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Jul. 12th, 2009 09:07 pm
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Sometimes things work out well: I am going to be in Melbourne next weekend, and work is paying for it. Of course, it's at the price of an all-day meeting on Friday with our branch manager (all the teamleaders and managers in the branch, plus three people from the programming team that sit outside his office door, god knows why). Still, yay short break!

Sociological Images has tons of interesting posts, but I liked this one that describes the essential cultural difference between Australia and NZ. Forget the ethnic makeup, NZ's more Pacific focus, the relative differences in how women are treated (although Australia is catching up, or, NZ is slipping) -- no, the major difference is that people in NZ spend nearly twice as much time a day eating as Australians do (ignore the "correlation" with relative obesity rates on that graph). I knew I liked my leisurely lunches, but I didn't know it was a cultural thing. Heh.

Another cool post on the blog is about a guy called Kasmeneo, who buys his clothing from anywhere in the department store, whether it's menswear or ladieswear. "That’s also my personal statement regarding equal rights - they include the right of clothing choice. What you see here is what I wear everyday, at work, in town, for shopping, whatever." So, he posts about his outfits on his Flickr, but I'll link the the Sociological Images "Rejecting the gender binary in fashion post" that has lots of pics and a discussion. A message, and pretty cute - his style definitely works for him. What else is needed?

On another tangent, about how bodies are represented in the media, the documentary Dreamworlds 3 is an excellent look into how women are portrayed in music videos. While there have always been gratuitous representations of women (and limited ones of men) in music videos, it's gotten progressively worse and worse over time, until I personally can't bear watching music TV these days (not that I have a TV, but you know, gyms and the like). There is a full, but small format and watermarked stream of the doco at the link, and it has some great discussion in it. Definitely worth watching.

And on a more cheerful note, space/time continuum kitteh, and the OMG most hilarious kitteh-pwns-hooman pic evah (I don't check out the Cheezburgers regularly these days, but they've been on a roll these last few weeks).

ETA: Extra bonus YouTubeness in the form of Rick Miller performing Bohemian Rhapsody in the styles of the "25 most annoying (male) voices in the music industry". Hilarious.

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Date: 2009-07-12 10:42 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] submarine_bells
Rick Miller performing Bohemian Rhapsody in the styles of the "25 most annoying (male) voices in the music industry". Hilarious.

Heeheehahahaha!*gigglesnort* Oh, that was brilliant!

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Date: 2009-07-13 06:29 am (UTC)
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I find Kasmeneo so amusing although I am not sure what I think of some of his outfits, but then the truth is: I do that. I buy men's shirts all the time and two of my favourite perfumes are for men. I don't understand why anyone doesn't buy something that fits them and looks good and suits their taste just because of a label--I am the femmiest femme most of the time, but then all my purple polo shirts when I was a teenage girl came from the boys dept, because Ralph Lauren polo shirts were much cheaper if you were a half-grown boy than if you were a full-grown girl.

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Date: 2009-07-14 05:14 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] freyakitten
For one particular dance routine, the costume chosen involved cargo pants. The information came down from on high that the easiest place for everyone to get cargo pants such that the gentlemen matched the ladies they were dancing with was Jayjays. So we all trooped in to their stores and lo and behold... Most of the ladies fitted into the 'mens' best and some of the gentlemen fitted into the 'womens' best. One gentleman reported being gently told by a salesperson that he should go over to the mens racks instead of looking in the womens... I was told by my salesperson that the issue we were having with body shape was not uncommon :D

Personally I have the mens cargos in the smallest size they had, because the womens were hipster-style but four inches or so too long in the hips for me to wear them that way - hipsters are badly shaped for the 'waistband' to be around your ribs.

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