It's All About The Babies

Two items to discuss today: the statement released that all women are "pre-pregant" and should therefore constantly watch their health, and the religious controversy over the Da Vinci Code movie coming out.

The first item is one that I have given myself time to mull over, otherwise my response would have been nothing but angry ranting with lots of cuss words thrown in for good measure. I'm still gonna rant, but it's a tempered rant. The entire matter just pisses me off so much. Do you know what they're effectively saying? "All women ought to take care of themselves. Not because it actually matters if women live healthy and fulfilling lives; that's not important. What's important is they preserve the purity of their wombs, which is (as we all know) the primary duty of all females. What else are they good for, other than being incubators, nay, mere recepticles for The Almighty Fetus?" GAH! Just makes me want to go out and smoke a pack of cigarettes, just to stick it to them. My body, my life. It's too bad a good message about staying healthy got mixed up with such ridiculous sentiments. Why couldn't they have just asked doctors to worry about the health of all the people trying to get pregnant, men and women alike? Grrr...

With regards to the second item, well... I just don't get it. It's a movie. The way I see it, if the content of the movie bothers you because it goes against your beliefs, you should agree to disagree(1) and move on with your life. Because it's just a fucking movie. People can think for themselves, y'know. Fact and fiction are, in fact, easy to separate with this movie, as long as you think critically and use your brainbox(2).

1 - Subsequent to writing this post, I brought up the matter to my father, who brought up the very good point that Hollywood movers and shakers will never make a movie based on the Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, or a movie that fictionally alledges that the Holocaust never happened. In my own happy little utopia, we'd be able to make both movies without a kerfuffle, but he did have a point about stories that cross the line, and I guess Jesus doesn't count.

2 - Unfortunately, this is not often the case, as you may have noticed. There are people who think that having the Titanic sink was a lame idea, or that Lord Of The Rings is a historical piece. I place the blame entirely on the fact that our society is a very safe one, such that Darwinian mechanisms are prevented from eliminating The Stupid from our gene pool.

Damn The Media Man!

It's been a long time since I've posted anything, mostly because I didn't have anything cohesive to talk about. But now I have more inspiration, courtesy of Twisty at 'I Blame The Patriachy'. She hit upon an item that had been bothering me as well: that stupid new song by singer Ne-Yo. I mentioned not liking the song to my sister, saying something like: "She's sexy when she gets mad? That's like a step away from rape." Yes, it may be a little extreme, but that's what you get if you extrapolate this bullshit mentality that a woman's outrage is nothing but another excuse for a man to fuck her. Ugh.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned it, but I am utterly convinced that the writers of CSI have a biased opinion on women. And this is coming from a woman who counts CSI as one of her favourite TV shows of all time.

There are particular episodes that made me come to this conclusion, as not every episode deliberately disparages women. One is the episode where Catherine (the blond CSI) goes out to a bar, gets hit on by a guy who turns out to be too pushy, and said guy ends up a suspect in a subsequent investigation. The ending left a very bitter taste in my mouth, with Grissom chiding her and no one really offering support for her predicament. Seemed like the moral of the episode was: "Stupid Catherine, that's what you get for wanting to be flirtaceous and fun." Argh.

Another episode is the one where an Indian cab driver is beaten to death for hitting a kid with his taxi, but the kid was actually stabbed at a park earlier. It felt as if the writers were blaming the mother for all the bad things that happened. "If only she weren't so afraid of her abusive, stalker ex-husband, her older son and boyfriend would be alive, and her younger son wouldn't be going to jail." Fuckers!

There are other examples, but they aren't coming to mind right now. Despite all the asshatery, I love the show to pieces :)