A genetic desire to say...

Fuck you, Walt Disney company!

Mind you, I think Disney's new animated movie - featuring its first African-American princess (about time, guys!) looks very cool.

Not so cool: the company's spokesman, Gary Forster, proclaiming that:

“We believe it is an innate desire in the vast majority of young girls to play out the fantasy of being a princess… They like to dress up, they like to role-play. It’s just a genetic desire to like pink, to like the castle, to turn their dads into the prince.”

(For more, read it here.)

Newsflash, Gary: some of us had the genetic desire to collect action figures like Green Lantern, Batman, and the Incredible Hulk.

Last time I checked, none of them wore pink.

I don't even want to go near his implications about us wanting to marry our dads. I think Freud spread around that fucked up idea quite awhile ago, actually.

What pisses me off the most is that mainstream media haven't murmured a mere peep about this outrageous comment. I found out about it from Feminist Review.

Can you imagine the uproar if Forster would have made such a stereotypical comment about an ethnic group? It just goes to show that women, while making up more than 50% of the population, are still an acceptable group to generalize about.

You notice it's a (clueless) male who made this comment, anyhow.

Each day I realize how lucky I was to grow up with a feminist dad who told me I could do anything I wanted. He'd be pissed about this kind of comment, too.

The fluffy white f%$k!

This is why I can never stay mad at him...because he's so damn cute!

I am eagerly awaiting text from all of you who have e-mailed me vowing to use the words "fluffy white fuck" in a sentence!

Post them in comments...I can't wait!

The Count's F*$#ing Vacation!

Sweet story of the day

OK, call me a sap, but this story about the world's tallest man is truly heart-warming.

Haven't we all, at some point or another, felt like we didn't fit in, or didn't belong? My mother told me that when she was in elementary school, she seriously thought maybe she was from another planet! That, she reasoned, would explain why she didn't fit with the rest of her family...

When I was in college I told a friend that I felt like I was nobody's kind of girl. "Of course you are!" she said. "It's just that none of them can have you."

That felt like a million bucks...compared to a friend who said, a few years later, that maybe I "wasn't meant to be with any one person romantically, but just a really good friend to a lot of people." Ouch.

He was wrong, obviously, and his wife still hasn't figured out that he's gay!

I still have people comment that I'm "out there," "something else," or a bit different, but you know what? I'm happy about that now. I don't see myself as weird, but why be dull?

Anyway...I thought it was sweet that people all over the world have come out to befriend this man in the Ukraine, who is now hoping to meet his soulmate.

Good luck, sweetie!

Unfortunately, there were three separate movies...

Happy weekend!

Reason #1,204 that I'm glad I'm not a guy

I'm reasonably confident that my boss will never ask me to piss in a plastic bag instead of wasting time hunting down a bathroom.

What else should we expect from a shitty phone company with shitty service? (Qwest.) Dumbass corporate motherfuckers.

Sorry, that's redundant, isn't it?

Please! Take a moment today...

And hug someone you love. And tell them you love them.

My aunt's husband of less than four years committed suicide this week by taking a one-way hike up a mountain. The last memory she has of him is a big fight, and him leaving and threatening to kill himself.

Clearly most of us aren't on the edge like that, but STILL. Fights and anger are temporary. Let your loved ones know how you feel, because we never know what will happen next.

PS What makes me really fucking mad are all of these know-it-all readers who have posted on articles that my uncle "was an idiot" to go hiking without overnight gear. You dumbfucks. He didn't go on a hike. He was suicidally depressed and didn't plan on coming back. I wish you'd realize how fucking painful these comments are.