So I'm going to rant a bit and get it out of my system.
The office manager's radio is on in her office, and it's so loud I can hear it pretty clearly out here. I do not think her Top 40 is appropriate for our office, but there's nothing I can do about it except turn up my Baroque music ever so slightly.
I saw a captioned picture of a track and field athlete who was in (obviously) awesome shape because she's a track and field athlete. The caption on the picture seemed to imply that if a woman is pretty and in excellent shape, what she REALLY wants is to be a stripper. My sister and I were both disgusted, and came up with a set of implied rules for women in our current society:
1. If a woman is pretty and toned, she really just wants to be a stripper/hooker/arm candy/escort or otherwise willing to have sex with any and every man who wants her.
2. If she doesn't want to have sex with any and every man, she just needs persuading.
3. If, after persuading, she STILL doesn't want to do this thing (because, I don't know, she's nauseated or annoyed by such constant advances), she has to be a lesbian.
4. If she's not hot, she's invisible.
I hate having to repeat myself or rephrase something three times and STILL know the other person has no clue what I just said.
I'm a little discouraged and disappointed lately. I'm getting tired of trying things and either not having them work out or lose to someone else. It's very hard--blow after blow for over a year--and I don't think I'll ever get used to it.
I don't get paid enough, but I know I'm lucky to have a job with such good benefits.
Every time I see an able-bodied person (whose hands are not full) using a disability access door button, I want to say "do you really need to do that? Really? I see that you have two legs and two arms and are able to use all of them. Aren't you lucky."
I want to do a million things but I either don't have the money or the time for more than maybe two of them. It's very frustrating.
On a happy note, I am starting my first spinning class! No, not the cardio workout at the gym, but spinning fiber into yarn with a spinning wheel! I'm so excited!
4 comments:
I hate seeing people use the handicap button, too. Especially when it takes just as much energy to walk all the way over to it as it would to just walk forward and open the darn door themselves.
I especially hate it because I'm usually pushing a double stroller and I want to use it and they're in my way... (I know, am I a hypocrite)?
The handicap door thing really bugs me too.
I hope that you will talk more about your spinning class (of course, I'll have to check your other venues) That is really, really cool! (The other stuff, not so much:/ )
About the hot/ fit woman observation... I've noticed it too. So, I'm not the only one annoyed when I hear guys reference such a woman... say, Jillian Michaels for example... and they say, "I'd do her." As if that's some high compliment... and all any woman wants!
As if the only reason we work out is so that some loser guy can find us hot enough to fantasize about?
Honestly, when I see a fit, hot guy... I think... "wow, I admire that physique and the work he obviously puts into maintaining it."
Okay, there may be some lustful thoughts, but mostly it's innocent admiration!
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