Hello

I expected to sit down and eat a bowl of cereal while enjoying and reading some blogs that I missed during my week where there was absolutely no ounce of a single wave of Internet.

But alas blogger is messed up and it's only showing one new blog post no matter how many times I click view more. So instead I'm taking this time to say things like yes I'm still here, no I didn't forget, yes I'll start posting more, etc., etc., etc.

On my way up to the mountains a week ago from this Saturday, it dawned on me that you all would probably like to know that I wasn't going to be around for the coming week. It was quite the inopportune time considering I had no means to post such a post. So here's my formal sorry:

Sorry.

Also, this past week as I was coming down the mountains I received word that a very very very dear friend of mine passed away. It was a rough weekend and I'm still sorting through thoughts and feelings and tears, but things are coming around.

I was very sad and irritated and hurting the first two days, but ironically I keep thinking she's still here. I think I'm healing way too fast in some ways. I think I'm going to wake up at 2 in the morning a month from now and realize that she really is gone. It's like things haven't sunk in yet.

Anyways, things may be slow for a week or two as I try to process all this shit that's happening.

For now, have a fabulous day.

Women and Stuff

The acceptance of all women's bodies are probably the most over cliched "I stand for all women curvy or not" feminist wannabe type persons. Too many people knock our society because we perceive skinny women as being more beautiful and back in the 60s "curvy" women were seen as beautiful and that's the way it should be today and why are we so judgmental of those who have a little more weight and so on and so forth.

It's a funny thing really. The notion of bustier women being more beautiful along with the ads to gain weight that floated in abundance in the 1950s-1960s are just the same as our ads today that sell diets as if they were a cookie. The society, whether fifty years earlier or not, were telling a portion of the female population that their body type wasn't pretty and they should buy food and diets and magazines that would help them achieve such a thing. Just because gaining weight is a lot easier than losing it (to an extent, I know some people who struggle with gaining weight) doesn't mean that the prevalence of weight gaining ads in the 50s is okay.

People don't realize that it's the exact same thing, just in reverse. By saying the 1950s had it right and we have it wrong, still isn't advocating for all body types. 

I'm not going to sit here and ramble about how we should love and accept everyone boobs or no boobs, ass or no ass either. I'm just here to say, hey, think it through. 

I know of several people I follow on Twitter who readily "retweet" posts about how we should go back in time to 50 years earlier because they "had it all right".

Just read the above ad, "If you are a normal healthy, underweight person and are ashamed of your skinny, scrawny figure, NUMAL may help you add pounds and pounds of firm attractive flesh to your figure." Note the use of ashamed, scrawny, and attractive in the ad. Funny how society still hasn't changed.

Have a fabulous day.