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Nov. 6th, 2006
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Nov. 6th, 2006 10:37 pmI've been off anti-histamines for about 36 hours or so and STILL no hives! Normall this would be good but having no signs of allergies and going to the allergist is a little like going to the mechanic because your car is making a weird noise but it refuses to make the weird noise for the mechanic. Ho hum.
Ecology Test today. probably got a B. Hope it's a high enough B to compensate for the forgotten quiz (damn damn damn)
I checked out a book from the library about women in art for use in my paper (that I haven't started yet) and I'm actually reading most of it, even though most of it isn't very relevant. it's pretty interesting, but the author is an artist herself and so it tends to be a little excessively angry and self-absorbed in places. But it delves into a lot of issues about Male qualities being held in much higher regard than female qualites. One example I liked was the encouragement of girls labeled as "tomboys" and the discouragement of boys labeled "sissies." I could never identify why that double standard annoyed me, but it's because it pretty much says that to be boyish is good and to be girlish is bad. It sounds really simple now after the fact but... ah well. I think too much.
(it is kind of enraging though)
((but not enough to make me use the term his-tory))
EDIT: Oh geez, I was reading more in that book, and this lady starts going off about childbirth. It was an introduction to a section about birth-related iconography so it wasn't unrelated or anything, but daaang. She's like, "The male-domenated gynecologists and obstetritions have replaced the mid-wife it's SO WRONG and they've taken away our right to participate in our own labor, we're strapped to a table and drugged out of our MINDS!!11!1!" She also laments that shows with scenes of birth have an "adult viewers only" sort of warning, but ... you can't deny that birth is an incredibly bloody thing and I don't see why that's so wrong cuz I sure want to be warned about that. But nooo, that's my brain having been wired to our MALE-ORIENTED SOCIETY. Sorry lady. If I ever get pregnant (heaven forbid, and I'm sure she'd have somethign to say about THAT too) and have to push something THAT BIG out of a space THAT SMALL, no matter how flexible it is, I want my goddamn morphine.
BLAH!
lol babies. D:
Ecology Test today. probably got a B. Hope it's a high enough B to compensate for the forgotten quiz (damn damn damn)
I checked out a book from the library about women in art for use in my paper (that I haven't started yet) and I'm actually reading most of it, even though most of it isn't very relevant. it's pretty interesting, but the author is an artist herself and so it tends to be a little excessively angry and self-absorbed in places. But it delves into a lot of issues about Male qualities being held in much higher regard than female qualites. One example I liked was the encouragement of girls labeled as "tomboys" and the discouragement of boys labeled "sissies." I could never identify why that double standard annoyed me, but it's because it pretty much says that to be boyish is good and to be girlish is bad. It sounds really simple now after the fact but... ah well. I think too much.
(it is kind of enraging though)
((but not enough to make me use the term his-tory))
EDIT: Oh geez, I was reading more in that book, and this lady starts going off about childbirth. It was an introduction to a section about birth-related iconography so it wasn't unrelated or anything, but daaang. She's like, "The male-domenated gynecologists and obstetritions have replaced the mid-wife it's SO WRONG and they've taken away our right to participate in our own labor, we're strapped to a table and drugged out of our MINDS!!11!1!" She also laments that shows with scenes of birth have an "adult viewers only" sort of warning, but ... you can't deny that birth is an incredibly bloody thing and I don't see why that's so wrong cuz I sure want to be warned about that. But nooo, that's my brain having been wired to our MALE-ORIENTED SOCIETY. Sorry lady. If I ever get pregnant (heaven forbid, and I'm sure she'd have somethign to say about THAT too) and have to push something THAT BIG out of a space THAT SMALL, no matter how flexible it is, I want my goddamn morphine.
BLAH!
lol babies. D: