Things that have happened in the past few days

I am finally coming out of a horrible migraine attack that last five days. FIVE days! During the process, mostly consisting of me lying on the couch watching America's Next Top Model reruns, a Queer as Folk marathon (thank you, James), random action movies (thank you, John and Danny) and finally some super badass (meaning kind of ridiculous) Tudors episodes (thank you, Amity).
In the process, I have learned the following:

1.) The Passion of the Christ was not Mel Gibson's first totally gory movie (believe it or not, I had never seen Braveheart).

2.) At one point, Mel Gibson was (kind of) okay looking.

3.) Janice Dickenson doesn't think that blindness should be a problem for runway models. I mean, I am all for equal opportunity, but wouldn't they fall off the runway? Tyra also made legally blind Amanda on cycle 3 do a rollerskating shoot (although Amanda kicked ass on the shoot).

4.) Ms. Dickenson also thinks that it is totally fine to pick on a girls weight after she comes out about being bulimic. Furthermore, shouldn't the girl have been eliminated (so that she could seek treatment) once she told Tyra she had an eating disorder. No. Of course not.

5.) The actress who plays Anne Boleyn on The Tudors is super, SUPER smug.

6.) The plague was hella crazy and super sad.

7.) The last season of Queer as Folk is so much worse than the others (I knew that, but had forgotten)

8.) Trader Joe's stuffed poblano peppers are really yummy.

7.) Oh, and I will probably have migraines for the rest of my life because my hormones are out of whack. Great.

Well, at least I, unlike Ted on Queer as Folk, am not about to undergo major plastic surgery for no apparent reason. That would probably hurt even more.

Guess who has a terrible migraine today... again

Yeah, me

Vagina Dentata to the Max!!

I have yet to see the movie Teeth (although I kind of want to) but, in honor of the film, New York magazine has released a list of the top ten scariest vagina dentatas ever!!
I personally think that Videodrome is the creepiest, although I don't really see the dentata part. Mostly just the vagina part.
Anyway, for those interested, here is a clip of the first five minutes of Teeth

The Is A Light That Never Goes Out- the Smiths

Something so beautifully melancholy and bittersweet about this one. It makes me feel insanely love and terribly sad at the same time.

America's Next Top Model New Contestants Revealed!!!

I was beginning to get a little antsy about this one. Since the last season of ANTM I have begun watching Canada's Next Top Model to fuel my addiction but the problem with CNTM is that the contestants are just so much nicer (still not necessarily nice but nicer than in the US).
I have a bit of a love hate relationship with the Top Model shows. On one hand, the shows makes girls to want to be models. Furthermore, contestants in the show (one of CNTM's winners) have suffered from eating disorders and dealt with a great deal of trauma resulting from their experiences on the show. So I recognize how ridiculous the show is.

That said, I am sorry but I am addicted.

Here are next season's contestants

Once again, the "plus sized" model (like Sarah from season 9) is not plus sized. She looks like about a size 6. I wonder if she will be voted off for being too "normal sized," like Sarah.

You can see profiles of all the women on CW's site. Remember Marvita from the final cut at the beginning of the last season? The called her back for this one. I liked her because she called Ebony out when she wanted to play a game called "guess who has an eating disorder."

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