Random stuff

[apocalypsos]

-- You've seen the rosie the riveter poster. But did you know that when the men got back, they wanted Rosie to serve coffee like any old admin or secretary? A great gift for feminists or receptionists! It's a throw pillow featuring a picture of Rosie the Riveter holding a coffee pot. No, really. I can't think of any feminist whose response to receiving that wouldn't be a resounding smack right in the kisser.

-- BWAH! ladybug218 gave me a whip for my userinfo! That's awesome. Thanks, hon. :) (True story -- a while back, I bought a top whip from a party store for a bachelorette party and ended up giving it to my mom as a cat toy. This was like a decade ago and she still has it. The youngest cat sees it and goes spastic. It's hilarious.)

-- I'm supposedly going to the Bloomsburg Fair tonight because my parents have free tickets to a .38 Special/Guess Who concert. I had to ask my dad the music junkie what they sang again, 'cause I couldn't remember.

-- I told my brother to drop hints with my parents that I want money for my birthday so I can get my laptop. The one I want's another two hundred and fifty bucks, though, but if I can just get another two hundred bucks from somewhere I can get one that's basically just got a smaller screen.

-- I have to go downstairs and check to see if any of the used books I ordered showed up yet. Krakatoa won't be showing up for another week or so, I figure, but I ordered To Sleep With The Angels and The Children's Blizzard about a week ago or so. Oh, and I cleaned out the books I don't want to donate to the local library and went up to my mom's to retrieve Curse of the Narrows, which I'd almost forgotten I even owned. (The blurb on the front cover is the best if you're looking for a really depressing disaster. It's like, "First Halifax blew up. Then there was a tsunami caused by the explosion. And then there was a blizzard. After that there was a rain of frogs, and a flood of cheese, and then the clowns invaded ..." Okay, so maybe that last part's bullshit, but you've got to think that by the time the blizzard came, the people in Halifax were like, "Aw, come ON!")

-- I also bought a winter coat yesterday before I could stop myself, because I wanted to do it before I didn't have the cash to and it's not like I don't need one. (Okay, so maybe it's not so much "need" in the general sense of NEEDING one. Some women buy shoes. I buy coats. Go figure.)

Comments

[fyrdrakken]

Funny, but when I look at that picture of a muscular woman holding a coffeepot and the, "You can do it!" my interpretation of the scene is that it's her response to being told to go make the coffee like a good little lady, and furthermore if the man in question doesn't take the point right quick he's about to either get the coffee flung in his face or the pot bounced off the side of his head. She just doesn't look at all subservient. But yeah, clueless ad copy there.

[fyrdrakken]

And now, having read the other comments and actually checked out the other designs offered on the site, I see I was actually viewing it as intended. It's just, yeah, the descriptive text really didn't jibe with the intent -- conforming to the gender stereotype when the design was meant to be subversive.