Wednesday, May 14, 2008
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WTF
SO. I got back grades on the last two assignments I posted and got 98 on both of them! This made me feel much better about my future in general. It's not just my anal nature that demands I must have A's in these courses I'm taking now - it was the grad advisor, who said if I didn't get A's in all four courses (maybe one B allowed), then there wasn't much point in me trying to go to grad school, much less, eventually trying for a Ph.D. No pressure or anything. Next semester I'm actually taking one of this pre-req's with the grad advisor himself (English Romantics), and he's supposed to be really difficult prof. But I figure that way I'll at least get to know him, and have opportunity to show what a brilliant student I am
.In other news, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS????
I sat staring at this picture (an ad that was at the side of some website) for several minutes, wondering, how the hell is this supposed to be a dress ad? Because we all know that women want to wear a skin-tight mini-dress and then crouch over like a dog. This is the most degrading fuckng ad. These two girls look like sex slaves or something - definately some male driven fantasy that has nothing to do with appealing to women to buy the damn dresses. Unless they have terrible self-esteem and think, wow, that could be me crawling over the ground with a void expression because my soul has been emptied by this degrading situation.
In yet other news, I went by Starbucks to get a coffee, paid, and promptly drove away, not realizing until I was about to get on the highway that I'd forgotten to wait and GET THE ACTUAL COFFEE.
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Comments (11)
LOL. Nice (about Starbucks).
That ad is crazy. Very degrading. Ridiculous. Ugh.
RYC: Yes. Video post. You should.
"definately some male driven fantasy that has nothing to do with appealing to women to buy the damn dresses' -- yeah, that's pretty much American Apparel's raison d'etre. there's probably a good wikipedia article about the founder -- basically he's a dirty old man who hires hot girls to work at his stores and model in his ads (as in, the models are store employees) so he can sleep with them. i wish i could say i quit shopping there after i heard that
ryc: hell yes, i'm a texan! though to be fair, people i meet here are always surprised to hear that too. but yeah, denton is way cool! they also have one of the biggest used book stores in the country, which is worth the pilgrimage all on its own.
I love the coffee story. And I hate the ad. I walked into American Apparel this weekend with a friend for the first time. I wondered how they could have such success on such a basic concept. Weird store.
And congrats about the class!
LOL... to the starbucks story... I've done something like that only it was cigarettes and my sobriaty was questionable... LOL... but I don't think I'd ever forget COFFEE... I love coffee... heehee... oh
ryc: thanks... I really like it too... haven't figured out how to style it right... that pic is my fav, cuz it was the next day... after getting it done, and I slept on it...LOL... I'm thinkning I might have to blow it dry so the "curls" don't try to take over... I didn't do anything to it and I swear I looked like Elvis... w/ a superman curl... LOL but thanks!!!!!
lol, I have left shops after buying stuff, forgetting to pay for it so many times. But I've never had that happen. Mostly because I can be a greedy piglet when it gets to anything with even a tiny bit of caffeine in it. Writing about it has made me crave for some now. Sheesh.
Good work on the grades!
Straight A's are surefire mood-boosters. And I agree, that ad does have strong sexist underscurrents. Also, my attention is piqued by the product in question, because I wouldn't get into one of those if somebody chased me with a butterfly net and a stun gun. Nasty.
Hope you have a good day!
I've done that at the gas station. Went in, paid for gas, and took off.
I always stand like that when I'm wearing a jersey-knit tube dress. It's a rare disorder called "tube dress-onset scoliosis," and causes one's back to bend over completely requiring that one put her hands down on the ground. The woman in the green dress seems to have a more severe case, as she can't even hold up her head like the woman in the blue dress. Very serious.
american apparel.
ask OHP about it.
Congrats on the great grades! Just got my report card, and dodged another bullet myself.
As for the ad, are you saying women don't like posing on all fours in skintight dresses? Or am I missing something??
Your comments reminded me of a show I and every other male chauvenist pig I knew used to watch back in the 80's called "Twenty Minute Workout". Talk about great entertainment. I cracked up when, years later, my wife complained that she and her mother had such problems following the exercises because of the fact that the cameramen seemed to only want to focus on closeups of sweaty cleavage and other, er, 'shots' (LOL!).
Yes, I'm a pig... Or at least I was. Now I'm just old and (to paraphrase Douglas Adams) "Mostly harmless:.
LMAO!!! I'm not even gonna get started on the AA ad!!!!!
All I can think is WHAT WHAT?