How the media damages women

I agree with this all the way!! Because of how the media portrays women having to be thin and have perfect bodies, this is why I don't read those gossip rags like People, Star, OK, etc. Seeing pictures of those famous actresses makes me feel insignificant, like no matter how much makeup I wear or weight I lose, I'll never be beautiful.

As a sort of experiment, 24 year old blogger Sarah Coffman wanted to motivate women and redefine how the media portrays women. Along with a few friends of hers and help from photographer Terence Smalls, each woman was given a Sharpie pen and told to draw on themselves, like a plastic surgeon would, highlighting what they would like to change about themselves.

1. "As women we try to fit inside of 'young enough,' 'thin enough,' 'pretty enough,' 'nice enough,' 'tough enough,' 'able enough,' without ever becoming 'too much,'" claims Coffman.

2. "If you want to be socially acceptable you need to keep yourself inside the lines"

3. "If you look at the cover of any woman’s magazine there’s three main themes: what can you do for men, learn to love yourself, and how to lose 30 pounds in some ridiculously unhealthy amount of time"

4. "How can anyone be okay with these articles? Why do we have to care SO much about what HE thinks?"

5. "Every woman out there has those lines of insecurity, and they continue to grow because we allow them to"

6. "In a few of the photos you can see that the women are actually pointing out each other's 'shortcomings.' That may be a bigger problem than the media"

7. "Part of the reason that media has such a huge impact is because we let it"

8. "Often times you’ll hear women call each other fat or sticks or slutty"

9. "..which not only gives men the permission to treat us the same way we treat each other but it gives permission to the media to treat us that way too"

10. "We are so much more than the bodies we live in..."

11. "That's what true beauty is. Not afraid to be and show yourself for who you really are"

12. "Internalized misogyny is such a huge problem"

13. "There's a trend, it's been a trend for decades, to cram women into a certain ideal that for most people is simply unattainable. That's not fair to young girls"

14. "We live in a society where women are constantly being stripped down and evaluated, without physically being stripped down," Smalls said on his website"

15. Smalls adds: "What does it look like when we actually strip women down and evaluate their physical "shortcomings?"  How insane does it look? How uncomfortable does it make us feel?"

16. Be your true beautiful self

17. Beauty is everywhere

The Struggles of Being a Low Maintenance Girl

Sometimes being low maintenance has its advantages

1. In your world, there exists only 3 types of hairstyles: ponytail, down or messy bun

2. Your one pair of shoes are sneakers. Because heels just need not apply. Either that or flip flops also make the cut

3. Dressing up for formal occasions or even job interviews has you frazzled. You never know where to start!!
-This is so true for me in times of job interviews!

4. Going into Sephora causes a near meltdown. You never know what to look for and act like you've never been in there before. Probably because you haven't

5. People around you confuse your low maintenance personality with laziness

6. You envy guys who can rock sneakers with suits because that is something you want, if you're a guy

7. Shopping with friends is your personal hell. They have to try on EVERTHING!

8. Outside your circle of friends, you're usually the first one ready to rock

9. When your friends are in a makeover mood, you're their guinea pig to try stuff on, whether it be makeup or hair

10. People think you're easy to please, so they don't go beyond the call of duty for you like they would for someone more higher maintenance

11. When it comes to alcohol, you'll drink anything
-For me, I'm not much of a drinker. I'll usually take a simple Jack and Coke. I'm a simple girl with simple tastes

12. When you do dress up, people treat it like it's the Second Coming of Christ

13. When people say you look amazing, you wonder if that's their way of making up for saying how not amazing you look all the other 99.99% of the time

14. People think you're dirty or don't shower because you repeat outfits

15. When you put on one sundress to look like another, no one considers it special

This is one of those WTF stories!

Have you ever read news stories that made you think "WTF?" Here's one.

A woman named Ashley had lost her leg over the summer and had become an amputee. She was adjusting to her new life as any new amputee usually does. She had a specially designated spot at her apartment complex which was handicap friendly. After having her spot for only 2 days, a woman, who does not have a visible handicap sticker and is not handicapped, parked in her spot. She left a note saying that she found it disrespectful and that if she did it again, her car would be towed. She found another note in return, this one from the woman who parks there. It goes as follows:

"Hey Handicap,

1st never place your hands on my car again! 2nd, honey you ain't the only one with struggles. you want pity? Go to a one leg support group! You messed with the wrong one! I don't care about what your note said, shove it! But you touch my car again I will file a report, I am not playing! I let the office know the cry baby one leg touches my property. I will cause trouble . So go cry your struggles to someone who cares cause I'm walking away with both mine!!!!! -B****-"

To think that someone actually did this. The person who parked there is probably some fat chick too fat to park far away. She's probably so fat her immense weight can't carry her to the door. To think that people have to be ignorant like that. Well, hopefully karma will reward the mean a** lady who parked in the handicap spot and reward the handicapped woman with her parking spot. Sorry, things like this just royally annoy me!!!!!!

Holes

Holes

Summary
-Stanley Yelnats is a teen accused of stealing a pair of cleats belonging to a Major League baseball player. He is sent to Camp Green Lake, a detention camp in the middle of a dry desert lake bed. Since it never rains at Camp Green Lake, it's always hot. The mysterious, yet secretive Warden has each boy digging holes, to "build character" as she says. But her real intention is to find the treasure of legendary outlaw "Kissing" Kate Barlow

Cast
-Sigourney Weaver: Warden Walker
-Jon Voight: Marion Sevillo/ Mr. Sir
-Tim Blake Nelson: Dr. Pendanski
-Shia LaBeouf: Stanley Yelnats IV/Caveman
-Dule Hill: Sam the Onion Man
-Jake M. Smith: Alan/Squid
-Byron Cotton: Theodore: Armpit
-Khleo Thomas: Hector Zeroni/Zero
-Brenden Jefferson: Rex/X-Ray
-Miguel Castro: Jose/Magnet
-Max Kasch: Ricky/Zigzag
-Noah Poletiek: Brian/Twitch
-Zane Holtz: Lewis/Barfbag
-Steven Kozlowski: Lump
-Roma Maffia: Atty. Carla Morengo
-Siobhan Fallon: Stanley's mother
-Henry Winkler: Stanley Yelnats III
-Nathan Davis: Stanley's grandpa
-Eartha Kitt: Madame Zeroni
-Damien Luvara: Elya Yelnats
-Patricia Arquette: "Kissing" Kate Barlow

Did You Know?
-The animals in the movie referred to as Yellow Spotted Lizards are actually just Bearded Dragons with makeup and CGI fangs on them. They were provided through the Sandfire Dragon Ranch

-The "yellow spotted lizards" in the movie are not real. There are really only two actual venomous lizards in North America: the Gila Monster and the Mexican  bearded lizard
-Before shooting her role as "Kissing" Kate Barlow, Patricia Arquette had to learn how to ride a horse
-During the making of Holes, Khleo Thomas celebrated his Bar Mitzvah (coming of age for Jewish teens)

Famous People Born Today

I wanna give a big, huge Happy Birthday shout out to the following people:

Jack Nicholson, 76
-DOB: 4/22/1937
-Where: Manhattan, New York City
-Avid LA Lakers fan

Peter Frampton, 63
-DOB: 4/22/1950
-Where: Beckenham, Kent, England
-Currently lives in Cincinnati, OH

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, 47
-DOB: 4/22/1966
-Where: Seattle, Washington
-Big Seattle Seahawks fan

Charlotte Rae, 87
-DOB: 4/22/1926
-Where: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
-Known for her role as Mrs. Garrett on The Facts of Life

Top 10 Freddie Mercury Tributes

It's been a long time since this guy's been gone. So, to honor him, here are the Top 10 Freddie Mercury Tributes

BTW, Tony Iommi keeps coming up a lot on this post. He must really like working with the guys in Queen. Either that, or he likes their music :D

10
Radio Gaga
-Queen & Paul Young

9
Hammer to Fall
-Queen, Gary Cherone and Tony Iommi
-Even though the band Extreme is only known for their 1990 song "More Than Words", future Van Halen vocalist Gary Cherone, along with Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi

8
Innuendo/Crazy Little Thing Called Love
-Queen, Robert Plant

7
We Will Rock You
-Queen, Axl Rose

6
Stone Cold Crazy
-Queen, James Hetfield, Tony Iommi
-Mr. Iommi keeps coming up, I see. He must be a fan of the band :) It's no surprise to any Metallica fan that Hetfield is a good person to cover a song by Queen. Metallica has already covered one of their songs, Sheer Heart Attack. It's on their album Rubiyat: Elektra's 40th Anniversary

5
Tie Your Mother Down
-Queen, Joe Elliott, Slash

4
Someone to Love
-Queen, George Michael

3
Under Pressure
-Queen, David Bowie, Annie Lennox

2
The Show Must Go On
-Queen, Elton John, Tony Iommi

1
Bohemian Rhapsody
-Queen, Elton John, Axl Rose

I'm Not Sure Why...

But I've been in a severe 1960s mood lately. I think it has something to do with the fact that I recently finished a book titled It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder. Which is about a secretary who works for a music company who has to solve the murder of a British musician.

Man, Britain had some of the best music coming from there to the US. Heck, they still have some of the greatest musicians ever. Bad Company, Judas Priest, the Beatles, etc. Britain needs to keep making good rock music!

Here are some pics of my favorite decade!!!!!!

'Swinging' 1960s

Am I the only one who noticed a lot of those 'British 60s' bands all wore kinda the same clothes? You know, the so-called 'Beatle' boots, slim fitting pants, etc?

1960s

This picture made me laugh

Can't have the 1960s without a corny 60s beach movie

You Gotta Check This Out!

A fellow blogger, Dominic Williams, who does the totally awesome blog From Torquay to Texas, sings and does music. You can check him out on Soundcloud.com. I think he has a few songs on there, and also there are some songs on there by who I believe might be his girlfriend or even wife, which is pretty cool.

Here are some of their songs. They totally rock!!!

Layla
-Eric Clapton cover. Dominic Williams sings it. I give it a 5 star out of 5 star rating. If he reads this, he'll probably laugh, and also if he releases a CD of songs he does, I'm gonna buy it. He's amazing. Definitely worth checking out

Stand By Me
-Ben E. King song originally
-Done by Erica E. Williams
-TOTALLY AWESOME! Definitely worth checking out as well. She's amazing. Her voice is perfect!!!

Day 9: 9 Things You Do Every Day

Wow, this should be easy. And it's not easy. I can't come up with 9 things I do every day!

Get on Blogger and do at least one post
-This is beginning to become a habit of mine. It allows me to vent if I''m angry and allows me to express creativity. I used to hate it in the beginning, when this was an assignment for class at school, but as time went on, it became more fun, especially when I discovered you could follow the blogs of people outside school. Come to think of it, the first blog I followed outside school was Diane, aka Heart Shaped. Because her blog had arts and crafts stuff on it, not to mention, one of her favorite movies is The Full Monty, just like me, how cool is that?

Look for jobs
-I figure, if I keep looking, something is bound to come up...

Read
-I'm currently reading a book on the rock band Kiss, titled Black Diamond: The Unauthorized Biography of Kiss. It's really interesting so far, it talks with the guys in the band, lets them tell the story, and tells how they came to be. I'm not finished with it yet, but I'm hoping it ends very far from now

Try to straighten up the house
-Each day, I try and do something to straighten up the house. The other day, I cleaned up the basement. Man, that was a workout in itself. It's huge, not to mention, we have spider webs invading every crevice, like in the windows, the corners of the wall, even near my stepdad's CD shelf.

Watch TV later
-If I have something on the DVR that I have yet to watch, I usually wait until my stepdad goes to work so I can watch it. The reason for this is because I know he does not watch some of the shows I do, and plus, it gives me something to do. For some reason, they're not making any new episodes of Law and Order: UK. I wonder why? I really like it. It gives you an insight as to how they solve crime in London


Cold Case

Criminal Minds



ER



Castle



Scooby Doo

Play Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on Facebook
-This is how I get my thinking time in, besides reading and doing word finds

Watch a movie
-If I'm in the mood, I'll watch a movie. But, the only thing is I'm not relaly alone long enough to enjoy it. I like to watch them by myself sometimes because I know people and me in my hosue share different tastes in movies. Like, for example, my mom and sis really get into Sweet Home Alabama, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. I really don't like those movies, but if it's romance movies I want to watch, I'll watch Sleepless in Seattle, Across the Universe, a romance movie for the young adults, lol, Love Actually because it's funny or What a Girl Wants, because it has a happy ending. Other than that, the kinds of movies I like to watch are comedy, or the occasional action movie, or the occasional martial arts movie


Across the Universe



Love Actually. I can't look at this guy without thinking of Nick from My Family



Jet Li in the movie War

O is For...

Orange
-A color I like, depending on the shade of it. I like nice, autumn-y orange, not in your face neon orange

Opal
-My birthstone for October. I wish I could have gotten opal in my class ring from high school

Ozzy Osbourne
-Some of his solo stuff is pretty good. Like "Mama, I'm Coming Home" and "Bark at the Moon". For some reason, I just like the guy; he's cool :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obsessed

-This movie was pretty good. I like the cute black guy in there, total cutie, and to know he's English, wow! Even cuter, lmao!!

Once Bitten, Twice Shy
-Great White

One Way or Another

-Blondie