I particularly hate when news/feature writers employ that device for woman, but fail to provide any details about the appearance of men.
Probably a better thread for this, and I know getting wound up by local music reviewers is just not a good way to spend time, but the "editor" of the local music website introduces every woman with an appearance-based adjective, and it drives me crazy.
When there aren't any women in the bands he starts looking elsewhere, too - other classics include:Inevitably, the mind and eye wandered from band to audience, and I realised that my German friend had been right all along: ninety five percent of English girls dress like prostitutes.andLooking out (of the gig venue's window), you are confronted with the ugly antics of drunk, overweight women who have seen too many winters. Rather in here than out there.
I left a sarky comment once (well, one sarky one, and one a little too narked - time of the month amirite guys, ho ho) but all you ever get in reply is "lol women, can't take a joke", sigh.
― vampire headphase (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:47 (thirteen years ago) link
the right response is "lol writers, can't come up with anything better than misogyny for filler"
― sonny burnett, your friend and ours (mh), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
the "editor" of the local music website introduces every woman with an appearance-based adjective, and it drives me crazy.
Which gets into an even deeper pet peeve of mine, in which bands are invariably referred to as "all-female" or "all-women," but never as "all male." And a band with one woman in it is "mixed gender," but a band with one man in it is "mostly female."
― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Wait, that came out as a "why is there no WHITE history month" thing. Which is not what I meant.
― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
No, I got what you were going for.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 7 September 2010 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
good piece of reporting but the attitudes of some of the people on display here are pretty lol
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/business/13partner.html
― waka flocka flame for all time (dayo), Monday, 13 September 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
“Being partner at Goldman is the pinnacle of Wall Street; if you make it, you are considered set for life,” said Michael Driscoll, a visiting professor at Adelphi University and a senior managing director at Bear Stearns before that firm collapsed in 2008. “To have it taken away would just be devastating to an individual. There is just no other word for it.”
― waka flocka flame for all time (dayo), Monday, 13 September 2010 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
boo-fucking-hoo
― Aimless, Monday, 13 September 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
there is just no other word for it.
― subtle like the g in 'goole' (dayo), Monday, 13 September 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10Spin.html
Ms. Brue, the blogger, frequents both studios. “I think it speaks to what a great brand SoulCycle has created that just like the restaurant of the moment, it feels like the place to be, much more than Flywheel,” she said. “Flywheel has created an experience that may be athletically superior,” but it “doesn’t have that same scene-y feel.”
― I DIED, Sunday, 10 October 2010 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, a friend was talking about scheduling SoulCycle classes on FB - I had no idea she was spending $100 a week for spinning classes. Daaaaaamn.
― a cross between lily allen and fetal alcohol syndrome (milo z), Sunday, 10 October 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay NO:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/goodbye-new-york-thanks-for-breaking-my-heart/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/10/12/12newyork-cityroom/12newyork-cityroom-blogSpan.jpghttp://worldsfamousphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/tourist_guy_e-mail_hoax_september_11th_2001_new_york_city.jpg
― buzza, Thursday, 14 October 2010 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
not really ruling class tbh
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- Okay I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one to think of that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
True, iatee, and yet, it seemed to fit.
comments section pretty unbearable
6. October 13, 20103:00 pmLinkThe only real New Yorkers are the ones born and raised here. The rest of you are, always and forever, poseurs.
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
that is seriously the worst writing ever
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i fucking hate people who write like this
if only pitchfork reviews reviews guy would gtfo too
― buzza, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't hate them I just don't get why someone associated w/ the nytimes thought that that guy should be putting his thoughts on their website instead of, I dunno, blogspot
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Author, I hate this style of writing, Author. It was you, Author, that made my dog piss on today's copy of the New York times, Author.
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean this reads like a facebook note and probably should be a facebook note
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I can just see this guy typing it all out while listening to a certain LCD Soundsystem song on his iPod on repeat...
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i have a friend who occasionally send emoails that crib from the same playbook. it's fucking embarrassing
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
127. October 13, 20104:40 pmLinkThere are eight million stories, in the Naked City. This has been one of them.
— Hardball Howie
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
You’ve always been a forward-looker, a destroyer and reassembler, the Great What’s Next.
― dayo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly one of the worst things i've read all year
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
winner:
128. October 13, 20104:42 pmLink2 years hardly even counts as living here. I’ve been here for 3 and I still feel like a newcomer (and I still fall in love with this city every day). I guess some of us are made for it. Others, clearly, are not.
— S
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
a window grilled with bars
this sounds delicious, what is your recipe
― dayo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
comments are so hilarious
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
love how this guy who was so poor that he could only afford one lightbulb also takes pictures from the empire state building (or w/e) with his DSLR
― dayo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
comments def break down into two camps 1. 'I'm going to talk about how much of a new yorker I am'2. 'I'm going to argue w/ other people about where the subway grates are on 3rd avenue'
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i would expect nothing less
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
group 2 really just a subset of group 1 I guess
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i really still can't get over how anyone would think this is good writing
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I miss you standing listlessly with the homosexuals in their tube tops outside dark-windowed clubs as they waited for rescue from their boredom.
― dayo, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that is also inexcusable
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
127. October 13, 20104:40 pmLinkThere are eight million stories, in the Naked City. This has been one of them.— Hardball Howie
This is killing me!
― The Ten Things I Hate About Commandments (Abbbottt), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
his original piece is actually worse tbh
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
THEN it’s west to one of the benches in Madison Square Park, with their neck-craning Matterhorn views up to the great golden horn capping the New York Life Building. Can it be only happy coincidence that mountain climbers and architects share the same language to describe the objects of their passion, that both talk of slope and cornice, spur and buttress, fluting, pitch, spire?
...
― iatee, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
In recent years, the nation's leading media style books have published guidelines for language and terminology use when reporting on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lives, issues and stories.
The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post all restrict usage of the term "homosexual" — a word whose clinical history and pejorative connotations are routinely exploited by anti-gay extremists to suggest that lesbians and gay men are somehow diseased or psychologically/emotionally disordered, and which, as The Washington Post notes, "can be seen as a slur." AP and New York Times editors also have instituted rules against the use of inaccurate terminology such as "sexual preference" and "gay lifestyle."
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
uhhh
In the way that others need to live near the sea to equalize the saltwater sloshing inside of them
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
its melted ice cream cone summit afloat on a raft of dawn-pink clouds
*literally vomits*
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
And so, among eight million, I am all alone in these mountains.
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
And so, among eight million, including the homosexuals in their tube tops outside dark-windowed clubs, I am all alone in these mountains.
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:42 (thirteen years ago) link
So long! Don't forget not to write, ever!
― buju_stanton (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. That article was just gross.
― Regular Stormy (Jenny), Thursday, 14 October 2010 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the commenters saying it was somehow artistic and accusing people of being philistines. Indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 October 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link