Sister's back from Thailand...no more cellphone...

Sorry about the not-posting, folks. Made a slight miscalculation on some file permissions. It's all good now...

yeah, I know, it's sort-of like showing that you're trying to be progressive but also still being a bigot.... I know. It wasn't something I really consciously did until I after I'd first noticed that there were two black kids bunched together both as the more universally "bad" characters in the costume list.

I didn't intend it as something discriminatory, but yes, as we've been discussing in my WST class, by participating in the paradigm (of racism in this case), we are being complicit and we are furthering the proliferation of that paradigm... so yeah, I hipocritically hang my head in shame... though that wasn't my intent. It's just hard to point something out without implicating yourself in it these days... and how far will we ever get if we don't start questioning these things anyway? huh? How do you expect to make progress, or do you want to? huh? ;)

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Not to be annoying... (actually, perhaps it is to be annoying...) but isn't it kind of discriminatory to go around counting which races are depicted in which ways, particularly in meaningless mock articles?

I could just be bitter that the role of the shoebomber was played by a white kid. We earned that stereotype, dammit. I think it's high time that people started showing respect for that.

Ralph Nader's "bad"? I thought he was more of a nuisance...

Haha. It's coming true! Now Chrissy's blonde! (warning: one of the people in the picture may be topless... also, one of them may be Beck...)

Meanwhile, in Nintendo's Porn Division...

Don't worry Alison I won't have a costume. Unless a starving university student counts as a costume or a bystandard in a horror/natural diaster/science fiction movie.

Why we should all be a little more evil.

One for all you I-pod guys out there. (sorry ipod)

(Just so you know, I'm merely gearing up for my women's studies class... I won't be so accusatorially analytical all the time)

But all the same, I'm still not sure what sort of costume to wear. I think I'll be going to Value Village tomorrow morning to find some stuff... woo hoo budget shopping! I am thinking I'll wear a beehive though... so 50's or 60's wear here I come!