A BLAST From the PAST!

This weekend my mom and Tim came for a visit. With that came some digital up-loads of some of our old family pictures. Let's notice the mullit! LOVE IT! 1989. What a year, we are all pretty dang hot! I have to admit, this is one of my favorite pictures. That's a Merry Christmas from the Anderson clan. Twenty years have come and gone, things have changed a bit. We added one more and changed some other things but we are still family. A comforting thought really, no matter what, they're still mine!

I love me family.

A Few Good Men, 15 June 2009

So, I don’t consider myself a feminist by any means. However, today, standing in my mother-in-law’s kitchen I was outraged. We were watching parts of “A Few Good Men” to correctly identify the color of Tom’s apartment, which is to be duplicated in her kitchen. Then the scene came…Jack yelled, “What I do want is for you to stand there in you faggity white uniform and extend me so freakin’ courtesy” or so the original script reads. However, in its stead they substituted “girly” to make it TV appropriate. Is it less offensive to insult over 50% of the population? Or because “girly” has been used as an insult for generations it’s now okay? It’s clear why “faggity” would be offensive, I am not argueing that. I just cannot comprehend how changing the gender and target group makes it TV appropriate. Why not stupid or ugly? When did I consent to take the fall whenever someone else’s feelings might be hurt? That’s right, I didn’t. You fail TV censoror, complete fail.

Clever Name Right? I know...

I swore I would never, ever, write or keep a Blog. That is why I must say that I am slightly ashamed to start this. For whatever reason, I decided that I was really interested in doing this. We’ll see how long I actually keep it going. For now, this is kind of a introductory post and a place holder.

Tara will be posting shortly I’m sure.