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University Sex Columns, Reviewed: Unexpected Butt Boner Edition

The battle for ideological dominance in our nation’s capital’s collegiate sex columns continues. Are our local campus columnists on the forefront of radical sex writing, or are they bringing back the good old days of blaming girls for getting unexpected boners rubbed on their butts?

This week: How to get laid without anyone knowing you got laid; sympathy for Rihanna is running out; butt boners!

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Why Is Rihanna Expected to be a Feminist Icon?

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’s new song, “Russian Roulette,” was released two days ago, and it’s already been deemed too shocking for the sensitive ears of America’s youth. “What message do think it sends to the millions of girls who admire Rihanna as an artist?” asks Deborah Reber of Rihanna’s barbed-wire cover pic. Anna North of Jezebel wrote that “the song isn’t one I’d want my kids singing in the car, if I had kids or a car.” Despite the pearl-clutching, the main party that’s been offended by Rihanna’s dark relationship ballad is not The Children—the real concern is that Rihanna has somehow slighted the fully-grown feminist movement. How did a 21-year-old pop star get lifted to a place where she could let feminism down in the first place?

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How Censoring “No Homo” Will Help Hip-Hop

Listening to Hot 99.5 yesterday, I was interested to hear the radio station bleep out the latest trend in hip-hop homophobia: “no homo.” “No homo,” for the uninitiated, is a little piece of wordplay which works to neutralize any potentially “gay” interpretations of a rapper’s lyrics. For a full review of the term, check out Bryan Safi’s informative piece, above.

Recently, Hot 99.5 washed the term out of Kanye West’s contribution to Jay-Z’s “Run This Town.” In the track, Kanye employs the phrase in order to insist that he does not regularly engage in gay orgies. “It’s crazy how you can go from being Joe Blow,” Kanye says. “To everybody on your dick—no homo.”

Generally, radio censorship only inspires listeners to imagine the offensive term in their head. In the case of “no homo,” however, bleeping may also serve a valuable and unintentionally hilarious function!

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Chris Brown Wedding Video: Unbearable Cuteness With a Side of Domestic Abuse

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So, the cutest viral wedding video of the moment—dare you not to cry!—is this wedding entrance dance staged to Chris Brown’s “Forever.” Goddamnit!

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Huffington Post: Liberal Politics, Sexist Entertainment

It’s no secret that The Huffington Post fancies itself a left-leaning Web rag. Wikipedia describes Arianna Huffington’s aggregatorial monster as “an American liberal news website.” Conservapedia’s definition, however, might be more helpful: “The site is an extreme mouthpiece for liberals,” it reads. “The Huffington Post calls itself an internet newspaper of blogs, news and video but often is referred to as a hate site where its one-sided news cannot be trusted.”

But even HuffPo’s liberal readership gets tired of hating on conservatives sometimes, guys. Sometimes, they just want to sit back, relax, and look at accidentally bare nipples—just like the rest of America. This one-sided liberal hate site has one fatal weakness—boobs. Let’s check out some recent stories from the Huffington Post’s entertainment section:

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Chris Brown Rihanna Assault Reenactment: Activism or Voyeurism?

DoSomething.org has staged a video reenactment of Chris Brown’s assault of Rihanna, based on details from the police report. The video features two fresh-faced white teenagers (not the celeb look-a-likes) miming the fight while a narrator reads from the police detective’s account of the incident:

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Ghostface Killah Dedicates Track to Rihanna

Via Broadsheet: Ghostface Killah has cut through all the Chris Brown apologist bullshit and released a track in support of Rihanna. Kinda. Here’s the intro:

This is for all my women out there that be getting beat up, you know what I mean, struggling, welfare, sometimes the jobs ain’t right, they going through mad trauma, especially with they man when they don’t really need that shit.

Rihanna’s own mad trauma isn’t the subject of the song, but her name is called out several times in the background. Listen to the track, after the jump:

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Does Hitting Women Make You More Of A Man?

Roissy thinks that Chris Brown beating Rihanna makes him an “Alpha.” Writes Roissy:

Alpha isn’t always “amused mastery” or grace under pressure. Sometimes, in fact a lot of times, it’s a flying flurry of fists to the face, in the case of Rihanna leaving its demon mark as shadow horns on its victim AKA enabler.

The post then descends into a desperate and masturbatory pursuit of page views.

My favorite response to Roissy, from Uncommon Priors:

I am tempted to fly to D.C. and manifest my alphaness by beating the shit out of Roissy for this post.

Perhaps some good can come of this. All the men who think they’re the Alpha-est get together and try to beat each other up the hardest. The winner gets to blog about how much he hates women from prison, where he won’t get to see any.

Last Week’s Most Popular Blog Posts: Transgender Sorority Edition

1. Menace to Sorority, wherein a George Washington University sorority accepts a transgender male, forces him out, claims they thought he was just a lesbian.

2. Why Does D.C.’s First Lesbian Bar Have a Problem With Marines? Find the answer in the comments.

3. Sexist Beatdown: Rihanna V. Chris Brown Edition, wherein we discuss whether celeb-obsessed Perez Hilton addicts can provide any positive insight into domestic violence.

4. Does Bonobo Porn Turn You On, Ladies? Well, apparently, yes.

5. Las Vegas’ Prolific Prostitutes: Unimpressive, because they’re all just glorified tresspassers!

Chris Brown Inspires Local Domestic Violence Action

Tonight, a “summit” on a new “domestic violence prevention campaign” will be held at the Union Temple Church at 1225 W St. SE. The summit, put on by the Ward 4 Education Council, “EZ Street” of Radio-One WKYS, Union Temple youth leaders, and WEAVE (Woman Empowered against Violence) is inspired by two recent events: First, the Chris Brown and Rihanna blow-up in Los Angeles! Second, that whole hair-pulling melee at Cardozo High School, which actually occurred within the District limits. The meeting will be held tonight at 7 p.m.; the full presser is after the jump.

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