Forgive me for being hopelessly naive or impossibly unsophisticated...I am by nature both...but doesn't the answer to the question of "to shave" orWhat a fantastic question! Clearly, I have never pondered this dilemma before. Thank you for bringing it to my attention, Groovy Dave. Your cleverly passive-aggressive way of pointing out the flaws in my judgmental thinking have changed my entire outlook on life. What would I ever do without such insightful and clever people like you?
"not to shave" depend largely on the owner of the snatch?
Friday, March 2, 2007
Can You Detect the Sarcasm?
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Isn't that the truth?
ReplyDeleteGroovy Dave is out of the loop. It is NOT up to the owner. It is up to Suzanne. Duh.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Des, as always. Sometimes I do know better than the snatch owner. Like if she wants labioplasty because she thinks her lips are ugly. Then I should definitely get to take charge. Incidentally, i was grossed out to find a labioplasty ad in a back issue of "Bugaboo Magazine," the upscale publication in which I have an internship. (I was also disturbed to learn that they hope to do a special bar & bat mitvah issue. It will be chock full of over the top obnoxiousness. Sighs. Jews like me don't need any more bad publicity.)
ReplyDeleteI don't know, Suzanne. A bat mitzvah issue might just be your most important post/story to date.
ReplyDeleteCUSS about it. Think it over.
The obnoxiousness is just a bonus. {-;
Sarcasm! What's that?
ReplyDeleteThis may be repetitive, but I gotta vote, too. Super Des is super right. It's Suzanne's call. Like double duh.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, any thoughts on trimming? My vulva gets lost in the forest and she doesn't feel much without an occasional clearing of the branches. Of course, I await your directive.
After consulting a Magic 8 Ball (the way all the pros make decisions), I have granted you permission to trim. Please be careful, though. A slip of the scissors would be most unpleasant. (This is my wisdom, not the Magic 8 Ball's.)
ReplyDeleteGolly. Gee. I actually thought your site was funny, and I thought it was cool that you'd gone to the trouble of having T-shirts made up, and actually selling some of them, something I've never had the energy to pursue. I also thought you made some good points, although your writing style differs greatly from mine (FWIW, before a career switch, I'd been publishing magazine articles for about 10 or 11 years, so I have some experience with professional writing). My preference for feminist thought tends to run to Erica Jong, Tristan Taormino...ummmm...who else...Helen Gurley Brown made some brilliant points and was a catalyst, and to go even further back, the "Rosie Riveters" and female industrial workers and DOD workers during WWII --the folks whose experiences led directly to the "Consciousness Raising" of the 60s and the bra-burnings of the 70s. Who else modern though--mostly female artists. I believe that women really do view the world with a different but completely valid and viable (and wonderful and human and spiritual and pragmatic and etc) eye. I am a big fan of the "Unsuitables"--a loose group of female artists from India, based, I *believe* in NYC, although it would be hard to say that they are "based" anywhere since they aren't a formal organization.
ReplyDeleteI disagree strongly with what appears to me to be modern feminism's premise that women should get ahead by imitating the worst vices of men. I've always thought that the best way to get ahead in the world was by playing to and relying on your strengths and dealing head on with your weaknesses. I do believe that men and women *are* different in ways other than the obvious, but the concept of "men superior, female inferior" cuts little mustard with me. It depends on the man. It depends on the woman.
As far as "not being able to understand sarcasm"--I'm a bit surprised at that one. I was rolling with your joke, and making one of my own. As for my "passive aggressive"-ness... I have many qualities that are less than sublime but passive aggressiveness is not really one of them. I can be caustic sometimes, and I often leave my dishes in the sink for far too long. I play my guitar too loud and too late and probably annoy the hell out of my neighbors. I prefer cats to dogs but that probably stems from a childhood phobia; there was a particularly big dog of dubious disposition who would regularly get loose in my suburban NJ neighborhood, prompting outrage in my mind against the dog and it's idiot owners who had so little consideration for the ten year olds of the neighborhood that they allowed this dog to repeatedly dig its way under their fence.
But passive aggressive? The guy who runs the customer service desk at my local post office is passive aggressive, I keep expecting to read about him in the news. Me? Not so much as you seem to think. My sense of humor is abstruse and at times obscurantist--I thought that my comments were a very obvious nod to the name and tagline of your blog and a continuation of the joke, but also an attempt to express via humor some of my disagreements with some of your premises. Guess I fell flat. Sorry about that.