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Trai_Dep
11/09/09

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...But it's still safe to wear kilts, right? #thekids
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britneyspearstears
11/09/09

@Trai_Dep: if by "safe" you mean awesome! #thekids
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GlasgowRose
11/08/09

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Frock'n'roll! #thekids
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son of spam
11/08/09

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Isn't Hymowitz the name of the Friars' sister club? #thekids
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raincoaster
11/08/09

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So the problem is the eyeliner and not the guns? #thekids
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lionboy
11/08/09

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Being 212 years old, I tend to regard these things as an attempt by "our youth" to discover something against which to rebel after most all of the options have been taken. It seems unless one opts for full-on gunplay, the only other option is gender-defying costume choices. It's so hard to rattle mom's and dad's cages when they already covered the same territory. Imagine the frustration of spending all that time taping down your breasts and stuffing a sock in your panties just to have your egg and sperm donors say, "Wow, Chelsea! You look like an awesome dude, Have a great time tonight tonguing some cheerleader's happy meal." #thekids
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ShanghaiLil
11/08/09

@lionboy: Three words on a t-shirt: "Palin for Prez." If I were his parent, I'd knock the ungrateful little bastard into next week. #thekids
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lionboy
11/08/09

@ShanghaiLil: Nailed it! #thekids
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Eh-ron
11/08/09

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sigh. Even though I gave up years ago trying to argue that MTVmo bands like Fall Out Boy have zero in common with the true emo that grew out of the hardcore scene of 80s, it still pains me to see them and Adam Lambert (are you effing kidding me?) mentioned as emo. I will now go and cry and be old I guess. Jesus that's just depressing. #thekids
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Vulcan Has No Moon
11/08/09

@Eh-ron: Well, now you know how a former goth feels when they walk past a HotTopic in the mall. #thekids
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bens
11/08/09

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I went to high school in the 90's, at a school that enforced a strict dress code. Guess what? The kids who were gay were gay regardless, the skaters were skaters, and the jocks were jocks. Dress codes don't make or break someone's identity.

We're talking about teenagers. Of course they're going to think that the biggest factor in gender identity is dress. These are the kids that buy skateboarding brand t-shirts because they want to identify with skateboarding culture. Sooner or later they're going to realize that wearing a t-shirt doesn't make you a better skateboarder. But for now, they're teenagers, and have a lot to learn. #thekids
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Varnsen
11/08/09

@bens: Yep. This is why teenagers should all be forced to where yellow jumpsuits. Or paisley waistcoats. Something uniform. At school, anyway. #thekids
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PaisleyPajamas
11/08/09

@Varnsen: Paisley looks good on everybody. Really. It does. It's whimsical. #thekids
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Tawnie is saving no daylight
11/09/09

@PaisleyPajamas: To Quote Legally Blonde.. No one looks good in paisley #thekids
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Varnsen
11/09/09

@PaisleyPajamas: That's what I thought until I saw this: [www.demonbuster.com] #thekids
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PaisleyPajamas
11/09/09

@Tawnie is saving no daylight: I was being facetious when I made the comment.

@Varnsen: What the--? People are strange. #thekids
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ms_priestypants
11/09/09

@Varnsen: I couldn't make it more than two pages into that site, but I'm assuming flaming pink is not a DEMON. #thekids
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onebadclam
10/13/09

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I'm anxious to read the report from the Cutest Vampire symposium.
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BookishLookish
10/13/09

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Nice London street team.

I am down on tweens and shan't quit ripping them. --Jack the Tweeter
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heartbreakturnip
10/13/09

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In, British-ese, "Miley Cyrus" means, "Twinks in Drag." FYI.
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misslinda
10/13/09

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I'm getting the sense that this summit, which involves mardi gras beads and cellphone displays, is less about empowering girls and more about getting them out of the house for a few days so that mommy can have some me-time for a change.
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Chore Boy
10/13/09

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Miley Cyrus UK Street Team has a ghetto pass for life after that shootout at the White Castle with the Spanish Gangster Disciples.

MCST=Street cred and geetin' that gwap yo.
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Steverino Begins
05/28/09

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Part of reading and enjoying Vice is learning to put up with all its weird self-contradictions and hypocrisies. It's kind of like hanging around with an addict in that way.
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fileunder
05/28/09

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The Salt Lake City PD should consider running mugshot Wanted ads in Vice.
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NoelleBlue
05/28/09

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I find the backlash against Bloodcopy fascinating, I really do. Gawker has always danced the dance of the devil, attempting to be an interesting and unique blog with distinct voices while also being PROFITABLE. And they've always played with hypocrisy... seriously, the burn-baby-burn attitude towards print is eternal, and obviously enjoyable to the readers who seem to now be pissed off that Gawker is attempting to find a way to stay solvent in a new age. And the editorial staff truly does seem separated from ad games like 'Bloodcopy'... hell, I'm seeing little signs that they're not overly impressed themselves.

Or perhaps they're just sick of the whining. Understandably.

Why is it so important that blogs be seen as the scrappy, independent outsider?

If this, and Twitter's new show, is pissing people off, I would recommend those people get off the interwebs somewhere about now, or adjust. Because the future? This is it.

(however - counter-argument! - it does make posts like this a bit more blatant than usual in their hypocrisy, a bit of 'hi, here's my glass house! I haz painted target!'... if there was some nudge-nudge-wink-wink in it's coverage, I think amusement would be higher, indignation lower. This is a pretty scathing snippet of a similar issue to what you're now dealing with, Mr. Nolan, what with all blow-jobbin' and whippets.)
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