Good Girl vs Bad Girl

I had coffee with two male friends yesterday and what I thought was a dying complex- The good girl vs bad girl complex. You know, what Steve Harvey refers to as the "throw back fish" or the "piip piip" girl. The "piip piip" girls are bad girls, because they open the doors on the car themselves, immedeatly after the man has unlocked it (therof the "piip" sound, apparently, you are not only supposed to lack an intellect, but you are also expected to lack motor skills).

How can this be that my two male friends were actively propagating for this phenomenon? They motivated this with saying that "good girls" are put on a pedistal..I told them, the my suspicion is that pedistal don't give much room for movement, a slight move, and you will fall. Good girls are denied certain rights as to be able to define and transform themselves. Bad girls are shunned because they take these rights.

The discussion really let me down. I thought we were over this.

Behaving irrational...

A friend sent me this clip;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuMZ73mT5zM

It's part of a "seminar" by Mark Gundor on the differences between mens and womens brains - made "funny". Had he been kidding, I would have let it pass as bad humor, but what made me uncomfortable was that I belive he's not. From what I get, it's a selfhelp type of thing.

I seldom behave irrational, but if I was to look for an inspiration for such behaviour, Mark Gundor's BS would be it.

G-D

I've had some thoughts lately about the existence of a God. There was a period in my youth were I was between the belief in a God and agnosticism. I came to the conclusion that there is a God. Then came the second part. Who is "it"? Well, there's quite a large pool of gods to choose among. And even within the same religion, this god seems to be kind of bipolar. Sometimes he's extremly forgiving, and at times he seems narrowminded. And it always seems to be a "he"..or very friendly to "him's" (meaning men).

Religions seem to be a package deal. My problem is; what if you disagree with parts of the teachings? That causes a dilemma. If your startingpoint is that the Being you belive in is all-knowing, you make a claim on being more knowing.

Hum hummm...

I was taking a walk today..the sky exploded in colours..and I thought..hmm..You have an impressive taste.

Avatar

I went to the cinema yesterday, and I have to say, it was the first time in a very long time, that I was not bored by a hitmovie. Offcourse, Im talking about Avatar. It was beautifully made and from time to time it contained critique twds the imperialist foreign politics of The US. What made this movie worth watching, was the beauty of it.

A friend of mine thought that they could have touched on the area of gender and made it a post-gender era. That would be quite interesting, I doubt that would fly high as for as viewing numbers goes. Offcourse, in the end, it was a typical Hollywood movie, in the sense that it was heteronormative and very etnocentric. It's interesting how the US miitary is one of the more integrated sectors as for as it goes for race, but this is not seen on Hollywood movies.

It reminded me of an episode of The Dave Chappelle show where Paul Mooney was commenting the etnocentrism seen in Hollywood movies. This is the quote:

Paul Mooney: I mean Hollywood is crazy, The Last Samurai starring...Tom Cruise? He's the last samurai? Give me a break, that movie was offensive, I mean hollywood is crazy. First they had The Mexican with Brad Pitt and now they have The Last Samurai with Tom Cruise. Well i've written a film, maybe they'll produce my film. The Last N*gger On Earth starring Tom Hanks how about that.

And on that note.