"I knew I had to change something about myself. And I wanted to be a hot wife."

things I overhear while informercials play on tv. Welcome to America. Welcome to womanhood.

SOPA: “To promote prosperity, creativity, entrepreneurship, and innovation by combating the theft of U.S. property, and for other purposes.”

Defending intellectual property my ass. I’m so pissed that congress thinks that they can make people believe that censoring the web is necessary because it’s under the guise of stopping piracy.

Piracy could be stopped easily. Servers that host pirating websites could be turned OFF. If the government wanted them gone, they could do it. I’m tired of being fed bullshit and people thinking I’ll eat it up without question. 

I’m so pissed because I believe in America so much. I believe in freedom and I think it is so fucked up that I live in a country where our values have fallen so far. I’m tired of slowly giving up rights. I’m tired of pretending that I’m free because I think that maybe it’s not so bad. It is that bad. Slowly giving up little decisions that should be mine, no matter how small, is wrong because they should still be my right, my choice to make. If they keep taking away little things, soon they can take away big things, then anything. 

The quote “When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free” is my favorite for a reason. If it’s wrong to free, if it’s wrong to say what I want, what I think, if I need to be censored by law, fuck that, I don’t want to be right.

So if you haven’t signed the damn petition, do it. Do it right fucking now.

On days like today there are a lot of accusations being thrown around that the government has had some involvement in 9/11. And as much as I hear about it, as much as it makes sense for these things to have happened, I could never believe them because then I could not believe in my country. And I truly believe in our country. So no, everyone can sit down.

And honestly that Africa quote was just as objectifying as any American ad.

“In Africa thinness is stigmatized…fatness for women indicates a woman’s fertility and therefore her value.”

…oh so they’re valuable because they’re baby-making machines. They may not be pretty, but damn can they pop ‘em out!

Americans combat issues of body images by saying that thinness is a stigmatized thing in other countries.

“In Africa thinness is stigmatized…fatness for women indicates a woman’s fertility and therefore her value.”

Honestly, I’m all for promoting a healthy body image, but talking to me about the way it is in Africa, although a broadening perspective, is not going to make me feel better about myself because I’m not in Africa I’m in America.

The only way to address body images effectively is by addressing the problems in a country directly, not by re-directing our focus to somewhere else where the image is positive so as to say you should really be feeling like them.

15% of women and 11% of men surveyed would trade more than 5 years of their lives to be at their ideal body weight.

According to a survey of Americans by Garner in 1997.

Shocking. I honestly wouldn’t trade 5 years of my life for anything, not even on my most self-conscious days where I can be pretty damn uptight about my weight.

Happy 4th, everyone.

Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans

I don’t understand how we can all sit here and let our rights get taken away one by one. This internet ID Obama is proposing under the guise of “enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords” is bullshit. Seems to me that this eliminates my freedom of anoninimity on the internet. And if this is America, the country that was founded in the name of freedom, I should have the right to be anonymous if I god damn please.