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Rhiannon. Revolts. It's that simple.
2/6/2004
Interlude Aight. I know this isn't my usual policy, but I got this interview from Colleen at least a week and a half ago, so I should probably do so. It's not Smith related, but since I'm going to be reading the Sophian (the paper) in a bit, I'm SURE I'll come up with some kind of rant within the next couple of days. 1. Morning or night sex? why? Night sex. This is coming from the girl whose mother had to explain what 'Afternoon Delight' was about when I was fourteen. There's just something about morning sex. It's good, but I like to be awake to get down, y'know? Sleepiness is no good. Now, shower!sex on the other hand...after some coffee. 2. What's your favorite thing about yourself (physically or otherwise)? God, this is hard. Probably the fact that I love to read. I can't imagine not loving to read, and it's gotten me far in life (and provided me with lots of useless information). That, and I love my ass. It's a nice one. 3. If you could change one thing about yourself, would you and what would it be? I don't want to change anything--I can't picture myself being me then, but if I were forced, I would say the fact that I can't accept constructive criticism. I always see it as a personal attack. 4. Describe your ideal partner. Slightly sarcastic, very intelligent, someone who can challenge me--who has a good amount of fight in them. Has to love sex and be able to listen to me blather while watching films...and oh yeah, has to have nice eyes. 5. What was your favorite toy as a kid? I read a lot as a kid...but I'd have to say that I really liked my Barbies (I only had TWO, and one was my mother's Midge from the early 60s), my dollhouse, which I expanded onto one of my bookshelves to make a whole neighborhood with other figures, my American Girl doll (Samantha--I got Molly glasses for her so she looked like me) and all the LEGOsŪ. I should point out that Barbie was dating/sleeping with my father's Mr. Spock from the 60s, who was about Ken-size, happened to have real clothes and was BUILT. Sometimes, since he only had his uniform, he'd wear some of Barbie's more masculine clothes. HINT: I really want some LEGOs, but the one set I wanted and that was in my price range wasn't on sale after Christmas. This is, incidentally, the Discovery Kids model of the Space Shuttle. In the 'ha, right' category is Hogwarts Castle, which is, like, $90 and totally unaffordable (or maybe THIS), or, what I'd LOVE, the LEGO Studios set, which is about $150. I suck. Rules: 1. Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed. 2. I will respond; I'll ask you five questions. 3. You'll update your journal with my five questions and your five answers. 4. You'll include this explanation. 5. You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed. 2/5/2004
Chapter the Eighth "Admiral, if we are to do with these whales as we please, we would be as guilty as those who caused their extinction." -Spock, ST IV The quote'll make sense eventually. Sorta. I was really grasping at straws for a topic today, when out of the blue it hits in History of the United States from 1877. We were discussing how the South is still comparatively behind in terms of economy, and this is most likely due to the fact that the people in charge insisted on retaining a specific traditional system in the form that they could (i.e. sharecropping). Essentially, this led me to wonder if here at Smith, we're damning ourselves in the all holy name of Tradition. [bursts into song] Yeah, we're liberals, but does that matter? With this dining situation, the only thing most people seem to be thinking about is Tradition and House Community. It's about THE JOBS, people. The jobs! And the security of people living in the houses that will be expanded (fine, this is enlightened self-interest, but it's still a valid point). Are we turning into the poor little rich girls everyone expects us to be? Also on the topic of tradition is the SGA constitutional change last year (which many people I know disagree with--I do not) in which the wording of the STUDENT GOVERNMENT (not the COLLEGE) constitution was changed to 'the student' instead of 'she/her'. This passed by a small margin. Last semester, people were protesting that since they were abroad and couldn't vote, that there should be a revote--do we have to revote every year on SGA issues? No. This, of course, goes into the whole 'should our trans friends who don't identify as women be allowed here at Smith' issue...which I don't want to deal with. Suffice it to say that one of the major forces behind the revote and the 'changing back' movement is the name of Tradition. Also, I'd like to say that a lot of the Easterners I know have major issues with the South. The South has major issues with the North yet today--this we already knew. But what isn't focused on is the immediate bias here towards anything south of New Jersey as being behind the times and full of hicks--well, actually, that's the Eastern opinion about anything west of Pennsylvania, too. But I've heard more assumptions about the South being this entirely bigoted, violent place (where people are lynched from trees that you can see from the highway) since I've been here at Smith than I'd like to think about. I've never been to the South. I also know that people are being murdered because of ethnicity/race/gender/sexuality/etc. everywhere in the US, all the time. So yeah. We speak out of one side of our mouth and spit with the other side. How are we supposed to move forward?! It makes me ill. And no, I know I'm not exempt from this...but at least I'm admitting it. Are you? Incidentally, I changed comment organizations, because Comment This was making the page not load. I hate to lose all your commentary, but I think that I'd rather have you read what I have to say. Please leave comments in the new bit or IM me. I appreciate knowing that I'm being heard. 2/4/2004
Interlude Hey all. Just wanted to let you know I haven't forgotten about this. I had a migraine yesterday and classes/engagements all day Monday, so I haven't been able to write. Fear not! You will get your Smith College/feministy/insane rant fix soon. In the meantime, I'll just rock out to Fleetwood Mac. As should you all. 2/1/2004
Chapter the Seventh: Of Work and Weirdness. At work, have about 45 minutes remaining, might as well write a blog post. This is a bit off the school topic, though it does have to do with something that came up about a week or two ago here at school... Prior to getting tipsy as hell at [girlfriend Julie's house], we were all taking The Spark's (why bother linking, you all know how to find it) Gay Test and Gender Tests because we were in a weird mood. One of the questions was something to the effect of 'Do you have more favorite male or female musicians?" Everyone, save myself, answered female. My issue with this whole thing stems from when I first read Inga Muscio's Cunt (I have the battered first edition). She advises to take a year and only view/read/etc. female produced arts intentionally. If you run into something that's male produced, that's cool, but 90 plus percent of the time should be devoted to female art. At the time, I was thinking, no way in hell I could do that. I still think that. This probably makes me a shit feminist, but it's true. I could NOT start skipping the Lindsey Buckingham songs on my Fleetwood Mac CDs, I adore Scorsese, and while I read mostly female-written sci-fi, Dan Simmons is wonderful, as are many other male authors. Thinking about it, a good percentage (I'll go home and take a look at my playlist while my mother's talking at me on the phone tonight) of my playlist is male. I worship Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie, and the Wilson sisters are wonderful...but I'm a classic rock fan, and that isn't a genre that had/has many womens in it. Oh, teh mens. I don't listen much to songs that say things like 'I took her home and I did her good and I never got her name', but they come up from time to time. So yeah. I'd like to take this chance to say that I am a bad feminist because Ani gets on my nerves and I can't listen to two or more folk songs that aren't James Taylor in a row. I get enough political shit going to this school. Except I really like Dar's 'Are You Out There'. Good shite, that. I'd update you all on the dining situation, but it still makes me really mad, and I think that I said all the things I had to say on the subject the other night. Everybody's getting a runaround and I don't really understand all of what's going on. It's just a really sore subject for me right now, because it's WRONG, but there's nowhere else I can think of for them to cut instead of RADS (Residence And Dining Services) that they'd actually consider. God, I hate people thinking I'm a rich bitch because I go to Smith, but I suppose I deserve to be exposed to some kind of blatant prejudice, seeing as I'm from white Anglo-Saxon (a quarter, at least) Protestant stock. That are farmers, not investment bankers, but that doesn't matter to the townies. (Love you, Allie...but it's enough to drive me nuts.) Happens in every college town, I'm told. Y'know, even though I try to change the opinion and act decent (dude. I'm nice to everyone in stores and the like who's nice to me), it won't do shite. Come visit while we still have fine food and fine women. Oh, and from a post on feminist_rage, I could go on about party restrictions and the like and how people bitch about them and all this other stuff, but I don't have the time. Rage, RAGE, against the dying of the light. Ahem. Yeah. |
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