pet peeves
Aug. 21st, 2002 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chestnutcurlsHere's what's been on my mind lately. :)
Five Things I Can't Stand
1. People who make unearthly noises with their noses when they're congested. And sometimes when they're not congested. I mean that horrible snorting noise that sounds like they're sucking their own brains out. Is that really necessary? Couldn't they just blow their noses? Surely someone knows what I mean.
2. Having to vegetate in front of a computer for eight hours a day, remembering when my days were fun and active and I got to spend afternoons with my friends.
3. The world's standard of beauty. And the fact that whenever I profess my disdain for it, and point out provoking examples of it, my family either laughs at me or implies that I'm just bitter because I am not beautiful. Example: in the Princess Diaries movie, the FIRST THING they do to make the "ugly" girl "beautiful" is straighten her hair. Because one apparently cannot be beautiful with curly hair. This is only one example of the rampant anti-curly-hair bias in the media. My mother's response to my objections: "But you can't deny that she looked better." :P
4. The sick feeling I get in my stomach whenever I think about something that happened last winter, and realize that it may happen again before long.
5. The idea that women should be completely dependent on men and rely solely on them for everything. Yes, submission is good, but ignorance is bad! I worry about women who don't have a clue about paying bills or thinking for themselves. I'm independent and not married. Technically I'm still under the "headship" of my dad, but do I call him all the time so he can tell me what to do? What if I never get married? My dad's not going to be around forever; am I supposed to find some other man to "protect" me once he's gone? As my grandmother has always taught me: yes, submit, but be able to take care of yourself. And as I say: If a guy wants someone to dumbly do whatever he says, he should just get a dog.
Sorry for the negativity of this post. It helped to get that off my chest. :) I'll be more positive later.
Five Things I Can't Stand
1. People who make unearthly noises with their noses when they're congested. And sometimes when they're not congested. I mean that horrible snorting noise that sounds like they're sucking their own brains out. Is that really necessary? Couldn't they just blow their noses? Surely someone knows what I mean.
2. Having to vegetate in front of a computer for eight hours a day, remembering when my days were fun and active and I got to spend afternoons with my friends.
3. The world's standard of beauty. And the fact that whenever I profess my disdain for it, and point out provoking examples of it, my family either laughs at me or implies that I'm just bitter because I am not beautiful. Example: in the Princess Diaries movie, the FIRST THING they do to make the "ugly" girl "beautiful" is straighten her hair. Because one apparently cannot be beautiful with curly hair. This is only one example of the rampant anti-curly-hair bias in the media. My mother's response to my objections: "But you can't deny that she looked better." :P
4. The sick feeling I get in my stomach whenever I think about something that happened last winter, and realize that it may happen again before long.
5. The idea that women should be completely dependent on men and rely solely on them for everything. Yes, submission is good, but ignorance is bad! I worry about women who don't have a clue about paying bills or thinking for themselves. I'm independent and not married. Technically I'm still under the "headship" of my dad, but do I call him all the time so he can tell me what to do? What if I never get married? My dad's not going to be around forever; am I supposed to find some other man to "protect" me once he's gone? As my grandmother has always taught me: yes, submit, but be able to take care of yourself. And as I say: If a guy wants someone to dumbly do whatever he says, he should just get a dog.
Sorry for the negativity of this post. It helped to get that off my chest. :) I'll be more positive later.
