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ytak! Also, essay.
Who's awesome? My friend ytak is awesome, that's who! Now go vote for her picture :Db Ahahahah, MLP Frank XD Why is this not yet an LJ product, someone tell me. (PS: Photo artist is not above people voting on RP accounts hint hint, flist.)
On a different note, for anyone who's interested, I'm uploading... pretty much everything I have of Get Backers into a locked post here. Help me keep the SS links alive until I at least have the first season up, guys!
Card post bump goes here :O I'll be posting about it to CFO probably around the end of the week, but I'll be taking requests most likely through December 22nd. *i-is a little stupid, obviously* DON'T WORRY, I'LL SEND THEM OUT BEFORE THEN!
And now, for lack of anything better to post, here's the latest version of my Why The Hell Don't We Have Katara Action Figures essay: AKA the satirical one.
Disclaimer: Satire (\`sa-,tī(-ə)r\): 1. a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn; 2. trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly; 3. this paper. (From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary; third definition added by essayist.) ((Translation, Just In Case: Do not take anything I wrote here at all seriously.))
Playing House
Bysocchan
More and more often these days, women are stepping out of their place in the home and into unnatural masculine roles in the workplace. The Happy Housewife of yesteryear is now nearly gone the way of the dodo, usurped by households that can "take care of themselves." No longer are husbands guaranteed a fresh, hot meal when they return home after a long day of work, and no more can children play care-free, knowing that their toys will be picked up after them by a loving hand. Wives and mothers are too busy becoming "career women," a path that can only lead to disaster in the home.
And what is the cause of such drastic developments? Where can we find the seeds of this catastrophe? Where else but in your neighborhood toy stores?
These days, it's hardly uncommon to find dolls that promote unconventional jobs for women. Even the classic Barbie doll, so long hailed as the epitome of feminism, has taken on new jobs, among them such careers as army officer, doctor, lifeguard, engineer, and even as a presidential candidate (Life in Plastic, 12/21/2002).
Traditional girls' toys have even been tainted by such offensive colors as red and blue. These shades are much more appropriate on boys' playthings, where they are less likely to violate delicate feminine senses. With such trends as these, is it any wonder that women are getting the idea that they can do any job a man can?
Thankfully, not all hope has been lost. Female representations remain scarce, if not outright absent from boys' toy collections and aisles. Male characters continue to be produced more frequently than and even to the exclusion of female characters, some of which appear more often than some male characters in related television programs (a transgression in itself). Kerrie Murphy explains that even long-celebrated LEGOs are dividing into more acceptable gender-oriented sets (Power of pink – TELEVISION, Murphy, 5/8/2004). "The company now makes Clikits, a jewellery (sic) building kit, as well as an abundance of vehicle kits." Slinkeys may remain an over-all auto-stair-descending asexually appealing wonder, but there are plenty of other, more appropriate toys to occupy the minds of children.
There's even a ray of possibility in the girls' aisles. In 1997, Tyco released the Magic Date Ball in a pleasant all-over pink, with appropriate questions like "Does he like me?" and "Will he ask me?" (What the Next Sled of Toys Is Up To, Lawson, 1997). They also put out Fashion Magic Hair Wraps 'n Braids, "a hair-styling kit with footlong strands of red, pink, blue, purple and silver hair that can be braided – in any combination – and worn in a girl's hair," readying a new generation for the worries of appearance and social opinion to which they will soon need to dedicate their lives.
With such firm foundations as these backing up our accepted gender roles, there is no doubt that women will someday come to their senses, leave the places that have no use for their inferior abilities and return to where they truly belong – the house and kitchen.
Works Cited:
“Life in Plastic,” Economist. Written Dec 12, 2002, viewed Sept 20, 2007.
Murphy, Kerrie. “Power of pink – TELEVISION,” The Australian. Written Aug 5, 2004, viewed Sept 20, 2007.
Lawson, Carol. “What the Next Sled of Toys Is Up To,” The New York Times. Written 13 Feb, 1997, viewed Oct 10, 2007. <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801efd71f3cf930a25751c0a961958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink>
Now that that's done, I feel like I deserve some cake.
ytak is awesome, that's who! Now go vote for her picture :Db Ahahahah, MLP Frank XD Why is this not yet an LJ product, someone tell me. (PS: Photo artist is not above people voting on RP accounts On a different note, for anyone who's interested, I'm uploading... pretty much everything I have of Get Backers into a locked post here. Help me keep the SS links alive until I at least have the first season up, guys!
Card post bump goes here :O I'll be posting about it to CFO probably around the end of the week, but I'll be taking requests most likely through December 22nd. *i-is a little stupid, obviously* DON'T WORRY, I'LL SEND THEM OUT BEFORE THEN!
And now, for lack of anything better to post, here's the latest version of my Why The Hell Don't We Have Katara Action Figures essay: AKA the satirical one.
Disclaimer: Satire (\`sa-,tī(-ə)r\): 1. a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn; 2. trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly; 3. this paper. (From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary; third definition added by essayist.) ((Translation, Just In Case: Do not take anything I wrote here at all seriously.))
Playing House
By
socchanMore and more often these days, women are stepping out of their place in the home and into unnatural masculine roles in the workplace. The Happy Housewife of yesteryear is now nearly gone the way of the dodo, usurped by households that can "take care of themselves." No longer are husbands guaranteed a fresh, hot meal when they return home after a long day of work, and no more can children play care-free, knowing that their toys will be picked up after them by a loving hand. Wives and mothers are too busy becoming "career women," a path that can only lead to disaster in the home.
And what is the cause of such drastic developments? Where can we find the seeds of this catastrophe? Where else but in your neighborhood toy stores?
These days, it's hardly uncommon to find dolls that promote unconventional jobs for women. Even the classic Barbie doll, so long hailed as the epitome of feminism, has taken on new jobs, among them such careers as army officer, doctor, lifeguard, engineer, and even as a presidential candidate (Life in Plastic, 12/21/2002).
Traditional girls' toys have even been tainted by such offensive colors as red and blue. These shades are much more appropriate on boys' playthings, where they are less likely to violate delicate feminine senses. With such trends as these, is it any wonder that women are getting the idea that they can do any job a man can?
Thankfully, not all hope has been lost. Female representations remain scarce, if not outright absent from boys' toy collections and aisles. Male characters continue to be produced more frequently than and even to the exclusion of female characters, some of which appear more often than some male characters in related television programs (a transgression in itself). Kerrie Murphy explains that even long-celebrated LEGOs are dividing into more acceptable gender-oriented sets (Power of pink – TELEVISION, Murphy, 5/8/2004). "The company now makes Clikits, a jewellery (sic) building kit, as well as an abundance of vehicle kits." Slinkeys may remain an over-all auto-stair-descending asexually appealing wonder, but there are plenty of other, more appropriate toys to occupy the minds of children.
There's even a ray of possibility in the girls' aisles. In 1997, Tyco released the Magic Date Ball in a pleasant all-over pink, with appropriate questions like "Does he like me?" and "Will he ask me?" (What the Next Sled of Toys Is Up To, Lawson, 1997). They also put out Fashion Magic Hair Wraps 'n Braids, "a hair-styling kit with footlong strands of red, pink, blue, purple and silver hair that can be braided – in any combination – and worn in a girl's hair," readying a new generation for the worries of appearance and social opinion to which they will soon need to dedicate their lives.
With such firm foundations as these backing up our accepted gender roles, there is no doubt that women will someday come to their senses, leave the places that have no use for their inferior abilities and return to where they truly belong – the house and kitchen.
Works Cited:
“Life in Plastic,” Economist. Written Dec 12, 2002, viewed Sept 20, 2007.
Murphy, Kerrie. “Power of pink – TELEVISION,” The Australian. Written Aug 5, 2004, viewed Sept 20, 2007.
Lawson, Carol. “What the Next Sled of Toys Is Up To,” The New York Times. Written 13 Feb, 1997, viewed Oct 10, 2007. <http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9801efd71f3cf930a25751c0a961958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink>
Now that that's done, I feel like I deserve some cake.
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I am caving to the urge to laugh manically. I am enjoying the linkage.
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Also, I'm continuing with this theme for my final paper for the class, and I have half a mind to just dig up my dad's video camera and make a documentary of it. If only I had the funding!
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I would totally fund you if I wasn't poor as a churchmouse.
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Maybe I should submit my papers and proposal to a bunch of creative places and ask for grants. (Well, first I need to mail myself copies so they don't steal my idea, but it could work? Possibly?)
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Hmm. Possibly. I don't know much about seeking funding.
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I could always ask my aunt; she's worked as an editor for showbiz for a while, and recently made her own documentary.
*...has the urge to look up kink!fic meme in response to icon*
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XDDD
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Here, have a relevant link :O But just the one, because you have homework
which I just found out about now, WORK ON IT, DO NOT BE LIKE ME.no subject
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T-Think of all the spelling errors we could avoid!no subject
I tend to fail the most with html, 'specially since FireFox has a nifty little spellcheck device installed ♥ But it's all good :ObI MUST LEAVE YOU NOW, as the computer lab is closing! Go do your homework!
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RIGHT. WORK NAO.