Stuff

Jul 30, 2006 at 08:42 o\clock

The stereotypical woman

I was chatting to my online mate earlier and he asked what he did to make women pretend to care.  I assured him it was nothing he actually did and reflected that maybe women are just brought up with the expectation that they must care and so pretend?  It was an interesting thought that I hadn't had up until then.  Even my own mother used to say "if you can't say anything nice, say nothing at all", which is pretty bloody stupid.  But isn't it true that females are supposed to be caring and at the least diplomatic and yet men are allowed to say exactly what they feel regardless of how rude?

My friend then went on to say that a lot of women he encounters are 'fake' not just in the sense of caring but of trying to be something they're not.  My thought then was that it's society's expectations that a woman try to be more than she actually is.  She's bombarded with messages that she should look beautiful, she's advised in womens magazines that she should pretend to be interested in a hobby of a man she admires so that she can meet him or rise up in his estimations of her.  Womens magazines, which I hate by the way, are full of gossip, cosmetics, fashion, recipes and articles about cosmetic surgery which is all superficial crap.  It makes Barbie Dolls out of women and this starts at an early age.  Girls magazines are full of the same crap - junior makeup kits, how to make little fashionable accessories, gossip about their favourite pop stars and shit like that.  I also hated girls magazines, as you can probably guess.  For fucks sake, girls have brains.  Women have brains.  I despair of the female gender when the majority seem to doll themselves up for men and indulge in that bullshit gossip and superficial crap which only makes the world a worse place to live in.   I'm ashamed of the giggly morons who will do anything for a man.  I'm ashamed of women who put up pictures of themselves online showing their nakedness, or posed sexually then complain if they get stalked by online freaks.  I object to music videos showing women wiggling themselves in a provocative way.  This only entrenches the view of women as a sexual object.

It disgusts me and I don't blame men who hate those sorts of women and despair, themselves, of women in general.  There are a lot of fake bitches around but are they taught to be that way?

Jul 28, 2006 at 14:03 o\clock

Starbucks

Starbucks - I'm glad to say I've never been there.  They're way overpriced and I hate large corporations muscling in on local shops.  So I basically refuse to go inside.  The two times I have, I took one look at the prices and uttered 'ha!' but thinking 'fuck off!'.

Apparently Starbucks claimed to be a 'green' corporation, using recycled cups, renewable energy and fair trade coffee.  The answer to all three is 'no they don't.  1.6% of the coffee they buy is fair trade and they only sell that in bags - not as a hot drink.

I'll continue to drink coffee at home.  McDonalds McCafe can go hang as well.

If I'm having a drink in town I'm more likely to buy a Chinese 'bubble tea' anyway!

Jul 23, 2006 at 09:12 o\clock

Japanese 'horror'

by: apathetic   Category: Movies

I really don't know why they label some Japanese movies 'horror'.  I watched a DVD of a movie called "Cure".  Parts of it were actually funny but it was just a weird sort of murder mystery - people killing after being in contact with some guy who sort of mesmerised them.  It was just strange, that's all.

I've seen about 4 Jap 'horrors' and they're all weird - not scary or anything.  Maybe I'm just immune to it all - some might find a woman peeling a face off pretty scary.  But it was all very clinical.

Ok, I'm gonna see what's on the idiot box...

Jul 19, 2006 at 07:13 o\clock

Never do today what you can put off til tomorrow :)

There have been some sales on so I figured I needed to shop for more clothes.  I hate shopping.  I was going to go yesterday but had other stuff to do.  Then I was going to go today, but it was raining.  I hate shopping when it's raining.

So tired I just wanted to come home.  Struggle to get up this morning.  Yeah, so the apathy is still strong.

Jul 12, 2006 at 11:38 o\clock

Shopping!

I hate shopping and I haven't been in ages, it seems, except of course to buy food.  Well I was browsing today for a particular thing and passed by the games shop which advertised 50% off.  I wondered if they had a sale on memory cards...  But I like a bargain and wandered around but didn't seem to find any games I wanted.  Aha, but then I spotted the latest Driver.  Hmm, interesting.  Asked about memory cards - they weren't on special but had reduced in price (about fucking time, I thought).  So I got 2 memory cards and the Driver game and spent over $100. 

I really shouldn't go shopping - I buy impulsively.  I also bought something for a friend whose birthday is this weekend, but I'm not sure if they'll like it.  Another impulsive buy that I sort of regret.  Oh well.  At least these shopping 'sprees' are irregular.

Jul 7, 2006 at 10:38 o\clock

Movies...

Workmates wanted me to join them tomorrow morning to go and see the latest Pirates of the Caribbean but I'm just not in the mood.  Haven't been to see any movies in ages.  Meant to see X-Men but couldn't be bothered.  Nothing else I want to see right now.  Superman doesn't interest me.  Stupid animated Disney shit doesn't interest me.  I've become a bit anti-social lately - and lazy.  It's preferable, and easier, just to come home and blob.  At least I'm saving money I guess.

Never anything on TV so I don't turn it on.  Except to watch Amazing Race.  The hippies are so cute.  I've fallen in love with them - lol.  Makes a change from moaning critical people.

Anyway, I think I'll head off and find something to do.  Nothing much to do online either....

Sad world I live in at the moment.  Cold, dark and empty.

Jul 3, 2006 at 07:24 o\clock

Nothin' happening

by: apathetic   Category: Movies

I haven't even checked email for a few days.  Been pretty down.

I watched 'Memento' the other night.  Never seen it before for some reason.

Anyway, good movie.  Interesting way they started from the end and worked backwards to see how he got to the point he did.  Fascinating.  He thought his system of memory jogging was foolproof but he got used by at least two people and lied to himself!  Yeah good story.

After watching it I began to wonder about my own memory then went out to a friend's and promptly forgot two important items!

I think I suffer from SAD or something - I always feel most miserable in winter.