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Or you could donate some to the help Loretta Lynn finish her associates...this will be much cheaper.

I think this thread is pretty well done for but I just realized this might fit in well here:

I'm going to Canada to spend it!

Someone teach me how to knit and then get me a pattern or whatever for this thing my friend found: Thanks!

I'm with ya! After I started studying this stuff, my perception of my own childhood became totally whacked. I can definitely look back and see where I was manipulated as a kid. Now, as a parent to a three year old girl, this stuff has taken a huge spot on my radar of crap to look out for. Edit: This is good stuff too: http://www.thebodyproject.com/

This one too, Reni!

But I gotta be straight when I say I wanna talk political theoryUntil the break of dawn. That's fantastic!

"life partner"

My partner has an impressive collection of Norton vinyl. Lots of Hasil Adkins and old garage and surf stuff. He's 5'11. Others I own that are particularly nice to listen to on vinyl are The Sonics and 13th Floor Elevators. I'm still 5'6.

I loathe this phrase. This song belongs in this thread. Also, Mom Jeans!!

Boobs

I think the body issues are probably unavoidable to a degree with young women but it doesn't have to be extreme if she's got good parents (or other caring adults) in her life who fight against all the negative Mtv bullsh*t and ensure she knows that being an awesome chick has nothing to do with her bra size or how shiny her hair is. What's really awful is that the relatively recent wave of advertising directed to younger and younger kids ("tweens," the hot new market) is causing some serious issues with eating disorders, depression etc. in girls who shouldn't be thinking about sex at all much l

I think the most aggravating thing for me about this whole mess of stuff is that there are people profiting off of others' insecurities. Praying on weakness is not cool, ever, and that's just what happens when men are sold hair plugs and diet pills are pushed on women.

High school doesn't count....they certainly aren't (nor was I) mature in high school. Insecurity and in-fighting definitely goes down there but there aren't really a lot of high school chicks on VC, are there? I think we're mostly in our twenties and up?

I think thats part of the problem. There's this myth being perpetuated that implies that women are all nasty bitches who just hate each other and walk around loathing themselves or harboring jealousy of one another. In my experience at least, women aren't like that in the real world. Mature, well-adjusted women love themselves and all of their "sisters" as well, regardless of dress size.

Jessica Simpson and the like being shoved in our woman-faces all the time is supposed to make us feel bad. It works on some women but such methods of oppression are powerless against extra awesome, hot as all get out, chicks like you and me and all of the other VC hotties.

This thread gave me a massive headache. That Naomi Wolf book is good. "Survival of the Prettiest" is another one and it's amazing...it's like the "Fast Food Nation" of beauty culture. Did you know that a while back they made the Columbia Pictures logo chick thinner? They narrowed her waist. How stupid is that? How absolutely, ridiculously pointless!! The money that went in to that could have gone to so many better things. I don't know how it works for other chicks, but I can't do the whole, "Yeah he's hot!" thing based on a photo of a fella alone. Unless, the photo shows him making an aweso

5 feet 6 inches of awesome woman power. I met you only briefly but it seemed that you were shorter than that... It was probably a relative height thing, when dudes like Nels are around everyone else looks short.

Watching after I put the kiddo to bed:

I want to marry it. Nearly every song is "epic." There are actually moments that I like better on the previously posted live versions (The "La, la, la's" on "We Can't Help You"). I'm in complete agreement about Janet's ass-kickingness on the drums. The whole album is really a thrill to listen to. I had the biggest grin stuck on my face throughout my first listen. It was like Christmas.

Oh! I looked it up, that pinky pinky thing was Project Pat. My fella friends had a lot of fun with that one some years back. Lots of lyrics are easily misheard and make for a fun song. I guess the actual lyrics are relatively bleak but I like to hear it as stuff like, "Smokin' on some stinky, stinky, now I need to eat me some Twinkies, Twinkies!"

Is he the one who had the "...stinky, stinky....diamond ring on my pinky! pinky!" (or something along those lines) tune some time back?

Sweet Jesus, everyone knows that anything but this order... AM BT ST YHF AGIB SBS ...is just all wrong.

:birthday :birthday

The album is "available" in the usual places. Oh what a beautiful morning...