Because...I would be able to feel pleasure, frustration, pain, and joy. Pleasure in roughness, softness, silkiness. Knowing a cat is cuddled up next to me. Feeling the goosebumps on another's body - awaiting in anticipation more touching... Feel the rain and tears trickle down my body. Gentleness, aggressive, timidness. Knowing my tampon overflowed 'cause my underwear's soiled. Clean underwear. Shallow quick gasps of breath against my lips. Orgasm.
I don't see a lot of value in pointing out "oh the students are protesting but twittering about it on their iphones" as if they are privileged because, you know, iphones do cost a bit of money. But I don't see much weight in this. Do we know how they got the iphone? And even if their parents gave it to them, or they bought it with their part-time job, or maybe a very generous friend gave them one or whatever I don't see how it makes a difference. So only poor people should protest? Only if it affects them personally should they protest? Could it be that maybe they are not just protesting for themselves but are concerned about the future of education and the future of college students who will undoubtedly be affected?
I also have been hearing a few "Hah! I'm graduating this year so oh wellz! Sucks for them." I am somewhat privileged - maybe I will get more financial aid to cover the increase, maybe I won't. But I worry for my friends, the young children around me, the high school students I tutor. Then again, this response could be covering up other feelings - trying to say something positive about a situation that really does appear futile. Like, there's nothing that can be done so there's no point in caring. In this instance, I understand where they're coming from even if it still rubs me the wrong way.
This post isn't about whether I agree with the protests or not. There are aspects of the protests that I like and dislike. This post was noting things I've heard that bother me, upon reflection.
I was doing some bouldering in my rock climbing class today and I was trying to do this V2 route. This other guy in my class was trying to do it too and he was giving me some helpful tips. For one part of the route he tells me
"it's like doing a pull-up" me: "I can't do a pull-up..."
hahahaha. I used to be able to do pull-ups in elementary and middle school but then puberty gave me weight and fat and that went out the window.
I'll be able to do a pull up again someday! *determined!!* Until then, I can still kick ass in rock climbing :D
It's one of those rare shows that is smarter than probably most of its audience. There are so many little things to catch and understand. I read the first few comments on that one site, Television Without Pity, where the commentators generally have brains but so many of the issues the episode was bringing up was going right over many of their heads. Oy...
Dancing was a lot of fun last night!!! I spent way too much money though. Heh.
It was my first time at a straight club. Yeah gay clubs play better music and the vibe is just more energetic. But I still had a lot of fun! There's also more cute straight guys at gay bars haha :P or maybe I kid. One of the bouncers at the club, The Park, was really cute/hot. I flirted with him a little bit but that was it. I was pretty drunk though - I probably said some dorky things 'cause I am one. The bathroom has kind of an interesting concept - you can see through to the other bathroom's washroom so the men and women can see each other. Kinda creepy but cute.
Anyway we were on the guest list so no cover so I don't know if I'll ever go there again. Afterwards I got to be in a limo for 5 seconds...eh, not my thing.
"Fort Hood, Texas, hosts tens of thousands of men who are trained to fight for their country. But none of them stopped Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan as he blew away 13 of their colleagues Thursday afternoon. It was a civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley, ..."
So...we have to organize a research project for my feminist inquiry class. I've tried thinking up many topics: I could do "cougar" discourse, ruptures in popular feminist discourse and how that creates further knowledge, analyzing the inclusive sorority I'm in and how it uses identity politics, etc and while I was really interested in the last option, I realize that I don't think I'm equipped with the tools yet to do a small-scale ethnography, especially since I've been in it for awhile and I'll resort more to "sorority member" than "i am supposed to be kinda observing and taking notes" researcher. heh...i actually do think it'd be a cool research project though...
then i've come to "analyzing porn!" thing. and i have a lot of issues with hetero male mainstream porn so i realized i couldn't actually analyze this kind of porn 'cause it has many triggers for me. and so i've thought about analyzing porn I like. so that research could be fun... so i wondered about bisexual porn that has threesomes with two guys and a girl. this kind of porn i can get behind. like most things, this has plenty of problems too. (don't get me started on this one i haven't even finished yet. soooo racist.) i actually wanna do the mmw bisexual porn one 'cause I'm a perv and um...yeah I just wanna be able to say that my homework turns me on. >_>
i dunno if my teacher will let me. i don't think he likes me very much. i've missed class a couple times 'cause it's in the morning and i'm not a morning person.
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