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Watch out for Fiona Horne! She has teh demons! ROFL
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--Phae
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--Phae
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I love his show. I giggle along at every parody and shot, but tonight he had Linda Hirshman on his show, promoting her new book. I have to say, that I agree with Stephen. What is so wrong about women choosing to stay at home and raise their children? When did that become something that a woman should be ashamed of? Why should she have to maintain a job she may hate if she doesn't have to?
I grew up right in the midst of the push for 'Women must have a career', I remember how the girls who just wanted to be moms were made to feel. By teachers, guidance councellors, etc ... if you didn't have a 'high profile/high power' career in mind, then there was something wrong with you. And while the luxury for a woman to be a SAHM is a lot rarer now than it was when I was growing up, I have to say that I am glad that it is again something that girls can strive for if they want it.
My mom was one of those women who really only wanted to be a mom. That was what she wanted to do with her life, and she was damned good at it. It took me a long time to realise that that was a beautiful goal for one's life. The point of the feminist movement was to make an equal playing feild. Not to demonize the image of the Mother.
I am a firm believer that when you choose to have kids, you need to make sacrifices in other areas of your life. If you can't take time away from your career for your kids and need to hire someone else to raise them, then you really shouldn't have had them in the first place.
There is no shame in choosing one over the other. Some women will choose to work, and be successful and powerful in the working world. Others will choose to leave the working world and be successful at helping to mold a new generation of human beings. If it is your choice, how can you be 'unfeminist' or 'wrong' for making it?
Priorities are a personal thing. Are women any more liberated if another woman is making your choices for you?
--Phae
I grew up right in the midst of the push for 'Women must have a career', I remember how the girls who just wanted to be moms were made to feel. By teachers, guidance councellors, etc ... if you didn't have a 'high profile/high power' career in mind, then there was something wrong with you. And while the luxury for a woman to be a SAHM is a lot rarer now than it was when I was growing up, I have to say that I am glad that it is again something that girls can strive for if they want it.
My mom was one of those women who really only wanted to be a mom. That was what she wanted to do with her life, and she was damned good at it. It took me a long time to realise that that was a beautiful goal for one's life. The point of the feminist movement was to make an equal playing feild. Not to demonize the image of the Mother.
I am a firm believer that when you choose to have kids, you need to make sacrifices in other areas of your life. If you can't take time away from your career for your kids and need to hire someone else to raise them, then you really shouldn't have had them in the first place.
There is no shame in choosing one over the other. Some women will choose to work, and be successful and powerful in the working world. Others will choose to leave the working world and be successful at helping to mold a new generation of human beings. If it is your choice, how can you be 'unfeminist' or 'wrong' for making it?
Priorities are a personal thing. Are women any more liberated if another woman is making your choices for you?
--Phae
Stupid people piss me off. So many people who claim to have watched Wife Swap (for some reason everytime I type that it comes out 'Witch Swap' the first time), are raging all over the internet ... "OMG! She broke her wand!!!" "The Wiccan Mom should have burned the family bible!!!" "How can the world be so intolerant??" "We have to DO something!!"
I worry about the intelligence of the general populace when people are incapable of following a tv show. It isn't even an intellectual tv show ... this is REALITY TV people!! The only thing that is easier to follow is Saturday morning cartoons!
I am not going to go into the 'no, she didn't break the Wiccan Mom's wand' speil again, because quite frankly, if you are incapable of following a tv show, then I doubt your reading comprehension skills, and I am not in the mood to put everything into small words. Instead I am going to rant about the people who are just amazed that someone who was so much of a stereotype could be picked as a representative of the Pagan Community.
Oh yes! It is just a TOTAL shock that reality tv producers would portray Pagans in a bad light ... because, you know, tv producers are completely trustable ... they care about how the public veiws Pagans ... it is right up there on their priorities list with making sure to buy quilted toilet paper.
And we all know that every southern SAHM mom feels that she is a non-person whose life is defined by the people she waits on, right? I mean, if the public is going to believe that Bella and her crew are typical Pagans, then the other woman has to be a typical SAHM mom, right? Because reality tv is actually based on ... you know, reality. It isn't a game show designed to exploit stupid people for the sadistic entertainment of others ... no no!
The entire premise of this show (like every other reality show) is demeaning. When they came trolling for contestants at P/W they wanted to make sure that any volunteers have children (because you can't exploit only adults, you know ... you need to make money off of the emotional scarring of children too) ... they didn't want anyone who has a regular job ... basically, they wanted people who would be easy to make fun of.
And I remember how many people showed an interest ... I don't even want to think about how many Pagans emailed them eager for their fifteen minutes of infamy. And NOW they are shocked.
I warned them then ... does anyone listen? Does anyone THINK? Are the folks in my small corner of the internet THAT much of a minority? *shakes head* I think I need to avoid the internet for a while and bury myself in a nice book ... a bubble bath sounds nice right about now too ... I may borrow Penda's Rite of Tea.
--Phae
I worry about the intelligence of the general populace when people are incapable of following a tv show. It isn't even an intellectual tv show ... this is REALITY TV people!! The only thing that is easier to follow is Saturday morning cartoons!
I am not going to go into the 'no, she didn't break the Wiccan Mom's wand' speil again, because quite frankly, if you are incapable of following a tv show, then I doubt your reading comprehension skills, and I am not in the mood to put everything into small words. Instead I am going to rant about the people who are just amazed that someone who was so much of a stereotype could be picked as a representative of the Pagan Community.
Oh yes! It is just a TOTAL shock that reality tv producers would portray Pagans in a bad light ... because, you know, tv producers are completely trustable ... they care about how the public veiws Pagans ... it is right up there on their priorities list with making sure to buy quilted toilet paper.
And we all know that every southern SAHM mom feels that she is a non-person whose life is defined by the people she waits on, right? I mean, if the public is going to believe that Bella and her crew are typical Pagans, then the other woman has to be a typical SAHM mom, right? Because reality tv is actually based on ... you know, reality. It isn't a game show designed to exploit stupid people for the sadistic entertainment of others ... no no!
The entire premise of this show (like every other reality show) is demeaning. When they came trolling for contestants at P/W they wanted to make sure that any volunteers have children (because you can't exploit only adults, you know ... you need to make money off of the emotional scarring of children too) ... they didn't want anyone who has a regular job ... basically, they wanted people who would be easy to make fun of.
And I remember how many people showed an interest ... I don't even want to think about how many Pagans emailed them eager for their fifteen minutes of infamy. And NOW they are shocked.
I warned them then ... does anyone listen? Does anyone THINK? Are the folks in my small corner of the internet THAT much of a minority? *shakes head* I think I need to avoid the internet for a while and bury myself in a nice book ... a bubble bath sounds nice right about now too ... I may borrow Penda's Rite of Tea.
--Phae
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Leaving aside the absolute extremes of both of the families involved, the show seemed to have ended nicely. Both families learned something valuable from eachother. I didn't care much for how they seemed to portray a Pagan lifestyle as detrimental to both men and families, but I didn't much care for watching a woman allow herself to be treated like a slave, either.
All in all, I think that the producers of this show should be strung up naked by their toes and whipped repeatedly with leather straps coated in broken glass for a live studio audience (do you think that would finally see the end of reality tv?)
--Phae
All in all, I think that the producers of this show should be strung up naked by their toes and whipped repeatedly with leather straps coated in broken glass for a live studio audience (do you think that would finally see the end of reality tv?)
--Phae
