Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Talkback!

The post-show audience talkback will take place immediately after the show on Wednesday evening in the Rauh theater.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

"Don't kill me!"

I personally think that Shwarz is the creepiest fucker in the show. When I read the text for the first time, he stuck out to me as the most scary.

Remember George Sodini? He was from around here, in Pittsburgh, and one summer day about two years ago he went to an LA Fitness with a duffel bag full of guns and shot up a women's aerobics class. His journals were full of racist and deeply misogynistic ramblings. He had rage and entitlement issues. And his whole life, women would say he was a "nice guy" while they rejected him.

And, yes, he was well groomed and polite on the surface, but obviously had some problems. The women he hit universally stayed away for a reason.

Read this article about it by Kate Harding. Here's a taste: 
Telling a guy the real reasons you're not interested -- you don't find him attractive, he's way too old for you, you get a distinctly creepy vibe off him, whatever -- or offering no explanation at all, because you just met this guy and owe him nothing, would be "rude." And thanks to the conditioning Harriet describes, exhibiting the slightest hint of "rudeness" to any stranger who approaches you with sex on his mind makes you feel not like a normal human being with healthy boundaries, but a mean, frigid, stuck-up bitch. Worse yet, sometimes, the same man who called you beautiful and offered to buy you a drink ten seconds ago will turn aggressive when you say you're not interested; he'll tell you flat out you're a bitch, or a whore, or less printable things. He'll reject your rejection by getting in your face and losing his temper. So really, it's a lot safer and simpler to say, "Look, you're a nice guy, but no thanks/I have a boyfriend/I can't." Most guys will walk away calmly after that -- and hey, it's none of your concern what they go home and write in their diaries.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Jokes to tell over the act four card game?

What is the difference between a drug dealer and a hooker?
A hooker can wash her crack and sell it again.

What do a woman and a condom have in common?
They're both either in your wallet or on your d!ck.

What's the best thing about a blow job?
Ten minutes silence.

How is a woman different from a toilet?
A toilet doesn't follow you around once you've used it.

Why do women fake their orgasms?
Because they think we care.

Why do men have penises?
So we'd always have a way to shut women up.

More here, here and here.

Our characters are at least as awful as these people.

Any woman writing on the internet, especially if she writes as a feminist, will get disgusting/rapey/terrifying/nonsensical/hateful comments from dudes like the ones I've linked to below (ask me about mine!). They're out there. I've dredged the bottom of the barrel and found some disturbing stuff. Here's a sample:

This article was written by a man but published in a women's magazine, about why men prefer "innocent girls" to "bad girls." He literally compares women who aren't virgins to dirty black snow on the side of the road. That's definitely what Shwarz thinks sex does to people (especially women). It's also why Shöning would rather marry the Baron's pretty schoolgirl daughter than "whore" Lulu (though he doesn't mind fucking her). They put women into "buckets" of good girl you can take home to mom and bad girl you can fuck but not really care about. He also doesn't like women who know more than he does. Yikes.

This guy hates women so much, when he sees a hot girl, he starts to look at her as if she's a dangerous animal in the zoo to stop himself from wanting to have sex with her. (There's also a weird furry porn image of a tiger in a dress at that link.)


"When saying that you want to rape and cut up a woman with a band saw is met with the exact same reaction as saying you want to want to buy them a drink, what ... is the incentive to not be hateful and violent?" (Yeah, that's a direct quote.) This article links to a thread on a Men's Rights forum in which men just rant about their misogyny. One guy seriously traces his ladyrage to a time in the 7th grade when a girl said he had cooties. 

Here's an email some douchebro in a frat at USC sent out to his brothers. In it he talks about  "how to be an effective 'cocksman'" and says that "females are targets, not actual people like us." I get total frat-boy vibes from Rodrigo, maybe this guy is him.

I've posted all this here to show that there are people at least as awful as the Lulu characters in the real world today. All of the posts I've linked are only about a month old. Seriously! The anonymous message board is the place these creeps feel free to let their freak flags fly. Maybe treat the Lulu space like it's your internet. Lose your pants and drop a proverbial dump all over the damn place.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

FL GOP Rep. Says 11-Year-Old Was Gang Raped ‘Because She Was Dressed Like A 21 Year-Old Prostitute’

Quote from the congresswoman:
There was an article about an 11 year old girl who was gangraped in Texas by 18 young men because she was dressed up like a 21-year-old prostitute. And her parents let her attend school like that. And I think it’s incumbent upon us to create some areas where students can be safe in school and show up in proper attire so what happened in Texas doesn’t happen to our students.

To recap: to remain safe, girls must not dress in a way that doesn't remind this woman of a sex worker.

No word to men not to gang-rape children.

Read the article here.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Syphilis

As it turns out, there's a specific type of "tertiary syphilis" called Late Neurosyphilis which develops a few years after initial infection and can affect the central nervous system. Symptoms include seizures, "lightening pain the lower extremities," poor balance (so it makes sense that Act V Alva can't remain standing for long), and dementia (so it makes sense that he's a little loopy).

A person in this stage of syphilis isn't contagious. So Alwa and Lulu could still be doin' it and Lulu could remain healthy.

Alvin and the Chipmunks - Bicycle Built For Two



I was just looking for the song, but this is hilarious and perfect and creepy!

The one below creepy too, but not in an interesting useful way. It's much easier to hear the song, though, without the chipmunkey harmonies.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Sex for Sale in Pittsburgh

I hope some of you can find the time to come to this talk if you're interested at all in human trafficking. At least read the text of the poster- that on the map is some guy's review of a sex worker.
Seriously.

Eighteen Men Gang-Rape an Eleven-year-old Girl.

And this article about it in the New York Times:
  • reminds us that the incident "destroyed" the small Texas town in which the crime took place.
  • reminds us that it is tragic that the men will "have to live with this for the rest of their lives."
  • asks the question, "where was her mother?"
  • tells us that the victim wore makeup, dressed "like a woman in her 20s," and hung out with teenage boys on the playground in a bad neighborhood.
Maybe another terrible thing to turn into small talk- how these poor rapists now have to live with with this, and how an eleven-year-old girl was too tempting and deserved it, and how her mother should have been with her 24/7.

Basically, blame men's crimes on women, then feel pity for the consequences men face.

This is mainstream, respected journalism, not some wack-o misogynists in a message board somewhere.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Charlie Sheen's "Disposable Women"

Here's a New York Times op-ed putting forth a theory as to why Charlie Sheen has been able to get away with all the scary violence he's done to women in his long career and is only just now feeling any flak for it. Anna Holmes thinks that the women Sheen has chosen to spend his time with, the women he's chosen to victimize, are what our culture deems "disposable women." Some are sex workers, but all are young, attractive women who trade on their sexuality. Golddiggers, sluts, whores. The thought is that women who use their sexuality for financial gain deserve violence, that violence against this kind of woman is inevitable, the women are just collateral damage when a rich white guy wants to have some "boys will be boys"-style fun.

Read the article!

Lulu comics by John Linton Roberson!

Amazing. Check it out online.

One more Guy Bourdin


Food!!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Eric Prydz - Call On Me



This is probably how Rodrigo works out.

"Who knows, you might even be cured."

In South Africa, lesbians live in fear of "corrective" rape. Groups of men gang-rape and murder lesbians to "cure" them and the government largely ignores the hate crimes.

Video and news article here. And it's from 2009, so this is really recent and relevent.

Everyone's so mean to Geschwitz! And in the real world, lesbians do face quite a lot of harassment.