#tiger beatdown

[bidgeovertroubledwater]

[judedoyle]

Here is something we’ve been cooking up for a while: The Tiger Beatdown podcast, with me and my best friend, Kelly. It’s pretty rough and unprofesh, but I figured I’d put our first one up, see if people enjoy it, and come back with more should that be your thing. 

It’s just a cocktail recipe, some ladies, and an argument, basically. And, for our first episode, we have chosen the argument that nearly tore us apart: THE GREAT TAYLOR SWIFT DEBATE. 

Featuring: 

Why it was important to Kelly to have a “good girl” in pop

Why it was important to me never to have “good girls” in pop or elsewhere

Whether I victim-blamed Taylor for getting her award stolen

How we all project our traumatic experiences with girl bullies in youth group onto Taylor

Kelly’s experience attending “Hogwarts for Jesus”

Copious examination of The Kimye Incident of ‘16, and what Taylor Swift has in common with To Kill A Mockingbird

Hiddleswift: A Eulogy

Our best friend origin story, and how it challenged my belief in “a base line of human evil”

Enjoy it! Or don’t: Again, the premise here is that we sat down in my bedroom with vodka to argue about the radio, so it’s not like horrific failure could not be part of the experience for both of us. 

(Tiger Beatdown)

[heaffcliff]

does anyone know what happened to flavia dzodan?

[lunarriviera]

I mean, all Ted Hughes did was pick up a gal with a history of suicidal depression and massive abandonment issues relating to The Dudes, marry her, abandon her (whoops!) in the cruelest manner possible, leave her with the responsibility of caring for two small children which as I understand it is incredibly hard and stressful even if you’re not clinically depressed and dealing with a recent traumatic abandonment that has re-opened that big old treasure trove of Your Issues and set them loose to devour your brain like Dad-shaped zombies, and then, following her totally spontaneous and out-of-nowhere and in-no-way-foreseeable-to-the-point-of-being-almost-inevitable-given-these-specific-circumstances suicide, go around re-editing manuscripts so that they excluded the poems about hating him and getting rid of diaries surrounding the circumstances of their break and her death, much in the manner of a man who has but recently thrown a lit match into a pile of oily rags being all, “well, it really is a shame that the house spontaneously combusted this way! Nothing we could have done to prevent it, I suppose. What a tragedy. Let’s not assign blame here; this is a private matter.” I mean, you guys: What could people possibly be mad at Ted Hughes for? WHAT DID HE DO WRONG????

”Ladies! Stop Being Mad At Ted Hughes!” by Sady Doyle for the late, great Tiger Beatdown

[lizabethstucker]

Although I have never read the books or watched the series, I’ve had enough experience with Martin’s work and talking to know this is dead on right.  

[southcarolinawoman]

On callouts and problematicism and such.

[right-about-now]

March is Women’s History month. Like Black History month but not as celebrated. Recently Richard Escow had Sady Doyle on his phenomenal show The Zero Hour. She achieved fame with her blog Tiger Beatdown. Now she writes for the great site “In These Times.” This to me is the basis of feminism. All culture is feminist culture. However, there does seem that there are  those who are against women being fully human in the public sphere. There are those who want to control women. That’s a problem. So in celebration of Women’s History month, we will explore what it means to be fully human in the public sphere. Share if you agree.

[orlandorollerderby]

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