See, here's the deal. I don't particularly want kids. No, it's not a phase. I don't think they're icky because I'm "young" (I'm 24, there are people my age who have school-age kids). I mean, someone my age can make a valid choice to have kids, but my choice not to is invalid? Make sense?
Here's a good article about people choosing not to have kids.
Also, when this was posted on Feministing, it was accompanied by this gem from The Simpsons:
Bart: Mom, I locked your keys in the car.
Marge: Then wait in the shadows!
Bart: Also, Maggie puked in your purse again.
Lindsey Naegle: Poor me… all my purse is full of is disposable income.
I do love my dog, though.
Friday, February 29, 2008
All My Purse Is Full Of Is Disposable Income...
Jesus Tapdancing Christ
Could someone please explain to me when rape became funny?
It's things like this that make rape victims not tell anyone, not report the crime, and act like nothing happened. We live in a culture that blames victims for crimes committed against them. Shirts like this just perpetuate that tragedy.
If you would like to complain, go here.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Couldn't Have Said It Better Myself
There is a fantastic article on Cleveland.com about Hillary Clinton. It's called We Bruise Out Daughters When We Bash Hillary Clinton.
But wait.
Before you go "you don't have to like Clinton to be a feminist" or "voting for Obama doesn't make me sexist" go read the article. Every word. Especially the sentence "I don't think every woman should support Hillary Clinton just because she's a woman."
It's not about unquestioningly voting for Clinton because of gender. It's about the damage caused when she is judged inconsistently with her male opponents because of her gender and how that effects little girls and their views of what they will be able to do when they grow up.
It's a fantastic article. Go read it.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Emma Thompson Thinks Losing Weight Is Stupid
And it is, if you're already a skinny actress.
Emma Thompson threatened to quit a film after the company asked co-star Hayley Atwell to lose weight for her role. The two will star together alongside Michael Gambon (a.k.a. replacement Dumbledore) in a remake of Brideshead Revisited.
I think Emma Thompson is just awesome for this. Generally, unless they are playing an anorexic or a heroin addict, there's no reason for actresses to lose weight for a film. First off, most of them are already really skinny or they wouldn't be working. Second, why can't we agree that whatever weight someone's body does naturally is beautiful for that person?
Tina Fey Has Been Promoted to Goddess
Tina Fey did an awesome bit on Saturday Night Live this week talking about Hillary Clinton.
Excerpt:
Maybe what bothers me the most is that people say that Hillary is a bitch.
Let me say something about that: Yeah, she is.
And so am I and so is this one. (pointing to Amy Poehler)
POEHLER: Yeah, deal with it.
FEY: Know what? Bitches get stuff done.
That's why catholic schools use nuns as teachers instead of priests.
Those nuns are mean old clams and they sleep on cots and they're allowed to hit you.
At the end of the school year you HATED those bitches
but you KNEW the capital of Vermont!
So COME ON Texas and Ohio
Get on board, it's not too late!...
BITCH IS THE NEW BLACK!
On top of this, SNL did a skit poking fun at the media (especially CNN) for their Obama worship by having a debate in which the moderators are all "Obamaniacs" and ask him ridiculous questions like "Can I get you anything?" while at the same time not actually asking Hillary anything except to talk about what states she's lost to Obama. It went on a little long and got sort of annoying, but the general idea behind it was hilarious.
It was hard to find that online, by the way. NBC apparently had a hissy fit so it's not on YouTube anymore. So if that video suddenly stops working, it's probably for the same reason and I apologize in advance.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Quick and Dirty Update
Since I've been falling down on the job, I thought I'd just post a bunch of links that are interesting/infuriating. I guess you could say this is a la Feministing's Weekly Feminist Reader. Except I focus not only on feminism but also on other issues. And you know, there's is probably better. Anyhoo...
A teacher was fired for being pregnant. Because it's a catholic school and she wasn't setting "a good example as a [c]hristian in her personal and academic life" by having premarital sex. Apparently the catholics are exempt from Title IX and other laws? I really hope this woman sues them hard. I wonder if they'd fire a man for fathering a child while unmarried. I doubt it.
I hope I'm not the last person to discover this delightful site. Is Obama the messiah? Many of his followers (the ones that hero-worship him without knowing anything about his actual platform) seem to think so.
Jennifer Lopez had twins. On of each. I don't know why we care so much about celebrity babies, but there you go.
Lindsay Lohan was used as a model to recreate Marilyn Monroe's last photo shoot. Don't ask me why.
This is the part where happy fat people say "boo-ya": feeling like you are too fat is actually worse for you than being fat. Which means accepting your body no matter what size it is benefits you more than obsessive dieting. I'll probably go into more depth about this later.
In political news, Obama is now slightly ahead in delegates, though I still maintain we won't be certain until the actual convention. And allegedly John McCain may be schtupping some lobbyist. A republican getting a little on the side? *gasp* Aren't they supposed to be bastions of all things ethical?
Anything else?
I Know You've Missed Me
Sorry I haven't been posting this week. I've been surprisingly busy considering I don't have a lot going on in my life.
Somewhere in the past few days, I rediscovered Associated Content which is this site that pays meager little amounts of money and publishes writing online. I occasionally send them stuff that I've already written cuz hey, if I can get a few bucks off of it, why not. I'm going to pimp my work though, because they also track how many times your work is read and pay you bonuses for that. So here it is.
Anyhoo, back to business.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Jane Fonda Chastized For Really Stupid Reason
On Thursday, Jane Fonda was on the Today Show with Eve Ensler talking about V-Day and The Vagina Monologues. In the interview, she used the word "cunt" in passing. And the world flipped out. It's Janet Jackson's nipple all over again. Meridith Viera came on the air and apologized for Fonda. I kind of wonder if Jane Fonda even wants to apologize, or if the network just put it up to avoid getting fined by the fascist FCC.
Here's the deal. Certain words, when used in a derogatory manner, are incredibly insulting and demeaning toward women. Even violent. When this oh-so-scary word is used in that context, yes, that's a problem. But in that case the issue is the intent and not necessarily the individual word. You could replace it with any other word and if the message is the same it would still be offensive and hateful.
However, when we're referring to the title of a monologue, as Fonda was, or a part of our own anatomy, I don't get why we're so up in arms about it.
If this was reversed, and someone had used a slang for male anatomy, there wouldn't be a problem. How many times do words like "dick" make it on TV? How many apologies have been issued over it? Exactly. So why is female slang offensive?
Apparently, because we're icky.
It's annoying that every news article I could find about this referred to "cunt" as "vulgar slang." I hate the word vulgar, it's judgmental. Yet it's used in news articles.
I think this calls for another vagina emoticon. ({})
Thursday, February 14, 2008
({}) Yes, that's a vagina emoticon
OK, let's all face it. Valentine's Day is stupid. I'm not just being bitter and single. If you think about it, really, it's a ridiculous holiday. There's really nothing behind it except jewelry and Russel Stover. I mean, I loves me some chocolate and things that sparkle, but I have never understood why we have to dictate a single day to give them as gifts.
Anyhoo, I adore how Eve Ensler and her Vagina Monologues cohorts have made today V-Day, which is a day of awareness to end violence against women.
Sounds great, right? It is. But it probably doesn't com as a surprise to anyone that anti-feminist groups oppose the idea, saying it "kills romance." This includes *cough* lovely people like Lori Gottlieb, who recently wrote an article about how women over 30 should settle and marry any man who will take them. Seriously. I couldn't make that up. There's even this sickening, anti-feminist poster at the Independent Women's Forum website (The name makes them sound like a feminist group, no? yeah, they're clearly not):
Try not to gag.
Awesome blogger Ann at Feministing has created a pretty fantastic parody of it:
Much better. :) Plus, anything using an image from The Simpsons can't be ALL bad, right?
Sorry, I know those pictures are too wide for this page...I'm not all that spectacular with HTML so I don't know how to shrink them, or if it's even possible. Putting in pictures and links with the occasional boldface or italic is as far as I can go.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Getting Paid Is Nice
So the writers' strike is officially over. The WGA members voted overwhelmingly to approve the deal with the studios.
The writers are set to go back to work today. This means that any seasons to be salvaged could feasibly air again in about 6 weeks.
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