Did you know that kids are playing spin the bottle? Yes, of course they are, we all did. Did you know that now spin the bottle means giving a boy a blow job?!?! I didn't until a few days when a teacher friend of mine informed me of the interesting turn that this popular game has taken. I'm sorry, can i just repeat this again? SPIN THE BOTTLE BLOW JOBS!
I hate to sound like one of those old people (because I'm really not that old) but in my day playing spin the bottle and giving a strange boy a kiss on the, dare I say it, lips was a huge deal. Maybe I'm old fashioned but when did sucking a boys dick become a party game? Clearly I've missed something in human evolution (if we can call it that) when kids think that sucking or being sucked is no big deal. Am I the only one that finds this completely and utterly wrong and inappropriate? I certainly hope not.
Let's explore this concept for a moment shall we? This is terribly unsanitary and dirty. And by dirty I don't me sexually I mean hygienically. Blow jobs can spread anything from yeast infections (that's right males get them too but no one talks about it) to herpes and other lovely fungal and bacterial infections and growths. Grossed out yet? Think that boy showered recently? Unlikely. What about that girl's mouth that just passed one boy's penis fungal infection around the room? Clearly, communal blow jobs is fabulous idea. Now what is this teaching kids about intimacy? I'm not saying that two consenting adults shouldn't have casual oral sex but shouldn't kids be learning that this experience can loving, caring and a special, meaningful act shared between two people? If a blow job can apparently be interchangeable with a handshake, what does that say about sex? Also, what percentage of the kids attending this party are actually mentally and emotionally ready for blow jobs? A lot of this happens due to peer pressure. And if after school specials have taught us anything it's that peer pressure is bad. What's more likely to happen, a boy that just had his first erection and has no idea what to do with it lets a girl at a party suck it or he says "sorry guys, I'm very uncomfortable in this situation and I am going to leave" and be ridiculed for the next 2 years at school? I wonder. And of course, let's all agree that teaching girls to be sex objects and that giving a blow job without getting anything in return is perfectly ok. Because life is all about pleasing men, isn't it. I don't really feel like going into a feminist rant here but I think you understand where I'm going with this.
Obviously not ALL kids are doing this but enough are that it's problematic. The only way for kids to know about anything is for adults to educate them. Clearly none of that is going on in these kids' lives. Can we blame the parents for this? Uh, yeah. Can we blame the school boards for taking sex ed out of the curriculum? Uh, yeah. How about the conservative government for trying to enforce abstinence based ideology? Uh, yeah. What do you get when you don't educate your children properly on the very real consequences of their actions? Apparently, spin the bottle blow jobs.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
to leave your dog tied up outside
The other day my friend and I were leaving a restaurant and we saw an old dog tied to a post staring intently at the restaurant door. It was very sunny out and the dog had no shade that it could retreat to. Being the animal lover that I am I was appauled and angered that a person would leave an animal tied up in the blazing sun while they went for a leasurely lunch. WTF?!?! So of course I went right back in and asked them to find the owner of the dog and let them know that it was very hot and the dog should be retrieved. They brought the dog a bowl of water and I stayed with it for a couple minutes to see if the owner would come out. Naturally the owner didn't. I had to go back to work so I decided that i would call the restaurant in half an hour to see if the dog was still there. Thankfully it got cloudy and cooler shortly after so I decided not to persue the matter.
I don't understand how anyone can think that leaving a dog, especially an old dog tied up outside is ok! It's not! I can understand if it's a decent temperature outside and you're running into the store for 3 minutes to buy a pack of gum or a drink or something but otherwise....uh, no! If you're not capable or willing to take care of an animal properly, DON'T GET ONE. Crazy concept, I know. Here's a thought: go to the restaurant first and then go home and take your dog for a walk.
You see those dogs tied up outside the grocery store in -25 or +35 degrees weather. Last I checked, grocery shopping can take a good hour. How do you justify leaving a helpless animal in the swelterring heat or the freezing cold? I think that people that mistreat their animals like that should be subject to the same torture. A paw for a paw, if you will.
I don't understand how anyone can think that leaving a dog, especially an old dog tied up outside is ok! It's not! I can understand if it's a decent temperature outside and you're running into the store for 3 minutes to buy a pack of gum or a drink or something but otherwise....uh, no! If you're not capable or willing to take care of an animal properly, DON'T GET ONE. Crazy concept, I know. Here's a thought: go to the restaurant first and then go home and take your dog for a walk.
You see those dogs tied up outside the grocery store in -25 or +35 degrees weather. Last I checked, grocery shopping can take a good hour. How do you justify leaving a helpless animal in the swelterring heat or the freezing cold? I think that people that mistreat their animals like that should be subject to the same torture. A paw for a paw, if you will.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
to riot over a hockey game
So as you may or may not know, the Montreal Canadians just played Pittsburgh in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup. And to everyone's amazement, they won which means they move ahead and play another team (Boston I think). Anyhoo that night overjoyed and mostly drunk Montrealers crowded the streets of downtown filling the night air with cheering and singing. Oley, Oley, Oley, Oley could be heard for miles around. So why then you might ask, did it end in rioting? That's right, rioting! Amongst the camaraderie, celebrating and good cheer, a handful of individuals decided the appropriate thing to do would be to start breaking store windows, stealing things and beating people up. Makes perfect sense to me....oh wait, NO IT DOESN'T! For the life of me I can't come up with one single explanation for why rioting is the way to react to your team getting closer to winning the Stanley Cup. I can maybe, sort of, kind of, understand if they had lost the game...stupid, angry drunk men get violent. It's definitely not OK but it does happen to the dismay of all decent people. But hello, THEY WON. I tried at one point to put myself in their shoes: I'm dancing out of the Bell Centre after watching the game on the big screen, my throat is wonderfully soar from shouting, my friends and I are hugging and laughing and singing with strangers. Now this is the part where I'm supposed to think "hey, you know what would be a really good idea...starting a riot". Nope, I just can't picture it. Know why? Cuz it doesn't make any sense at all!
So now when people ask me why I want to live in Montreal, I'm finding it harder to give a good reason. Sure it's a great tourist spot if you like being yelled at for not speaking "French" and the rationality of the Quebec laws are um well questionable at best but Montreal has culture, and beauty and heart and life and drunken idiots looting and beating people up.
So clearly any sane person will agree that rioting is not OK, EVER. But what pisses me off possibly even more is the media's reaction and coverage of the event. I made a point of watching the news on several different channels the next day and they all went something like this, "The Canadians won the game against Pittsburgh last night, yay! Tons of people flocked to downtown to see the game and there was much celebrating. Everyone was happy and cheering in the streets. Oh yeah, they started a riot and people got arrested. Isn't it wonderful how sports bring people together and isn't great that Montreal did better than we thought they would" It is absolutely not OK to play this down. Wow, a team full of players that come from everywhere in the world except Montreal wins a game in the name of a city and we are supposed to ignore that fact that people were breaking property, stealing and hitting each other??? If anything the news should be forcing us to recognise the sad, depressing side of this (isn't that what news does?).
I do hope the Canadians win the Cup because I do love this city and they are my team but for the love of everything that is decent, I'm begging my fellow city dwellers to behave like normal human beings because one of these days I may actually want to go downtown to watch a game and guess what, it's not OK for me to have to fear for my life when the game is over because there may be a riot breaking out.
So now when people ask me why I want to live in Montreal, I'm finding it harder to give a good reason. Sure it's a great tourist spot if you like being yelled at for not speaking "French" and the rationality of the Quebec laws are um well questionable at best but Montreal has culture, and beauty and heart and life and drunken idiots looting and beating people up.
So clearly any sane person will agree that rioting is not OK, EVER. But what pisses me off possibly even more is the media's reaction and coverage of the event. I made a point of watching the news on several different channels the next day and they all went something like this, "The Canadians won the game against Pittsburgh last night, yay! Tons of people flocked to downtown to see the game and there was much celebrating. Everyone was happy and cheering in the streets. Oh yeah, they started a riot and people got arrested. Isn't it wonderful how sports bring people together and isn't great that Montreal did better than we thought they would" It is absolutely not OK to play this down. Wow, a team full of players that come from everywhere in the world except Montreal wins a game in the name of a city and we are supposed to ignore that fact that people were breaking property, stealing and hitting each other??? If anything the news should be forcing us to recognise the sad, depressing side of this (isn't that what news does?).
I do hope the Canadians win the Cup because I do love this city and they are my team but for the love of everything that is decent, I'm begging my fellow city dwellers to behave like normal human beings because one of these days I may actually want to go downtown to watch a game and guess what, it's not OK for me to have to fear for my life when the game is over because there may be a riot breaking out.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
to expose your midriff when it's -20 degrees
This blog entry is being written specifically for a very good friend who recently did a lot of things to help me out. She asked me to make this topic my next rant, so I am happily obliging.
In most parts of Canada (and the rest of the world) winter is cold. Very cold. Like negative temperatures cold. Snow, ice, harsh winds, are all wonderful things that winter has to offer. However, I have no intention of talking about how much I dislike winter instead I am going to talk about those not so few individuals that pretend it doesn't exist.
What does a normal person do when it's cold? They put on clothing to keep themselves warm like sweaters, hats, scarfs, boots and coats. You also usually try to cover as much of yourself as possible before going outside so as not to get things like frost bite or sick. Again, this is what a normal person does.
So what about those girls that wear these tiny little jackets that stop in the middle of their torso and leave their midriffs bare? Not showing a sweater, but actually skin bare? What's wrong with them? And it's not like you could say "oh, that person is just crazy". No, there are tons of them everywhere. Do they like being cold? Do they feel they are personally challenging the wrath that is winter? I don't know. Maybe they think they look good or what they perceive looking good to be. But I can't remember when red, frost bitten skin was ever considered attractive. If you're really that obsessed with looking good, there is "stylish" winter attire that one can pay too much for and still look the way societal norms dictate you should.
All sarcasm aside, the people that do this are usually teenage girls and they probably do it because they want to look sexy or cool or whatever. I remember being a teenager and big bulky, warm clothes wasn't cool than either. And let's face it, teenagers are idiots. They are just the most ridiculous things walking the earth and should be locked up until they are at least 18 and somewhat capable of functioning like a human being. But that being said, where are the parents in this equation? How does a sane, caring adult let their child go out like that? Maybe I just answered my own question. Clearly there is some serious neglect going on at home if a teenager even has access to this type of attire during the winter season.
In most parts of Canada (and the rest of the world) winter is cold. Very cold. Like negative temperatures cold. Snow, ice, harsh winds, are all wonderful things that winter has to offer. However, I have no intention of talking about how much I dislike winter instead I am going to talk about those not so few individuals that pretend it doesn't exist.
What does a normal person do when it's cold? They put on clothing to keep themselves warm like sweaters, hats, scarfs, boots and coats. You also usually try to cover as much of yourself as possible before going outside so as not to get things like frost bite or sick. Again, this is what a normal person does.
So what about those girls that wear these tiny little jackets that stop in the middle of their torso and leave their midriffs bare? Not showing a sweater, but actually skin bare? What's wrong with them? And it's not like you could say "oh, that person is just crazy". No, there are tons of them everywhere. Do they like being cold? Do they feel they are personally challenging the wrath that is winter? I don't know. Maybe they think they look good or what they perceive looking good to be. But I can't remember when red, frost bitten skin was ever considered attractive. If you're really that obsessed with looking good, there is "stylish" winter attire that one can pay too much for and still look the way societal norms dictate you should.
All sarcasm aside, the people that do this are usually teenage girls and they probably do it because they want to look sexy or cool or whatever. I remember being a teenager and big bulky, warm clothes wasn't cool than either. And let's face it, teenagers are idiots. They are just the most ridiculous things walking the earth and should be locked up until they are at least 18 and somewhat capable of functioning like a human being. But that being said, where are the parents in this equation? How does a sane, caring adult let their child go out like that? Maybe I just answered my own question. Clearly there is some serious neglect going on at home if a teenager even has access to this type of attire during the winter season.
Monday, February 1, 2010
to perpetuate the atrocity that is Valentine's Day
Flowers? Chocolate? Really??
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