I have a Yahoo mail account which has done me well over the years. When you log out of mail you’re taken to the Yahoo ‘home’ page (which I’m convinced is one of the reasons that Yahoo has such high view stats — even though I’m not actually choosing to go there).
Yahoo still thinks I’m in Canada so I get Canadian focused news. Today two of the five highlighted stories just made me sick/angry/depressed/incredulous.
NDP proposal to change party name could prove embarrassing in Quebec
Now abbreviated as the NPD in the province, the party faces the prospect of becoming known as the PD – initials that sound like “pede,” a derogatory term for a homosexual derived from the French word “pederaste.”
1. Sounds like pede. Sounds like.
2. Who cares if it does?
3. It’s not 1959. Do Quebecois really still call homos a derivative of pederast(e)? Really?
The seven deadly beauty sins
Industry makeup experts reveal the most common makeup mistakes. Are you guilty?
1. Deadly beauty sins. I know they’re playing on ‘seven deadly sins’ but is ‘deadly’ appropriate when referring to makeup?
2. Am I guilty? No doubt I’m a heretic but I feel no guilt.
3. Let’s pile some misogyny on top of that misogyny.
The worst sin is dark lipliner worn with a lighter shade of lipstick. It just looks ghastly, like a bad tattoo. Or worse, like an exotic dancer.
Eurgh. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable.
And the cynic in me knows that they get more clickthroughs for ‘writing’ rubbish like this because of the outrage of bloggers.
Stupid thing is that dark lipliner and lighter lipstick was highly recommended in the late 80s – you know, the time of Poppy King matt lipstick, grunge and all that. There was a segment on Oprah or some such talk show about how women can get their lipliner tattooed on to save time in the morning. Guess they’re feeling pretty silly right now.
Actually in Québec the more commonly used term is un fif, as in Fifi. A lesbian is, strangely, une fiffine.