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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
When I first got a glance at this on the shelf I wondered when Ulta started selling dildos.
plot twist: yahoo buys tumblr and we get proper blocking features, lockable posts, a sent folder in messages/fanmail with a better interface, ability to search multiple tags, removal of the post and message limits, proper search engines for likes/archives and removing that bloody "reblog as a link" option.
Yeah I guess I’m not so upset with the Yahoo thing because I’ve never been so enamored with Tumblr in the first place. It’s nice for building a good social network and stuff but it kinda sucks as a blog platform and its features are very limited and it isn’t all that user-friendly. And I know Yahoo is kinda not what it used to be but tbh most of the niche news stories I find out about are either from Facebook or Yahoo articles that I stumble upon when I go to check my e-mail (and my e-mail itself is actually pretty user-friendly and efficient).
So…meh.
I like The Mindy Project. It can be really funny at times, but I have really big problem with this scene.
When Mindy’s boyfriend suggests that it might be easier if she cut her hair for their year long stay in Haiti, the above conversation happens. For one, it’s insulting to women with short hair. Two, it’s implying that you need to adjust your appearance in a way that a man would like, not how you would like. And three, that comment “who doesn’t want to me sexualized?”. Well I don’t know about you, Mindy, but I’d rather people see me as a human rather than an object. What makes me angrier is that the other people in the scene cheer and pat her on the back for that comment.
Now I know some of you are going to bitch at me and point at that she does cut her hair at the end of the episode, she really only does it to win back a man, not because she wants to. And when she does, literally every character asks if she’s a boy or tells her she looks like a guy, and one character even asks to see her boobs to prove she’s a girl.
I mean, come on.
I kind of thought the opposite about the hair thing. It’s just explaining the later scene, in that it’s practical for Mindy to cut her hair if she’s going to Haiti, and the only reason she won’t is because “dudes hate it.” Casey doesn’t really care if she doesn’t cut her hair, that’s just the advice that they’re giving her (and it makes sense, really). She’s refusing because she still cares about what dudes (not just Casey) think about her.
Mindy’s self-esteem issues are part of what make her such a great character, imo. Whether or not women SHOULD feel this way, the truth is women DO feel this way. Mindy wants to be loved, and she does what she can to feel that way and to attract men to her so that they will make her feel cared for. It’s way Mindy does such overdramatic things—like cutting her hair in the middle of the night—to win back a man. It’s a messed up mentality, but it makes complete sense from her perspective.
So I’ve become dependent on Afrin and what that means is that Afrin and other nasal sprays are, in a sense, addictive in that my sinuses have gotten used to the effect of them. And what happens is it creates this rebound effect where my ability to breathe through my nose is, well, non-existent without the Afrin. This has been going on since…January. So, about five months.
Anyway, I didn’t really know what was going on until I went to the doctor yesterday and he told me all of this and now he wants me to wean myself off of Afrin (with the help of Claritan, and this anti-inflammatory nasal spray he prescribed me that is non-habit forming).
So, it’s been a day. And…I’m basically miserable. Just give me my Afrin. I need it.
No, that way lies pain and darkness and possibly more serious conditions like a loss of smell and bad damage to the blood vessels along my nasal passages.
I wished Happy Mother’s Day to my aunt who is not a mother but is an aunt. Like me. Does that mean I get to wish myself a happy mother’s day?
Organized Chaos: Please, don't make fandom look bad.
I never post on Tumblr, so I’m hoping my few followers can help me get this word out by reblogging…
I work for a hotel that hosts a major US con every year. I love anime and I go to cons myself, but I am going to be blunt about some of the problems we have and…
Putting on my disappointed mom-hat for a moment but…it’s kinda sad that people have to reminded of these things.
The oxford comma and all its glory
A direct quote from The Times newspaper, talking about a Peter Ustinov documentary and saying that:
“highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector”.
