Pathetic commercial

This says so much all by itself. But in case you didn’t catch the message: This couple is supposed to be so representative of the U.S. population that it gets you to emotionally relate and therefore want to buy its product.

That means that most of us are in severely insecure relationships, because the women aren’t hot enough, and men watch so much porn that they deserve rewards when they manage not to inappropriately stare at women they don’t know..undressing them with their eyes or something..?

Pathetic.

Single State of the Union

Single State of The Union: Single Women Speak Out on Love, Life, and the Pursuit of Happiness is everything it needs to be–a book exploring women’s definitions of happiness, fulfillment and meaning without significant others. Single or not, it’s worth a read.

Not every woman who appears in the book is actually single, and not every essay is supposed to convince you that being single is like sitting on a cloud in your wildest dream. But it gets the conversation going. I haven’t finished reading the book yet (thus this is not a review), but I can say that so far I’ve scoffed, laughed out loud, and completely understood.

The hopelessness, shame, frustration; but also empowerment, boldness, logical discernment of life and happiness expressed in some of these essays is refreshing and opens up new possibilities and concepts to a (western) culture that has come so far for women that healthy, beautiful, successful ones–even feminists–still beat themselves up over 10 lbs or no date on Saturday night. Women still have a lot of redefining to do to our personal sense of accomplishment, autonomy and emotional health–namely getting the knight-in-armor hallucination out of the equation. This book helps that process along a bit more!

Check out this book!

Sex and Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy of Modern Love…in 200 Cartoons is a new hilarious (and feminist) book of cartoons that covers everything from the (perceived) importance of boob size and the inequalities of traditional marriage to sex, adultery, and dating.