Sunday, November 13, 2005

no, seriously

I was complaining to Dara today about how I felt like such a square now that I've started to feel uncomfortable about saying "bitch" as in "you're doing bitch work" or "you're her bitch." Like, I promised I would never be one of "those" feminists that constantly quibble over semantics (i.e., woman vs. womyn). And though I realize that bitch as a term is gender neutral, it still reinforces ideas about subjugation and inferior labor that were at one time rooted in gender hierarchy, and therefore isn't that funny. So I'm explaining all of this to Dara, and her perfectly deadpan response is "well, you know, most things aren't funny." I crack up, because it's so true- we would be horrified at most of the "funny" things we say were they not in jest. So we've decided that nothing is funny.

Except this, which was our attempt to convey how much we would dominate our Econ test without reinforcing dominant-submissive hierarchies:
"We're gonna rock that test"
"Yeah, rock that test like a cradle."

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