Back again!

Wow. It has been some time since that last post. Lots of things have taken place.

Tweeting on Twitter has definitely been a past time. It's not that I haven't enjoyed blogging. Twitter is a little more immediate for me since I can actually have conversations rather than wait for someone to maybe read the post and maybe comment. I also don't get spam comments that I have to clear out.

What blogging does allow me to do is to explore an idea more fully than I can in 140 characters.

Social media is a curious animal. There are many who see people using it for anything other than business or making money as not worthy of notice or as flotsam. Especially if they are women and they are not in the coveted mommy blogger cabal. I am not a mommy-at least not yet. I don't know that I would blog about my child(ren) or engage in the communal sharing that I see happening in the blogosphere around that. It's not terrible, but much like as in real life, some women (and some men) think there;s something wrong with you if you don't share yourself or care about certain things.

Well, that's my feeling about that. Still looking for the blogger conference or unconference where people who aren't parent bloggers, overly in love with the code of the platforms and tools, are of a certain ethnicity, but that's not all they blog about and are not obsessed by all things vampire can attend and not feel as if they're the kids that were outside the clique in high school.

Do I have an opinion on Shirley Sherrod, the BP Oil catastrophe, education, Harry Potter, Apple's iphone flip off, the Celtics loss to the Lakers, Lindsay Lohan, Precious, the Twilight saga, The View or the upcoming end of As The World Turns?

Probably. And I'll get to those.

Right now, I'm watching the Pretenders in concert on my local PBS. Unfortunately it's tis the month o beggin' so what is usually a shorter show will be dragged out. Maybe I can blog during these breaks.

By the way, I'm not taking part in it, but there is a blogathon to support various charities. Please visit blogathon.org for more details.

Where are your women?

Check that. Where are your women who look closer to the undesirable version of the racial spectrum, but who are just as competent, just as capable and just as curious as the souped up versions that are presented?

We've been treated to lots of stories heroes and heroines saving the world, making a difference and having fun on the internet, the big screen and the small screen. I rarely see people who look like the kind of woman I physically became in those stories. I usually see them as victims, as dimwitted, unimaginative, non progressive people, as an archetype who is a 'magical negro' or who has 'the ancient Chinese secret,' but not leading a full live that has ups and downs and highs and lows except as some sort of 'afterschool special'.

I reflect on the current crop of medical dramas and again notice that women of color as doctors, as supervisors, as specialists are missing in large numbers. I was thinking about 'Grey's Anatomy,' which does have women of color as a part of the writing staff, but none as attendings in the show's hospital staff. Make no mistake-Miranda Bailey may huff and puff, but she and Callie are HNIC and HMIC respectively.

Sci-fi, action and fantasy makes you want to cry because of the dearth. Even if a woman of dark color is presented, she rarely is in on the action and she lives in a vacuum. She's married and/or is a mother and is remote.

Of course, I can write my own stories...but will they ever be read?

Google Search and the word that sounds like 'Delores'

Admittedly I've never really had a reason to google this word, but I agree that considering all of the other more disturbing things that a casual Google search can turn up, I would think that the 'word that rhymes with Delores' would be the least of their worries:

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/12/05/is-google-sexist

dresses

As much as I like formal occasions-dressing up and all. I hate the part where you have find a dress and shoes if what you always wore is no longer available.

I've been looking online and found the following links for formal and party dresses for people of a certain size or with a a certain amount of modesty:

http://www.latterdaybride.com/magazine.php
http://www.sydneyscloset.com/asp/category.asp?categoryid=35
http://www.curvyandchic.com/index.cfm?page=plus-size-womens-clothing-formal-chic
http://www.chadwicks.com/product.aspx?PfId=37107&DeptId=9703&producttypeid=1&PurchaseType=0
http://ullapopken.com/special-occasion/c/217/c2c/ln/
http://www.pyramidcollection.com/itemdy00.asp?c=a&T1=P9648+2X&GEN1=All+Apparel&SKW=apparel&PageNo=4

http://www.promgirl.com/shop/pretty_princess_plus/ballgowns?sr=1&VA=TRUE
http://www.promgirl.com/shop/dresses/viewitem-PD200672
http://www.promgirl.com/shop/plus-events/holiday?sr=1&VA=TRUE


I chose the beautiful burgundy dress sold at the Pyramid collection site.