Two Things I Hate

Don't even bother to ask what set off today's rant. (I was actually in a good mood today following a phone message from my hilarious aunt Char who offered to hit the thrift shops to look for matching bridesmaids' dresses for us to wear to my niece's upcoming wedding.)

Anyway, here are two things I hate:

One: I hate "Girl Power" and "Chicks Rule" fake feminism.

I hate it when women are all "girl power" this and "chicks rule" that. Why? Because when the chips are down, the women spouting all that pop culture fake feminist empty rhetoric don't have the guts to really stand up for other women. Seriously. Ask the "girl power-chicks rule" women what they think about women who, for example, are on welfare or who have children out of wedlock or who are struggling in abusive relationships. You think you're going to hear: "The system is so fucked up! Those women are my sisters and they are in trouble and I will do what I can to help them"?

Yeah, right.

No, instead you'll hear that GirlPowerChicksRule fake feminist spout some variant of "I'm better than she is." (Or "What a slut." Or "Can you believe she did that?")

I hate that women think that slapping a "Chicks Rule" bumper sticker on their cars makes them feminists. It doesn't.

Two: I hate women who act like children.

I have nothing but the heartiest contempt for grown women who act like children.

I really, really hate women who dress like children--or worse, like clowns. (I hate the frilly, flowered dresses and the little bows on shoes.) I hate when women use baby talk or try to get out of trouble by crying. But that's all old news.

I was stumbling around The New York Times website and I happened upon an article called "What Did You Call It?" which is about the rise in popularity of the term "vajayjay" as a euphemism for "vagina."

I hate that "vajayjay" has been adopted for use by grown women. I can understand children in a schoolyard using this term, but we're talking about adults. Adults have adult words like "vagina" and "labia" and "clitoris." Adults don't need childish, fake words.

I hope that someday those women who think "vajayjay" women have to listen to their OB/GYNs tell them that they have "malignant vajayjay carcinomas."

That's how much I hate the term "vajayjay."