January 2011
14 posts
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Myers-Briggs Dating Field Guide
INFJ- Why you want one: They’ll sit-inside-and-read-Dostoevsky-with-you-on-a-rainy-day, they’re good curators of interests and they’ll find something interesting to do and plan the whole date out (to the second). Spoiler Alert: Icy-cold exterior. Where to find one: Any independent or used bookstore in a trendy neighborhood on a Friday night. Typically they’ll be there...
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Guest Post: Female Sexual Attractiveness Based on...
Here at phiLOLZophy we’re all about deliberation and reciprocity. So when a couple of our brofriends reacted with an equal combination of delight and horror at this post, we agreed that it was only fair to allow them a rebuttal. We’re all for gender equity, after all!
So here it is: Female Sexual Attractiveness Based on Shoes
by brOMG
As a young male, I thought that women’s shoes...
What I Think When I'm With A Guy
Does anyone else remember this awful, awful email from the days when ‘the internet’ was just getting started? This woman emailed her friends an extraordinarily vapid account of her date and her friends—apparently friends with her because her awful person antics were entertaining—forwarded it into memedom. It kind of still hurts me that this is still out there and I thought...
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Pensées on the Pensées
“Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it; in other words we would never travel by sea if it meant never talking about it, and for the sheer pleasure of seeing things we could never hope to describe to others.” —Pascal, Pensées
So Pascal came up with this bomb idea that instead of writing a philosophical treatise he’d...
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Exactly How to Get Over a Breakup
Back in ‘05 when we were trapped at a shitty little college where everyone loved Jesus and hated us, we used to have an expression “let go and never look back.” What it meant was this: we fantasized about having a party with the theme ‘surprise unveiled at midnight’ and inviting all our friends and acquaintances. When they got there, we’d eventually get around...
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Philolzophy Movie Review: No Strings Attached
Since the first time I saw a preview for No Strings Attached, I had a hunch what director Ivan Reitman was attempting to achieve. This was going to be a progressive romantic comedy; instead of featuring voracious cads bagging bimbos or letting down clingy, wholesome girls desperate for commitment, this would showcase an empowered woman who demanded sex without a relationship. By featuring a...
Conceptual Philolzophy Apology (no, not that one)
Fuck guys, we haven’t felt like blogging. I always imagined this would happen if we got into some sort of hardcore fight or if we got ousted by a sweet new blog LOLOLogic or something, but no, nothing happened really, we did some experimental posts and now we can’t go back to writing philosophy top ten lists.
I was feeling discouraged til this morning I realized that all this blog has...
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Society Lets Men Down
This is not a post about how guys say they will call and don’t. This is a post about men embracing the pejorative stereotype of being an idiot. Yes, men.
I know.
Your favorite outspoken feminist blogger is letting men off the hook.
Kind of.
Here is the deal: society teaches men that they can be huge dumbasses, and some of them go along with it. For example, two guys I know recently had to find a...
“the potential for erection is there but it cannot be actualized without...”
– jacques derrida (via leagueofextraordinaryjointlemen)
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In Defense of Sarah Pain, or Whatever, Again.
Here we go again (cf: this, round one).
On Saturday morning some fuckface named Jared Lee Loughner shot 20 people in an Arizona grocery store in, killing 6 and injuring 14 others. The shooting is widely speculated to have been an assassination attempt on Representative Gabrielle Giffords, a politician Sarah Palin called a ‘target.’
Like, Sarah Palin made a metaphor with the crosshair...
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Breaking: Indie Celebrity Birth Announcement!
Capitalizing on the media success of their recent nuptials, Megan Boyle and Tao Lin have once again joined together to shit out something people on the internet want to talk about. This time it’s a baby! After all, what gets more attention than a cute little baby? The proud parents hope Gimmick will aspire to a career as a nude baby model for American Apparel, or maybe as a...
I Have Writer's Block and I Have Never Been in...
Today there’s a lunch in my honor and I don’t talk during it. Someone asks me a question and I play with my watch and try not to make eye contact. I feel rude. I feel like a baby. Feel worse for the rest of the day.
I daydream about going home and lying on the couch, taking drugs and watching maybe seven raunchy art films in a row and then taking sleeping pills to sleep through the...
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How to Pick Your Next Boyfriend Using Logic
Or girlfriend, whatever.
Inspired by all the resolutions people are making this time of year, we decided to make one for you; namely, how to use logic to (finally) not make horrible dating decisions this year.
What follows are the five most popular logical fallacies employed by people who make idiotic relationship decisions. Read them. Memorize them. Try not to commit them. This is for your...
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FYI, This Happened:
I got drunk and e-mailed Peter Singer a link to this post. Don’t ask me how I have his personal Gmail address but I do and sometimes he shows up in my gChat which makes me giggle. Anyway he wrote this back:
Feel kind of shitting taking credit for this in retrospect because Chrissy wrote most of it (sorry, Chrissy).
Wanted to tell you about this for two reasons. First, we are kind of...