petty Internet irritant of the day

[rm]

http://www.committment.com/creativewomen.html

Well, this is nauseating. Tips for women on expressing their creativity. Nauseatingly trivial ones like buying a doll to dress up, encouraging you to send cards to your friends or experimenting with different colored frosting on the same cake! Oh the horrors! The risk! The feminine daring!

Have a party themed around the era you should have lived in -- my ass! Wear whatever you want. Pick up historic dance. Or a sword. Fuck you.

I'm not even addressing that thing about salad.

via the equally-appalled magicwoman.

Comments

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay. Processing that. I don't really have any experience of any bit of the world that's like that.


But the thing about the peanutbutter and jeally salad is still gross.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

i know it is weird, but seriously? some people are at that stage. still. maybe not women your age or mine (though i know a few) but women my mother's age and so on.

my partner works with women (in middle management at a large corporation, where the CEO is a mother of three) who were talking at lunch last month about how they went hungry or without meat as a matter of course, as the daughters in their families, talking about it as though it were pretty much the way of it back then and now nice it is you don't see it so much now. he came home and looked at me and said, "all that feminism stuff you kept telling me about? i get it now." his co-workers have lived in a world where the very basics of life were denied them because of their sex, in favour of the opposite sex. my mother lived in that world. one of my good friends lived in that world.

the wrong colour napkins? the wrong colour icing? using your imagination to alter the meat and potatoes expected by your spouse on time every night? when you've gone hungry, food taken off your plate by your own mother, just for being female, every other liberty you take is huge.

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

i have to say, i do find the whole thing appalling. but i find it appalling because i know there are women for whom it is a necessity and for whom that will be the sum and total of their personal expression in this lifetime. that and their perfume. i don't see it as appalling in the "this is all women should want and all women can do" way, because i know that's just bunk and i have hope that a woman who puts mini jubejubes in the ambrosia is one bumpersticker or 'daring' party away from getting liberated.

[telesilla.livejournal.com]

but i find it appalling because i know there are women for whom it is a necessity and for whom that will be the sum and total of their personal expression in this lifetime. that and their perfume.

That was my thought about the whole thing. It had a very "baby steps" feel to it that made me sad to think that there are grown women out there who need that kind of thing. It also made me incredibly grateful that, as a 42 housewife, I'm not one of those women and that neither of my parents nor any of my various partners have ever expected me to be one.