Oh America, what shit will your media spew next?

I saw a commercial for this steaming pile the other day. That's right it's a "game show" where you have to track down a "terrorist". You're put into mock dangerous situations and the audience squeals with excitement. Why don't we just get it over with people, lets have a game show where some one dies. This, I believe is where American TV is taking us. America seems to have this obsession with reality shows, which really, just show people at their worse. Then you get ones likes Fear Factory which show people doing things they fear. Now this crap. Why don't we just re-instate the damned gladiator challenges and have done with it people?

Along with this post I'm going to include a little something extra. Kinda like when you collect action figures and they contain pieces that you save up to build something else. This is what I've decided to do, I'm going to add little snippets in some posts that when put together can give you an outlook on my views. Now, my friend Tera would want me to post something of our arguments about American media, but I'm not going to because I'm ornery like that.

Instead, something else we often argue about, women's Lib. Now Tera and I both agree on the broad outlines of this subject, but we often...... discuss the finer points. Now, I am here to say there are two things that she has indeed changed my mind about. One is the fact that a woman's title is dictated by her martial status. This is, as she pointed out, quite shitty. Being called missus, I now realize, does in fact convey that the woman in question should be defined by her husband. As such, I think that women should be called by the title of Madam, because it's friggin cool and would have nothing to do with martail status. Along with this is the issue of last names. I must admit that I was against women having hypenated names. This, however, was mainly because of what tradition had taught me. Women took men lasts names, I was led to believe, so the hypenated thing seemed strange. This was just me rejecting something that I wasn't comfortable with, which I am against in others. As it would be hypocritical to not hold myself to these same standards I have changed my view on this. Now, I think instead of the wife or husband taking the others last name you should have to come up with a completely new last name that both parties would change thier names too. Of course, I say wife and husband, but I want to make it know that I'm for all types of marriage and just used the above as an easy example because well, I've been drinking. One last thing though, stiff penalties for parents who give their kids first names that are corny when viewed with the last name like "Ima Pig" will still be enforced. Such as wiffle ball bat beatings.

Now for the second part. The use of gender spefic terms for certain things. Things like policeman, mailman, etc. Now at first I thought that the feminist were making much ado about nothing, but have since come to see this in a different light. I was reading an article, I can't remember which one, that pointed out that those kinds of words can have a determinal effect on women wanting to take certain jobs and really would it be all the fing hard to say police officer instead of policeman? The short answer is no, and really this is the only answer we need to worry about. However, I think it important to note that this is something we are going to have to pursue with the children. I think too many of use older folks(men) have words like policeman and mailman hard wired into us by the language our society uses. This doesn't excuse me from trying to make a change, but I can see myself years down the road being corrected by my daughter, if I have one, for using policeman instead of police officer.