red shoes (for to dance the blues)

oh hey, david bowie! happy birthday!

here's some cool-kids fashion for you. ooooooooo. fashion...

{prefall proenza schouler 2013, photos courtesy of proenza schouler by way of style.com}

{prefall preen 2013, photos courtesy of preen by way of style.com}

glimmershine

just when i was starting to worry that maybe this mcqueen wasn't the collection for me - feeling awfully bell-bottoms and david bowie*, which i'm not really showing here - along came image 5, and the inappropriate shouting of things at my computer screen because holy hell love, and then the bird brocade and i didn't have anything left to shout so i sighed a whole lot and everything was wonderful.

*not that bell-bottoms and bowie is a negative. i love bowie. and i don't HATE bell-bottoms... but it just wasn't getting the shouting-sighing that i always hope for from mcqueen. until... you know.

{alexander mcqueen resort 2013, photos courtesy of alexander mcqueen by way of style.com}

ff

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

stereotyping is hilarious!

(okay. sometimes. a little stereotyping is hilarious. sometimes. and. actually, generally, i do have a sense of humour. i swear! sarah can tell you! this week i laughed at my own 'gary sinise' 'bless you' joke so hard i cried. twice. on different days. even though NO ONE ELSE found it even a LITTLE funny. it was. mega funny...)

but, sigh. i'm a bit put off by the trendy new viral video sh*t girls say. ugh. i kinda really hate linking to it at all... but. ugh. anyways.

i've seen a few friends on facebook post things like 'OMG! i DO say that! HAHAHAHAHA! best!!!'
but, um, dudes. almost every one of those lines can be said by ANYONE EVER! okay. anyone middle-class-y and western at very least...
and it's not that this video is the WORST THING and i'm SUPER MAD and it's MEGA SEXIST! it's just that i'm tired of the whole gendering of everything all the time to the maximum. i'm tired of the 'you are over there and we are over here, we're SO DIFFERENT HAHA!'.

gender-essentialism boooooo!

and on that note. here are this week's pieces for to think on:

* the brits are starting to get it?

* parents being jerks. **

*thanking bowie for his gender-bending rocking ways.

i do love bowie so.

read read read my lovelies. (because boys and girls can both be lovely... and feminist!)

** oh man. so many things about these videos that make me crazy. like. dude. your kids sure are horrid ungrateful little things. i wonder how that happened?! and. um. language, children! but. that's totes off-topic. so. shhhhhhhhh. nothing!