Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Des Pirates + The Beatles = wtf?^^
Seeing as the fabled "Arts Nite" (don't you love bad spelling?) is nearing (this Thursday, to be exact), I have been unpleasantly busy of late.
However, I have managed to get my [crappy] violin tuned, figure out what the hell the band is playing for the concert, reclaim my portfolio, to be included in...my other portfolio : /, and various other non-stuff.

I have, however, done all of this at the plight of this blog and "How to Learn Engrish".

Which brings me, rather nicely, to the subject of Japan, a country where no woman wears pants to the workplace and where you can by skin-"care" products that are intended to rob your skin of its melanin.
In Japan, if you are female, no matter how intelligent or talented, you are expected to marry early, stay home all day cooking and cleaning. Your function in life is to have breakfast ready before your husband wakes up and prepare dinner before he gets home. You are expected to speak more politely than a man might and stand no chance of equal pay or chance of being hired, if you do decide to break tradition and join the work-force.

I have this thing about housewives--I can't stand them. In all honesty, I find it rediculous and utterly disapointing that any woman would be willing to commit her life to doing nothing but cooking and cleaning and having babies.
If your husband pulls in enough cash and you don't have to work, then great, but don't use that spare time to do nothing but look after the house. Write a book, take ten different kinds of lessons, go back to school, do something.

And that seems to be what Japanese culture refuses to promote. Any place where it is an unspoken rule to never wear pants to work obviously has some issues to deal with.

Even in frigging video games and anime (that includes the ones that revolve around fighting, for alot of the part), any female character will have the frequently-exploited ability to cook, clean, and make a maid of herself. The character will most likely do nothing useful, sit around whining all the time, hanging off some male character's arm, speaking in a self-disempowering manner, which takes root in the mother fucking grammar.

Exceptions to this rule, that of the passive, unnecessary female character, are to be looked on in a very special light, indeed. Additionally, they seem to be the titles that the more intelligent people I know prefer, perhaps because, like me, they just get pissed off to do with all the sexism being thrown around willy-nilly or cannot take how unrealistic and socially held-back that mind-set is.

And I just used Japan as an example, but what really gets me angry is women who live in a society that promotes gender equality, not only legally, but in terms of society.
Women who walk around telling girls to be more lady-like and to wear skirts instead of pants or shorts, or that they're being Tomboyish and that no one will ever love them because they happen to play sports or have friends who are mostly male.
Women (and men) like that ought to be shot. They can go sit in the cold, dark, resourceless room I've set aside for the likes of them and screaming religious lunatics.
When you come into Canada, with the intent of becoming a citizen, you should have to swear to abide by not only our laws and Charter, but our common sense, as well. There ought to be a "How would you stay smooth?" kind of thing, during which they would ask you how you would deal with a few situations.

For instance...

Your daughter tells you she wants to become a doctor. What is your immediate reaction?

a) That's great! You have to work really hard, though--you do know that? I'm sure you'll be able to do it.
b) Blasphemy!!! WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE SENT TO DO A MAN'S JOB!! I HAVE A BROOM SHOVED TOO FAR UP MY ASS TO BE CONSIDERED COMFORTABLE, BY ANY OBSCURE STRETCH!!!!
c) Never! Doctors go against God's will! If God wanted us to be healthy, happy, and to make good lives for ourselves, why would he have invented disease! I have no daughter!

If you answer B or C, you get deported--it's that simple. It would take a major bite out of sexism, racism, homophobia, and other various stupidities' ability to hinder the further development of our society.
A successful society must be intolerant of intolerance to be anything but a mudhole of flea-bitten, theocracy-bound morons.

That's why it's tabboo to be racist and sexist.

I don't remember where I started this rant. Meh.
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