thought of the day

if i hear one more person at my school say another sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or classist statement i'm going to scream until my throat is raw.

i hereby demand you peruse this website

i've been having a shitty week, but this totally made my day. i mean, come on, their ladyfesto starts off with "We Truly Tasteful Ladies Do Hereby Demand"! and yes, obviously it is a parody. i even checked to make sure.

also, am i the only one who really hopes that mccain doesn't show up for the debates tonight? i mean, how fucking funny would that be? he'd just be sitting at home, watching obama give a speech and drinking some 200-year -old scotch. but seriously, what the hell was mccain thinking? "our country is in financial ruin, so instead of telling you what solutions i have and why they're better than my opponent's, i'm going to stay home and think really hard about what i can do to save us."

just picture it: it's an hour and a half into the debate. obama's talking to the panal, when mccain bursts in, damp with sweat, and yells, "STOP THE DEBATE. I HAVE JUST SAVED THE ECONOMY!" now that would be memorable.

"funny"

my friend/facebook wife/fake lover, who we'll call madonna, and i often leave really weird postings on her livejournal. this often includes really weird questions (recent examples include: "if you were a church, what religion would you be? who would go to you?" and "if you were a personal ad, what would you say?"). so today i was cheating and googled "weird questions" and i found a site that seemed incredibly silly ("why doesn't mcdonald's have hot dogs?" seriously?) but i looked at in anyways. and in between "Why does grape flavor smell the way it is when actual grapes don't taste or smell anything like it [sic]" and "If a kid refuses to sleep during nap time, are they guilty of resisting a rest?" was "If a lesbian has sex with other women but never with another man is she still considered a virgin?" uh, yeah, those wacky lesbians. *headdesk*

of course this would happen on the same day that some guy in my english class told me to "go back to the kitchen" when i correctly answered a question that he had missed. oh, my sides. they ache from laughter.

ch-ch-changes

quickie: obviously, i have changed the name of the blog. somewhere in between just wasn't really working for me. i absolutely love the new name, so it's here to stay.

what women want

apparently it's photo day over here at book slut.

please explain to me what female issues on politics and lipstick have in common. oh, i know- absolutely nothing. it seems that newsweek is using the infallible logic of "well, we're doing a piece about women and we have to come up with a catchy cover that represents women...so lipstick, obviously".

anyone who wants to make the argument that we are living in a post-feminist society (god, there is nothing i hate more than that term) should kindly explain to me why in this day and age it is a-okay to put such a sexist image on the cover of a national magazine.

also, i am all for women expressing their views in whatever form possible, but i really do not like women being summed up as this huge solitary group. this applies to many, many articles/media outlets in our society, but let's focus on this one for a minute. what i want politically is completely different from what my mother wants, which is different than from what the mother of the kids i babysit for wants, which is different than from what my boss wants. women are just too diverse to be clumped together like this. now, i realize that of course stats can tell us how people are voting, but i don't really understand how beneficial it can be to state something like, "on a national level, 57% of women support obama" (i'm using that as a made-up example, it is not an actual statistic) but what does this statistic tell us about american women and how they think politically? if we really want to determine how women are voting, wouldn't it be much more useful to know that 68%hispanic women ages 18-45 support obama or 56% of caucasian women ages 45-70 support mccain instead of talking about women as one solitary group? i haven't seen this particular method being used with men, so why is it this way with women? i think this also correlates with women seen as a target audience. we've had mccain and obama both appearing during commercial breaks in lifetime's army wives as an attempt to appeal to women voters. what are we supposed to take from this? that all women watch lifetime, and if we discover that candidate x watches lifetime too then we'll vote for him? i just do not like the way that women voters are being represented in this election, and this magazine cover is like the cherry on top.

racist waffles

you've got to be fucken kidding me. obama waffles? seriously? oh, and i love the muslim caricature. because obviously america has not gotten the message that obama is muslim and muslim people are scary terrorists. this lovely product was produced by a committee called the American Values and Focus on the Family Action. because racism is always a family value. honestly, i can't even bring myself to be surprised about this. what is unbelievable is the committee's excuse for peddling this crap: they claimed they had not realized that the boxes displayed "offensive material" and that it was meant as "political satire". sigh. you know what? if you're going to put out such blatantly racist and hate-spreading crap then you better own up to it, because you are fooling nobody with this "oops my bad" crap.

i want this

this feministing t-shirt sums up my views perfectly. on the back, it says, "sarah palin does not speak for me".