The Long Awaited Reunion (if, by a long time, you mean a week)

Last night something very exciting happened... the Real World Sydney Reunion Episode.
After about two hours of cleaning my house for the event (maybe secretly imagining that some crazy Real World Sydney enthusiast party would show up at my house), I watched it with my sweetie and several MAJOR (actually not too major) items were revealed about the course of the series.

1.) People got really drunk a lot, threw up a lot and fell over a lot.

2.) Parisa doesn't hate Trisha and would totally have lattes with her.

3.) Parisa got lots of sex while in the house. This was probably the only thing that was a bit of a suprise. Not because Parisa isn't gorgeous but because it only showed her kissing one person through the whole season.




4.) Dunbar's girlfriend took him back even though he cheated on her with Ashli. Also it seems like he has chilled out a lot and is less likely to scream at people like this:



5.) KellyAnne and Cohutta are still together. Kind of. It was a little unclear.

6.) Isaac had lots of sex in the bathroom and cupboards with random people.

7.) After Shauvon quit the show to be with her ex, they broke up.

8.) Trisha says she isn't homophobic (because she wouldn't go to gay pride) or racist (because she yelled at this woman in a McDonald's because she couldn't speak english).
PS: What she actually said was:

“I’m like, well I’d take the f….n’ Crunchie one but I don’t know what it tastes like because you wouldn’t give me a sample. I’m like, you know what, keep the money, maybe take some English lessons - I’m leaving cause you don’t know how to speak English.”

Then Dunbat pretended like he was going to propose to Ashli but didn't really, since he has a girlfriend whom he lives with. I hope his gf dumps him because of that, if not for the fact that he cheated on her with Ashli.

Sexism, sexism, sexism

If I hear ONE more person talk shit about the women voters in New Hampshire I will puke. I can't vote- I am Canadian. And if I could I would likely vote for Obama, since I am not particularly fond of political aristocracy and I like his stance on the war.
But Judas Priest people, smarten up! If I have to read one more post about Hilary crying and how that is the only reason why she got the vote last night and how it is because too many women in New Hampshire voted I will have to start getting medieval on people's asses!
After both Bush elections, people blamed the outcome on the fact that too few women voted. Now too many voted?
Also, first Hilary was too "hard" and now she is too soft? WTF?
Most of all, I am sick and tired of being sick and tired of having EVERYTHING about Hilary being attributed to that fact that she is a woman. Maybe people voted for her because they liked her. And does anyone ever think about how many presidents the US has elected based on their masculinity?
Even Jezebel is getting all sexist on our asses:

New Hampshire women, after telling pollster after pollster they were ready for change, went inside the booths and had a little cry. Maybe they felt bad for Hillary for sticking it out in that humiliating, mirth-free marriage of hers only to vote against her now. Maybe it reminded them of the time they stuck it out in an emotionally abusive situation and only got through it because somehow, somewhere, they still held out hope that karma would make it all right in the end. Well, that is not an audacious hope. That is a STUPID hope.

And, has anyone ever considered that even if people are voting for Hilary because she is a woman, SO MANY OTHERS that I KNOW are voting for Obama because he is hot?
Like I said, I would vote for Obama. But this is just immature and sexist bullshit.

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE!!!!
Jezebel poster Moe explains what she said. I guess.

2008 Updates

Some things that have happened (to me directly) since 01/01/08 at 12:00 a.m.

1.) I got incredibly stomach sick (and not from alcohol!)

2.) I fainted at the Civic Center BART station

3.) I finally wrote a full blog post

4.) I thought a lot about the rest of my law school applications

5.) I FINALLY paid off the minimum on my credit card and, let me tell you, it wasn't pretty

6.) I got called a "Newfie" at Club 93 by an elderly gentleman whose son fought a boxer from Newfoundland

7.) I had a lasagna mini dinner party

8.) I contemplated several tattoo designs

9.) I saw the Tila Tequila Reunion espisode

10.) I started hoping really hard that Dov Charney gets in a lot of trouble at trial tomorrow

I guess that's it

Dov Charney to Go To Trial Tomorrow For being a General Idiot Sexist Dick

This guy had it fucking COMING to him!!

After an three employees filed a suits against the founder of American Apparel, he is finally going to trial for sexual harassment, according to the New York Post:

Dov Charney walks around his office in his underwear, sleeps with employees, and calls women bitches, sluts, whores and the c-word - and that's the stuff he admits to.

In her civil case, which is slated to begin in Los Angeles tomorrow, former employee Mary Nelson charges the eccentric Charney, 39, once had a meeting with her wearing only a fragment of clothing called a "c- - k sock," invited her to masturbate with him, and then fired her when he learned she planned to meet with a lawyer.

First off, he "admits to" parts of his charges:

Asked in a deposition whether he'd ever referred to women as "sluts" at work, he said, "In private conversations, where such language was generally welcome."

Asked whether he considered the word "derogatory," he said, "There are some of us that love sluts . . . It could be also be an endearing term."

Asked whether he'd ever used the c-word for female genitalia at work, he said, "Absolutely."

He also acknowledged traipsing around his company wearing only his American Apparel-made underwear.

"There is no evidence to say that you can't walk around in your underwear all day anywhere in the United States of America," he testified.

He walked around wearing NOTHING BUT A COCK SOCK!! Not only harassment but a horrible image in my head.

Yes, but there is evidence that you can't (let alone shouldn't) harrass employees in a sexual manner. Duh, fucking duh. Please God, let him get charged.

From Jezebel: Awesome Video

An awesome video by some of the ladies at Jezebel about the effects of badly designed American Apparel clothing.
Also, Jezebel writers are HOT!

Happy New Year and Slightly Different Blog!

So, in case anyone has noticed, this blog has begun to trickle down to, well, pretty much nothing. I have decided to shift my focus a little and broaden this into a more general blog, rather than just a feminists news commentary (not that reviews of The Hills were ever really a feminist news item... although they COULD be).
So, hopefully, there will be more posts to come.
love,
Sarah

PS: Speaking of The Hills, this picture is ridiculous!

Happy New Years!

Hi,
Once again, no posts for a while. Sorry. Carpal tunnel sucks

Reality TV Hangover? Not yet

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I adore trash- trashy music, trashy magazines, trashy movies and, most of all, trashy television. I am one of those who spends Sunday afternoons watching America's Next Top Model Marathons rather than say, reading in the sun (although it is way too cold to do that right now anyway, so I don't feel so bad).
So honestly, my confession is that one of the reasons I have updated my blog so rarely lately is my vigilance to celebrity gossip blogs. Particularly those focusing on ANTM and The Hills. So I apologize to the few of you who read Femivix. I will post again soon.
That said, The Hills has me wondering whether I stare emptily at people when they are talking to me as much as LC does.

Day of Remembrance.

Today is the 18th anniversary of the "Montreal Massacre", a horrific shooting that took place at the Ecole Poytechnique in Montreal, Quebec. Mark Lepine walked into an engineering school classroom, separated the men from the women, told the men to leave, yelled "I hate feminists," opened fire, and shot the nine women, killing six and injuring the rest. Then he moved onto other parts of the school, By the time he turned his gun on himself, Lepine had killed a total of 14 women:

• Geneviève Bergeron (b. 1968), civil engineering student.
• Hélène Colgan (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
• Nathalie Croteau (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
• Barbara Daigneault (b. 1967) mechanical engineering student.
• Anne-Marie Edward (b. 1968), chemical engineering student.
• Maud Haviernick (b. 1960), materials engineering student.
• Maryse Laganière (b. 1964), budget clerk in the École Polytechnique's finance department.
• Maryse Leclair (b. 1966), materials engineering student.
• Anne-Marie Lemay (b. 1967), mechanical engineering student.
• Sonia Pelletier (b. 1961), mechanical engineering student.
• Michèle Richard (b. 1968), materials engineering student.
• Annie St-Arneault (b. 1966), mechanical engineering student.
• Annie Turcotte (b. 1969), materials engineering student.
• Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz (b. 1958), nursing student.

While I do not generally condone posting suicide notes, here is Lepine's.

I have decided to send the feminists, who have always ruined my life, to their Maker. For seven years life has brought me no joy and being totally blasé, I have decided to put an end to those viragos.... Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media, I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts. For why persevere to exist if it is only to please the government. Being rather backward-looking by nature (except for science), the feminists have always enraged me. They want to keep the advantages of women (e.g. cheaper insurance, extended maternity leave preceded by a preventative leave, etc.) while seizing for themselves those of men.

In Canada, today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action On Violence Against Women.

It's been a long time...

Ok, so while I still have carpal tunnel, it has significantly improved since the last time I wrote and I think it may be time to start this thing up again. I just did my LSATs and finally have time to do activities other than logic games and logical reasoning problems. So, I am back.