sweet crystals is a rockstar
July 10, 2008
Filed under feminism, life things
Tags: brie, crappy advertising, def leppard, fruit flies, misogyny, pyromania, store fronts
your wife just called and said it's ok to let you look at things as long as you don't break them
and if you’re quiet and well-behaved, she said we could untie the leash.
karen and i were walking around downtown and saw this sign in a storefront and did the angry feminist double take.
at her suggestion i am posting about it, but i don’t even know what to say. that sign better be at least 50 years old because damn. DAMN.
i wanna go in there now, find something relatively expensive, get the deal set up, get on the phone for a minute, let my face drop and hang up and be like “actually …….. he says I can’t buy that yet and that i have to go home and have sex with him now… actually, his exact words were that i can only swipe his credit card if the other hand is pushing a stroller with his new baby son in it. can we put this on hold?”
things i like a lot: brie and toast, rock of ages by def leppard (actually all of pyromania pretty much kicks ASS), school of rock, quentin tarantino movies
things i do not like a lot: fruit flies getting smarter and faster. what the hell.
i been cut off, and i don’t like it
i had no idea it could be so hard to waste time without internet. the neighbors put an end to our wireless thievery so i haven’t been able to read trashy blogs in FOREVER. which led to the most productive few days i’ve had maybe all summer.
but it also means that if the bar prep folks send out new files or if emails need to be written, i’m crap outta luck.
but that’s why i’m camping out at the one place i know of that has free wifey right now.
not having intarwebs means that it’s been a few days since i’ve experienced any good hearty feminist rage. it’s easy to forget that misogynists exist when you’re just happily quarantined in your home with a pile of lawyerbooks. but then i just HAD to get back online and find out that InTouch magazine totally had a “Top 10 celebrity boobs” list, and now i’m back to feeling “indignant,” which is a gentle word for “ready to choke some bitches.”
we rate boobs. this is the state our society is in. we rate women’s breasts. i keep feeling like every time i fall asleep, the level of idiot behavior we’ll accept from stupid horny men rises a few acres. more and more demeaning idiot behavior becomes more and more acceptable. ….. WTF. it’s like the feminist movement keeps making leaps (enough so that a woman was actually soooooo damn close to candidacy – absolutely undreamt of in years past) – but as it happens, the gap widens and the bar of decency drops (enough so that someone would actually scream shit like “iron my shirt” at her and the news media won’t even call it sexist – it’s “seemingly sexist.”).
somewhere along the way some slutbag douche was like “women care what we think,” and nobody challenged him. and now they all think we care whose breasts they like and wonder how we measure up in comparison or who they think looks best in a fucking bikini. fuck that shit. if they want to separate a woman’s breasts from her identity as a human being, then i invite them to sit at home with a Playboy and a pair of scissors. fuck.
let’s find some unsavory objectification-ish behavior in women and celebrate it with trashy Top 10 lists too. like, “Top 10 men whose gold women would like to dig” or “Top 10 men to use once or twice for free drinks and a forgettable night out.”
no? that’s disrespectful? oh, ok. but rating women by their breasts, that’s totally cool.
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