Damn U, Emotions!

I was out wandering around Winkler's sad excuse for a mall today. I saw a sign up for a support group in Winkler. What are they suporting each other through, you might ask: Emotions! It is a support group for people to assist each other with their emotions. Seriously what the hell. The sign said: "Do you have feelings?" "Do you need to express your feelings in a safe environment?""Do you want to talk about your emotions?"..... This is so odd. You know, this is what happens when you supress your emotions. You wind up needing to go to a support group to deal with the fact that you do have feelings and emotions. That is a crazy thing. Emotions are what make us human. I have a quick fix: when you need to cry...CRY! When you need to yell: YELL! When you are happy and everything is ok: BE HAPPY AND OK! There! I just saved you all one hour per week sitting in a circle!

Little Blessings Everywhere

it just feels like when you live in Winkler that nothing is ever really yours. Sure it may belong to you, but apparently baby jesus wants us to share everything with random strangers even if they are annoying little fucks that will destroy it. Case in point: living in my neighborhood. Behind us there is a row of trailers. These trailers each have a backyard of about 2 feet. So what is a parent to do? Send them to play on our big yard of course! Each 2 bedroom trailer houses right around 12 children, give or take. So these swarms of children like to get into all sorts of shit on our yard. They up rooted trees we planted, tried to shoot Martini with plastic arrows, threw rocks at our house at 7am on a Saturday, Put a tire swing in our tree (which we promptly cut down), raided my garden, set up their lawn chairs around our backyard as though it is theirs, invited their own flea-bitten dogs to run on our yard causing Martini to wind up with fleas, taunted the other neighbor dog (the one that could bite their heads clean off in one bite), and when greg and I are working on the yard they go back to their trailer and just stare. One would assume that yelling at them to go back to their trailers would do, but not one of them speak English. So now I have taken to just random yelling if they are even a hair on our property without our approval. Yelling while waving garden tools is a bridge across the language barrier, right? Little Winklerites: I am truly sorry that your parents did not financially plan your arrival better. Your yard does suck. It really does. But that is not our fucking problem. Not even a little bit. I can't wait until the fence goes up...maybe next summer!

hmm....

I am pretty much different from all the family on greg's side. This happens when you grow up somewhere that doesn't totally suck. So, my husband has this cousin. He is married, and his wife is on facebook. I tried to add her and she declined my request. That doesn't bother me too much...that is where the phrase "fuck you too, biatch" comes in nice and handy. The problem is that she just popped out a kid and we will be expected to attend a baby shower and purchase a baby gift. While its only 20.00, I am really standing firm in the fact that I am not going to be attending the shower and purchasing a gift for a person who can't even manage to pretend to enjoy me as a fake facebook friend. Fuck that! is that bitchy? Sorry! But my real friends may pop out children someday and I dont want to waste a penny on someone who dislikes me! This will be a hard pill for some of my inlaws to swallow but I am a real person and I do not handle fake well. A true existance includes not wasting time on people who will not waste time on you!

Wow

I just found out that last spring semester at UND I won a contest with an essay that I turned in for a Women Studies class. The essay that I turned in was "How Does Feminism Function in a Mennonite World" and I won the undergraduate division. That is so surprising to me. I didn't even know that my professor had turned my paper in! She apparently held on to my paper and turned it in last year. Now if only I can get that essay published in the Winkler Times...lol.....

My letter to the editor......

"I am writing in response to the letter to the editor "Two wrongs do not make a right", Aug 8th. In respect to the editor’s suggestion to end the abortion debate, I am not writing in response to his views on abortion. I am writing in response to his astronomically shocking views on rape. To suggest that a woman has the choice to not be raped by choosing to “not dress provocatively” and “not hang around men of ill repute” is disgustingly incorrect. This puts the responsibility for stopping rape in the victim’s hands instead of the perpetrator. As if because of what the woman was wearing the man “couldn’t help himself”. Even in places in the world where it is law for women to keep most of their skin covered, rape still occurs. This is because the act of rape has little to do with the sex act itself and everything to do with a need to dominate and control women. Rape occurs to women despite age, social class, religious affiliation and even clothing choice. But regardless of what a woman is wearing or who she is hanging out with she does not share any of the blame if she is raped. She is the victim! Even the most sexually provocative of all women who hangs out with the most questionable of all people has the right to refuse sex. But it is a well known fact that rape does not just occur to sexually provocative women hanging out in shady areas. It happens everywhere. It happens to our sisters, mothers, grandmothers, and wives. Until the day when violence against women is unheard of, women need to educate themselves on how to stay safe and defend themselves. "
Take that!

Oh...My....God....

I cannot believe the level of ignorance that is allowed to exist freely in Winkler Manitoba. I seriously cannot. I am going to quote a letter to the editor which was posted in the Winkler Times in response to an abortion debate which has been debated amongst a small number of pro-choicers and a gazillion pro-lifers who can only quote the bible as their source of info. Ok..here is the quote...
"I agree that abortion should never be allowed. It has not been said that all pregnancies are the decision of the mothers. Some women do get raped. They have no choice in this matter but they do have the choice not to dress provocatively or hang around with men of ill repute. While this will not stop the determined rapist it will cut down on lust by men whose minds are not trained to ignore scantily clad women."
HOLY FUCK! JUST HOLY FUCK! Talk about blaming the victim! This quote puts the responsibility for stopping rape in the woman's hands by saying she should be a good little girl and wear ankle length skirts and 1800's style dresses like the rest of the women in this town. This is bullshit, plain and simple. Rape is about a need to control women, regardless of the woman's age, clothing style or anthing else. The guy who wrote this is known to be very Baptist. Many Baptists make their women wear the long skirts and high collars. haha....in related news...
Last night Martini tried to eat a door to door Baptist Missionary. This guy was trying to get people to join his church. I dunno...being punished for being female has never sat well with me. Martini jumped out of my arms and tried to go for his neck. Ha! Anyone who gives me crap for calling martini "my baby" can officially kiss my ass. that is totally my girl!