Wondering…

…if it is wrong that I have bought clothes off the internet, and I am already planning what to wear with it.

And no, I didn’t buy Stella McCartney heels…those are the closest I could find to a pair that I already own. That are not patent, either.

Equality: Ur doing it wrong

Far be it from me to tell the Ministry of Women’s affairs how to do its job, but isn’t something a little awry here?

According to a report released by the ministry this week, women earn 12.1% less than men on median hourly earnings.  A statistician can answer this for me, but if we are talking hourly earnings, doesn’t that take away the whole ‘women earn less cos they take years off to go and have babies’ factor in the debate?

The Ministry of Women’s Affairs Chief Executive Shenagh Gleisner says:

While women have entered many jobs that were once dominated by men, such as law or medicine, many jobs remain dominated by either men or women. For example, 99 percent of builders, electricians, and motor mechanics are men. Women make up over 90 percent of people working as caregivers, registered nurses and secretaries. The fact that men and women continue to do different types of jobs is one of the factors in the gender pay gap.

The story basically says that women, of equal ability in maths and reading are paid significantly less.  But the ministry’s advice?  Go into the trades.

I’m all for women mechanics and builders, but surely addressing the wage gap is not something you do by simply shifting your focus? Should women have to give up their jobs, that they like and are good at, to moe into more highly paid work?  Isn’t the answer to try and increase the value (and therefore wages) of jobs like nursing, caregiving and teaching?  It has always been astounding to me that jobs as important as teaching and nursing are so undervalued.

Or, what Danielle and Julie said.

But hey, they good news is, even if we get paid less, our drinks are cheaper, and it’s ok!

Poor old Roy Den Hollander

He says the lawsuit’s dismissal was consistent with the discrimination embedded in many of America’s institutions. He calls the judge a feminist.

Must suck to have to pay full price for everything.  Like more expensive haircuts, clothes, cosmetics, tampons….Damn those feminists!

Answering my own question: A musical journey

I can’t explain the bad mood, but I suspect a girl power musical journey might mitigate it.

Ah yes, that last video did the trick….

Wondering

Why I am in such a foul mood, what I can do to make it better, and why I continue to inflict myself on other people.

Friday Frock: The Emmys

Over on the old blog I used to do a round up, of all the fashion at major awards shows.  This year, while watching the red carpet, I found myself very glad I had decided not to keep doing that.  Because….yawn.  There was just nothing spectacular.  In a good way, or a bad way.  No swan frocks, no Julia Roberts in Valentino, just lots of relatively yawn worthy dresses.  Brooke Shield’s pink one was nice, Heidi Klum looked lovely as always, but there was no over the top glamour, and no train wrecks.

My favourite, if I had to choose, was Felicity Huffman in Reem Acra.

Doesn’t she look shiny? And young? And simple?  And elegant?  And un-fussy?

Isn’t her new bob great?  And don’t the diamond teardrops set it off well? Doesn’t that dress also look pretty comfortable? Doesn’t it show off her (amazing) guns to great effect?  Doesn’t it look like someone dropped a bucket of diamonds on top of her?  Wouldn’t we all like to look like that?

plus ça change

I have a new idol. Having spent some time being the only girl in sports press conferences, I can relate, but I’ll never be as awesome as she was.

Woo!

This week is USA week. Exciting, I know. But rather than some red white and blue hot-dog fest, USA week stands for National Unmarried and Single Americans week*.

I know, exciting, right. What better way to celebrate your spinsterhood, with a week. Apparently, I can ask my local library to create a display for the week, or post an item on my bulletin board about it.

But, I don’t understand. I thought we all agreed that single people, downtrodden as they are, are all desperate to be in a relationship, no matter how unfulfilling or dysfunctional. I mean, who would want to be single?

For my part, I am going to look up this guy**. I know I’m not exactly what he wants, not being slim, under 30, even remotely submissive. I’m sure he’d be galled that I want my own career, not to be his free labour, and that I drink more than a glass of wine in a night. I have “potty mouth”, in that I swear like a sailor, and I’d probably have to go to the bathroom more than once in a four hour date, what with the incessant wine drinking. About the only categories I fulfill is that I’m not a vegetarian, and I was born a woman. But hey, I have the requisite comprehension :

If the careful reading, comprehending and retaining of what applies to you is not worth your time, then you are not worth my time, so please just go away! If I find that you did not carefully read, comprehend and retain the parts of this profile that pertain to you, I will simply state something like: “It is clear that you did not carefully read, comprehend and retain what I stated in my profile, you are now iggied.” Iggied means that you are put on my ignore list so that I no longer receive messages from you.

I mean, good on him. He knows what he wants, and he’s going after it. I will be doing the same thing, which right now, is to incessantly mock him. I have read, comprehended, and retained his profile, and I understand he’s not looking for a slave, because there’s a difference between a slave and an obedient wife. Except:

“The wife may do anything she pleases so long as she isn’t disobeying any commands already given by her husband and what she does maintains unity between her and her husband”

So, not so much anything she pleases, then?

And the best part of it: Not only are you to do everything he tells you, you are NOT to fall in love with him until he tells to to. And, my goodness, he is humble.

If you are the type that can fall in love with a man over the internet, do not fall in love with me until I have declared that I want you to be mine. Until that time, use your mind to determine if I’m the kind of man you want for a husband for life and if you are the kind of girl I want for a wife. Falling in love severely clouds your judgment and I really do not want you to make a mistake. If you start thinking things like, “He is perfect.” or “He’s the most wonderful man.” then go find someone to give you a hard slap across the face and throw an ice cold bucket of water on you.

What a catch.

My primary goal is to find a wife that knows that she was created for man, that she is to be her husband’s helpmate, that she is totally under her husband’s authority and is to obey her husband with all her heart, mind, body and soul and that it is her husband that she is devoted to and loyal to and seeks to please with all her being. Such a wife is a Godly Christian wife. Any deviation from this it NOT a Godly Christian wife but is rather a rebellious witch and whore. Most of Christendom is filled with rebellious witch whores.

Oh well. If the shoe fits.

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* Add your own joke about how that means it actually is a hot dog fest.

** Hat tip: Spare Room

Recipe for relaxation

Take some weather like this

Add a liberal serving of this

You’ll want quite a lot of this

Stir in some horrifyingly un-pc jokes, the knowledge you won’t be judged for them, the best $2 you’ve ever spent, some couch time, a fire, and some walking in the scenery, and a couple of goats.

And finally, add the key ingredients…some people like this (choose your own according to taste)

Mix and enjoy. I haven’t been this relaxed in months.

Friday Frock: Aaaw

New Zealand Fashion Week, Trelise Cooper Kids.  I think one of my ovaries just exploded.

Brevity is the soul of wit, so that is all.  Plus, I am fascinated by this.

We’ve had irony, now here’s some sarcasm.

Ah yes the New York Times brings you the only political analysis you’ll ever really need. Hair.

Hillary Clinton struggled for years to achieve hair credibility. Now Ms. Palin’s upsweep is being praised and derided across the Internet. Do her bun and bangs signal that Ms. Palin does not want to attract attention to her appearance — even as she wants to remain presentably attractive?

Of course, a hairstyle may not tell you about her views on universal health care. But how Ms. Palin honed her image can be glimpsed at the Beehive, a tiny pink-collar haven in Wasilla, a mountain-rimmed community of less than 10,000.

Because her image is the only thing that’s important right? Not her views, qualifications, opinions, experience, readiness.

I know there have been other articles covering all that, but really?  1000 odd words on her hair salon? Is image really that important?