Archive for the ‘lookism’ Category

Friday, August 8, 2008

Not again!

Sheila: I’m about to go look at your buffalo head princess
me: yay!!!!!
Sheila: but you should call me and tell me about the australians. that bewildered me
me: ok.
but I have to do DDR first for …

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Posted in breastmilk, breasts, Buck Rogers, chat, lookism, psychobabble on 08/08/2008 01:30 am
 
 

Sunday, July 6, 2008

shifted over to photo-blogging for a sec

Sometimes I’m in the mood to show y’all stuff instead of telling y’all stuff, and sometimes pictures are worth at least a paragraph or two.

See the empanadas I just destroyed, the fetish-y

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Posted in domestic, lookism, photos, work on 07/06/2008 11:41 pm
 
 

Thursday, February 21, 2008

quick

I typed this in an email to my boyfriend (fiance) and decided to paste it here, too, so y’all know:
I feel, lately, like most of the problems around me are caused by unhappy people looking to make others

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Posted in lookism, sexism, vanity, venting on 02/21/2008 11:50 am
 
 

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Questions to Consider

1. Would you rather live in a world where looks don’t matter, or live in a world where your looks embody the standard of beauty?

2. What’s wrong with getting by on your looks? Is that somehow …

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Posted in lookism, sexism on 02/14/2008 12:59 am
 
 

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

what happens most

All day long I look at people doing things they don’t want to do, or not doing things they do want to do. It’s depressing.

Obviously, most of us have to work for our living. But does …

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Posted in cats, Letty, lookism, Shimmy, venting on 01/30/2008 11:21 am
 
 

Friday, January 18, 2008

Body Issue Talk
(or, Why I Can’t Date Latino Men Anymore, Reason #421)

The other day at my day job, I walked to the elevator and saw this guy who sometimes works contract for us, who I haven’t seen in …

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Posted in lookism, sexism, thrifting, writing on 01/18/2008 11:55 am
 
 

Thursday, December 13, 2007

Let’s be shallow now.

Usually, I don’t find too many guys attractive. Not even the ones on TV. And I tell myself, “Maybe I’m just too picky. Or maybe I really am secretly a lesbian.”

But then, sometimes, I see …

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Posted in lookism on 12/13/2007 10:44 pm
 
 

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

gimmicky “diet” book

I went to the bookstore the other day and came across a diet book called Skinny Bitch. Or Skinny Bitches, Skinny Bitch Diet… something like that. I had to flip through it to see what the …

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Posted in lookism, sexism, venting, writing on 11/21/2007 08:51 pm
 
 

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Lately

I used to never drink red wine but now I only drink red wine. I’ve gone from merlot to cabernet and chianti, and next must be shiraz.

We bought our cat a water fountain. She likes to drink the …

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Posted in domestic, fantasies, Halloween, lookism, parenting, photos, sexism, vanity, venting on 09/20/2007 12:57 am
 
 

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

No One Knows What It’s Like to Be the Fat Pants

Okay, so only some of y’all will recognize this feeling that I’m about to describe. But I’ll go ahead and describe it. You know how, when you cross the …

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Posted in Christmas, lookism, parenting, psychobabble, venting on 08/28/2007 05:16 pm