I came across this article at FOX news, that helps answer some of my questions about this whole “marriage is best” rhetoric.

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…It depends upon who is asking the question.

I can so relate to this man’s dilemma.

To be a friend or more? Tough to know…

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Money, it’s a gas.
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash.
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I’ll buy me a football team.

I’ve written here many times about the materialistic society we live in, and how dependent so many people are on money to provide them their happiness. Cash can buy objects; cash can open up opportunities and make things happen. But it cannot buy love, real friends and above all, happiness. No amount of money will ever replace the important things in life, at least in my world.

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FOX News’ Sexpert thinks she knows IT all.

Hmm.

My responses to her advice:

1) Beeah.

2) DON’T come within a thousand feet of me with these. I will kill you.

3) MY hands do the walking, not yours. You’ll always like what you feel. Me? I have to like what I feel first. Although I do melt from a really good massage.

4) I don’t dress for anything. It’s jeans, tee shirts and sneakers. No matter the occasion.

5) Pink Floyd. Hours and hours of Pink Floyd music.

This article at FOX is the corniest pile of crap I have read in a long time. THANK GAWD I like being single and can do without all this stupid phony drama from men.

Oh fertheloveofgawd.

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Hmm.

Suggestive pink Santa panties targeting young girls are being removed from Wal-Mart stores after parents objected to the offensive undergarments.

The panties, which were sold in the juniors department, seemed to suggest that girls don’t need money, they just need a sugar daddy — in this case Santa Claus.

The hipster briefs — carrying the slogan “Who needs credit cards …” on the front and “When you have Santa” on the derriere — caused an uproar among parents, who called for the $2.96 drawers to be pulled off the racks.

It warms my heart to know at least SOME parents were pissed off about this.

I hate to tell people this, but the message here is exactly what many want young girls to learn, to know of and to expect. That they should wear suggestive sexy underwear and bras; that having these items is good and fun and what life is all about. That, sex is a commodity they can trade for monetary wants and needs.

For all the whining of liberal blogs who went apeshit over this, not too many of them spoke up to place blame squarely where it needs to go:
1) Feminists-many of whom are total hypocrites
Complain about the Santa Panties ladies, but don’t dare call yourself to task for dragging your daughters to the mall with you as you shop at Victoria’s Secret now. I see it all the time! Women shopping for their lacy bras and undies with little daughters in tow. What do tweens do best? Copy the grown ups.

2) Men who get a hard on kick out of older teenage girls who wear suggestive clothing.
I see this all the time too. Older men who quietly drool at the sight of jail bait teenage girls who prance around like little sluts, simply because they are expected to do this for attention. Again, young girls will do almost anything to please the adults in their lives. Adults set the example. Dad’s are especially important to young girls- they have much influence over their daughters and the manner in which they behave cannot be underrated.

I purchase my underclothes from Victoria’s Secret and not from Wal Mart. I have for many years. I was discreet with it however…I never brought my daughters with me into the shop; I never read the mailed catalogs when the girls were around. They didn’t need to watch their mother pick and choose her thongs and lacy bras. They didn’t need to know I owned them. It simply wasn’t something we discussed or shared. Little kids want to be like the grown ups, and when the grown ups do things only they should do, we have to take some responsibility for our actions.

Kids should be kids for as long as possible. We should let them explore their own world at their own pace. I see it almost all the time now: SOME grown ups want to push kids into things they are not ready for.

The selling of items like the Santa Underwear is a perfect example. Let’s take away the innocence and prepare girls to be used and abused for sex and nothing else. Let’s lay the groundwork. And let’s create yet another generation of women who don’t understand the value of sex and what it can really mean, and how it can be such an awesome experience for them. When we allow girls to become sexualized at young ages, we take away most of their chances for ever knowing what that experience is all about. All this for the benefit of what, and for whom? Please tell me.

I’m cheap. I refuse to spend outrageous amounts of money on cleaning products and other things when I can pick up a couple gallons of…vinegar… and put it to good use, for one tenth the cash. For several years now I have seen ads in the backs of magazines and newspapers, people trying to SELL the uses of vinegar. Hmm. How cool is that? The American spirit at work, making money selling lists and all that…except, some of us are pinch too many pennies to waste on such things. Instead, I recall what my Mom and Grandmah used to tell me. And make my own list, and present here, free of charge.

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Here’s an example of the shallowness, the selfishness, of modern women:

In a more innocent age, new mothers generally considered their babies to be the greatest gift imaginable. Today, they are likely to want some sort of tangible bonus as well.

This bonus goes by various names. Some call it the “baby mama gift.” Others refer to it as the “baby bauble.” But it’s most popularly known as the “push present.”

That’s “push” as in, “I the mother, having been through the wringer and pushed out this blessed event, hereby claim my reward.” Or “push” as in, “I’ve delivered something special and now I’m pushing you, my husband/boyfriend, to follow suit.”

“It’s more and more an expectation of moms these days that they deserve something for bearing the burden for nine months, getting sick, ruining their body,” said Linda Murray, executive editor of BabyCenter.com. “The guilt really gets piled on.”

Pile it on bitch.

Nine months of pregnancy and the delivery of a baby are worth a pair of diamond earrings? Women decide the value of their presents based on the number of hours they are in labor?

Gimme a GAWD damned break.

Society really has gone entirely too selfish. The so called sacrifice of bearing children is what we women are here for, like it or not. Just because it’s a choice now, and just because women get to choose just about every aspect of what was once a truly normal and natural event, shouldn’t make this a time for gift giving. Can we see it now? All the new Mommy’s showing off their baubles and bangles to their friends.

…and can we see the resentment factor coming along? “YOU GOT A DIAMOND watch and all I got was a pair of pearl earrings!?!”

Ladies: Stop being selfish and stop thinking about yourselves so much; be grateful your babies are healthy. Be thankful they are born alive, count your blessings. Your baby is the most precious and important and valuable gift you will ever get. Remember that.

Go back through your life…go back to your earliest memories, good and/or bad. Most likely, these memories are full of growing up at home, with your parents and siblings. For most of us, our parents were the center of our lives for upwards of 18 years and for many of us, more than that.

Our parents made many sacrifices on our behalf. Our fathers worked endless hours and some traveled to far off places as part of a career; our mothers may have worked but it seems they were always there for us. We derived a huge sense of comfort from our Mom and from that warm and welcome place we called HOME. Maybe you lived in a house and had a back yard with dogs and lawn chairs and a pool. Perhaps you grew up in a city, living in an apartment with few “amenities” as so many like to call those unneeded perks. Either way, home was where most of us wanted and needed to be. Our families were the center of our universe.

Now try to imagine your parents shipping you off to a facility of sorts, a year round boarding school or whatever. The reason for this was made perfectly clear: You were a burden to your parents and their lifestyle. You were not important enough, and respected enough to have the privilege to stay at HOME. You were sent off not to get a good education (although that might be listed as a benefit). The day to day tasks of raising YOU were just too much of an inconvenience for your folks.

Since when did responsibility become a burden you ask?

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Ahh, the big dinner is upon most folks right about now. (This is a pre published post).

How do you all feel after eating?

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