22I hate technology sometimes.
Dear Verizon,
I hate you. My phone is dead…or maybe it’s a zombie? I’m not quite sure. But I tried to contact you via online chat and that’s down. I can’t call you on my phone, because it’s completely spazzed. Not to mention the fact that I work 12am-8am and can’t call customer service while I’m there because customer service is open from 8am-8pm. How am I supposed to fix this problem?
Sincerely,
A Dejected Graduate Student in Maine Whose Mother Lives in Michigan and Doesn’t Use Her E-Mail Very Often and Therefore is Currently Impossible to Get Hold Of.
This is a beautiful opinion piece! I have never had any particular relationship with rings…other than my tongue ring, which I still miss. And I am not a fan of marriage as an institution, either, which is yet another strike against rings.
But Deneson writes:
Although I hated that the absence of a wedding band might cause others to discount the level of our commitment, I loved the fact that everything a ring symbolizes — to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part — Melinda and I already did.
The symbol of a ring is beautiful, especially when it is separated from the need for marriage. It’s the values I support, values that are clearly represented by this piece. I love that the writer acknowledges that she and her partner have that relationship and everything that a ring represents.
On that note, I don’t think that anybody has the right to discount the commitment of another person’s relationship based on a ring. It’s a sad reality, but live and let live. Leave people alone and stay out of other people’s relationships. It’s the same thing with a piece of paper. Just because a couple hasn’t tied the knot…or isn’t planning on ever tying the knot…doesn’t mean they are not just as committed or even more committed than a married couple.
I guess the lesson is…concern yourselves with your own damn relationship :)
:”)
I LOVE this.I am SO tired of my guy friends talking about boobs like they know ANYTHING about having them.All i ever hear is “Yeah bro i hate it when girls boobs separate when they lay down its gross omg deformed saggy grandma tits and her nipple wasnt hard hen she took her bra off and they werent even perky uGh why did i ever fuck her her tits were so wierd and not like the ones those plastic women have in all the porn movies i watch no wonder no girls seem pretty to me i have such unrealistic expectations for all da dumb bitches LOLZ”
so thanks to whoever made this.
(via feistyfeminist)
i love ruth moore.
I’m taking an online English class this summer, and it counts towards my “specialization” (why did they nix the concentration?) in women’s studies. Now, I am excited for every women’s studies class I take, but I was EXTRA excited about this class simply because it’s an English class. I haven’t taken one of those since spring 2007.
The class is Maine Women Writers and a Sense of Place. And I love this class. Currently, I am on week two, which means I’ve read two books. The first one, The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, was so-so. But second book…the second book I fell in love with.
The Weir by Ruth Moore. I don’t know what it is about this book … maybe the vivid descriptions…the interconnected stories…the complex characters … but now I want to read more of her books.
I just needed to share my love. And confess, if I hadn’t done anthropology and art history as an undergrad, I probably would have done English.
My problem is that I just love everything, minus math. Hell, I even find science interesting, even if I don’t rightly understand most of what’s going on :)
k.d. lang…at UMaine.
k.d. lang will perform at UMaine in September. This pretty much made my day.
I laughed. I really, really did. The only one of these movies that I haven’t seen is 50 First Dates … as for the others, well, I once read a great article about how Beauty and the Beast is all about bestiality.
Teaching girls that their appearance is the first thing you notice tells them that looks are more important than anything. It sets them up for dieting at age 5 and foundation at age 11 and boob jobs at 17 and Botox at 23. As our cultural imperative for girls to be hot 24/7 has become the new normal, American women have become increasingly unhappy. What’s missing? A life of meaning, a life of ideas and reading books and being valued for our thoughts and accomplishments.”
