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Please, everyone go read this, Andrea’s done a fabulous job of explaining why we still need feminism: Think we’ve achieved equality?  Think again.

Also, look at this post (also by Andrea, but on a different blog), about what sexism is. Pay specific attention to “unintentional sexism”: FAQ: What is sexism?

I have lots of comments/ideas for this, but I’m brain-overwhelmed today, so I’ll try to post ideas later. In the meantime, I’d be very curious to see how everyone else interprets this stuff.

ALSO: Battlestar Galactica returns tonight! W00t!!!! *cough* Back to your regularly scheduled feminist rant.

Ladies and gentlemen…Aaron Douglas hugging me at Dragon*Con is on YouTube, but I should warn you, if you’re going to watch this, there are spoilers, so if you haven’t seen all of Season 3 of BSG, don’t listen to the question I ask. It happens about 40 seconds into the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cNnxHhj8J8&mode=related&search=

Crazy BSG Fangirl FTW \o/

[1] What is your middle name?
Sue

[2] What color is your mailbox?
Silver

[3] Are you available?
No, I am not.

[4] Have you ever hit a deer?
Nope.

[5] Do you have to drive over a bridge to get home?
Home to the parents’ house? Yes. Home to the apartment? No.

[16] Are you taller than your mom?
Hahahahaha, yes.

[17] What word do you say the most when your tickled?
I don’t get tickled. It doesn’t work for me.

[18] Are you a Christian?
No.

[19] What do you do to get over a broken heart?
Cry, typically.

[20] Do you enjoy writing in colored pens?
Hell yes. My obsession with red pens is how I knew I wanted to be a teacher.

[21] Does anything hurt on your body right now?
My back.

[22] Do you often cry during a movie?
Not often, no.

[23] Last text message you received?
I don’t remember.

[24] Who sent it?
See above.

[25] Do you hate your life?
No.

[26] Do you get mad easily?
Not really.

[28] What is your biggest pet peeve?
People who talk about your relationship as if they know what’s going on in it. And people who don’t know how to speak English when it’s clearly their native language. Especially people who don’t know how to use English on the computer, like suddenly the rules of the language don’t apply anymore. Do U NO what I SAYIn’?!?! LOLOLOL!11!!!!!

[29] Are you cold?
Always. That’s why I need to move to California.

[30] Do any of your friends have kids?
No. Erika’s sister does, but I never really see her.

[31] Do you know anyone that is pregnant right now?
No.

[32]Who should pay on the first date?
You should go on the assumption that you’re going dutch.

[33] How many years older than you are you willing to date?
Probably only a few years, though it doesn’t apply right now.

[34] Do you have any friends of the opposite sex?
Yes.

[35] Do you have any mean friends?
Not really. I let go of the last really mean friend I had three years ago. Good riddance.

[36] What is the ugliest color in your opinion?
Purple.

[37] Have you ever liked someone who all your friends couldn’t stand?
Nobody liked John when I was dating him. I’ve been told in retrospect that people have hated my ex-boyfriends. So far everybody seems to like Justin.

[38] Have you ever felt like driving off a cliff, seriously?
Oh, Gods, no.

[40] Do you scratch your ears?
Only when they itch, like Rae.

[41] Who was the last person to hug you?
Justin. Who just hugged me right this minute so he’d be the most recent.

[42] What brand are the pant/jeans you’re wearing right now?
Old Navy! W00t, awesome semi-cords!

[44] What is the closest green object?
My pants! W00t!

[45] What is on your feet?
Nothing but nail polish. And Justin’s feet.

[46] If you were born the opposite sex, what would your parents name you?
I have no idea.

[47] If you could go back to any time period when would it be?
I refuse to choose only one. Ancient Greece, Jerusalem in the Crusades, Medieval Europe, Elizabethan England, 1940s America or Germany, 1960s America.

[48] Do you want to have kids?
No, because my boyfriend will warp them permanently and then end up eating them.

[49] What is the brightest color you’re wearing?
Pink on my undies.

[50] Who is the friend you have that you would never have thought you’d have?
Erika, actually. I hated her when I met her. Same goes for Rae, who is now my hetero life mate.

[51] Who do you hate the most right now?
I don’t actually hate anyone. Except maybe George W. Bush. Or Tom Lenox on “24″. Or Fox for screwing up and/or cancelling every good show ever.

[52] Whats your mother’s middle name?
Marie

[53] What kind of car do you want?
Honda Fit, VW Beetle (old or new), VW Bus, VW Jetta, VW Cabriolet

[54] What is your favorite video game?
Katamari Damacy or any Mario Bros. game before the 64.

[55] Do you like your dad?
I adore my dad. I’m a little upset I never grew up to be a daddy’s little girl. I miss that. Too bad I’m a tomboy.

[56] Do you have any TV shows on DVD?
Buffy, Firefly, Kare Kano, The O.C. (first season, still need the rest), 24, Fraggle Rock, Chobits.

[57] Are you wearing makeup?
No. I almost never do.

[58] Do you have a tattoo?
I have 7.

[59] Have you ever broken a pinata?
I doubt it highly. I could be wrong, but if I did, it was like 19 years ago and I don’t remember it.

[60] What time is it right now?
8:29pm

[61] Do you know how to draw?
Eh, workin’ on it.

[62] Who loves orange soda?
KEL LOVES ORANGE SODA! And so do I.

[63] Who is your hero?
My grandma, my aunt Debby and my aunt Sue. My mother. My Great Yiayia. Notice a theme? Also, Fiona Apple.

[64] Who was your last IM?
My boss.

[65] Do you work a lot of hours?
HAHAHAHAHA, yes.

[66] Where were you 24 hours ago?
Sitting in Justin’s basement waiting for him and his brother and his friend Chris to get ready to go out.

[67] Who was the last person that called you?
Kerry, Justin’s sister.

The word of this show: impregnable.

Also, this whole sensationalism thing is making me angry. “The Knights Templar engaged in sinister practices, like venerating a severed head!!!!111!!1 IMPREGNABLE!!!” Apparently, worshipping relics (body parts of saints, usually a piece of bone) is a sinister practice. Tell that to all the churches in Greece that have relics.

IMPREGNABLE!!!!

And I had so much hope. The graphics for recreating the castles and churches in this one looked so much better.

I’ve gotta say, I’m a little disappointed. I was really interested in watching this show about pagans in the UK around 5000 years ago. The entire show seems to be overly-focused on an assumption that the ancient pagan religion was obsessed with the dead. Every piece of information they provide seems to end with the phrase, “…which they used to connect to the WORLD OF THE DEAD.” Emphasized just like that. I think this guy went to the same vocal performance school that the movie voice guy did (you know, “IN A WORLD…” guy). On top of that, every time they try to reconstruct a monument digitally (poorly, I might add, the representation is sort of hard to see as a ‘big picture’…bad graphics and bad camera angles lend to that), the guy says, “We can now reconstruct the monument as the pagans would have seen it back when they were engaged in rituals to the WORLD OF THE DEAD.” And I mean it when I say he says that every time (or something very similar to it). Normally, History Channel shows aren’t this repetitive. The whole show feels rather sensationalized. And the experts…not that believable. One guy seems like a completely crazy man, the woman doesn’t really have much to say except, “This is an extraordinary achievement for neolithic peoples,”, and the other guy doesn’t really seem to make statements, just random unrelated generalizations.

Did you know there was a Woodhenge? That was the religious site dedicated to ‘life’, to counter-balance Stonehenge’s religious dedication to the WORLD OF THE DEAD. Also, they’re not really providing evidence for their information. “This hill was built to a height of 18′ first, then up to 120′.” Okay…where’d you get that information from? How’d you figure that out? Really, normally the History Channel gives us credit for being able to understand archaeological evidence and gives that evidence to us. They talk for a long time about a ceremonial path to Stonehenge from Woodhenge, but then say, “No part of this path exists anymore.” And pagans didn’t keep written records. So…where exactly do you get this evidence from if the road doesn’t exist? Well, there’s one at a different site in England that’s still marked with standing stones. Oh, well, dammit, that proves it! I bet it had standing stones, too, definitely, even if there’s no evidence for that, either.

*blink*

Also, the pictures they use to designate where these sites are look as though they’re going to be satellite pictures. But then they don’t zoom in to the actual sites, just large regions. Why use satellite pictures then? I’d like to see the overhead of Stonehenge, rather than an overhead of the whole region with a digital stone circle for Stonehenge and another for Woodhenge.

All in all, this feels really amateurish. F- History Channel. My world is crumbling.

My friend Rob is the shit! He got tickets to see Conan O’Brien in Chicago on May 11th and he asked me if I wanted to go with! AWESOME!!!!!! Technically, we have to wait in line and we might not get in, but if we DO, that’d be SWEET. If not, bumming around Chi-town won’t kill us either. Unfortunately, I have an acting final from 10am-12pm that day, so we’d get into town about 2pm and the latest to line up is 3:15pm…hopefully that’ll cut it. Maybe I’ll get out of my acting final early. Here’s hoping…

Jayne & River are going to be at Dragon*Con! Freak-out time!!!

Also, I’m going to see Monique Mojica tonight at U of I. She played Grandma Builds-the-Fire in Smoke Signals. Kimmy = jealous.

YAY!

AUDREY RAINES SOLD INFORMATION TO THE TERRORISTS! JACK IS GOING TO STRANGLE HER! WAYNE PALMER IS GOING TO DIE! ROBOCOP HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT! ROBOCOP IS EVIL!

*breathe…breathe…breathe…*

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!