969. Apparently, there's a Black version of it as well.
The woman perched on the chair in this photo is Russian socialite Dasha Zhukova. The online magazine Buro published this, and due to the uproar it caused, has since been cropped.
It's still bullshit though. What say you? Would you feel comfortable sitting on this? What would you think if you saw this in someone's house? What would you think of the PERSON who would buy this? I'd be like..
I will admit, watching this clip was painful. As a proud woman, it can be difficult to witness how women are degraded, especially in the media. Why is it so hard for certain men (usually those in power) to accept that women are great PEOPLE? Not playthings but beings? Evidently for some men, a woman's power is simply frightening. Unbelievable. Some men find it unacceptable that a SHE could be magnificent without a HE.
The malicious and subconscious messages the media help spread about women being inferior penetrate ALL of us. Men, women, sons and daughters. We're all constantly and subliminally being programmed. Almost every medium we can think of is used to propagate the belief that women exist solely for a mens' [sexual] gratification. This is demonstrated in everything from prostitution rings to child brides. If there ever was a theory that was destroying the world, patriarchy is among the top.
Women are all powerful. We are goddesses, mothers, nurturers, supportive forces. We are needed by the elements of nature and her inhabitants. In every species it is the female who delivers the children. Women are the Givers of Life and perhaps men resent it. The 'powers that be' echelon of men have taken oaths and make it their life's mission to hide and distort the truth about women. To make us feel inferior and disposable. Womens' right to vote, right to marry whom they want, and even the right to drive show that men feel the need to control women's actions. Sexually explicit representations of women are found everywhere, from mainstream to underground. Women are globally taught that our worth is contingent upon what we can do for a man, and how attractive we are.
Patriarchy is ruining the world, and the media is a willing participant.
Happy New Year, with an emphasis on NEW.
NEW attitudes make for better tomorrows and better TODAYS.
Womens' self-esteems are under attack daily. Magazines, music videos, celebrities and famous people alike, all conveying messages of "if you don't look perfect like me, something is wrong with you.."
This mentality is an advertisers DREAM, because too many people fall for said illusion and spend big money attempting to fit in and be perfect looking. Every once and a while however, some sheep do wake up. They do see the images of perfection as the unrealistic projections that they are, and are able to detach and just be ordinary.
Which unlike airbrushing, is normal.
Women are often targeted because as we women know, our value is often judged by our looks. In this photo series, a group of MEN are showing everyone how unrealistic male underwear ads are, and how the "average guy" would look in the same scenarios.
It's no fun to be sublimally bullied because you don't fit the contrived image of what beauty is supposed to be. It's nice to know that men, ever the oglers themselves, don't like to be painted as asthetic underachievers either.
Just let us live. As we are.
Photoshop was not created by Maybelline so um... #fuckoff
Funny Photo Series Shows How Ordinary Men Would Look In Underwear Ads
By Thia Shi Min, 01 Oct 2013
Dolce & Gabbana
There has been a lot of criticism directed at underwear ads as many of them feature women with perfect bodies. A lesser known problem is that men can feel just as insecure about their bodies.
To highlight this problem, Jenny Francis and The Sun have created underwear poster ads that show how ordinary men look like in them.
From Armani to H&M, these side-by-side comparisons reveal how the media has distorted our perception of how male bodies should be like.
View this thought-provoking series below.
H&M
Armani
Calvin Klein
Way to go men. Be the regular, out of shape, non-tattooed, non-hunks that you are.
Being comfortable in your skin is sexier than you may ever realize. Muah!
