some additional thoughts on feminism related topics

1:04 PM Me: So, I showed my buddy the packaging girlhood blog, and his response was to send it out to a couple of people with the following note:

"this is a link from gabe about various companies coercing girls to want to have certain things and look a certain way. not a new idea, but perhaps the influence is getting younger and younger. . . ."

while he is right that adds reach younger and younger, I think there is a broader point here: The adds get better and better.

1:05 PM Journalism may be losing ground but selling bad ideas and negative ways of being is still a growth industry in this country. True in politics, journalism, and toy sales.

28 minutes

1:34 PM Manny: funny

i mean, not

1:35 PM me: ha

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2:01 PM me: On an unrelated note, my wife sent me this: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=06&year=2009&base_name=ask_a_feminist_is_it_sexist_we

2:02 PM Manny: funny

We did that

I mean, I did

me: many many people do

we did not

2:03 PM no engagement ring, no presentation

val is very clear about what is important and what is stupid

not to mention secretly offensive

2:04 PM Manny: i didn't get the ring till later

but i did have a surprise, repeat ask

2:07 PM me: repeat ask?

2:08 PM Manny: we talked about getting married, and then I asked seperately, a second time

me: ah

right

2:09 PM there is something to be said for effort and ceremony