_______ History Month (insert minority)

I know I am kind of ranty as opposed to intellectual at times but I hope that on some level the stuff we put on hear is more than just a rant. Anyway. Today my thoughts have been about Black History Month. What are we telling our students when we say “February is Black History Month”. I feel like that is saying Black people are important but only for a month, oh and only for the shortest month of the year. Come on. And if we are doing that then why isnt there "Women's History Month"(there might actually already have this.....) or "Latino History Month" or "American Indian History Month" ...why dont we have those......becasue its wrong and lame to say we are going to celebrate a whole groups contributions to our history in one insignificant month. As a future teacher I just think that it would be a better idea to celebrate people that have contributed to our society of all races all through out the year, every month. It is our responsibility to teach our students what the history books leave out or elaborate on what the history book skim over. And I don’t just mean Black people either; I think our history books are appalling. They fail to adequately cover the contributions, hardships and accomplishments of women of all colors and people from all races and religions that are not white, Christian men. All peoples history should be woven into the quilt we call history with each peice of thread, not just in one square. So as a future teacher I plan to teach outside of the books and hope that it will contribute to a more well-rounded, better educated, more empathic student at the end of the year. Even if I end up being a kindergarten teacher.

movies directed by women

i just saw whip it on my computer and i pretty much loved it! while i'm not too much into cliche indie girl but different movies, i liked this one. ellen page plays a beauty queen turned roller derby girl. sounds cheesy but its good, trust me. the usual happens, she loves roller derby but keeps it secret from her family then meets a boy, falls for him. there is of course a part where oh nooess..the derby tournament and the beauty pageant is on the same day..what will she doo? well i'm making it sound not great but it really is.



the other women directed movie i really love is jennifer's body. i know this movie got a lot of shit because there is a scene where the main characters make out..(yea..megan fox and amanda seyfried kiss)..the movie is really more than that though. i've read some post on the jennifer's body imdb page that the movie is about the dichotomy, its more than just about jennifer being possessed but about how she has a hold amanda seyfried (her name in the movie is needy). the movie has some really great one liners and its actually really funny. one of my favorite lines was "PMS isn't real Needy, it was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem like we're crazy." i saw this movie twice and laugh at every cheesy line, i love it! if your into movies that are kind of gory but still funny then you'll totally love this movie!



the movie has some really great one liners and its actually really funny. one of my favorite lines was "PMS isn't real Needy, it was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem like we're crazy." i saw this movie twice and laugh at every cheesy line, i love it! if your into movies that are kind of gory but still funny then you'll totally love this movie!

open-minded...actually your not

Okay so a frustration of mine is when people who are so “open-minded” are so “closed minded” lol if that even makes sense. Its like come on is my way bad because its not your way …..umm that sounds pretty hypocritical to me. I just know that I believe we are equal and have the right to choice what we do or don’t do in our lives. As long as what you do doesn’t effect me and my family in a negative way then by all means go for it. And of course as long as you aren’t causing mental or physical pain to anyone or anything else. I think what im trying to say is don’t judge me because im not judging you.

finally!

so this was started as a sister website and now i can post too! so we both will be writting about feminist, fashion, our lifes, pretty much anything that comes up in our life!
so for my first blog on this website, i'll talk about the snow! i live in northern va and we have had TONS of snow! this weekend, i think it was around 30 inches and we are supposed to get another 10-20 inches..oh geeze! i'm already suffering from cabin fever! school has been cancelled friday, monday and today. i'm thinking my school should just throw in the towel and just cancel for all week. the roads are still totally effed and with upcoming storm its only going to get worse!
here's a picture of my car, i took this yesterday. it stopped snowing sat..and its still this bad..ughh

ughh the super bowl ads

i was really disgusted by most of the super bowl commercials. the emasculated man was a big theme in most of the commercials. i don't understand why ad agencies wouldn't take women into considerations with commercials. they were extremely misogynist.
there was one commercial for a tire company, where you see a car drive up and a villain says to the driver, your tires or your life, then cut to the car and the driver pushing out his wife. oh the old joke of just take my wife. the guys tires were really worth more than his own wife. wow, really guy. she's not even worth the whole car, just the tires.


there was another ad, for flo tv, where a man is flowing his girlfriend around while she lingerie shopping, there is a commentator talking about how much a spineless man he is because he's not watching tv. it makes no sense to me that a man wouldn't want to help pick out the sexy lingerie that his girlfriend will be wearing later. in the end of commercial the commentator tells the emasculated boyfriend "Change out of that skirt, Jason." bc he's such a little girl. haha so funny!



another commercial that had the emasculated man in a different form was a doritos commercial where a man comes into a house, looks a women up and down then sits next a toddler with a bowl of doritos on the coffee table. the man grabbed for a chip and the little boy slaps the man across the face and tells the man "put it back! (ie. the dorito) keep your hands off my momma and keep your hands off my doritos" the way i took the commercial is that the little boy probably no older than 5, owns his mom or in control of her, while he's just a baby is still the head of the house. here's a that commercial:



there was one that caught my eye, it was the budweiser commercial with the clydesdales horse and the little bull. it was cute and heartwarming. here it is if you didn't see it.


here's a link to one of my favorite feminist websites that also talked about the lameness of the super bowl ads.


here's another link to another great feminist website talking about the super bowl ads



--Christina