Lisa Hanawalt Tumblr Giveaway
I’m giving away a big grab bag of comics, doo-dads, and books I did illustrations for. Some of these things aren’t available in stores yet! Some of these things will blow your mind!
WHATCHOO GET?
- The Sexy Book of Sexy Sex
- Masterpiece Studio Paint-by-Number Kit
- Farts Around the World: A Spotter’s Guide
- The first two issues of my comic book series, I Want You.
- A Poketo mousepad
- A creepy horsey letterpress print
- AND MORE.
RULES!
- You must be following my Tumblr, lisahanawalt.com
- No likes, only reblogs
- Please reblog just once per person
- I’ll pick the winner using a randomizer, wee!
I’ll announce the winner on Friday, September 23. Hot dog, reblog!
P.S. Thanks to the awesome Inés Estrada for giving me the idea to do this. Follow her Tumblr too!
![Had to re-post this from my friend Raphael.
boringoldraphael:
I recently encountered a banner ad for CollegeHumor’s email newsletter. The newsletter, the ad promised, offers a weekly rundown of the site’s funny pictures, original videos, and hot girls.
This ad really took me by surprise. CollegeHumor has done such a good job of reinventing itself over the last five years as a premier sketch comedy hub I’d completely forgotten that it started as little more than links to funny pictures and hot girls. But if you go to the site, you’ll see that they do in fact still feature sexy pictures, organized into two categories: Cute College Girl, and Hottest College Girl.
This is women-as-objects, plain and simple. I’m sure these pictures drive up web traffic, but I don’t know what they have to do with Humor, College or otherwise.
CollegeHumor is a comedy site, and a good one, and a very influential one, especially among young people. The fact that it still has a page devoted to seemingly-not-comedy-related sexy girls gives credence to the lie that comedy is for men, and not just men, but men who like looking at pictures of sexy girls.
CollegeHumor Managing Editor Sarah Schneider recently contributed an essay to Splitsider’s Women in Comedy week. In it, she bemoans the dearth of female applicants and asks why more funny women don’t seek internships at CH. I’m curious what CollegeHumor is doing to court female comedians, because when I visit the site, I get a clear message: If you’re a woman and you want to be featured on CollegeHumor, you can be smart and funny like Sarah Schneider, or you can be a hot co-ed who takes a sexy picture of herself (and you have a much better shot if you’re the latter).
In the comments of Schneider’s article, Splitsider editor Adam Frucci defends CollegeHumor against accusations of sexism by stating that “CollegeHumor caters towards a young, male audience […] but catering to a male audience is not the same as being sexist or female-unfriendly.” I would amend his statement slightly: Catering to a male audience doesn’t have to be the same as being sexist or female-unfriendly. And yet, so often it is.
SIDE NOTE: It’s alarming how normal this sort of thing is. The Daily What is a blog I enjoy and regularly reblog. It features interesting videos and links to great articles. The blog has a proudly progressive editorial slant and regularly admonishes homophobes and racists. Every night they post a series of Late Links, which are primarily pictures of supermodels in lingerie and celebrity cleavage. This makes me uncomfortable every time, and I can’t imagine I’m the only one.
The reason I’m focusing on CollegeHumor and The Daily What is not because they’re the worst, or even because I want to make examples of them, but because in general I think of these guys as the good guys, and I think they have more power than they realize. It would be so easy to just stop bundling in cheesecake photos with their other content. This is not the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or a million dollar Super Bowl ad. I’ve visited the CollegeHumor offices in New York. They’re full of young people like me who have a seriousness about their craft and a pride in what they do.
I know for a fact that several CollegeHumor employees, some very high up, read my blog. If you work for CollegeHumor (or The Daily What) and you’re reading this, I implore you to ask yourself the following questions:
1) Are you aware that what you do / what your company does objectifies women, and not subtly or accidentally, but blatantly and proudly?
2) Does this embarrass you as much as it embarrasses me?
3) Is there anything you can do to make things better? Maybe you don’t have the authority to make a change, but maybe you know someone who does? And maybe that person is just waiting for someone like you to speak up?
This kind of casual objectification of women isn’t harmless, and it isn’t necessary. The subtext here is “We need to rely on these cheap tactics to drum up hits because we don’t believe our content is strong enough to support itself.” That might have been true in the early going, but I can’t believe it’s true today. Give yourselves some credit, guys. You’re better than this.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_liseo5QiuY1qzt0gko1_500.jpg)
Had to re-post this from my friend Raphael.
I recently encountered a banner ad for CollegeHumor’s email newsletter. The newsletter, the ad promised, offers a weekly rundown of the site’s funny pictures, original videos, and hot girls.
This ad really took me by surprise. CollegeHumor has done such a good job of reinventing itself over the last five years as a premier sketch comedy hub I’d completely forgotten that it started as little more than links to funny pictures and hot girls. But if you go to the site, you’ll see that they do in fact still feature sexy pictures, organized into two categories: Cute College Girl, and Hottest College Girl.
This is women-as-objects, plain and simple. I’m sure these pictures drive up web traffic, but I don’t know what they have to do with Humor, College or otherwise.
CollegeHumor is a comedy site, and a good one, and a very influential one, especially among young people. The fact that it still has a page devoted to seemingly-not-comedy-related sexy girls gives credence to the lie that comedy is for men, and not just men, but men who like looking at pictures of sexy girls.
CollegeHumor Managing Editor Sarah Schneider recently contributed an essay to Splitsider’s Women in Comedy week. In it, she bemoans the dearth of female applicants and asks why more funny women don’t seek internships at CH. I’m curious what CollegeHumor is doing to court female comedians, because when I visit the site, I get a clear message: If you’re a woman and you want to be featured on CollegeHumor, you can be smart and funny like Sarah Schneider, or you can be a hot co-ed who takes a sexy picture of herself (and you have a much better shot if you’re the latter).
In the comments of Schneider’s article, Splitsider editor Adam Frucci defends CollegeHumor against accusations of sexism by stating that “CollegeHumor caters towards a young, male audience […] but catering to a male audience is not the same as being sexist or female-unfriendly.” I would amend his statement slightly: Catering to a male audience doesn’t have to be the same as being sexist or female-unfriendly. And yet, so often it is.
SIDE NOTE: It’s alarming how normal this sort of thing is. The Daily What is a blog I enjoy and regularly reblog. It features interesting videos and links to great articles. The blog has a proudly progressive editorial slant and regularly admonishes homophobes and racists. Every night they post a series of Late Links, which are primarily pictures of supermodels in lingerie and celebrity cleavage. This makes me uncomfortable every time, and I can’t imagine I’m the only one.
The reason I’m focusing on CollegeHumor and The Daily What is not because they’re the worst, or even because I want to make examples of them, but because in general I think of these guys as the good guys, and I think they have more power than they realize. It would be so easy to just stop bundling in cheesecake photos with their other content. This is not the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or a million dollar Super Bowl ad. I’ve visited the CollegeHumor offices in New York. They’re full of young people like me who have a seriousness about their craft and a pride in what they do.
I know for a fact that several CollegeHumor employees, some very high up, read my blog. If you work for CollegeHumor (or The Daily What) and you’re reading this, I implore you to ask yourself the following questions:
1) Are you aware that what you do / what your company does objectifies women, and not subtly or accidentally, but blatantly and proudly?
2) Does this embarrass you as much as it embarrasses me?
3) Is there anything you can do to make things better? Maybe you don’t have the authority to make a change, but maybe you know someone who does? And maybe that person is just waiting for someone like you to speak up?
This kind of casual objectification of women isn’t harmless, and it isn’t necessary. The subtext here is “We need to rely on these cheap tactics to drum up hits because we don’t believe our content is strong enough to support itself.” That might have been true in the early going, but I can’t believe it’s true today. Give yourselves some credit, guys. You’re better than this.
Current Show!
I am performing in the Bay Area One Acts Festival this March. BOA produces the best short plays by local playwrights from independent theater companies in San Francisco. But don’t take my word for it: www.bayoneacts.org.
I am in program 2, playing a mother that is desperately trying to escape the vortex of her family life. The lineup ranges from a slapstick piece about mortgage fraud, to a romantic bus stop interlude, to a dance piece about Hiroshima. It’s really fun. See below:
TWICE AS BRIGHT, By Daniel Heath
A woman waits for a bus and decides to fall in love and break up with the next man she meets before she gets on her bus. She has ten minutes to make it happen.
Directed by Sara Staley/Playwrights Center, SF
THE HOT SPOT, By Tim Bauer
A couple discovers a strange pool of light in their living room that, whenever they step into, compels them to perform monologues.
Directed by Rob Ready/PianoFight Productions
A THREE LITTLE DUMPLINGS ADVENTURE, By Megan Cohen
A delightfully twisted tale of three little dumpling’s epic adventure through the house one afternoon.
Directed by Jessica Holt/3WM
PURE BALTIC AVENUE, By Bennett Fisher
A mortgage fraud scheme turns into a clockwork frenzy as three suits struggle to get rich and escape unscathed. It’s a simple premise, really.
Directed by Alex Curtis/Threshold
CANARY YELLOW, By Sharif Abu-Hamdeh
A couple’s relationship rewinds; a review of loss and love, in its absurdity and poignancy.
Directed by Sara Judge/Theater Pub
CLOUD FLOWER, By 11th Hour Ensemble
Cloud Flower explores the memory of the atom bomb’s devastation of Hiroshima through the tangled dreams of one of its survivors. Using trademark imagination and physicality, the 11th Hour Ensemble presents an evocative take on the infamy of the Mushroom Cloud.
Created and directed by Allison Combs and Ryo Harada/11th Hour Ensemble
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Festival Tickets are $20 for General Admission. $32 tickets include VIP seating and a copy of the play anthology. Wednesday and Thursday performances are pay-what-you-can for students. http://bayoneacts.org/tickets/
OPENING NIGHT PARTY - MARCH 6th!
There will be an Opening Night party after Program 2 at Rancho Parnassus, 505 Minna Street. Rancho Parnassus is an exciting new art space on the corner of 6th and Minna (just a block away from the theatre). Their website is strange and awesome!!! http://ranchoparnassus.org/
About
Siobhan Marie Doherty is a San Francisco based actress and voice-over artist. She received her BFA from NYU, and is a resident of Old Kent Road Theater.
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