Booberexia?

Ok I know that lots of people commented on this but Im a little disturbed by how prevalent this is in our society. Since last week I have really realized how much boobs have become a part of our daily lives. I was on Postsecret this week and found this:

And right below it was this one:

 I can relate to both of these, and im not suprised that they were sent in.

For those of you who are not aware of what postsecret is, its ust a website that allows people to say the things that they would never tell anyone, in the form of a post card. Its really great, I learn a lot about people just by reading it every week. The fact that there were two “secrets” this week that had to do with Boobs really disturbs me. I really agree that we are obsessed.  I had a friend in Highschool that had massive boobs and had to have a reduction at 16. i remember being about 18 at the time and being so jealous of her incredible boobs. I remember what it was like being a teenager and being really insecure, and constantly comparing myself to everyone else ( by that I mean the models on TV, and the pornstar looking women on the cover of  Fittness magazines.) I hate that my chlidren are going to be growing up in this crap.

I also think that this is what makes women so catty towards eachother.  There is this huge issue of jealousy if another woman its even a fraction closer to the idea of what perfection looks like than we are. Ill admit it, I check out girls just as much as guys do, but its in a different way. More like scoping out the competition, if you will. I work at a restraunt and its so  interesting to see the people that they hire, and how they get treated once they do start working there. The tiny girls with big boobs make really good money and wind up staying for a while. The ordinary girls with ordinary or average build, make alright money and wind up getting fired or quit. Its really interesting.

what is the freakin fascination?? I would like to blame porn for this. As mentioned in class, most women who go in for implants bring pictures of porn stars as a guide for the surgeon. This fact really kind of makes me sick a little. Mostly because of the way that women are portreyed in porn. Ill admit that my viewing of porn is not extnesive, but what I have seen really grossed me out. I think that porn completley ruins men, and even women for what sex is supposed to be like.  Some men spend hours a week looking at porn, and imagining themselves having sex with countless women, after a while it becomes like nothing. It hardens the heart like nothing else, and makes me more angy than I could ever express to you. As a woman, i find it so frustrating what porn has done to men.

Advertising

SO im extremely sick today, and I would like to apologize if this post makes little sense… I blame it entirely on being jacked up on Tylenol with Codine for the past two days… here we go:

I have this love hate relationship with advertising as many people do I think. Sometimes I hate it, like when commercials are so stupid thatyou feel dumber for having watched them, or when at the end of the commercial you have no idea what they were selling. SOme of the examples in class last week were like that, and I find it really frustrating. In my first year of college we looked at probably fifty alcohol and ciggarette ads, and all of them were appauling if you really looked at them. Clever… yet appauling.

At the same time, I have to admit that there have been some commercials that I have loved more than life itself. Generally my love comes from one character. It will be either the look on their face when something happens, or just one funny, awkward line, is pretty much enough to have me rolling on the floor laughing. I tried to find it on Utube but, there is this one preview for some cartoon movie comming out soon, but it has a TRex roaring at some people, trying to be all scary and then the Closed Captioning underneath it said ” I have a big head and tiny arms”… Pretty much the funniest thing Ive ever seen. I dont even know what the movie is called or what the context of the quote is, reguardless, its halarious to me.

So how can we take one side or the other on this kind of thing? Last week  one of the other classmates wrote about all of the horrible commercials that are out right now, one of them being the ortho tricyclean commercials that promote sexual activity among the 15 year old girl population. I was watching MTV last night and the same company was sponsoring a huge MTV event, and their slogans were everywhere. I think its one thing to have the odd commercial, but I also think that it is something entirely different to be pushing underage women ino doing something that they are not ready for. I wish that there were some kind of stronger laws sorrounding how companies are able to advertise their product.  I know that years ago, they would never allow a birthcontrol company to sponsor a teenage event.

Silence is loud!!!!!!!!!!

 

I think that our generation has a problem. Myself included. I don’t think that I could go one day without music. I think that I have either my Ipod on, or much music, or my car stereo on, or even at work we have satellite radio. Now that I think of it, I don’t think that there is any part of my day that I am not listening to music. I’m not a huge music junkieeither, I am just surrounded by it.  I  actually get really nervous when it is silent. Silence is louder than most people think, and I don’t think I’m alone here. In-fact I think that millions of people are making a lot of money off of people like me, that cant stand to be in a quiet room. I find it interesting how they have come up with better, more expensive ways to make money off of people. For example, people began using the Internet to avoid having to buy music, and then they created the I, and charged loads of money for it. To be honest I know that a lot of people feel bad for downloading music illegally, but I really dont. There are enough people that still buy CDS or that pay to download music, and lets face it the artists are not starving!!

 

My job is extremely emotional, and I love finding music that I can use with my clients to help them feel as though they are not alone. I actually studied Music Therapy in College, and I find it so amazing. Its weird how just being able to listen to someone express their emotions can be so theraputic, for everyone. I for one tend to appriciate more of the acoustic music scene. Artists like Dallas Green, Saosin(acoustic stuff obvously), and The Sceene Aesthetic(also  the acoustic stuff).  they tend to be more mellow and emotionally charged lyrics which I love.  I read an article on the power of poetry the other day, which also includes song lyrics. The writer was saying how poetry is in many ways just an autobiography. Ill quote it here for you because her words were amazing:

“Everything I have ever written is fundamentally autobiographical, no matter what the topic or style; to state my life now in an orderly way with clear language is actually to restate, simplified what has already been said. If I could just come right out and state it like that, as a matter of fact, I would not have needed poetry. If I could look my childhood in the eye and describe it, I would not have had to veil those memories in a metaphor. If I had grown up with a comfortable identity I would need to explain myself from one or another persona.”- Rita Joe 

I loved this quote, I think that she is absolutely right. Music is a release for so many people, and its so different for everyone. The more I thought about this the began to realize that its not just those that make music or write poetry that contain this autobiographical information, but even if you just flip through someones Ipod, you can tell so much about who they are by the lyrics of the songs and the tempo of the music that they listen to. Sorry to ramble on but this stuff is fascinating to me.

So here is a song that I love, you can just feel the emotion in this one guys!!

Generation gap? I think so…

 

Id just like to say how bad I feel for people who have not kept up with technology and are now paying the price for it. I was recently home hanging out with my parents and was made painfully aware of how difficult it is for older people to understand technology if they have not kept up with it. My dad for example, doesnt even know how to turn on a computer, and gets really frustrated when he has to write a letter or a resume or something that must be professional. I dont really understand how people can get away with not having even basic computer skills in this day and age. I am blown away at the extent that he has gone through to avoid technology  completely in his professional carreer. Granted my dad is a site superintendant, and has worked in trades for years, but still to have never had to learn how to even type just baffeles me.  Hes had secretaries, or assistants that have always taken care of the administrative end of his job and has in turn, never had to learn how to manage  and office. He made a comment about how frustrating it is for him now to find files because it is all done electronically, and if  his partner is out of the office then he has to wait because he has no idea how to access them.  I got thinking about it and it’s not just computers that he has a hard time with, I mean he only knows how to dial out of and recieve calls on his  company cellphone. He has no numbers stored in it, but carries a pocket address and phone number book. I have so many questions about this. How can people still be so Old School?? Do they not know that these things make their lives so much easier? How do you train someone that has missed so much, how to live with the technology of today? I think about how far we have come even in my lifetime and sometimes it scares me. Rolled film to digital cameras, tapes to ipods, landline telephones to cellphones, snail mail to email and probably the most important of all the creation of the internet. I myself could not live without it, but I can see how all of these things would be intimidating to someone that has no idea how amazing they really are.

Sometimes I worry about when I am old and have no idea what the hell is going on around me because I have not bothered to keep up with the latest things. I worry about how disconnected from the world I will feel. Does this happen to everyone? At what point are our lives easy enough, and we stop looking for ways to make them easier? I know that my kids will never stop looking, at least in my lifetime, but is there a point where as an elderly person you just dont care anymore, and you give up?  Its kind of a weird thing to think about.