Papa et Maman must be proud. Image: REUTERS/Robert Pratta.
Forgive me, but doesn’t this protest against a bill by the French government to legalise same sex marriage and adoption, look a bit, well, gay?
Maybe the Alliance Vita movement has been infiltrated by activists who advised that dudes in silver unitards & cardboard wings is totally the best way to attract the attention of French conservatives.
If that’s the case, fair play to them. It certainly seems to be working…
Image: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters.
If we accepted Vladimir Putin’s suggestion that Pussy Riot’s musical protest “erode[d] Russia’s moral foundation and undermine[d] the country“, it would be pertinent to ask how depriving two kids of contact with their mothers at a crucial point in their development could possibly be constructive in this regard.
However, since most sane people would reject that assertion out of hand, let’s not waste time arguing the point. It’s moot now anyway, since Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova are being shipped off to a prison colony in the Russian hinterland where they will spend their days sewing prison uniforms and learning how to fight murderers.
Which will, of course, benefit Russia’s moral foundation for generations to come.
An initiative to introduce healthy food to kids in schools resulted in parents handing burgers through the school fence. The mind boggles at what might happen if Porn Ed makes it through parliament.
Teaching children the ‘impact’ of pornography is one of those ideas that sounds perfectly plausible, indeed necessary, given the petrifying availability of hardcore porn on the internet. Helping kids to disseminate the message behind porn, gender stereotypes and how they are manipulated could, at the very least, introduce the concept of questioning what the world presents as sexuality to young minds.
However, given the ineptitude displayed by the government, social services, school governers and even some parents when implementing a system to provide kids with proper nutrition, one can’t help but fear how this would pan out in practice.
Image via cinemablend.
An irrational fear of a mysterious beast that dwells alone in the darkness, is rarely seen, but whose sinister, unnerving presence is constantly felt.
The Viewer feels a peculiar kinship with the great white shark. And rats.
Image: PacificCoastNews.com.
Big, hard to understand hair. Moody lighting to ensure no one actually notices the piles of rubble the previous occupants of the studio left behind. Nubile boys.
Haven’t we seen this somewhere before?
Image: REUTERS/Mike Segar.
You see that politically insensitive, pensioner exploiting, tax avoiding rich man standing right there?
Image: REUTERS/Robert Pratta.
He had tried to soldier on, but the impact of the recent drugs controversy on Lance Armstrong’s appearance were plain for all to see.
“This is my great aunt Mildred during the depression. She died soon after this photo was taken – wish I could have met her.” (user: lemondoodle) All images via reddit.
The only downside to the rampant cynicism you develop whilst exploring the tattered underbelly of the internet is it’s ingratiating nature. Having one’s preconceptions confirmed about the selfish, unpleasant and occasionally nauseating behaviour of your fellow man is curiously more-ish, and it isn’t long before you begin to view everyone through the same hypercritical, non-empathetic lens.
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A video response from Bodyform to a male Facebook commenter, who felt that the company’s adverts had misled him.
Personally, I’m not sure humanity is ready for this level of myth debunking. Perhaps we should have eased in with confirmation of alien life forms?
Image via gawker.com.
A holy war is being waged right now, people, but unless you regularly venture into the poorly lit, lawless backstreets of the Internet, the chances are you blissfully unaware of it.
Kelly Welles 
