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"Crazy" Women

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I was watching the AMA awards a few nights ago, and admired how Taylor Swift makes parodies of herself onstage.  Her latest song, "Blank Space," really makes me smile.

However, the video for the song is a little too creepy. She takes a knife and slices his picture, hacks up his [I have no idea what make of an expensive] car with a golf club, and sets his clothes on fire because he is, I suppose, texting another girl while on a picnic with Taylor. Oh yeah, and she might have murdered him and is kissing his dead corpse.   I guess I know of a few girls who have gone that batsh*t crazy over a guy.  Not me, however. Never, but come on, Tay! We might not want this image of women seeming normal!


Then I saw Selena Gomez sing her song "The Heart Wants What it Wants."  Oh, Sweet Sassy, dear girl. If the title isn't enough to make us rethink every "I shouldn't still feel this way,' relationship we've had, then there she is, showing  the world that women CRY over men.  Psht.  She sobbed at the end, Taylor Swift (her bestie) cried at the end in support.  Boo hoo. (and it's over Justin Bieber, nonetheless). Come on, gals.  Suck it up.  Can't we just, I don't know, go back and hit his car with a golf club?

I'm not sure which girl is worse, but I do know that the messages we send to the opposite gender have got to be so crazy confusing, it's a wonder they even want to have relationships.

 I hope, in most of us, there is a happy medium between these two extremes.

For your consideration:

Taylor Swift

And then Selena Gomez


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As I sit here eating my homemade lobster bisque, I ponder the reasons why people feel the need to use Facebook as a sounding board for every minute detail of their lives, and it seems that the most common reason is when they want to vent about someone who has upset them.  I have a particular friend whom I love dearly, but her posts have venom, even a lot of times when she is happy about something. 
 
I've learned some valuable lessons myself about sharing things on  Facebook that seem innocuous at the time, but are clearly not.  Once, I shared my opinion that Planned Parenthood should remain open and funded. I found I was naive to think that everyone I knew would share my views.  See, I never thought of Planned Parenthood as an "abortion center." I've always know them as a low cost place to get birth control and other reproductive health assistance.  That they provided abortion information seemed the least reason that I used them.  I didn't even know they did!  After sharing my views on keeping them funded on Facebook, I was dumbfounded and almost embarrassed that so many of my girlfriends had an opposing view. From then on, I've made a few more misjudgments that assured me that people with extremely religious views and I are not copacetic. Facebook is just not the place for political and/or religious opinions, and as in the case with my friend, venting about another person.  

I found the graphic above on Pinterest.  It unbelievably describes what I have been thinking about the situation. 
 
Stepping off, now...








  




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