THIS OR THAT.
1. Yummier: Chocolate ice cream or strawberry cheesecake? Strawberry cheesecake!
2. Better to watch on TV: Movies or sports? Movies.
3. A better web browser: MSIE or Netscape (or tell us your own favorite!) Netscape, 'coz it's faster.
4. A better way to travel: Automobile or bus/train? I'm really hesitating here. In fact, I'd say car if you're going to the country side, bus/train if you're going to the city.
5. Your preferred camera: Digital or film?film.
6. A Cooler Vehicle: Motorcycle or sports car? sports car? (yeah, I have to confess, I'm scared of motorcycles...)
7. More fun: Video games or board games? board games.
8. Sexier: A perfect body or an intelligent mind?an intelligent mind.
9. A stinkier smell: Skunk or gasoline (petrol)? gasoline!
10. Thought-provoking question of the week: What is more important to you: making a ton of money and being at the top of your field, or finding your soulmate and living a comfortable but not wealthy life? Most definately finding one's soulmate and living a comfortable and happy life. What use is money if you have food, drink, love, and hopefully a roof over your head?

posted by A. 11:34 AM

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THE LOLITA SYNDROM. I've been wanting to write about this since I saw a piece of this TV show on the so-called "Lolita" trend, currently popular with 8 to 12 year old girls. To keep up with this fashion, they "play the little madams", as girls their age have probably always done more or less, with an emphasis that makes it remarquable enought to call it a trend. They wear make-up, teenager clothes, and like to mimic their favorite stars' behaviours. So, what's new? They're only doing it a few years earlier than kids used too. They're probably jumping ahead of themselves a bit faster than they should, that's for sure, but other than that, I don't think it's such a big deal. Anyways, the show was explaining it all, interviewing girls on why they would follow the trend, their parents on why they would or would not let their kid do so, teachers and school administrators on how they thought it changed the student life in highschool. And that's when I heard the most schocking reaction from a women principal, telling an approving mother how girls were forbidden to wear T-shirts that would show their belly button inside the school, because fellow male classmates might find it enticing! What the hell??? I couldn't believe my ears!! I mean, how can women pass on all these sexist discriminative nonsensical codes themselves? I am not saying there should be no debate over dress code in schools, but on this particular issue, why have girls feel guilty? Why not teach guys that if a girls is dressed in a way that they find sexy, it does NOT necessary mean she's willing to get laid by every dude eying her up? Why does it have to be so much more natural to blame it on the girl? Can't people, and especially women, see that it's just a way for man to get away with their crimes, that they're preparing the ground for the lame excuse that "she called for it" when they can't control themselves and end up raping a woman? Or, without being so dramatic, it's just one of the many lines fed to women to ensure their future acceptance of male domination in society.

reading: Je suis comme une truie qui doute by C. Duneton

posted by A. 10:55 AM

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