Sunday, April 26, 2009

New Artist Love


Laurie B! is a fabulous artist I discovered at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo

I ended up buying the print of Batgirl you see here, plus four more of Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. I posted to her site to get her email because I want to buy more... She had Smurfette, Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite too... and Zatana and Buffy and Hermione and... You get the point I WANT THEM ALL!

Saturday, April 25, 2009

When I was young

I belong to a fabulous "womens" group online. I look forward every morning to logging into my email and seeing what we are discussing. For the most part since the lady mentioned in a previous post was removed from the group it's been fun and interesting. But the last few days have been a bit of a trial. When ever hot button topics are discussed you must expect some temper to flair. So when abortion of a mid-term baby was raised it's hardly surprising that the usual camps set up. For the most part though we had a pretty reasonable discussion.

There is a girl, and yes I use the term girl because she is 20 and her speech and habits have left me to view her as such. She has suffered great tragedy in her young life losing one baby to miscarriage and two late in her pregnancys. There are more details I won't go into that leave me shaking my head in sympathy and in confusion with her. She refuses to get therapy for these losses and that is her right but you can feel the pain in the words she writes. You can feel her rage. And you can see the youth in her in the lack of thought that sometimes goes into her statements. You can't have a large group of women as diverse as we are and not have someone who has not had an abortion. I admit here and you can flail me all you want that I had one, 7 weeks into the pregnancy. I can also state I regret it everyday but will never be anything but pro-choice. Late term abortion horrifies me, but it is a woman's right I can't dispute that.

The girl in question did not know this about me and made the statement if she knew someone had an abortion she could not enter into a friendship with them, but if she knew them and then found out she would probably remain their friend. And I admit I responded without thought. I found her statement repugnant even though she is entitled to how she feels. So I responded that "Well I guess we can't be friends" Childish, petty and vengeful of me. The situation devolved further as other ladies who oppose abortion compared it to not wanting to become friends with someone if you knew they were an abuser of animals or a child molester. I read these with resignation and thought "Well gee thanks for that, glad to know where you think I stand in the world according to you" I also tried to understand it from their point of view and just let it go.

Yeah it got worse.

I said as much in group, but another lady came to my defense and suddenly the girl was raging about the babies she has lost. The lady who defended me had also lost a late term child but is also staunchly pro-choice. The rage from the girl lashed out in the unfortunate form of her saying the lady's grief was less than hers because she had lost only one child not 3. The lady questioned this and dear gods it got ugly. But in all of it I kept looking at the girl and seeing myself in my late teens and early twenties, my conviction in my beliefs and the complete disregard to the feelings or thoughts of others. The inability to see beyond myself and what was wrong in my world. And I'm not mad at her I just wish I could make her see.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Vavoom


This is another fabulous addition to any toy box. Feeling a little less than interested? Put on a little of this wonder cream and YOWZA! I recommend this before a romantic dinner or while watching a movie. It's safe it's relatively inexspensive and well... *goes to find the toy box*