Let me know if I can help with anything, ita. The dentist is nearby your place.

I wonder if it's some odd side effect of the Botox, or the opposite of whatever causes "dry eyes". You're producing eye moisture faster than it can drain.

Part of the reason that work is stupid is because other people are stupid. I'm not getting into details, IJS.

Part of the reason that work is stupid is because other people are stupid.

Trufax

ita, (this is long)

I have had arguments about hooks and Beyonce. There are a lot of discussions in the past and more recently about whether Beyonce is a feminist. I think Black women academics are trying to be particularly thoughtful when then engage in thinking about feminism, womanism, and popular entertainers. But, I am not sure that linking Beyonce together in the same sentence as terrorism is particularly helpful.

What feminism means to me is: a) a belief that women are equal to men; b) women should have the same freedoms and men; c) autonomy over our bodies is sancrosanct.

Some of what is going with Beyonce criticism it seems to me is behavior policing. (clutch the pearls) Beyonce is singing about sex. Some of it is a lack of recognition of who Beyonce is, wants, to be.

Part of the reason that work is stupid is because other people are stupid.

Yuuup. Also switch out annoying for stupid and ditto.

I watched her videos about her CD last year. She talks about her vision for the CD and the videos. Some of the way she portrayed herself was because she was proud at how much work she put in to get her body down to size after giving birth. Beyonce is quite focused on her physical appearance, works her ASS off (literally and figuratively) to stay in shape, construct this image, so she is fine being sexualized.

OTOH, her CD has at least 2 songs where she seems to acknowledge her conflicted feelings around sexualization.

She is corporate, she is a brand, she wants to make $$. I am not sure I consider her a problem above and beyond US culture in general. What she is though is a rare Black woman who has been able to be this successful.

So I kind of feel like she gets so much ink over her public persona because people are critiquing US culture, without acknowledging how rarely Black women are thought of as desirable. So we are locked into this weird space where of course Bey is objectified, but all women are objectified.

Most Black women are not desired, but Bey is. Bey is making $$ where few of us can't. So Bey is a terrorist?

Should all Black women entertainers be Tracy Chapman? Then too, objectification is what it is whether we are wearing a dress, a slip, or whatever.

She is corporate, she is a brand, she wants to make $$.

She's not a businessman, she's a business, man. (sorry)

I wonder if someone has done a study on how much time people with serious illnesses spend on the damn phone?