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[alixtii]

Courtesy of teh_no:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p03xet8tFLI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emonitorduty%2Ecom%2F

I know that a good chunk of my flist will think is the greatest thing ever (or EVAH, if that is the way you swing). Seriously, totally awesome.

The girliness meme, gakked from glimmergirl, with whom I tied at 18/50:

[ ] my fingernails or toenails are almost always painted
[ ] during the summer pretty much the only shoes i wear are flip flops
[ ] my favorite toy as a child were barbies
[X] my favorite color is pink or purple [actually its blue, but it was hot pink all through middle school]
[ ] i did Gymnastics
[x] i love skirts [to see on women that is—not to wear. not that i've ever actually worn one. maybe they are comfortable?]
[ ] hollister is one of my favorite place to shop
[x] tight jeans are the only jeans i'll wear [all my jeans are tight jeans. I need to lose weight]
[x] i love chocolate
[ ] i've never had a real job [define real job?]
TOTAL: 4/10

[ ] my hair is straightened
[ ] i have at least 5 myspace pictures
[ ] i usually go shopping once a week
[X] i love to hang out at the mall with friends. [who doesn’t?]
[ ] i've gone to a tanning salon
[ ] ive gone to the beach to tan [I tend to find tans really unattractive on women, and try to stay out of the sun as much as possible myself]
[x] i have at least 10 pairs of shoes [only if you count old pairs that really should be thrown out, though]
[ ] i watch either the OC or Laguna Beach
[ ] i change my icon weekly
[ ] i wear a shower cap
TOTAL: 2/10

[ ] would NEVER step foot into Hot Topic
[ ] my cell phone might as well become a part of me [I don’t have one]
[ ] i wear mascara everyday
[ ] i've been or am on a diet [well, sorta maybe]
[x] bathing suits are adorable [on girls, that is]
[ ] i dont know the difference between a sheep and a goat
[ ] big sunglasses are hott [big geeky glasses are hot, but sunglasses not so much]
[ ] i have gotten my nails done before the formal
[ ] i own over 10 purses
[ ] MTV or MuchMusic is one of my favorite channels
TOTAL: 1/10

[ ] all i want to do at sleepovers is talk about boys
[x] i love to have other girls do my hair [my hair is almost long enough they could do it, but mainly I just like girls to touch me]
[x] i give and receive hugs from all my friends
[ ] i hate bugs, snakes, lizards, spiders
[x] carnivals can be fun
[ ] summer is THEE best season
[ ] my swimsuit has 2 pieces
[X] im waiting for my knight in shining armor [Princess Charming on her white horse—which is not to say my current girlfriend couldn’t be her]
[ ] MY musician is so hot
[X] you write me a poem and tell me im beautiful and im all yours [not that it has ever happened, but I can extrapolate]
TOTAL: 5/10

[x] i am self-conscious.
[x] i cry often
[ ] my car smells like vanilla
[x] my dishes get washed more then once a week
[x] i dont do sports
[x] i HATE to run
[ ] i yell when i am angry
[ ] i eat dried fruit as a snack
[ ] i love romance novels
[X] Drew Barrymore is so cute
TOTAL: 6/10

Grand total: 18/50.

I should get extra points for the fact that my closet is--or at least was--full of prom dresses. *goes to check if the prom dresses are still there*

Comments

[frogfarm]

Actually, the latest greatest youtube thing eva would be this.

I still hate that 99% of the videos on youtube/google have the sound out of sync.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Eh. Your link is somewhat awesome, but not nearly awesome enough.

What is truly awesome is that "C is for Cookie" randomly came on my playlist while I was waiting for your link to load. I have to say I find the original version to be by far the more aesthetically pleasing, having, y'know, a melody. But then I'm old fashioned like that.

[frogfarm]

What is truly awesome is that "C is for Cookie" randomly came on my playlist while I was waiting for your link to load.

Serendipity rocks.

I have to say I find the original version to be by far the more aesthetically pleasing, having, y'know, a *melody*.

Busted. You can take the kid out of the metal...

Oh god, a girliness meme. And me with unfinished work.

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

Is this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHsQdAuLa1k) old news?

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

To me, it isn't, at least.

I got 9/50. (I imagine grocery shopping doesn't count as the "shopping" they mean.)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I muchly resent the idea (from the survey creator, not you) that never having had a real job is somehow a "girlie" thing. The cell phone one just amuses me because my brother's cell phone has been bonded to him ever since he got it -- years before I got mine. Oh, and shopping is not an especially enjoyable thing for me and as with so many things I prefer to do it myself than with company, plus malls have all that background noise, so malls totally are not on my list of places to hang out in at all.

Re: I got 9/50. (I imagine grocery shopping doesn't count as the "shopping" they mean.)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Well, the whole appeal of this meme for my flist, I think, is an ironic appreciation of just how blatantly sexist it is. Both in its premise and the particular way it goes on to construct the genders.

I don't really understand what they mean by a "real" job. I've only had summer jobs and part-time things--but I've worked alongside people who were using those same crap jobs to support their entire families, so as far as I am concerned those jobs were as real as any other. The concept of a "real job" as this meme seems to be constructing it has a middle-class snobbishness inherent in it that, yeah, I find pretty damnned offensive, which sort of crosses the gender issue you point out. After all, being a homemaker is a real job, too.

Re: I got 9/50. (I imagine grocery shopping doesn't count as the "shopping" they mean.)

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I always assume my friends are doing these things just as mindless fun not out of any higher ironic appreciation, but whatever.

I wasn't even thinking of the fact that homemaker can be a real job (which is in itself a very good point) but that it's super-offensive to say that having a "real job" is a masculine thing.