Which I think is a shame. I try as much as I can not to be sexist, but there’s something about the Philippines (probably largely because we have traditional Catholic values) that isn’t conducive to learning more about sexism and feminism. Thus my only understanding of living a less-sexist life is to not consider gender and/or sexuality in most (or all) situations (which might be stupid, but I like to think that everyone has his/her own version of guidelines to being less sexist).
So when people go, “women should be able to do A, men should not be able to do B,” it’s something I don’t understand. It just confuses me because I always thought, if anything, feminism should only be about empowering females, not bringing down males in order to empower females. Although I do understand that the intention (probably) is to tilt the rules in favour of the less-privileged (in this case, women), which would fit John Rawls’ concept of justice as fairness.
Although it was also John Rawls (right?) who stipulated that we treat humanity with a veil of ignorance, and by tilting the rules in favour of somebody, we are making the line between males and females more distinct and we are making it harder for us to try to see things with a veil of ignorance.
I honestly don’t know what I’m saying. I suppose this whole post just means to say, “I know nothing about sexism and feminism. Please talk to me more about it. I would like to know what your ideas are and if my ideas fit with your ideas and the general idea.”
(PS. There is a feminist party in the Philippines, but I’m not a big fan of them. I’m not exactly sure why.)
You are a moron.
I know this because this is you, from the past, just as you are experiencing the consequences of your past mistakes—
—which isn’t necessarily bad, except it’s not the first time you’ve made these mistakes. Hell, this isn’t even the second time you’ve made these mistakes. So, no, I don’t subscribe to Einstein (or whoever) when he said, “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
So here:
- Stop buying things you really don’t need. Especially clothes. That’s not so hard, is it? It’s a rule everybody knows (and, depending on their confidence in their finances, does or does not follow). I don’t care how cool (you think) you look in a studded leather vest or a pair of combat boots. I mean go ahead, buy things you might not need that you’ll use about twice a year. But please don’t buy things you’ll only use once in a lifetime.
- And by the way, the only pair of shoes you’ll ever need are your black low-cut Chuck Taylors. Well, no, but close enough. They’re the only pair of shoes that will love you back, if shoes had feelings. They don’t, but close enough.
- Just because you promised yourself you’d do something after a certain amount of time doesn’t mean you should, if you no longer feel like it. Sure it’s an obligation, but it’s an obligation to yourself. I’m pretty sure your self would completely understand, even agree (!), should you change your mind.
- Stop using your hormones as a Get Out of Jail Free card.
- In fact, stop using anything as a Get Out of Jail Free card. I don’t know where you got the idea that life is a rewards-based thing where if you get to save up a hundred good deeds, you get to claim one thing, regardless of whether or not it has good consequences. I’m pretty sure life never worked that way. (Also, I’m pretty sure Get Out of Jail Free cards never worked that way, either.)
I hope you find it in you to try something new and stop making these damn mistakes.
I don’t understand people who wear non-prescription eyeglasses (…which is somewhat hypocritical, because hello! Then again I don’t particularly understand why I do, too, so I’m still being truthful, in a way.), especially most of the people I see wearing those choose to wear the really plasticky ones that say “Riy Don” or some other variant of “Ray Ban”, so instead of thinking, “Wow, that person looks great in eyeglasses.” or “That person must really be smart.” (which is what I’m assuming are the top two reasons people wear non-prescription eyeglasses), I think, instead, “Are those real or…?” and “Do they really think those glasses will fool us?” and “AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.” (Although, okay, I’m probably being nitpicky about these things.) (Also, I say “AAAAARGH” to a lot of things, so I’m not sure if it’s a reliable indicator of anything.)
So imagine the confusion I felt when lensless frames suddenly became a thing, because it’s exactly like non-prescription eyeglasses, except completely honest in that “these aren’t real eyeglasses and I don’t really care what anyone thinks about it” way, which I really admire, because hey! Honesty! Hey! Wearing whatever the hell you feel like wearing! And still, on the other hand, it bothers me because if lensless frames were television/movie characters they’d be the assholes who don’t really care if people like them or not.
Although that’s probably by a really long stretch.
Just last week I’d finished my first roll of film ever for the Diana Mini I got for my birthday, and it was just then that I’d realized it I’d been using 200 ISO film and I’d been shooting as if it were an 800 ISO film.
Also it was a slide film (apparently there’s only one laboratory in Metro Manila that does E-6 processing).
So that sucked.
Anyway, everything turned up better than expected. I had to wait for five days for my film to get cross-processed (I think it was because the lab I went to sent it to another lab but I’m not complaining). I am now the owner of a bunch of the most lo-fi photographs I have ever seen.
I do; because while everyone’s thinking about how closely they can relate to this song, I’m thinking about how I can relate at all nothing to this song.
Because it’s written by Bruno Mars.
Because it’s written by a guy who can afford to be lazy. He can afford to lie down in his bed all day and write a (lazily written) song about how lazy he is. And you know, I’m okay with the lazily written song, if it weren’t for the fact that his other (non-lazy) songs are just as well.
He can earn millions of dollars from that. If I lay down the whole day the only thing I would earn is weight, and, well, dust, and a lecture from my mother.
So I can hardly relate to it. Because even though I did do all those things he stated in songs, there is still this fine print included in the song: but step up your game tomorrow because sleeping in all day only works for Bruno Mars.
(Also I might have this thing against lazy people, even though I am one myself.)
