Friday June 19 2009, 11:07 pm
I’m working on a new layout so I probably won’t blog in a couple of days. Right now I’m having problems with IE. Man, that browser suck! If it hadn’t been for stupid IE which shows things in a totally different way than other browsers I’d be almost done by now.
The layout I’m working on is a three colour one, as usual. And two of the colours are black and white, as usual. The third colour is pink. I haven’t had a pink layout in ages so I thought it was time for that now.
Speaking of something entierly different there’s a commercial going on swedish tv right now which I hate with a passion. It’s a commercial about some razor for women. A girl tries to build a shelf of something but fails, then she’s lying in the bath shaving her legs and say “who says girls are no good with their hands”.
Isn’t it great that even if we’re totally useless when it comes to anything practical, ast least we know how to shave our legs?
Plugs: Justin R, tiff k, Anna, Joebs, maria, Angie, Mallory, Elizabeth, Ivy, Chiui, kitty
Saturday December 27 2008, 3:01 am
There’s a commercial that’s been going on tv for a couple of weeks that really annoys me.
It’s by Tidningskungen (the newspaper king) and goes like this “För henne: Elle. För honom: Allt om historia” (For her: Elle. For him: Everything about history). Excuse me but WTF?! Since when is history typically manly?! What the commercial basicly is saying is that women read about fashion and celebrities while men – the educated ones – read about history.
I hate this type of gender generalization. Do things have to be for HIM or HER? Do girl toys have to be pink and boy toys blue? Can’t things be for PEOPLE? I belive men and women are more alike than we think. Much of what we conscider female and male are not things we were born to be and like but things we were taught to be and like.
I hate gender roles. I hate being treated differently just because I’m a woman. When I wanted to use a band saw at a job I had the manager wanted another man to help me with it. Even though just a minute ago I had told him that I took furniture design classes in high school and had been using a band saw since I was sixteen. Plus the fact that my dad is a carpenter. I got a tool set when I was six for crying out loud! Would he have insisted on someone helping me out if I were a man? Probably not. He was in his fifties and probably had these old ideas that carpentry is for men and women are good at other things like embroidering and cooking. Jeez, this isn’t the 19th century!
Plugs: rose, Gabrielle, Mara, claire, Nikkole, Gel, katie, maria, Monica, Jason, Shaina
Thursday September 18 2008, 12:18 am
This is a story written by a anonymous woman which I toke the freedom to translate. It really makes you think.
A friend of mine was the victim of a armed robbery. Or, well, maybe not a friend. A aquintance – not anyone is the victim of a armed robbery after all.
Anyway, he was on his way home from the pub one night when a masked women caught up with him, put a gun to his back and said “Your money or your life”. So he gave her his wallet.
The police caught her later and there was a trial and stuff.
There’s probably nothing wrong with him, but you know, there are a couple of things that makes you wonder…
I mean, first of all; what on earth was he doing out that time of the night? You know, half past twelve, in the middle of central Stockholm! I mean, it’s kind of his own fault, right? Second of all you can’t deny his clothes were provoking to say the least. Pinstriped suit, tie and shiny shoes. I mean, anyone could see he had a wallet. You really don’t have to walk around showing it off like that!
So things went the way they went…
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Plugs: Girl, amy, Fatima, Deanna, Marquis, Jess, Pim, Dizzy, tiniwini, Becky, Ashley, Kayla, Sandra, katie, samii, sarah b
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