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1. Finished watching this weeks Grey's Anatomy -- which focused on my least favorite character, April Kepner, who is a walking and talking stereotype. She also makes me want to reach through the television screen and wring Shonda Rhimes neck, along with just about everyone else in the entertainment industry. A few weeks back, a sixteen year old on my FB friends list shared a photo about a cool girl who stated: "Yes, I'm a Virgin. Why does that shock you? What do you think a virgin looks like? And do you really think you can tell by looking at me?" Which I applauded.
Dear film, tv, novel, comic, social media and fanfic writers:
Please stop shaming virginity in your writing. It is not cool. It is not informed. And it does not counter the practice of slut-shaming. Nor is it empowering, instructive, or kind. (Also this goes without saying, or maybe not, don't shame anyone's sex life.)
It is cruel. And it hurts people. And it makes you look like an idiot.
Also here's a few sexual myths that our culture likes to hold onto that need to be dispelled, because they are beginning to piss me off - I've seen several of these on television shows this week, television shows written by women:
( Dispelling Eleven Sex Myths )
Whew. That's been bugging me for a while.
2.) Lando has decided that I'm apolitical. That's why he loves ribbing me about politics. I don't appear to have strong opposing opinions. It's possible. I was accused of being apolitical on various other occasions. I'm also not really religious. I believe in God/Goddess or a source or a creator, whatever you want to call it, but the whole religious bit urks me at times. I do not believe in an authority or autocratic creator. So religion annoys me, it's too definitive on a topic that I tend to see as undefinable. I don't like being pinned down on either it or my political beliefs.
Speaking of politics? I saw a Trump coloring book at B&N. Seriously, a Trump coloring book? The evil marketing people need to stop. He was wearing a superman outfit. I couldn't decide if it was meant as humor or was serious. And fled.
Dear film, tv, novel, comic, social media and fanfic writers:
Please stop shaming virginity in your writing. It is not cool. It is not informed. And it does not counter the practice of slut-shaming. Nor is it empowering, instructive, or kind. (Also this goes without saying, or maybe not, don't shame anyone's sex life.)
It is cruel. And it hurts people. And it makes you look like an idiot.
Also here's a few sexual myths that our culture likes to hold onto that need to be dispelled, because they are beginning to piss me off - I've seen several of these on television shows this week, television shows written by women:
( Dispelling Eleven Sex Myths )
Whew. That's been bugging me for a while.
2.) Lando has decided that I'm apolitical. That's why he loves ribbing me about politics. I don't appear to have strong opposing opinions. It's possible. I was accused of being apolitical on various other occasions. I'm also not really religious. I believe in God/Goddess or a source or a creator, whatever you want to call it, but the whole religious bit urks me at times. I do not believe in an authority or autocratic creator. So religion annoys me, it's too definitive on a topic that I tend to see as undefinable. I don't like being pinned down on either it or my political beliefs.
Speaking of politics? I saw a Trump coloring book at B&N. Seriously, a Trump coloring book? The evil marketing people need to stop. He was wearing a superman outfit. I couldn't decide if it was meant as humor or was serious. And fled.