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What is this? It’s the American cargo ship West Mahomet in port, circa November 1918. During World War I British and American merchant ships adopted “dazzle camouflage” in hopes that it would help to confuse their type, size, and heading in enemy rangefinders.

It’s hard to say how well it succeeded as camouflage, but it’s a notable episode in art history: The painting style employed ideas from cubism and vorticism, and English artist Edward Wadsworth, who had helped to direct the effort, continued to pursue these themes even after the war — below is his Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool from 1919.

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Boy-oh-boy! That ink sure is invisible! But do you know what’s NOT invisible? The need to add Luigi into classic chick flicks. Luckily I took care of that here:

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Are you Duran Duran or BSB? Heathers or Mean Girls? Grunge flannel or girly baby tees? This is what happens when sisters of two different generations — Gen X & Gen Y — talk about the things they love…as well as the stuff they don’t quite see eye-to-eye on. Get your copy here!

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Beth Cubriel, Asshole of the Day for March 20, 2014

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Another day, another GOP female official is trotted out to give a lame excuse for not supporting equal pay laws. So far we’ve had Minnesota state Rep. Andrea Kieffer saying equal pay laws would be bad because it makes them seem like whiners and Cari Christman of Red State Women saying women are “too busy” to need equal pay laws. And now we have executive director of the Texas Republican Party, Beth Cubriel saying women just need to be better negotiators:

"Men are better negotiators," Beth Cubriel said on YNN’s "Capital Tonight." "I would encourage women, instead of pursuing the courts for action, to become better negotiators."

The Texas Republican party has come under fire for its stance on fair pay, and its gubernatorial candidate, Greg Abbott, has dodged the question of whether he would support equal pay legislation such as the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The bill allows women to sue their employers for paying their male colleagues more for the same work whenever the pay discrimination is discovered, rather than barring them from doing so after 180 days following the first discriminatory paycheck. The law was inspired by Lilly Ledbetter, a woman who had worked for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. for almost 20 years when she received a note alerting her that she was being paid 40 percent less than her male colleagues of equal or lesser superiority.

She admits that men are paid more, but thinks it’s due to better negotiating.

But maybe she should consider that maybe men are “better negotiators” because the deck isn’t stacked against them. Or that men have an advantage over women because:

• Laws favor men.
• Sexism favors men.

And there are many sexist things which may all contribute to lower pay seeming justified, regardless of negotiation skill:

1. Sexists think women can’t do as good a job, regardless of experience or qualifications. So since they’re perceived to do an inferior job.
2. Sexists think that women may leave the workforce to have children, and are paid less because they aren’t perceived to have the same loyalty to the company.
3. Sexists think that women with children will be distracted by their children’s needs and schedules, and probably take more days off or leave early and generally be less committed and not work as hard.

All of those things would, in a sexist’s mind, justify lower pay.

Or you could just ignore all the evidence of lingering sexism and blame women for not being good negotiators. That’s victim blaming. Some women are being paid less because of sexism, but Beth Cubriel blames them for not being good negotiators. And for that, she is the Asshole of the Day.

It is Beth Cubriel’s first time as Asshole of the Day. She joins Minnesota state Rep. Andrea Kieffer who won yesterday for suggesting that women not have equal pay laws because it makes them seem like whiners.

Full story: HuffPo