Melancholy Nonsense

Baby kittens

June 6th, 2009 by stephanie

This is me playing with Adobe Contribute. So far it’s pretty cool.

Even if there are really no baby kittens.

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Digg Proves that Feminism is still Relevant

November 13th, 2007 by stephanie

Feminism is defined as the belief in the social, political, and economical equality of the sexes.

On digg there is an article about Swedish women wanting to change the law that would make a woman to be able to go topless at pools.

The majority of the digg commenters had two reactions. First one was yay for boobies (typical expected reaction). The second one was, but if we were able to see boobies all the time like that wouldn’t we become desensitized to them and that would suck, so they should keep them covered up.

In both reactions little regard was given to the women as people but only to their boobies and how much the men would enjoy them or get bored with them. Which would imply that these digg users see women only as sexual objects that exist for their enjoyment. Therefore social equality hasn’t been achieved if one segment of the population sees another segment as being there just for their pleasure.

Social aspects of life also factor into the political and economical realms of life. After all people ask voters “which candidate would you most like to have a beer with?” and consider that to be a healthy political dialogue. That alone is mind boggling. And getting to the top of the corporate ladder is considerably harder if you have to start at the bottom of the social one. Therefore feminism is still relevant and has yet to reach it’s goal of equality. As opposed to it’s detractors who claim that feminism has already achieved it’s goals in our culture and that it should disappear or just worry about other cultures.

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I love Jon Stewart

August 16th, 2007 by stephanie

Why aren’t the two versions of Dick Cheney being played on every network news channel? It’s funny how all of this seems so obvious but it’s blatantly ignored.

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Chihuahua puppy born with love-heart pattern in fur

July 10th, 2007 by stephanie

A puppy has been born in Japan with a large, clear, love-heart-shaped pattern in his coat. The chihuahua was born in May as one of a litter to a breeder. Shop owner Emiko Sakurada said it was the first time a puppy with the marks had been born out of a thousand she had bred.

read more | digg story

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This is the cutest story

April 11th, 2006 by stephanie

http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Knitters-save-endangered-penguins-lives/2006/04/07/1143916701251.html

 Grandma’s knitting sweaters for penguins recovering from oil spills. Who says older generations don’t care about the environment.

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First Post

March 20th, 2006 by stephanie

Okay, so live journal is done and over with, was tempted to move my blogging stuff to myspace but the login got messed up so screw that too. Then i discovered that my host offered wordpress which is better than trying to write my own blogging apps so here i am.

 

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