Thursday, April 27, 2006

iii'll delete this tomorrow...

alllright, allllright. Bill's not home for me to rant to. Well, actually, noone's here for me to rant to. But the thing is, today, I've encountered a couple things that've preeeettty well made me more irritated, more angry, than i've been in a while.

The first was some new PussyCat Dolls video. Likely that's enough said. I can't tell you what the song is called or even how it sounds because I started to throw up before I could figure any of that out. I can tell you that Snoop Dog is in it, as fricking talentless and ridiculous as ever. When did muchmusic turn into a soft-porn industry? liiiittle unsettling. And I know you could tell me that they're just embracing they're sexuality and are empowering themselves through it but the thing is, they're not. They're certainly not empowering women. They may be empowering women who are 5'8 and weigh 95 pounds. But even then I'd say, should they HAVE to be 95 pounds to be empowered? And what about the 14 year old woman trying to come to grips with what it seems like society demands of her, that is, to be empowered only through sexuality, and therefore, she'll have to conform to some idealized (hugely unnatural) body form, disregard intelligence, ambitions, and individuality, because 'men' don't respond to those things, and what we're all still trying to do of course, is impress men. give me a damn break.

annnd the second thing was that i watched this fricking interview with Jerry Falwell and I threw up in my mouth. I don't even know if I can talk about this, I might need Bill here just to legitimize things. But to make a statement such as "all of our behavior is chosen, God doesn't make homosexuals...[2 minutes later] you're not born a racist or a Christian or heterosexual" hoooldd on. If you're not made a homosexual...youuu're a fricking idiot.

4 comments:

Sharelle said...

it is for these reasons that i have pretty much categorically ruled out much music. probably a bad thing, but it has just turned into another "the bachelor" or some other pop culture nonsense. its like these things promote the idea that we should live without thinking, that we should live without a soul. what fun i have to deal with in that dang high school...

the tapered pant said...

mead. i said it in anger. BUT that fricking song...whaat's it called "drop it like it's hot" maybe. oooook I'm pretty sure clicking your tounge like a 3 year old is NOT a.rapping b. playing an instrument c. doing anything worth being on television for. i'm just saying.

Spiro said...

oh how i miss you. maybe i can come out another time for the heck of it? i wonder who would want to hit the road with me...

aejrussin said...

i actually don't think that 'empowerment' is a good thing at all...

but just wait, there's more...

i'm just convinced that this whole notion of powerstuggles, social contracts, devience, etc. is all just a strange way of looking at the world. (ala: foucalt, machiavelli, nietzsche, any representationalist, and now much of socioloy, psychology, argumentation etc.)

the idea of 'you take advantage of me, i take advantage of you' is not equality in a relatiuonship, unless you're meaning equality of exploitation in a relationship.

i wish i could articulate this a bit better, but there is just so much to say about the whole thing! but to recap:

the whole liberal feminist idea of 'women's empowerment' actually leads only to further theirs (and others!) exploitation.

i think what instead needs to happen is an entire shift of value of the monetary and the object to something much much more interesting...