About three months ago the cable company gave us some extra channels. Dont ask me all what we got, all I know is that now I can watch the Daily Show and before I could not.
But, outside of John Stewart, having extra channels really doesnt improve your life in anyway. If anything it has just made me acutly more aware of the fact that Western Society is compleatly fucked. Not that I need any more of a reminder.
Like that show Date My Mom. I dont know what channel it is on and I wouldnt refer you to it anyway, so dont ask. All I know is that it is a show where Moms try to pimp thier daughters off to a guy that they dont really like by talking about her bra size.
Now I am anything but sexualy repressed, and I believe that everyone should have open conversations about sexuality with their children. But my god that show is fucking sick. 45 year old women pawning their daughter's sexuality to some smart ass punk in exchange for some fleeting glimps of their own failed attempts to make themselves worth while in the eyes of younger men. Gag.
I think that the best representation of how twisted our society is came the other day in another bored coma of TV watching.
I was watching a docoumentry called "the boy whos skin fell off". Literally, that was its name. I am hoping that you can guess what it was about, but to make it easier on you it was another one of those tear-jerking docs on rare childhood disorders.
So here is this boy, whos skin literally falls off when you touch him, who is living a life so painful that he actually says that anyone who is having a baby with his condtion should seek an abortion.
Heart breaking.
Put this in contrast with the fact that on a couple channels up some woman is complaining about her laugh lines and wants a mild neurotoxin injected into her forhead.
Sicking.
When is hollywierd going to start fighting back against this whole plastic surgery deal? Hasnt anyone noticed that the chick on entertainment tonight is looking more and more like skeletor every day?
I am so sick of spell check.
Bla
AUG 27, 2005 05:15 PM
AUG 27, 2005 05:52 PM
I too saw your response to the rape thread, and as I said there, thanks. Rape is rape. Denying that men can be raped, or taking anyway other than seriously, not only undermines the seriousness of rape and minimizes men but even hinders the whole equality of the sexes thing. Feminism can only be weakened if the same ideals are not held up for men.
Okay, I thought you ranted enough for both of us, but . . . oh well.
If you're friendless, I'll be your friend. 
Yes, TV has some twisted crap on it. And people fricking watch it.
Flannery
Havertown, PA
March 2004
AUG 27, 2005 07:19 PM
This Old House and Nova?!? 
welcome.
AUG 28, 2005 03:07 AM
Hmm. I tried to reply to your email but got a failure notice. 
I know what you mean about that friend thing - I was offline for a while due to pc problems and other problems that kept my computer from being a priority and when I got back online half my friends were gone.
I'm NEVER sarcastic.
Actually, sarcasm is my lifeblood at times. I'll pick on my friends almost as quickly as I'll lapse into a fit of self-deprecation.
I'll definitely consider the phone counseling.
My passion for the subject stems partly from how I've always been and prbably my career (right now I keep people with kidney failure alive and try to help them achieve the best qualiry of life possible) but also from a nightmare I had when I was about 15. In the dream I was a woman and was running through the Projects (well, they say Philadelphia has no projects, but I don't know what else to call that area) from a group of a few men and one woman, and let's just say I lost the race and leave it at that.
The profound effect that has had on me being only a dream (though at least as real-seeming as any other I've had) makes me wince to try and imagine what people who have really gone through it must feel.
Wel, now that I've passed mt limit on run-on
sentences, so I'll go.
AUG 28, 2005 03:15 AM
