If you are going to watch one video that isn’t porn on the internet this year, make it this video.
It’s the funniest Christmas video you will see.
Why are the Christians trying to take Christ out of Christmas?
Tip: Suzi
Archive for December 5th, 2005
I’m not sure if my post about bad drivers really managed to tick off some folks or not. Sometimes I forget that not everybody on the interweb knows me so well, so they don’t know if I’m kidding about stuff or not. Add to that the inability to garner nuance or sarcasm from internet text, and you have a whole word of confusion. People not knowing I’m joking, me not knowing if people’s responses are jokes. To that end I feel like some clarity is in order.
People who know me in real life know that I’m a “social justice” kind of guy. People who know me really well know that I earned a minor in “Women’s Studies” in college. People who see me a lot may have seen me wearing my shirt that says “Feminist”. For reals, yo. I was only messing around when I said that women shouldn’t have been given the right to vote.
And while I’m on the subject, I feel it necessary to do a little edjumacation about Feminism. Feminism, like many schools of thought and or political parties, has evolved since its conception. The First Wave of feminists existed primarily to get women property rights and the right to vote. The Second Wave of Feminism pushed for equality in the workplace (which still hasn’t come to fruition) as well as other equal rights for women. The Third Wave of Feminism (and arguably the wave that’s going on right now) continues to fight for equal rights for women, but does so from a standpoint of inclusion as opposed to exclusion.
Second wave feminists are frequently associated with the bra-burning, and the man-hating, and the other things that you probably have heard about feminists. Part of that arises from the fact that second wave feminist WERE bra-burning man-haters. A bunch of second-wavers thought the Women’s Rights movement wouldn’t be over until women were in charge of everything. That problem still persists today because many of the Feminist theorists are second-wavers, and they’re all in the positions of power in the feminist organizations.
Third-wave feminists, on the other hand, is a group to which I believe I belong, and chances are, you belong as well. Third wave feminists believe that women should be treated like people (shock of shocks) and that women AND men have to WORK TOGETHER to accomplish that end. Third wave feminists believe that women have a CHOICE to be whatever they want to be. Want to be a stripper? Good, more power to you, as long as it’s your choice. Want to be a porn star? If it’s your choice, it’s cool with us. Want to be a homemaker? Good for you! That’s your choice.
Third wave feminists are not resistant to women as sexual people, or as women who want to be in traditionally female roles. Third wave feminist are resistant to women being FORCED into roles that are sexual, or traditional, or whatever. Third wave feminism is about freedom. The freedom to choose your path in life as opposed to having it assigned to you.
That and the freedom to make me a sandwich.
David Wellington, author of the zombie-licious Monster trilogy, just noted that Baltimore’s own American Dime Museum is closing its doors at the end of the month!
This museum has been on my and Imported Wife’s to do list for months, if not years, but we never got around to going. Lord knows I’ll be getting off of my sorry ass and heading to 1808 Maryland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201 before the end of the month.
No way am I missing on an opportunity to see one of the few remaining museums of oddities before it’s gone!
Man, every weekend should be a 3-day weekend. The work week can stay at 40 hours, and people can just work 2 extra hours per day. I got so much freakin’ stuff accomplished that it’s crazy to look back on it.
Normally on a Monday morning I look back at the weekend and think, “What the hell just happened? It feels like I just left the office last night.”
I never get any rest on the weekends. It’s all parties, parties, parties, and by that I mean, working on the house, getting drunk, and working on the wedding. It’s a damned pain in the ass is what it is. I don’t really get any time to relax and veg out, and even when we do go out it feels kind of stressful because between two large families, two large work crowds, and lots of friends, we always have something to do. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to have people to hang out with. It certainly beats time spent alone with nobody to hang out with like when I was in college. I just wish there was an extra day to get it all in.
With this plan I’ve devised, I do get an extra day to get it all in, for at least one month a year, and it just happens to be the busiest month of the year. This weekend felt calm, and not stressful at all. We weren’t filling one whole day with errands to run, and another whole day with cleaning the house. We were actually able to veg and relax a bit.
Sorry for the lame-ass post, but this morning, I was actually ready and eager to get back to work. I feel like a very productive employee.
