She's got it Hand-MADE

Yeah, she's got a house, food, and a MAN. She has it hand-MADE.

I came up with a relativly funny post title and no substance behind it .

Yeah.

So during The Handmaid's Tale Offred has much of what a person would want it life. She has a bed, food, clothing, safety, unfortunatly rape on occasion.

This isn't going anywhere. ARGH.

I'll just say things then.

PUPPIES. WITH CUTE TOUNGES :O

Rape is bad, DANNY.

Also, Danny has on a nice sweatshirt today.

HI MRS. SAUNDERS! where you at today!? we miss you!!

If Dex opens a labratory you know maybe meth or some other substance, it had better be called "Dexter's Labratory", you know before it explodes.

Nour's hair is pretty today!!!

BEN IS THE COOLIEST.

Calorine has a nice face, and she swims. Yep.

So, The Handmaid's Tale it's a good book amiright?!? I feel bad calling Offred "Offred", her name used in her captivity. She lead a life no more than a dog at a breeders'. She lived...but only barely. Her overies where worth more than her. She was fed mearly to be kept alive and viable. Even after all of the oppresion and confermation that she was worth nothing, she escaped from her oppresser and made her story into history. She passed along her suffereing to futher the people of the future. To know there were more than succesfully climbing birthrates. There was suffering, something that should never be wittnessed again. Women are "sacred vessels" but they are also people. Offred or June as we suspect was a women with hopes are dreams. With a child and a husband. When Gilead was established she lost that, but in her escape she found it again.

Maybe she didn't have it made, but she made it. She turned her suffering into success. They don;t talk about other Handmaid's tales in the historicakl afternote, they don't dispute her stories. They learn from it. They teach it. June did this. She made this future.

YAY BLOGGING.

Prepare for the alpacalypse.

IT'S ABOUT TIME.

hehehehehe.

JANINE YOU PROSTITUTION WHORE!

I didn't want to put "Slut" in the title so I used a phrase a little bit more appropriate. Anywhoozel...

In Margret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale the Red Center, the place were our lovely Handmaids are trained, has a new kind of rehabilitation. She depicts a class almost, where the Aunts retell the stories of potential Handmaid's rapes.  Offred's "friend" from the Red Center Janine who she recognizes as Ofwarren experienced this method. "It's Janine, telling about how she was gang raped at fourteen and had an abortion." (Atwood 71). They go through this now a days torturous point of yelling at her. That it's "her fault, her fault", and "who lead them on?" "She did, she did," they all yell back at Aunt Helena in unison(72). This unfortunately is something that is kept under wraps in our current society. Although women are often told that it is in fact their fault that they were raped. They dressed provocatively  they were out late alone. In our society you'll see many campaigns to teach women to protect themselves from rapists, but never how rapists can protect women.

The message being taught at the Red Center is something that is being fought all over the world today. Only in the last 40 years was rape redefined to include marital rape. Along with the institution on the Rape Shield Law which protects a women testifying against her rapist from having to bring up her past sexual behavior, I.E. even if she was a prostitute, it's still rape.

In the past couple of months a new movement has begun. It's been nicknamed the Slutwalk. A march where women and men come out to disprove the notion that women who dress like "sluts" are making themselves targets for sexual assault (rape is legally called sexual assault in Illinois). They boast signs that say "My Skirt is NOT An Invitation" and "Nobody Asked What the RAPIST Was Wearing!" The movement started in Toronto after a police officer made the comment that "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized" (Erbentraut 1). 

Men should be blamed for rape, not poor innocent 14 year-olds like Janine, when they blamed her they let her rapists win. She did it, she lead them on.  Just like the murder victim just enticed the murder by walking around all alive and stuff, just breathing all over they place! They basically asked for it.

 If you didn't notice this happens to be something I am very passionate about. Most of you should be too, being young women in this society, and YES Matt, Dex, Jonny, Derek, and Danny this applies to you guys too! It may be called "Women's Rights" but I say it's everyone's responsibility to be a decent human being, no matter who it is. The Handmaid's Tale simply brought up this message over and over again until I just had to get it out of my system and BLOG, and not just blog but SERIOUS BLOG. 

Oatmeal for Theo

So I had a  touchy bit of a problem with Children of Men. Well maybe it was a big problem.....

I HATED ALL THE CHARACTERS.

Kee was a potty mouthed uneducated girl who clearly didn't understand anatamoy and how BABIES ARE MADE. I understand you know 18 years since a baby was born but what ever. Then Theo who I would ammount to oatmeal wwith a voice. Everything he said had little to no point in the over all story line. He just babbled about and swore a lot. Every character to was just so bland. The world is ending how about we all try to oh I don't know be INTERESTING?No, lets just go about our buisness. The premis of the movie was vagely interesting, but as you watched it I was just bored as heck. Well, yes the point. THey were all SO BORING. The individual characters just did nothing, but the story line and the cast a a whole shaped a really good movie.

That's all I've got. Sorry guys. Hate comments are welcome.... Derek.

GO HOME (just for kicks)



Cat's Got My Tongue

Yes, this is about the cat dilemma.
No hate guys come on.

Thorough out Life As We Knew It the problem of Horton, the beloved house feline has be brought around just a few too many times. Some of use would eat him right off the bat or kill him, others would do exactly as Miranda and her family did love him. When I read this book the first time around I didn't think twice about this whole deal. I personally have two cats. Both of which I adore. Which is why my cat's have got my tongue. I could never speak of eating the cat then going home to look in my Oreo's bright green eyes. Also, please no hate on his name I picked it when I was six. See there! Another reason to not eat the cat. My cats are 11 and 12. I am 17. They have been around almost my entire life and for some people probably longer than younger siblings. They are family. So keep the forks away.

Really could you eat them? 

(Oreo is on the left, I did know my colors and cookies at six. Frankie is on the right.)

Lets tie this in with the blog prompt. Let's relate it to a modern day event! Hey we all remember Hurricane Katrina. We all know about those ASPCA commercials that make us want to cry and hug puppies at the same time, if not here you go. Try not to cry.

These organizations and many others are founded to help animals. We as humans have a link forged over thousands of years to both cats and dogs. Black cats were killed for their alleged alliance with dark magic and witch, when in other points in time cat were worshipped. They have a special place in our society. Some people might not see it, but I do. Cat's got my tongue, more like cats' got my tongue. They both do, I couldn't leave them behind and I'd never eat them. Be it a hurricane or the coming apocalypse.

Martyr-dumbs.....

I can only imagine this title as how O'Brian thinks of things. As if when ever he says "Martyrdom" to him self he giggles "...more like martyr-DUMBS...lol". This may be a very loose representation of O'Brian's personality but this is how I saw his point of view. OKAY, so the point is how fascinating I found O'Brian's whole rant on why the Party is spending so much time on Winston. So I quote,

    "The first thing you must understand is that in this place there are no martyrdoms." (Orwell 253)

This idea he presents really got me going. We all know what a martyr is the person who dies for their cause. Whether it be Martin Luther King Jr. dying while fighting for equal rights or that guy who gets arrested at the protest. They're often viewed as martyrs. They sacrificed themselves albeit on very different levels for what they believed in. They sometimes too are considered heroes for what they've done. That's the problem going on here for the Party. Heroes. Big damn heroes. (If anyone gets the reference to Firefly, you probably laughed, if not....carrying on...).
       "In the middle ages there were Inquisition. It was a failure.[...] Why was that? Because the Inquisition killed its enemies in the open, and killed them while they were still unrepentant  in fact, it killed them because they were unrepentant. Men dying because they would not abandon their true beliefs. Naturally all the glory belonged to the victim and all the shame to the Inquisitor who burned them." (253)

These heroes become something people are inspired by and we can't have that in Oceania. Only Big Brother inspires. So, they've solved the problem. They made their decision and it worked "so long as [they] resist us we will never destroy [them]. " (254).

Problem solved. We didn't kill a traitor. We killed one of us, because we could. I don't have much of a way to relate this to anything today, other than how interesting it is. It's an interesting technique. Cruel,but an idea that is curious. It's one thing to convert someone unwavering to your side, its another to kill them once they've gotten there.

**Also, song for this post or I guess for Winston and Julia is here.

"Red Rover, Red Rover..... "

I don't know about you guys, but I always played red rover when I was little. Separating into teams and being picked to run for your life. If you didn't make it through to the other side the other team took you. It was a hard game, should you send your best player? Even if you risk loosing them? And in actuality who is on your side? Can you trust the team member who is now on your team? 

This is what really would frustrated me if I like in Truman's or Winston's world. Who is on my side? For both of them it's questionable, or it becomes questionable. Comrades? Friends? Nope, they'll turn you in or try to sell you MoCoCo (Grown in the hills of Nicaragua!). Who knows. Really. Winston knows not to trust the children, or anyone at work. Truman realizes the horror we all think about. Everyone is working against us. No one to trust no where to turn. Both worlds who's to trust? For Winston its Julia whether or not she's the best pick. For Truman it's himself. These ideas are perpetuated in both stories. We actually see Truman's best friend and wife working against him to keep him in. 

I always hated that moment when I'd call "Red Rover Red Rover! Let....Sean come over!" Then all of a sudden you hear "Seaaaaaaan it's time for dinneeeeerrrrrrrr!" What? No. We're playing here. What did you listen to our game to call him out at that moment? Do you want to ruin it for us? In  Truman's world maybe Sean wasn't a main character maybe Merrill was supposed to come over. For Winston it's the thought police Sean thought to run and keep running. Can't have that. Truman realized that there were two teams but they were him and everyone else. Winston realized that you have to pay on your own. 

"Red Rover, Red Rover. Send Katie Right over!" Jeezum Crow. I have to run? I never get through though! I'll have to change teams! Will I fake it to help my true first team? Or will I switch allegiances with the call of my name? What would you do?