Boo Urns.

The movie Idiocracy is on cable right now. I'm excited about this, because I never got a chance to see it.

The wonderful Sara Rue has a small role. As usually happens when I watch movies with my laptop in front of me, I looked her up on IMDB.

I saw some photos of her there, and I was so appalled by what I saw.


Sara Rue, before and after

Why did she lose weight? She didn't need to lose weight! She was so gorgeous!

This makes me so sad.

I definitely believe in people making weight management choices for themselves, but I can't help but be disappointed by this turn of events.

Here is someone else upset about this.

Hee!

I tried to pick my favorites to share, but really, they're all amazing.

So you should all go over to this post on Occasional Superheroine and gorge yourselves on decades of Holiday specialness.

Trust me, it's awesome!

Assigning Our Icons

Can we please remove Wonder Woman as the poster girl for feminism? (link via The Beat)

No wait, hear me out.

Wonder Woman is an AWESOME icon.

She's a great GLBT icon. She's a great Poly icon. She's a great BDSM icon.

But when her raison d'etre is female superiority, she's not a great feminist icon.

To be fair, great strides have been made in recent years to make Wonder Woman more about equality than superiority. But then, I've never made any attempts to hide who my vote is for...



Seriously, everything of Power Girl I've read involves her:

-kicking ass
-trying to be taken seriously (often while kicking ass)
-trying to set herself apart from her famous cousins (sometimes while kicking ass)
-trying to define herself as her own person, separate from her cousins and her boobs

And the thing about her boobs? Totally a joke started by the artists in the 1970s. I kind of love that.

Jersey Gets An Upgrade!

Governor Corzine Signs Pharmacy Refusal Bill into Law
On November 2, 2007, New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine signed legislation that establishes a pharmacy’s duty to dispense valid prescriptions regardless of moral or philosophical opposition to any medication by an individual pharmacist. While Planned Parenthood respects the religious beliefs of individual pharmacists, we strongly believe that a woman should be able to walk into a pharmacy with a valid prescription and walk out with her medication, without lectures, discrimination, or delay. The legislation (S1195/A992) protects both patients’ access to legal medications and devices and individual pharmacists’ personal beliefs.

We've All Been Very Naughty

It's very amusing to me how references to S&M are becoming more and more socially acceptable. I mean, it's awesome. The more people who think "different strokes for different folks" and "live and let live," the better. It's just that I've been running into these things in the oddest places...

For instance, the card aisle at Duane Reade:

Front of card:


Interior of card:



Then, this past Monday, Dude Boss sent me to the fine intellectuals at Kinkos to laminate signs for the new office space. I saw a large sign waiting to be picked up, advertising spankings from Mrs. Claus on assigned days. I was shocked, and wondered if perhaps there was some crazy party I hadn't heard about.

But then I walked past the costume store near the old office space today when I went there to drop off keys.

This is what I saw:

The sign I saw at Kinko's!


We truly live in interesting times.