The other day I was eating lunch in the cafeteria when I overheard a conversation from the table in front of me. This girl was making fun of another employee, talking about her face being "too small". I looked up from my book to see who the speaker was. Well, let me tell you she wasn't any prize in the looks department. I'd call her eyes piggy but that would be insulting pigs. Anyway she went on and on and on. And all I could think of was "grow up." Can't you find--don't you have anything more interesting to talk about than that? How very sad. And I returned to my book which was called "A Jane Austen Education" and was all about how this guy took an English literature class and fell in love with Jane Austen to his surprise. Let me tell you, JANE could have and would have easily skewered Miss Her Face Is Too Small in one of her novels and taken great pleasure in doing so. I'd just finished the part where the author had recognized himself in one of her characters--one who was behaving every bit as catty as the girl at the next table--and had an ah-ha moment. Or as we say in church he was "convicted". That realization changed his life and that was when he fell in love with Jane Austen.
Meanwhile I turn on the news to find that our wonderfully mature State Legislature in Lansing is having a hissy fit because one of its members used the word Vagina. I'm sure many of you have heard all about it complete with the Vagina Monologues being read on the steps of the State Capitol. I am SO PROUD of being a Michigander. Yeah right. Why don't they all grow up? If that is the WORST word that our tender-eared Republicans have ever heard then they are living mighty sheltered lives and I question their fitness for public office. My God. Just the other day I had to ask a male co-worker a question about a reproduction study which involved vaginas and penises. Oops I joked I said the V-word now they will have to shut me up. Yes he said you will have to be silenced now. We all had a good laugh about it. I mean give me a break. Vagina, vagina, vagina. I type that word all day long as well as the others. After a while it just becomes another organ in a list of organs.
Well I suppose I shall get banned now . . .
Meanwhile I turn on the news to find that our wonderfully mature State Legislature in Lansing is having a hissy fit because one of its members used the word Vagina. I'm sure many of you have heard all about it complete with the Vagina Monologues being read on the steps of the State Capitol. I am SO PROUD of being a Michigander. Yeah right. Why don't they all grow up? If that is the WORST word that our tender-eared Republicans have ever heard then they are living mighty sheltered lives and I question their fitness for public office. My God. Just the other day I had to ask a male co-worker a question about a reproduction study which involved vaginas and penises. Oops I joked I said the V-word now they will have to shut me up. Yes he said you will have to be silenced now. We all had a good laugh about it. I mean give me a break. Vagina, vagina, vagina. I type that word all day long as well as the others. After a while it just becomes another organ in a list of organs.
Well I suppose I shall get banned now . . .
