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[aprilstarchild]

I keep remembering more stuff from last night and wanting to share....

So we're on Burnside, and the Naked Bike Ride has become the Naked Bike Walk, when I see a girl wearing a Twilight tshirt on the side watching.

I shout, "TWILIGHT SUCKS!!" She looks startled and stares at me. "What?" she asks.

"Twilight sucks! I read all of them! They're sexist bullshit!!" After that, the ride started moving, so I don't know what her response to that was.

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I went on a ride today where we visited different photobooths. Now I have three strips of black'n'white photos of me and Shawn. One of them is so fucking awesome that once Shawn scans them, I will probably have a different default livejournal icon. A bunch of them were goofy; in some I had a fake mustache drawn on a finger, in some he's wearing my horns.

One of the photobooths was at the East End, a restaurant/bar/club that's at Noir's old location. It's fucking surreal to be there and have it all painted in lighter colors and playing upbeat music. They have a bar upstairs, and the downstairs section with the bar where the deejays used to be, was closed off--I think they have shows there. I have so many memories of that place!

Comments

[underthethrow.livejournal.com]

it IS sexist bullshit

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I KNOW.

[encapsulate.livejournal.com]

I think it teaches kids that it is OK to wait for love.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Did you read them? The basic message is sex = death, and that if a man loves you, he can do whatever horribly manipulative thing he wants, and stalk your every move.

Edward admits that he had trouble not killing her at first, but still stood in her room every night and watched her sleep without telling her! Fucked up.

There are some much more eloquent articles out there describing exactly how sexist the series is.

[encapsulate.livejournal.com]

I didn't read them, per se... but you know me, I'm a "not until married" kind of guy ;).

Actually, the most horrific book I ever read was towards the end of my marriage. My ex was reading and trying to live by the suggestions in the book "The Surrendered Wife".


Here are the six principles...
1. a wife relinquishes control of her husband's life
2. she respects his decisions for his life
3. she practices good self-care (she does at least three things a day for her own enjoyment)
4. she also practices receiving compliments and gifts graciously
5. she practices expressing gratitude (thanking her husband for the things he does)
6. a surrendered wife is not afraid to show her vulnerability and take the feminine approach

I mentally retitled the book, "WHERE THE FUCK IS MY DINNER?"

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Re: the mental retitle: LOL

I've read some stuff online about women who take the supposedly "traditional" role in marriage. I can see the appeal of letting someone else make the decisions, but I think it's generally a bad idea for the same reason that I think religion is often a bad idea: it's just an easy way out of thinking for yourself. And I'm big on thinking for yourself, even when it's more work and less pleasant.

Plus, geeze, it puts a lot of pressure on the poor husband, don't you think?

But I did grow up in a house where my mom got tired of fighting with my dad and just started giving in to his bullshit every time they argued. "Fine, you win, whatever, I don't care." When I dated a really manipulative guy, I started doing it too. Which is why I don't date manipulative jerks any more.

[medicalfairy.livejournal.com]

dang, I missed an awesome weekend. tho as it turns out, I had a single beer last night and feel horribly hung-over

lol. but didn't you know that in twilight everyone is SPARKLY which makes up for sexist bs? (actually, it makes me want a sparkly dildo :D )

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

There's always this week, and next weekend--check out the Pedalpalooza calender.

Only the vampires are sparkly. Speaking of which, you can buy the sparkles at Hot Topic. And there are definitely sparkly dildos out there.