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Sat, 15 Dec 2012 21:38:00 -0800

iamafirehazard: Sounders sign Marcus Hahnemann. I think Adrian...

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:23:43 -0700

iamafirehazard:

Sounders sign Marcus Hahnemann. I think Adrian might have a keeper hoarding problem.

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Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:20:51 -0700

profootballers: Fredy Montero’s (Seattle Sounders) v Timbers

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:20:34 -0700

profootballers:

Fredy Montero’s (Seattle Sounders) v Timbers

My Marketing grading rubric. Oh fuck yes.

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 20:01:36 -0700

My Marketing grading rubric. Oh fuck yes.

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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 21:19:22 -0700

bruisedavocado: The season premiere is today

Sat, 01 Sep 2012 14:09:19 -0700

bruisedavocado:

The season premiere is today

Just finished A Dance With Dragons.

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:48:13 -0700

I refuse to believe it until they say it’s true!

Hala Madrid!

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:26:24 -0700

amandaquegolazo: soccerforlife2314: If Chivas USA rebranded to...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 19:12:08 -0700

amandaquegolazo:

soccerforlife2314:

If Chivas USA rebranded to something like this, I guarantee, they’d attract more fans and more foreign players.

The reason Chivas lacks fans is because they are isolating their team to Guadalajara supporters. That said, it won’t attract every Latin soccer fan. If they changed their name to something like Los Angeles FC or whatever is in this picture, MANY more fans would be willing to give them a chance. I personally, although wouldn’t be a fan of this team, would hate them a lot less because to be honest, they are just “rejects” of not only Guadalajara but also LA. Los Angeles FC would be a great opportunity to allow a more worldly brand like the Galaxy. Chivas USA isn’t going to be a successful project because the owners, Jorge Vergara isn’t willing to spend money on players for this team.

They should spend money on a star player, change the name, and also find their own stadium. Being from the Inland Empire, I personally could see an LA based team in the Ontario area or in Pasadena.

Sharing a stadium with LA Galaxy must be incredibly rough. They’re like the younger brother living in their older brothers shadow failing at life. Why were they named after a Mexican team? Was it to fulfill the dreams of Mexicans in Cali with an American version of their team? Well it isn’t working. Every time I test myself to count the number of teams in MLS, I always forget about Chivas USA. I say rebrand the name, and move the hell out of Carson. The Home Depot can only support one team, and that’s LA Galaxy. Move the team to Arizona, who have a quite a number of fans who follow soccer as well. You’ll get your moneys worth, you’ll spread the league, and increase the number of fans. It’s a WIN WIN.

They’re called Chivas because their initial roster was a group that didn’t make Chivas Guadalajara. It was like a B team.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:43:43 -0700

AVATAR AANG: Let's talk about portrayals of women and femininity in Legend of Korra.

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:40:06 -0700

AVATAR AANG: Let's talk about portrayals of women and femininity in Legend of Korra.:

disconnorr:

sorenrehkopfs:

writingfail:

bobatea3982:

innerpalindrome:

This was one of the most disappointing elements to me, because ATLA was a very feminist series that carefuly avoided a lot of common sexist pitfalls while creating a large and varied cast of empowered women who could choose to embrace or reject femininity to any degree without being treated as less for it. It wasn’t perfect, but it did a damn good job with the ladies. LOK…was really problematic on this level.

Let’s look at a few points:

- There is not a single significant female character over the age of ten who hasn’t had to compete with another woman for a guy. This plays into that gross old stereotype that women need to view each other as rivals and competition, and prevents strong relationships between women from forming. Hell, Pema even encourages this behavior and Korra follows it. Even worse, Korra only feels guilty about kissing a taken guy when his brother finds out. Asami? Who the hell cares if Asami got hurt! Women are supposed to hate each other, right?

- Femininity is treated as inferior. Asami is easily the most feminine of the cast, and Korra judges her for it and thinks she’s ‘prissy.’ She doesn’t earn Korra’s respect until she shows that she has a traditionally masculine interest in racing cars. Until that point, Korra acts like a total brat around her, making faces behind her back, assuming the worst of her, being ungrateful and rude and hostile when Asami had never been anything but nice to her. This plays into the ‘other women as competition’ trope, but Asami has to do things that are unfeminine to make Korra be even remotely civil to her. It should not fucking matter if Asami wanted to take her shopping instead of car racing. And Korra’s judgement of her really isn’t treated as problematic! The most you get is, ‘don’t judge the girly girl, because maybe she does non-girly stuff too!’ Bullshit. There is nothing wrong with enjoying feminine things, and Asami certainly isn’t less for it.

- There aren’t any really strong female relationships. The best we get is Korra and Lin, but this is vague and poorly developed. Hell, they bond in episode six and then hardly interact until the finale. I have a hard time buying this relationship. Korra and Asami is even weaker; as previously mentioned, Asami has to earn a teaspoonful of Korra’s respect and friendship by showing her something masculine. Korra is decent to Asami for all of five minutes when she tells Mako to go to her, and then she appears to forget that Asami exists as anything more than the person who drives the car. They never talk, they don’t even say goodbye to each other in the finale. Calling that a friendship is downright laughable. Korra gets along with Pema, but the only time they actually really talk involves Pema indirectly encouraging Korra to ‘steal’ Mako. Similar with Korra and Tenzin’s girls; I can’t recall the three of them ever talking about anything other than Korra’s love life.

- The only main protagonists to lose their bending were women. We are given physically strong women, but it really undermines it when they have their power taken away and, even worse in Korra’s case, have to be saved by a man. The ending was downright insulting; we’re expected to read Korra as a strong, independent woman, but in the last episode she’s more of a damsel in distress who has her happy ending given to her by a man without having to work for it herself.

I’m hoping the second season will be less gross on this level, but my hopes are just not very high at the moment.

Ok, Just saying, this is a pile of bullshit. The entire series focuses on how the thing that korra masters the easiest is the physical and combat (traditionally male roles) aspect of the avatar’s powers, and has a harder time with the spiritual thoughtful side. Lin and korra are pretty much the biggest badasses in the whole show, and what are you talking about only female characters get their bending stolen? Tarlok? Hello? And saying that it’s sexist cause korra and asami fight over mako? What? what about bolin and mako and korra? And since when is fighting over romantic interests a traditionally feminine thing to do? That’s a human thing, and pretending that it diminishes the status of korra and asami in some weird way is bullshit.

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like you’re talking out of your ass and looking for little shit to be upset about.

Soren, you just said everything I have wanted to say about Tumblr with that last line. It’s not just you. You are so right. Well argued.

I like Soren

No tushy, no brushy.

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 14:38:14 -0700

No tushy, no brushy.

Possibly my favorite human being.

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:55:12 -0700

Possibly my favorite human being.

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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:54:34 -0700

That SKC/NYRB game was awful.

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:13:56 -0700

I want 2 hours of my life back.

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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:17:37 -0700

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Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:50:36 -0700

kicktv: Manchester United’s Barry Robson pregame exchange with...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:46:28 -0700

kicktv:

Manchester United’s Barry Robson pregame exchange with Barcelona’s Diego Maradona

Pretty sure you mean Bryan Robson. Nice try though.