Thoughts on Women Must Face Daily

I pulled the following comments from a FB thread because I felt like they adequately expressed some sources for the angst I feel towards myself and the media for the way woman are treated.

Ya the video game industry is badly in need of some portrayals of normal females. Real clothing, pink not necessary and how about some character depth? There are a lot of brilliant women out there to take examples from. 

Anime is similar eh? Some great female characters-and here some have good depth, but they are almost always sexualized somehow. I'm realizing more and more the plight of women in our time. The media, porn and social norms have still stacked things against them because men (like me) and often women don't realize all the stereotypes engrained into how we perceive females.

Dear artists, media people, humanity,
   please give us some better and more realistic portrayals of woman. Please give us humans instead of sex symbols. Please help us overcome the inequality.

Dear mothers, grandmas, aunts, friends, sisters,
    I'm sorry. 
                               Chris

For StudoWrimo - Funny Self Bio

I was pretty tired the other day and wrote this bio for a group of us spontaneously having our own NanoWrimo event because NOVEMBER sucks for students. We're calling our experiment StudoWrimo... Anyway here's the ridiculous bio:


I am Chris. Think of Goofy, Mario, Animal and someone who can sing and play the guitar all mixed into one person... The result may resemble me (in character, I look nothing like Goofy or Animal, but maybe a little like Mario in stature... 

I like to be ridiculous and do ridiculous and laugh. Especially laugh ridiculously at ridiculous things. Like Asparagus - what a word. I mean just say it, who would have thought it was a vegetable? Sounds more like a disease. 

Steve: "Yo pass the Asparagus" 
Nick: "Eww that's gross Dude"

Maybe that's why people don't like it. I think its delicious. I bet Broccoli and Cauliflower are all disliked for the same reason. And brussel-sprouts (nope they are just gross). Can you believe I spelled Asparagus right on my first try? That's a weird one. All this has me thinking Veggie Tales!!! Squash totally make me smile.

Hey I wrote a sonnet the other day... But it's kinda depressing. It's not a mushy love one. It's more about the bleeding and scarring and... Let's not go there yet. :S 

C.S. Lewis is brilliant though, which I'm sure my classmates here will also attest to... Man that confused face with the capital "S" is really warped, he got hit in the face. Not the ugly stick but it was a big stick for the mouth to be that far out of centre.

I'm pretty sure that the above splurge of ADHD styled writing would make Douglas Adams smile, go off on a tangent and be generally jealous. I think I'm going to sleep soon. In 42 seconds to be precise....

Actually I have to brush my teeth first. 42 seconds after that.

Life,
The Universe,
Everything,

Chris Clarke in one of those frenzies of ridiculousness!!

Signing off.

Constantly I 

think to myself and

declare that it might be time

to resurrect 

the old habit

of blogging. 

This is an attempt at 

just that;

a stream of consciousness exercise 

aimed

squarely at the 

target of posting 

a blog but also 

done 

because I am fully aware that my brain has way too much fighting for my attention right now and it hurts....

Everyone knows about school

stuff and people 

understand

the money stuff

and people just generally know 

but I am anxious

and

I don't think

people would get it 

even if I tried to explain. 

The thing is that

I have no reason to be overly concerned

because none of 

these issues are new or

anything I didn't know was

coming  but

I am noticing old trends,

bad habits,

negative indicators of my internal 

and spiritual life

even though

things have seemingly gone

splendidly this semester. 

There is so much less stress. 

But I still feel crappy most days. 

Headaches grow from stiff necks and

backs like flaming fingers of 

ice.

Should I be worried? Should I shut-up–God I hate that word– (to much baggage)

I'm tired. I don't know world. But I hope you sleep well and tomorrow is a day where I think I know. 

PCE