I suppose it’s hard not to be just a bit anxious during your bus ride to the City when in the second chapter of the book you’re reading, the protagonists’ mother, father and brother die in a car accident.
It is a really good book so far, though.
My Godsister has a subscription to Parenting Mag and I was quite happy to find a gay couple and their child on this inside of the “Good Parenting” section.
Judy Fabray → Because of reasons
“You look like cinderella!”
Anyone who has even remotly read parts of “In A Constant State of Flux” can tell I have a soft spot for Judes.
The entire Fabray family, actually.
Except Russel. He’s an asshole.
(Source: fabrayic, via luckypressure)
GIRL
Something that really bugs me is the word “Girl” in reference to anything related to Women. Just now, I viewed a commercial for Bamboozled where Vh1 took a few minutes to talk about an up and coming band nammed Cherry Bomb. The voice-over continued to talk about the “All Girl Band” who began making a name for themselves. During part of the interview, one band member said “We’re empowering anyone who wants to pursue their dreams.” Judging by her ambiguious choice of words and her response, I can only imagine that the band has answered the same asinine question over and over again: “How does it feel to be an all girl rock band?”
At the end of the interview, the host concluded by raising his hand in victory and shouted “Girl Power”. As far as I’m concerned, none of the people present for that interview were girls.
It absolutly bothers me when the word “girl” is paired with “power”. As if power cannot be associated with girls or women. I saw a commercial for some energy drink where a woman chased a thief down when he stole something. At the end of the commercial when she retrieved her item, the voice-over said “Girl power when you need it”. Why couldn’t it just have been “Power when you need it”? Is it assumed that I, a female, wouldn’t buy their probably craptastic drink if it didn’t have “girl power” because I cannot possibly associate myself with “power” as it is?
Even television shows that I adore, like “Lost Girl” and “Bomb Girls”, convey the same message. From last I saw, neither Bo nor Lorna have been girls for a very long time. I don’t remember girls when I was growing up killing Fae left and right or planting pregnancy tests on their co-workers.
Then again, I did lead a sheltered life growing up so maybe I missed something.
At the end of the day, I’m just wondering when we can stop making such a big deal about the “Girl Band” with “Girl Power”.
Going Toe to Toe
“Toe to Toe”, a film I recently watched about two lacrosse players and their intertwined lives on and off the field, has such a well, thought out script. While the story has been told time a time again, a friendshib between a rich white girl with absent parents and a poor black girl from the hood, it’s done so cleverly that I couldn’t keep away.
I highly recommend it to anyone with some time to spare.
