Days in a wannabe punk's life

We are all bad girls.

2009-03-02T15:48:00.005-05:00

An ex once said to me that he would only marry a girl of such extreme immaculate wholesomeness that even her father would not have dared lay a hand on her, lest her superawesomely ethereal purity be tarnished.Leaving aside the brain aneurysm inducing ludicrousness of the above statement (one amongst infinite reasons as to why the said psychopath is firmly an ex), and the understandable vomit

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Menstruation

2008-11-18T10:32:00.002-05:00

It somehow seems weirdly appropriate that I mark my ‘spectacular’ reemergence with a clichéd soliloquy about the diaphanous qualities of rebirth as a metaphor for my entire existence, but fuck that shit. If I had to recapitulate my activities of these past eight months (eight freaking months! Has it really been THAT long?) in 25 words or less, I would say: My spirit was broken in more ways than

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Still alive

2008-11-09T22:48:00.004-05:00

I am not dead.Really, I'm not.

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And now for something deeply personal.

2008-03-02T22:36:00.003-05:00

There are good days and then there are bad days. On the good days, you notice the sun shining bright upon your face, you see the sunlight reflected in the snow, you feel great in a schlubby sweatshirt, salt stained jeans and worn pumas and you like the way you look, hair all pulled back and held in a headband and a face devoid of any makeup. Classes are enjoyable; even Mr. Mean old troglodyte’s

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privileges.

2008-02-03T17:05:00.000-05:00

Caveat lectorI absolutely hate caveats. But I guess I’ll have to bite the bullet and say that there are always exceptions to the norm and that not all men are like this. Ok, customary hedging done. Now on to the post.-----X-----Why do I always end up having these painfully absurd conversations with people, when I fully well know what the outcome is going to be?I was having this little chat with a

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Breast cancer awareness, indeed.

2007-12-21T15:34:00.001-05:00

How do you take something as grave and significant as breast cancer awareness and turn it into a shining beacon of repugnant misogyny?Like this of course! (click on image for larger version)Behold the imposing feat of raising crucial ‘awareness’ through a boobalicious mouse pad! If fondling gynormous rubber mammaries ensconced in a lacy blue number while surfing the interweb doesn’t make you well

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The 49th Carnival of Feminists

2007-12-06T00:45:00.000-05:00

First of all, I want to thank all my long suffering readers/lurkers/odd entities for putting up with my hindrances (ha, like you had a choice!). I do profusely apologize for the delay.Now then, having drunk enough coffee to keep a herd of elephants comfortably awake for a week or thereabouts, let us dive headfirst into the 49th Carnival of Feminists, shall we?Pop culture/media:1. AverageBro guest

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49th Carnival of Feminists: Final call and updates

2007-12-04T22:31:00.000-05:00

Attention denizens, as of 12:00 am EST, I will stop accepting submissions for the carnival. You have about an hour and a half, so chop chop!When do you plan to put up the carnival?The carnival will be up at 9:00 pm EST on December 5th. I have a final presentation and a fifteen page final paper which I should be diligently working on (ahem), that are both due tomorrow. So once I'm done wrangling

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The 49th Carnival of Feminists: Call for submissions

2007-12-01T16:14:00.000-05:00

(postdated to make this sticky)I am going to be hosting the 49th Carnival of Feminists on December 5th and before I launch into a hyperactive version of my customary happy dance, I must extend a call for submissions. You can send your own posts if you want, as this is a great opportunity to get your writing linked to this large carnival, or you could tip me off to other fantastic posts by

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autarchy and the divine feminine

2007-11-20T03:26:00.000-05:00

I have never hidden my compulsive fascination with Hindu mythology, specifically with respect to the countless goddesses situated in the Hindu pantheon. This fixation of mine may very well seem like a side effect of my feminism, but it is not as simple as that. I do admit to feeling an out of place, illogical warmth in my gut at the existence of goddesses (and powerful ones at that) in my

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Implosion

2007-11-08T09:04:00.000-05:00

I’m sorting through a pretty dreadful personal crisis right now. But rest assured denizens, posting will resume shortly. Until then, I leave you with this video (thanks Aishwarya), which happens to be all sorts of awesome. Have a great Diwali, peoples.

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Photo 51

2007-10-26T14:28:00.000-04:00

I don’t want to lose this anger. I don’t want to not feel anymore and shake my head dejectedly and cave in to being acquiescent of the status quo. I don’t want any of it.What triggered this fury, this swooping white heat at the pit of my stomach?When I came across this on PBS. And more importantly, this appalling interview, given by James Watson.Basically it comes down to this. (And caveat

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A ridiculous emergency

2007-10-24T13:51:00.000-04:00

And we're back. Phew.Now scroll down for normal programming.

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Let chivalry die, please.

2007-10-18T16:51:00.000-04:00

Definition (s) of chivalry shamelessly filched from dictionary.com:1. the sum of the ideal qualifications of a knight, including courtesy, generosity, valor, and dexterity in arms.2. the rules and customs of medieval knighthood.3. the medieval system or institution of knighthood.4. a group of knights.5. gallant warriors or gentlemen: fair ladies and noble chivalry.6. Archaic. a chivalrous act;

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Why are you always so angry?

2007-10-03T21:19:00.000-04:00

I am told that I possess a temperament which would put a corpse to shame. I am told that my ability to take shit transcends all human capabilities and I am also questioned about whether I truly do belong to the human species from time to time. Unfortunately yes, I was not beamed into the earth’s atmosphere from the distant reaches of ESO 325-G004 and I am quite certain that I am made of organic

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Get off the Britney Bashers Bandwagon, please.

2007-09-16T21:43:00.000-04:00

Boy, am I stark raving mad. And personally going through the two worst days of my entire year does not bleeping help.Anyway, I sat through the VMA’s and I’m thinking god, how awful was this year’s ludicrous we’re going to stick a camera in different rooms and watch OTHER people get wasted and have fun, yo excuse of a legitimate theme, even for an award show as laidback as the VMA’s.[And I have to

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meme-fication

2007-09-07T15:40:00.000-04:00

School has begun and I can’t be happier. I am one of those uncharacteristic freaks who thrive on rigorous multitasking. Yes, driving myself up the wall while trying to stay afloat like a pochard on roid’s in a deluge of work and classes, actually makes me happy.If you’re even thinking about going ‘ha ha, what a lamebrain, she likes to WORK’, then don’t say I didn’t warn you. Thrashing about on a

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Dichotomies, double standards and everything else in between.

2007-08-29T15:21:00.000-04:00

Bite me, I’m a slut. No really, I am. By popular standards anyway (including desi), I would probably be the empress of slutopia or at least a high priestess of sorts. Well.So what constitutes slut-like behavior? Lots of sex? Being promiscuous? Tight clothes? Polyamory? Pre-marital sex? Talking to a guy? Merely acknowledging a man’s existence? First base? Second?What is it?What does one have to do

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Mysteries of the sexes explained!

2007-08-17T15:36:00.000-04:00

Here I am wallowing in boredom, fighting the colossal urge to cave in and blog about my neighbor and his increasingly bizarre relationship with his vexatious pet Maltese whose name Ms. Talywalker Melville the 2nd (no I am NOT making this up, I cannot possibly make something like this up) defies all vestiges of sanity I might expect from my neighbor.But mercifully, I have good friends who happen

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marriage

2007-07-25T18:46:00.000-04:00

I don’t see myself getting married. Not in the near future, at least. Okay, not in the remote future, also. Fine, make that never. I also don’t see myself having children of my own. Now I don’t hate kids. But I don’t particularly nurture a hidden spring well of fondness for them either. Anyway, I’ll save my precarious views on children and child-rearing for another post. Speaking about my views

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Manly man

2007-07-08T18:24:00.000-04:00

Overheard at the cashier’s counter at my local grocery store:Woman: Can you pick up Ashley’s ballet costume tomorrow? I have a meeting at 5pm with an important client and I can’t ditch the meeting. My boss will have my head if I do.Man: I’m not going to pick up that darn costume! Who do you think I am?Woman: But...Man: Look. Haven’t we discussed this? That store is right next to Tom’s place. And

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Another stale reality series

2007-06-19T21:55:00.000-04:00

Many apo-lurgys for not posting sooner.I will not make any excuses for my recent lackadaisical blogging tendencies. My mind has been overglutted with ideas, and yet, there has always been something (gah) stopping me from bringing them to fruition. I don’t know what that is. Behemothic quantities of work, maybe. Or it might be the fact that I have five classes this summer (do I hear muffled

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men's issue

2007-06-04T15:27:00.000-04:00

Rape happens, is happening and will continue to happen with all its horror and its murky pervasiveness.This is as obvious as daylight. Yes?Right.So why isn’t it conspicuous for the droves of men who vociferously support the cause for anti-rape or at least the ones who can agree that rape = bad, that rape cannot be pooh-poohed away as a ‘women’s issue’? If it really were a ‘women’s issue’ don’t

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Essentialism, patriarchy and other riff raff - A rant

2007-05-21T15:43:00.000-04:00

After sifting through a battered copy of the loathsome bulwark of essentialism, ‘Dr.’ Gray’s “Men are from Mars and women are from Venus” at my friend’s apartment, I couldn’t help but balk at the sheer idiocy of the people who bought the craptastic book and made it a gynormous bestseller in the first place. But on further internal soul searching however, I started pondering on why cheerleaders of

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A letter to Dr.Phil

2007-05-09T17:14:00.000-04:00

Dear Dr. Phil,I almost never watch your show. Don’t take it personally, I want to hold on to what’s left of my sanity, you see. So when I had nothing to do between classes one afternoon, I decided to tune in to your show out of sheer boredom. I felt a little apprehensive as proponents of quackopsychology like you always manage to unsettle me, but I decided to throw away my trepidations and get a

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