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Things Joanna actually said today (second in a series)

Learn how to talk like a truant teenaged male, part one

If I thought my new position wouldn’t be intellectually stimulating, boy was I wrong! I have expanded my vocabulary since I began, and I’m prepared to share my newly acquired knowledge with you all, as it comes.

Today’s vocabulary lesson:

• to rake (a person) — to acquire the entirety of a person’s wealth, specifically their money.
• to be fried; to exist in a fried state — to have been enormously embarrassed or humiliated or proven wrong or weak.
• to crack (a person) — to physically or mentally injure another individual, leaving them incapacitated, if only temporarily.

Singer Katy Perry is at best a pretty pop princess in retro riot grrl makeup and at worst an enemy of the gay civil rights movement. Her song “I Kissed a Girl” is a paean to girls getting drunk and sucking mug with other girls while their boyfriends watch. I don’t want to sound uppity, but it’s kind of a shitty song with a shitty message—that cutesy fake homosexuality is silly fun and good for attracting boys. So it pisses me off a bit that she’s on the cover of Out magazine’s “Out 100” issue this month. Why is this tittering dykesploitationist worthy of gay hero status?

(via Gawker)

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