Welcome to the Tuesday Tweet Roundup! This is a collection of a few of our favorite or most popular recent tweets for the Twitterphobic, with extra commentary for those who read them the first time around. If you’re on Twitter and would like to follow us, we’re @BlowfishTwitter.
Quite possibly the most shocking tidbit of the week for us was the reasonable take on same-sex marriage by one Glenn Beck:
Glenn Beck doesn’t think gay marriage is a threat! Wow: http://huff.to/d7cACA
No, it doesn’t sound like he’s going on any Prop. 8 protest marches with us anytime soon, but he did quote Thomas Jefferson: “If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?” It’s the best “live and let live” sentiment we’ve seen from that side in a while, and it was a nice change.
Of course, other men were busy being shocked by far, far, far more trivial things:
OMG Sasha Grey has pubes! (I call this pubic hair style “the Russian” - furry up top, smooth underneath): http://bit.ly/c5yxaw
We love that that article makes the point that it was porn that started the “bare down there” fad — a fad that’s been going on for, what, almost 30 years now? Props to Sasha Grey on both her good-natured response and the way she’s, er, beating the path to acceptance of all pubic hair styles! Hee!
In case a full bush isn’t enough to scare you, here’s something that should make most men lose sleep at night:
For male Twilight fans, they make the Succu Dry: http://bit.ly/4k5sJg
Vagina dentata, anyone?
The journal entry linked in this next tweet is well worth reading, but even more so is the moving story about one woman’s liberating discovery of sluthood that started the whole thing.
Shaming a slut-shamer: http://bit.ly/bWc2J1 (By the awesome @AmandaMarcotte)
We were kinda disappointed we didn’t get more reaction from this video by Second City Network. Very few skits make us laugh out loud and cheer at the end the way this one does:
Harriet Tubman, sexiest abolitionist (video): http://bit.ly/cbeSbl
And, for all you Street Fighter fans out there:
It’s like fanfic for your condom wrapper: http://bit.ly/bAJXz5
(And, for all you non-fans, Street Fighter is a video game where you and your opponent pick your well-built avatar and fight one another.)
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Welcome to the Tuesday Tweet Roundup! This is a collection of a few of our favorite or most popular recent tweets for the Twitterphobic, with extra commentary for those who read them the first time around. If you’re on Twitter and would like to follow us, we’re @BlowfishTwitter.
It was a beautiful week, what with Chief U.S. District Judge Vaugh Walker overturning Prop. 8. One of our favorite tributes on the web was this photo gallery of wedding shots over at Boston.com:
This is what love looks like - Boston.com http://ht.ly/2lLyn (via @DrRuthie)
Of course, it was not all fun and games. Over at AAGblog.com her post on a… questionable “medical” device drew a troll. The post is good, appropriately ripping asunder a device that purports to cure all sorts of diseases by stripping the walls of the vagina. Youch! But it’s in the last two comment threads (#16 and #17) that it gets fun. A helpful hint for troll “Suzanna”: women don’t usually refer to other women as “you girls.” Jeesh!
Do not taunt Happy Fun Vagina Wall Peeler. http://bit.ly/c6ic8f
You guys clearly love real women, as much as we do:
Lane Bryant pokes fun at Victoria’s Secret: [http://bit.ly/c6pTkl}(http://bit.ly/c6pTkl)
Nobody can resist elaborately tattooed boy bits, no matter how not safe for work they are (and, really, they are covered… in tattoo ink):
Who knew tattooed junk sold condoms? http://bit.ly/c6At35 & http://bit.ly/cs9Mhe
This naughty tea bag didn’t strike us as that (as one follower put it) “rude,” but then again, we’re really really really used to being around all sorts of depictions of the human anatomy, especially those sorts of bits:
The perfect pick-me-up when teabaggers got you down: http://bit.ly/bHY48D
Who doesn’t love steampunk… well, steampunk anything, but especially steampunk porn? You all drooled over these ray-gun dildos & vibrators as much a we did. Do be sure to click around and read the backstory/ descriptions of the items. Two fins up for Lady Clankinton!
Now you don’t have to read steampunk porn. You can be it … http://bit.ly/berJWv (via @Richard_Kadrey)
If you didn’t click on this link to a print ad for a New Zealand sex shop, oh, you’re missing out. Subtle, but hilarious. And fairly safe for work — there is a naughty word or two on the page, in fairly big font. But, seriously, it’ll put a big smile on your face, too:
This print ad for a New Zealand sex shop has us smiling, too: http://bit.ly/bZYTgS
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Welcome to the Tuesday Tweet Roundup! This is a collection of a few of our favorite or most popular recent tweets for the Twitterphobic, with extra commentary for those who read them the first time around. If you’re on Twitter and would like to follow us, we’re @BlowfishTwitter
Many of you had an “ah-ha!” moment over this tweet:
Study: Sex promotes brain cell growth: http://bit.ly/9OlziW
We now know why you’re all such smart bunnies!
We still get a little tingly over this Onion piece on gay sex military fantasies, and some of you did, too:
This Onion piece is hotter than some erotica we’ve read: http://onion.com/dfTtsM
We’re also in agreement with the consensus on this one:
Condoms with tiny handles — great idea or ridiculous line extension?http://bit.ly/9NcVva
We just see too many things that can go wrong here, not the least of which is trying to hold tiny handles with lubed up fingers.
This one made us shiver, but made our followers giggle:
We don’t call it “FAIL” we call it “truth in advertising”: http://bit.ly/crshed
This story made other folks as sad as it made us. We’re sorry to bring you down, but it’s the sort of thing that we need to pay attention to so we can make it stop:
Indiana hospital refuses treatment to transwoman http://bit.ly/caprch
Then there was Peta’s ad that marks up Pamela Anderson like a piece of meat:
We love animals and we love hot women, but this ad makes us uncomfortable too, Canada: http://bit.ly/9Zsjmc
A follower pointed out a better ad campaign by Peta, the “turn over a new leaf” ad. We agree; it still plays on sex appeal, but is much more lighthearted and fun. And, hey, free sandwiches!
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/01/lettuce_ladies.php
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Welcome to the Tuesday Tweet Roundup! This is a collection of a few of our favorite or most popular recent tweets for the Twitterphobic, with extra commentary for those who read them the first time around. If you’re on Twitter and would like to follow us, we’re @BlowfishTwitter
You can guess which side we were on in this (ridiculous) brou-ha-ha over a 16-year-old girl using a vibrator:
Post-pubescent girl uses vibrator, pop culture goes insane. In 2010. http://bit.ly/dfqhTL
Alas, you must be 18 years of age to buy from us, but that’s the law.
We were heartened (and greatly amused) by the creativity and wit of the Comic-Con fans who took on the haters who crashed their shindig:
Infamous Westboro Baptist Church protesters are no match for the mighty super heroes that are Comic-Con fans: http://bit.ly/afITw0
Another victory for acceptance, this one more official:
Mississippi school that denied lesbian Constance McMillen her prom will change discrimination policy, pay damages: http://bit.ly/dniTMT
On a more whimsical note, our tweet about a topless woman on horseback drew some commentary. The tweet:
If your cup size is any bigger than hers, we really don’t recommend horseback riding topless: http://bit.ly/dotmE1
One follower mentioned his generously-endowed wife would be quite fetching on horseback, and the visual image in our minds says he’s probably right. We were thinking more about, y’know, proper support and comfort for the woman in question, but we agree that decision should be made on an individual basis by the female riders.
But, alas, our thoughts were not entirely noble! We were greatly amused by this comment:
@buzzvibe @BlowfishTwitter Interesting that she’s wearing english riding breeches but using a western saddle. And totally unsuitable footwear.
We were guilty of not noticing that level of detail, for, um, obvious reasons.
One of our favorite news stories of the week was one that hints at life extension for women. How cool is that? We do wonder how many young women will really be willing to go through major (and, at first, experimental) surgery to remove and save an ovary in their twenties for use after menopause. How many people in their twenties have that much foresight (and money)? Or is the promise of longevity PLUS a snooze button on the biological clock alarm enough of a carrot to overcome those hurdles?
Ovary transplant procedure may set back the biological clock and extend your life expectancy: http://bit.ly/crF5xv
Our controversial tweet of the week (though we don’t really intend to have one every week, we promise) was this one:
Because a game where you have to woo a woman is too hard? Disgusting rape game: http://bit.ly/bKRR4k
The responses varied, but one person wanted to know why were were going after a rape game instead of games where you have to kill everybody you meet, games that make up most of the video game market.
Well, just because we mention one kind of game and not the other does not mean we’re ok with the killing games. And, the fact is, we’re the blog for a sex toy catalog, so we’re more interested in stories that have to do with various aspects of sex and sexuality than with killing.
But — and here’s where it’s going get thorny — some of us here feel that glorifying rape is worse than glorifying killing. Think about it — a lot of those video games are survival games — war, or apocalypse or zombie attack — where killing people is justified, if only for self-defense. But there’s never, ever a good reason to rape someone. Becoming the kind of person who’s willing to pick up a gun and defend yourself is one thing. You have to become the kind of person who rapes people to play the rape video game, and we think that’s going too far.
Let’s end with a cheerful look at retro porn:
1983 Playmate Playoffs are good clean (SFW) porny fun: http://bit.ly/9bTxnk
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Welcome to the Tuesday Tweet Roundup! This is a collection of a few of our favorite or most popular recent tweets for the Twitterphobic, with extra commentary for those who read them the first time around. If you’re on Twitter and would like to follow us, we’re @BlowfishTwitter
This week, we felt your pain over trying to connect with the person of your dreams. While both of these links are presented mainly for their humorous aspects, we can’t help but wonder if there’s just something a little bit broken in the whole pick-up process? It’s nerve-wracking to walk up to someone you find attractive and figure out a non-creepy way to signal more than just a passive interest; we wish we had a real answer to this, we really do.
There’s nothing more fun than reading about earnest failures. 10 worst pick-up lines: http://bit.ly/aUdcWR
Apparently, picking up women is not an intuitive art: http://bit.ly/aCDDRl
We found ourselves a bit disappointed at Spain’s World Cup victory ONLY because we really wondered if Bobby Eden would have actually made good on her promise (and, no, we weren’t following her):
Dutch porn star had promised oral sex to all her Twitter followers if the Netherlands won the World Cup: http://bit.ly/bpYARU
There were some gains in the battle for equality for same-sex couples, from major events:
Argentina becomes first Latin American country to legalize same-sex marriage: http://bit.ly/cXulRE
to stuff that seems trivial until you consider the possibility for increased visibility and, thus, acceptance:
Today show to allow same-sex couples to enter their wedding contests: http://nyti.ms/cC8deb Yay!
We’re keeping an eye on the debate in Helena, Montana over their groundbreaking sex education proposal:
Montana school board wants to teach — gasp! — honest facts about sex: http://bit.ly/dveGs8
Our favorite part of this story about a British hospital renting out a wing for a porn set is the part about the patients watching. That’s sure to liven up the dreary hospital experience quite a bit!
This could solve our health care costs crisis AND raise patient… morale: http://bit.ly/b36UkG
We’ll end this week with couple of our favorite moments of (sexual) whimsy, including the Purssy, which gave at least one of us disturbing dreams:
The Purssy is cute, but you might not want to open it in church: http://bit.ly/aDxZuO
Sometimes I love the world. Behold the Hello Kitty bondage sofa. RT @hellokittyhell: (nsfw) - http://bit.ly/bpMx3v (via @Richard_Kadrey)
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Welcome to the Tuesday Tweet Roundup! This is a collection of a few of our favorite or most popular recent tweets for the Twitterphobic, with extra commentary for those who read them the first time around. If you’re on Twitter and would like to follow us, we’re @BlowfishTwitter.
We paid homage to our geeky roots (at least, many of us have geeky roots) with a tweet that only the Joss Wheadon fans might get:
Whoever dreamed up this picture never saw the TV premiere of Firefly: http://bit.ly/avEN7U
Since some of you asked, the first episode shown on TV of the series Firefly has a scene near the end where (SPOILER ALERT) the main hero character Mal responds to the bad guy’s threat to hunt him down wherever he goes by kicking said bad guy into the the spaceship’s engine intake. We don’t know about you, but that scene has made us incredibly nervous around the engines of all aircraft, and posing nude in front of one seems like a really bad idea.
We’re sort of proud of making the story about the roadside Jesus statue attraction getting hit by lightening into a sex story:
What happens when Jesus gets into electrical stimulation play: http://bit.ly/d2Adxo
We spent far too long reading through these two blog posts about the writer’s visit to Japan’s sex shops. It’s a few years old, but it’s well-written and the stuff he found is absolutely captivating:
The amazing things you can buy in Japan: http://bit.ly/C2wti and http://bit.ly/S9vjS
There was a bit of controversy over our tweet about the anti-rape condom:
Wow! Female condom w/ teeth fights rape: http://bit.ly/995mCs
For the record, we didn’t think it will prevent rape, but the existence of such a thing might serve as a deterrent in the future. Some followers pointed out that even as a deterrent this has problems: once a rapist knows a woman might be wearing one, he could possibly use a device to remove it. And, in the case of multiple attackers, it leaves the woman even more vulnerable to escalated violence. We agree this is a problematic item, but we still think that the effort and good intentions that went into designing such a device is laudable. Perhaps this is only a prototype that will inspire a more effective product in the future!
We’ll wrap this up with a more light-hearted tweet; take a nice long look at a very, very, very fine male derriere:
We’d say something witty, but we’re too mesmerized by his ADORABLE ass: http://bit.ly/b5W8iw
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From McSweeney’s:
In the letter “Laying Late-Night Cable,” it was misstated that “Shelly became immediately aroused at the sight of my rock-hard member straining to be free from my jeans.” In truth, Shelly’s initial demeanor would be best described as visibly uncomfortable and leery.
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