Those little warnings from your computer, the ones that ask, “are you sure?’ - PAY attention next time you accidentally delete some artwork you were making for Porter’s series. You had a chance to save it, sister, and you zoned out. Hours of work gone, bye bye.
Once again, let’s give a quick nod to the main argument against: “her success comes at the considerable psychological expense of hoards of impressionable girls, who will spend half their lives hating themselves because they look like ordinary women instead of an overhyped caricature”
Seriously? Who doesn’t know that Barbie is a freak? Barbie’s statistics in a live human being would produce a woman over 7 feet tall with a 44-inch bust, a 17-inch waist and 40-inch hips. Miss America she ain’t.
AND, haven’t we all by now seen the pathetic old women who had plastic surgery in the 80s to look like Barbie and now they have absurd 18 year old D-cups perched still perky on their 55 year old bodies? That neck skin and those breasts do not match, Ma’am.
What once may have been a legitimate first wave feminist issue is now a cartoon. Relax, Gloria Steinem, our cynical post Gen-x girls are not vulnerable anymore.
But, what they are missing in their new found freedom is wisdom in the fine arts of standing up strait, sucking in their stomachs, knowledge that bra straps should never be an acceptable “part of the outfit”, and wearing tasteful, nude toned makeup.
Barbie would not be caught dead in that Goth eyeliner, sweetie. I don’t care if Kim Kardashian wears hers that way, you need to have some class.
I know, I know, she ruins girl’s self esteem. Barbie has singlehandedly caused eating disorders and body image issues…. Blah blah. I’ve said it all myself.
You know what else causes eating disorders? Vestibular spasticity – really, look it up. I threw up for years, and it was not because I wanted to look like Barbie. Mostly, I was just nauseous all the time, unless my stomach was empty. Now they have vagus nerve and/or stomach pacemakers for girls like I was, that controls the nausea. Thank you, western medicine! (P.S. parents: seriously look into this- I wasn’t trying to be skinny. Your daughter may be in the same boat.)
I still struggle with this, which is why you see me eating Cheezits all the time, they settle my stomach, AND Mendota springs water helps me belch.
Well, that was a completely different topic than I started with. I’m still for Barbie, but best to keep blogs short and sweet. I’ll come back to this again later.
She sounds wonderful. If I had any reservations or concerns they were allayed by her bright voice. They have 4 or 5 days to explore the city before orientation and it sounds like she and Lisa dove right in. She says they slept on the plane and aren’t really suffering any jetlag.
They have been to the flower market, bazaars and bookstores. They have ridden in water taxis (she was happy for the canvas you can drop down on the side to prevent splashing with the nasty water). She could say “hello” and count to 5 in Thai; she also knew the number 10 for some reason. They have made friends with a coffee vendor who now waves whenever he sees them.
She said it’s really hot and humid and she loves the spicy food. Tomorrow they will be attending Lisa’s uncle’s 50th birthday party; Lisa’s mom, Peg Scott, has 2 brothers in Thailand.
Their apartment is 7 blocks from the school and it sounds like that’s been perfect, allowing them plenty of exciting activity to and from. There are closer places to stay and it sounds like Hannah will be dissapointed to move and loose some adventure when Lisa leaves next month. But you never know what will happen in a month. I am just so excited for her and can see how God has orchestrated so much this far.
These are set to post automatically a couple of times a week- If you don’t want to wait that long, I also keep an updated flash album on our dopkins.net home page
I’ve been thinking about my habit of rolling over my blog from time to time. I do it as a hobby to get to know different blog engines.
It occurred to me that my inclination to use a clean, shiny new address folder, even though it’s consistently on Dopkins.net, is at odds with my larger philosophy of, for example:
· 1 email address for life, (brandy@dopkins.net) and
· One phone number through the years. I’m a fan of stability.
While I use redirects, as a regular user of blogging RSS feeds I am aware that unless I remember to .htaccess ALL my redirects, someone may just get cut off.
AND, linky blogging friends, it’s not your job to babysit your links every time I change a blog address.
So, as a result of this morning’s introspection, I have purchased a domain name that will without fail point to my blog, no matter what I do with my folder structure.
Here it is: http://www.iheartdeweydecimal.com/
