Don’t Quote Me, Vol. 586

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“As a creative person, in all the different things that I’ve done or ways that I’ve found to express myself, I’ve consistently come up against resistance in certain areas. I think that the world is not comfortable with female sexuality. It’s always coming from a male point of view, and a woman is being objectified by a man — and even women are comfortable with that. But when a woman does it, ironically, women are uncomfortable with it. I think a lot of that has to do with conditioning.”

- Madonna

Official cover art and track list of Lisa Miskovsky’s “Violent Sky”

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Lisa Miskovsky is ready to take on 2011 with her new album Violent Sky. This years looks like its the year of the Swedes! The cover art is not so bad. We give it a 6/10. The track list is below, click for it.

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Fergie Ferg’s lesbian and/or bisexual past

News has surfaced of Fergie’s bisexual past. This comes right after the accusation of her hubby partying it up with a stripper who happened to do that radio rounds to get her story across. Fergie didn’t deny her bisexual past and lesbian love stories. She said that this story is 5 years too old and that she has no shame in her game for the dames. Okay, that was lame. At any rate, we’re blogging from the bathroom and too lazy to rectify. Boo!

Royal Mail makes album artwork stamps, no female artist featured

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The Royal Mail has taken on music for their next batch of stamps set to debut in January. But, one things missing that no one reported on. From the 10 album covers selected, no a single one of them is buy a female artist. Surely all of the artists are from the UK and feature some great monumental albums such as The Clash’s London Calling and Blur’s Parklife (click below for full list), but not a single female artist? Not even Kate Bush’s The Red Shoes or something from Annie Lennox (not even the Eurythmics). Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black deserves a nod. It’s really just sad that all the Q-heads keep deciding what is credible and what is not with their music snobbery and knack for sexism.

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Oprah 24th season opening…

They were standing so still, we knew they were a flashmob. Do the Black Eyed Peas really need any more promotion for their tired old album? She’s opening big, with this and the Whitney Houston exclusive. I wonder what she’s doing for 25th anniversary. did Oprah really have to plug in that phone that bad?

Karl Lagerfeld insults feminists and women

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Karl Lagerfeld has gone and done it again. The Chanel head has gone on an insulting binge. Right after he attacked Heidi Klum and Seal (in a manner with racist undertones) he has gone out after feminists and women whom he makes a living dressing. In an interview with Harper’s Bazaar he was answering some questions and channeling Coco Chanel for the answers. The magazine wanted to create an expose of the deceased fashion icon and thought Lagerfeld would be a good “channeler.” This is how it happened:

Harper’s Bazaar: Your clothing liberated women in the 1920s. Are you still a feminist?
Karl Lagerfeld as Coco Chanel: I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.

Yeah. Because he is the picture of international beauty. What a douche that doesn’t deserve a single minute in an industry that is supposed to be creative and liberal. Moreover, his sole purpose on this earth is to dress women up. Now he brands feminists ugly? Why? Because they don’t eat a piece of lettuce a day and do as they are told. I bet Coco is rolling over in her grave right now. Someone needs to rummage through that huge library of his and put in some Germaine Greer and Andrea Dworkin.

Lilith Fair to relaunch in 2010

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One of the greatest music festivals to ever grace this earth is about to make a come back 11 years after its last run. Lilith Fair, which was the first all-female music festival to tour North America from 1997 to 1999, is about to make a return according to a tweet by co-founder of Nettwerk Records and current CEO Terry McBride. Some tour dates have been set for London around the summer of 2010.

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Kuwait elects 4 women to parliament

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Don’t mind the late-news headline, but I couldn’t resist the “News Of The Day” aura. So, yes Kuwait finally did it. The people of Kuwait broke another barrier in the on-going war on sexism and discrimination. And when it rains, it pours. Not one, but four. One of which was the first in her district and another the second. It’s hardly a liberal uprising and, to tell you the truth, some of them could might as well pass for the piety bloc. But, complaining is so 2000 and late. 

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Reminder: If you vote for a woman, you will go to hell

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So, this was in Al-Qabas today and it should have been in the comics sections. I don’t know where these beardists or terrorist-embryos get off on saying that if one votes for a woman then they are going to hell. I would like to know what verse that comes from or at least what is their works cited. 

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Arabian feminism grows and grows

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There has always been a correlation between a culture’s treatment of women and it’s own brand of linguistics. This has prevailed on for way too far and even as the Arabic language is one of the most eloquent languages in the world there seems to be no way around using gender non-specific words. It’s time we removed gender from the vocabulary. That’s the only way to progress. You know, gender is an illusion.