People Who Need to STFU Today
A clearinghouse of the latest in offensive quotations from people who really should've just kept their nonsense to themselves.
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I’m publishing a link to this rather than the image itself. Urban Outfitters UK is selling a card (buyers are told “Send your greetings in style with this charming card.”) that features that t-word slur, in the context of yet another story of a trans person hiding their status and “shocking” a date with their genitals. Transphobic, stigmatizing, stereotyping, crass, ugly, demeaning, disgusting.
Urban Outfitters sucks in so many ways, but this is new and unbelievable. This requires more than just my usual signoff. Let them know how you feel, on Twitter @uoeurope and Facebook. Let them know how entirely unacceptable this is.
And tell them, hey, Urban Outfitters (Europe): STFU!
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We are taking a beating over this. This is all very unsettling. I’m sure if George Zimmerman had the opportunity to relive Sunday, Feb. 26, he’d probably do things differently. I’m sure Trayvon would, too.
That’s Sanford, Florida Police Chief Bill Lee again, this time blaming Trayvon Martin for his own murder. I can’t even with this man. I’m not even bothering to link because reading the whole thing is just nauseating.
I’m thinking I need some kind of graphic with an award, because the chief is perilously close to winning my:
STFU FOREVER YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER BAG OF DICKS
award.
Bill Lee, shut the fuck up. Sit all the way down and shut up forever. Don’t ever speak again on this earth. Just shut up and stay shut up.
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Now Jodi Picoult can share bragging rights: the billboard promoting her new book, “Lone Wolf,” went up in February near Ruby Foo’s restaurant on 49th Street. Picoult, who enters this week’s hardcover fiction list at No. 1, hasn’t been shy about criticizing her fellow novelist (and Eugenides’s friend) Jonathan Franzen.
Gregory Cowles in today’s New York Times. Jodi Picoult has the number one book in the country and a giant promotional billboard in New York City. The entirety of what Cowles had to say about that (in today’s “Inside the List” feature in the Sunday Book Review) is shown there, with a hint of what he really felt he needed to talk about: Jonathan Franzen. Because when a female author finally snags a #1 position, what’s really important is what some self-important man thinks about her (and the social media she uses to her professional benefit while he dislikes it).
Gregory, if you can’t talk about Picoult as a writer with a twenty year career, or about the fact that this is her third debut at the #1 position, and instead have to shift the focus to the Times darling boy Franzen, then just talk about Franzen. Leave Jodi out of it, because you clearly don’t have anything important to say about her. She’s not your springboard.
Oh, and Gregory? STFU!
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I don’t have to recite the statistics about the living conditions of the growing number of babies being born, not to married couples, but to single moms (50-plus percent of American babies born to women under 30; 40-plus percent of all babies, and climbing). Most of these moms, interestingly, never wanted an abortion. It’s the educated women who get them with little hesitation or remorse.
Bonnie Bramlett being completely wrong, completely classist, completely ugly and just ridiculous about the “politics of pregnancy and hypocrisy” in today’s Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune.
Bonnie, you’re just so offensive it’s appalling. This was so bad I could barely pick out just one bit to quote. I heartily welcome you to STFU.
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I think it’s terrible someone should be denied (permanent residency in Canada) because a person has autism … but they (Immigration Canada) do kind of have a point because it is an expensive disorder.
That’s the mealy mouthed “advocacy” of Trish Simons, president of the Hamilton chapter of Autism Ontario upon learning that Canada is deporting a family because their 12 year old son has autism because the disorder “might” cost Canada too much money (despite the fact that thus far, the few treatments and accommodations that the boy has needed have been fully funded by his family).
Oh Trish, Trish, Trish. Advocacy? You’re doing it wrong. All the way wrong. Have a seat. And STFU.
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The hysteria, the media circus, it’s just crazy. It’s the craziest damn thing I’ve ever seen, and it’s sad. It’s sad for the city of Sanford, the police department, because I know in my heart we did a good job.
Sanford, Florida police chief Bill Lee, trying to make himself the story as his department continues to fail to arrest or charge George Zimmerman for what’s beginning to look like a full blown execution style murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin.
Chief Lee, eat a bowl of dicks, and STFU, you racist scumbag.
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I stand in opposition to this bill, because it almost tries to say that the government cares more about children than their parents.
That’s Maryland State Senator Edward R. Reilly (R-Anne Arundel) reacting to a bill that prohibits smoking in a car when children under 8 are passengers. I’m just gonna let this one simmer.
Oh, but hey, Eddie? STFU.
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<3 your blog... it makes me smile
Asked by browngurlwfro
Thank you! This is better than what these quotes were doing to me and my friends yesterday, which involved incoherent growling, copious swearing and a general raging!
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Hello. Just wanted to point out that the post about the billboard from American Atheists was, I believe, misguided. They were posting a Bible verse to point out how racist the Bible is, not promote slavery. Were you saying it was "disgusting" because you believed the American Atheists were ripping a verse out of context or because you thought they actually promoted the idea of slavery? Just curious.
Asked by hystericacoustic-deactivated201
The billboard was disgusting because no one gets to co-opt images of slavery for their own political agenda. There are, off the top of my head, about 94 ways they could’ve actually protested the problem (that the Pennsylvania legislature made a proclamation that 2012 is the “year of the Bible”) including pointing toward PA’s growing (though still limited) religious diversity or that pesky First freaking Amendment.
Instead they exploitatively use
an image of a black person (literally) in bondage, don’t explain their problem with the legislature’s proclamation and expect people to be angry at the legislature because of something they don’t get, taken out of context from what 85+ percent of those who would’ve seen it consider their holiest of holy documents? No.It was ugly, it was snarky, it wasn’t informative and it was racist as hell. Because they were right about the proclamation doesn’t give them a pass for this stunt by a long shot.
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I’m not making anybody watch, OK. Because you just have to close your eyes. As long as it’s on the exterior and not the interior.
My jackass governor, Tom Corbett (R-PA) on the state’s proposed mandatory preabortion ultrasound bill, proving that he doesn’t understand the issues, doesn’t understand the mandated procedure, and doesn’t give a damn, because it’s not going to be his body invaded.
Hey Tom? STFU. Just STFU and stay shut up.
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I felt relieved, and really annoyed: relieved that Laura and her baby were completely healthy, and annoyed that I had been forced — it seemed to me — to clean up the lay midwife’s mess.
Adam Wolfberg, OB/GYN complaining that when a homebirthing patient transferred into his care at Tufts University Medical Center, he was forced to do his job. On this basis, Dr. Wolfberg has arrogantly tried to make a “case” against homebirth. He failed.
Adam, bubbeleh? STFU.
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…“I favor the Violence Against Women Act and have supported it at various points over the years, but there are matters put on that bill that almost seem to invite opposition,
That’s Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, also jawing about the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization. Those “matters” that the GOP are so twitchy about? Expanding IPV programs for Native Americans and those in same-sex relationships and expanding the possibility that immigrants whose marriages are their qualifier for remaining in the U.S. can retain legal residency status even if they leave those marriages because of IPV. Shocking stuff, really. How dare the Democrats look out for people being stalked, threatened, controlled, isolated, beaten and raped?
Hey Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (not even joking) as usual, today you need to STFU!
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There are lots of other issues right now that could be dealt with other than this one,” said Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, who is responsible for Republican messaging. “I suspect there’s a reason for bringing it up now.
That’s Senator Thune’s feelings about the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The reason for bringing it up now is quite simply that the programs funded through VAWA need to have the money reauthorized. But that’s apparently not as important as some other top items in the Republican agenda like… uh… um… uh…
Senator Thune, good morning, now, STFU!
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But when radical feminists publicly demand that their right to worry-free fornication be subsidized via a new government-enforced entitlement aggressively shoved down the throats of religious institutions in direct contravention to their principles, heedlessly trampling the First Amendment, it’s time to use scorn and ridicule to fight back.
Bill Frezza, who couldn’t simply make the point in his Forbes Magazine blitherings today that he doesn’t think employers should have to give ANY health insurance to their employees at all and instead had to lard it up with some ugly misogynistic bullshit, slutshaming and justifying it in the name of… who the hell knows what?
Bill Frezza, please drink a nice hearty cup of STFU.
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Really? Really?
Oh, American Atheists and PA Nonbelievers, I don’t even know where to begin to explain to you how disgusting this is.
Please, be the first in line to STFU.
