March 2010
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Philosophy! An e-mail to my cousin.
One of my cousins (the one with the adorable almost-3-year-old) is taking online classes at the local community college. One of them is Philosophy 101! I’ve been helping her with her homework. I sent her this e-mail, inspired by the post by stumblingneon:
Subject: Oh, Philosophy …
Text: I’m about to make fun of it again. At this point, you might be asking why I minored in...
“King 5 Seattle News: Child fed breast milk not from his/her own mother! Why one daycare tried to cover it up!”
Oh no! What a horrific mistake! That kid is probably going to grow an extra limb or get a never before heard of disease!
This just in!: I’ve been drinking milk from cows that did not give birth to me for most of my life! OH NO!
I couldn’t really figure out...
Wampeters come and wampeters go: Grr. Jamie Foxx... →
ameliowrong:
The issue is the standard of beauty being set by what turns men on. You could argue that the standard of male beauty is what turns women on, which is true, but the big, important difference is that the ability to turn on women with their physical appearance is not the thing men are primarily judged by.
http://www.youtube.com/v/0uAN8pavTLs
What do you make of this...
Grr. Jamie Foxx is on Leno, breaking women’s body issues into the whole “voluptuous women are real women, I went out with a girl the other night who was so skinny, she is probably anorexic” (paraphrased). And really, what he’s saying, that as long as you have curves and a cute face, you’re fine no matter your weight. But some of us don’t have curves. Some of...
