Random Thoughts From A Random Person

How To Have a Feminist Valentine’s Day : Ms Magazine Blog

2011-02-13T23:29:00.000-08:00

Yes the two things can go together and no you don't have to forgo candy and flowers. How To Have a Feminist Valentine’s Day : Ms Magazine Blog

Lady Gaga: Egg Grammy Arrival (PHOTOS)

2011-02-13T15:38:00.000-08:00

Fucking love this. Lady Gaga: Egg Grammy Arrival (PHOTOS)

Egypt News: An Interview With Activist Nawal El Saadawi

2011-02-13T11:27:00.000-08:00

Interesting thoughts on the future of Egypt from a brilliant, resilient. admirable woman. Egypt News: An Interview With Activist Nawal El Saadawi

So after everything that has happened here is what I have to say

2010-10-05T21:22:00.000-07:00

After the 2008 election we were all of us so relieved, so proud, so hopeful, but we forgot something. That if we where the winners and were filled with relief and pride and hope there others who lost. They were and are filled with dread, and despair and fear. Fear and despair make you desperate and desperation makes you hate. In the last 2 years the politics of hate and of fear have run wild in this nation. We ignored it because we thought nobody would ever fall for such crazed, hateful nonsense. Well we underestimated fear, and we overestimated how far we've com. So what does this have to do with the rash of gay teen bullying and the resulting deaths and injuries/ Everything. This country has come to fear difference, difference of race, of religion, of sexuality. This fear is manifest in our institutionalization of anti-immigrant, anti-poor, anti-gay feelings via the law of this nation. These laws discriminate and when you say it's ok to discriminate you say it's ok to hate.This nation that was founded so that human beings could live as they wished free from tyranny and fear. I can only imagine that our founding fathers would be shamed to see what we've become. I believe that they understood clearly what we have forgotten that hope without action is merely a dream. It is not now and it has never been enough to simply offer hope. You have to offer to be an ally, you have to offer to fight that hope until the dream is a reality. I support "It gets better" because if it saves one child then it's worth it's weight in gold, and because it is the truth. It's going to take more than that because this isn't just about hating gays. It's about hating women, hating immigrants, hating Muslims, hating anything and everything that isn't like you. As Americans we should never, ever give in to that, it defiles everything that this nation is supposed to be. As decent Americans (because i am sick of being told by a bunch of hate mongers I am not an American) who believe this nation needs to live up to the ideals we have to do more than urge people to survive. We have to do more than sigh and cry and wait out this latest bout of madness. We have to fight, because it's been a cultural war since November 2008 and if we don't attempt to do more than survive the damage to our children, ourselves, and our country may be irreparable. We can be can be reasoned, we can be rationale, we can be decent and we can still be fighters. What we can't be is passive. So I don't care what you do. Donate to causes, you believe in, volunteer your time, sign a petition, call a congressman, do something. Don't sit silently and allow what good people have fought, and died to give to us be taken away. At least be able to say you fought for what you believed in , you aided those who fought for you. The children of this nation are watching and waiting to see what we will do. Don't let it be nothing.

Aborted Prop 8 Blog & The Buffy remake

2009-05-27T09:11:00.000-07:00

I was going to write a blog about Prop 8 and how I feel that we need to make marriage obsolete. Civil unions for all because they don't have the same inherent symbolic sexism as marriage, and that it could be the beginning of a re-imagining of relationships for everybody, and start a revolution of sorts, but I'd probably just piss off 1/2 of you and I'm feeling nice today so . . .
So there is talk of doing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer reboot.

Now to many people this seems like crazy talk, but to a whole generation this would be new and fresh. I'll be curious to see what they do. I've softened on my remake hate because in the last few years I have seen a number of remakes that have cast new light on old characters, and put a different spin on old tales. Seriously Rob Zombies Halloween had a level of compassion and sadness rarely brought to horror. The re-make of Sleuth took the homoerotic tension to a whole other level. Last House on the Left, yeah that's some middle-class rage that we never saw in the original. So are there elements in the Buffy-verse that can be opened up in new ways now, absolutely. I'll hold off on condemnation until there is an actual film. That said they better remember to keep Buffy's "keen sense of fashion."

For All The D Cups

2009-05-26T10:50:00.000-07:00

Ladies who are busty, here is a shop for you pretty bras in size D and up only. Jenette Bras

School Censors Girl's Harvey Milk Project

2009-05-26T08:31:00.000-07:00

School censors 6th grade girl's report on Harvey Milk. Student's Harvey Milk Report Censored By School I have no words for how ridiculous this is. The child did the assignment and basically now she is being singled out because Milk was gay. I feel bad for this child being treated so unfairly.
This all goes back to the notion that there is nothing more to homosexuals (or bisexuals) than the sex they have. You know what, somebody in this equation is obsessed with sex, and it's not the gays. *throws up hands* I'm just done. *goes to workout her annoyance*

Obama's Supreme Court Pick

2009-05-26T08:29:00.000-07:00

Obama's potential Surpreme Court nominee http://ping.fm/bwglz I don't know anything about her but I'm certainly going to research.

Terminator and Margaritas

2009-05-26T08:28:00.000-07:00

Let me begin this post by saying I've had lime, cherry, and strawberry/mango margaritas. So coherence may be somewhat less than normal. Today was my friend Antoinette's birthday so we went to see Terminator. I know some people haven't liked it the gritty, Blade Runneresque filming style that was used for most of the film and i heartily approve of this vision of masculinity, where you can be kind, caring, decent, and still beat some ass. Also Anto Yelchin is indeed hot. I thought he was cute as Checkov, but in Terminator I would certainly bend him over my desk and do him. After the movie we went to Copabanana, home of the best maragritas ever! No lie. Our awesome and adorable waiter can trace his family tree all the wayback to the American revolution, yes I get this deep with my waiters, He was very excited his gf is back after 3 weeks in Boston, he left her food and beer. He has to work late. Ok family guy is on. bye.

Life Is Good

2009-05-26T08:26:00.001-07:00

An extra $100 bucks landed in my account today that I wasn't expecting. How sweet is that. I'd forgotten all about that. I have to go to the post office and workout. *boo* Antoinette's bday is this weekend so movies and margaritas will be abundant. She wants to see Terminator so let's see what McG is going to throw down. Oh and I will have to manage to squeeze some actual work in too.

Defending the Indefensible

2009-05-26T08:23:00.000-07:00

Interesting thoughts on why sometimes you may have to defend things you don't like.
Why we have to stand up for things we don't like

Expelled for being "suspected lesbians". eye roll

2009-05-22T08:17:00.000-07:00

There are so many points of failure in this story I can NOT count them all. School Can Expel Lesbian Students Even if I grant that a religious school has the right to expel you for "sinful behavior" which I do not, what they use as proof here, *rolls eyes* it is just mean-spirited and hateful. You know people who follow organized religion can tell me all they want how not everyone who is Christian is this hateful, but it seems that there is a tacit acceptance of this sort of behavior. I guess I don't understand how you deal wth the internal conflict if you don't feel this way. Of course it is everyone's right to believe as they wish, but I am just not understanding how one compartmentalizes it, but I'm off topic now aren't I?

2009-05-20T19:47:00.000-07:00

Well the glamrock boy Adam lost on American Idol. What a surprise *rolls eyes* Why doesn't the rest of America love boys who wear eyeliner and make-up as much as I do? Heaven shield that we should move beyond traditional gender roles. Oh well I will watch Criminal Minds, cute nerdy boys, yes that's the ticket. I'm not working tonight far too lazy for phones or cam.

2009-05-20T15:23:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my blog this is an exercise to see if I can force myself to blog daily. I'll write about whatever happens to me and given the particluars of my life at least one person should find this funny. Who am I and what do I? All will be revealed in time.
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