..Love..

You know you've still got it when after 2 years you STILL make time to snuggle together every morning!

xoxo
Drama Mama

..#10..

1 star for love, 1 star for hope.

..Cluck Cluck Cluck..

*UPDATE*: This isn't a product of the loins of Drama Mama and the Old Man. This is my cousin's kid. So keep your panties on!

..FURIOUS!!..

My blood is absolutely BOILING!!!! So forgive me if I'm not as coherent as I would like to be.

Excerpts from an article in today's Star newspaper pg N22 entitled "Beauty is Power" inspired Miss Malaysia pageant.

PETALING JAYA: This year’s Miss World Malaysia theme “Beauty is Power” is inspired by the likes of Cleopatra and Nefertiti, queens who brought the entire empires to their knees.

“The theme shows that a beautiful woman is a powerful woman,” said pageant organiser DDBPR managing director Chong Wei-Hsiang.

Are you freaking serious?? Although not said outright, the underlying message to the tagline and the statement implies that only those that possess beauty are powerful. F*uck off would you?

So what does this mean, a woman who doesn't fit society's norm of beauty is less powerful? Erm... are you for real?? Lord i'm so infuriated I can barely type a lucid sentence.


A great beauty? Let's be honest, not really right? Who is she? Eleanor Roosevelt. Wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Cited to be a shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, who grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved--and for some years one of the most revered--women of her generation. (credit: The White House) Even she wrote in her autobiography ...no matter how plain a woman may be, if truth & loyalty are stamped upon her face all will be attracted to her...."

More examples (and I think their names speak pretty clearly for themselves:
Mother Theresa
Indira Gandhi
Coco Chanel
Condoleezza Rice
Princess Diana
Aung San Suu Kyi
Oprah Winfrey

Need I say more? Not the typical drop-dead gorgeous version of beauty but does that mean they're not powerful?? HELL NO!!!

We've strived for years and years to teach girls that it's not everything to be beautiful. I mean what is beauty (read post I wrote awhile back on it here.) It takes character, determination, intelligence, strength etc to be powerful. If beauty equals power then why they hell do I not run the country by now? And why does Angelina Jolie not run the UNIVERSE by now???

It is statements and methods of thinking like THIS that set women's progress back by leaps and bounds. We teach our children, our daughters/nieces/cousins etc that beauty is within. Err.. well according to our local beauty pageant it isn't! Someone should be shot. Seriously.

Hmm.. maybe we should all sign-up for some plastic surgery, become beautiful (which by this definition means immediately powerful) then we can all run the world. I call dibs on America. Anyone else??

Too much to type.. Too much bile in my throat..

Love
Drama Mama
xoxo

..Almost Famous..

A couple of months ago I receive this email..

Hello

My name is Jonathan Harris, and I'm a digital artist based in New York. A few years ago my collaborator and I started a project called “We Feel Fine” (http://wefeelfine.org), which collects human feelings from the Internet. Basically,
it automatically searches blogs for occurrences of the phrase “i feel”, and when it finds one, it adds the surrounding sentence to a database. The project has been running for more than three years, and collects around 15,000 new feelings a day, having gathered around 12 million feelings in all. We Feel Fine aims to illustrate the common ground shared by all people, making the world seem a bit smaller and friendlier.

We’re currently working on a book about We Feel Fine to by published by Simon and Schuster in the fall. In assembling the book we have searched through the millions of
feelings collected by We Feel Fine in the hopes of selecting what we believe to be the most powerful. From statements that made us laugh to ones that made us cry, the most important criteria was simply that they made us feel. One of
these selected statements and images was authored by you, and you can see it here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxxxxxxxxx
And the text reads: “i'm feeling the love"

I’m contacting you today because I wondered if you might be willing to share further by allowing us to include your statement and image in the book. It is such a wonderful sentiment and would make such a great addition. You would
be joining several thousand other strangers who are also participating with their words and pictures, taking part in a new kind of experiment in mass authorship, adding your voice to this contemporary portrait of human emotion.

Please let me know if you would be interested in participating. It would truly be our honor. If you decide you would prefer not to be included I thank you anyway and
hope you will continue to express yourself as openly and beautifully as you did in this case.

Sincerely,
Jonathan Harris

The outcome???



PLUS!! We've been invited to the book launch in New York in December! Yes I know it's nothing that grand, but let me tell you, it feels great to know that out of the tens of millions of pictures, they want to publish one of mine. Awesome possum.

Am already making plans to attend the launch.. I mean, what are the odds? And you never know what could happen, so yes, i'm going...

xoxo
Drama Queen