Don’t you ever get tired of guys hit on you by telling you how smart or “intellectually stimulating” (if he’s trying to use BIG words) you are?  I’m bright enough to know I’m smart, tell me I’m gorgeous dammit!  Being smart seems like a consolation prize at times.  I usually tell nice guys whom I could like if-only-I-was-attracted-to-them how nice they are to be with yada-yada (I’m sure you know how it goes).  But when I’m into someone, I tell people he’s hot.  I mean, sure, someone you could talk in paragraphs with is nice, but you wouldn’t make out with him unless something akin to spontaneous combustion was there in the fist place.  Of course I am not saying that you should make out with an airhead who just happens to be an eye-candy.  You should be able to do something other than exchange bodily fluids (I’m not saying which).  I guess I would like to think that a good head should be pre-requisite, everything else is icing on the cake, so to speak.  And what’s a cake without any icing?

            By the way, you know that saying “you can’t have your cake/pie/whatever, and eat it too”?  It’s one of the most stupid sayings I’ve ever come across.  What the hell are you supposed to do with your cake/pie/whatever if not eat it?  Its main purpose of existence is to be eaten.  If you don’t eat it, it prolly wouldn’t get to come as an ipis on it’s next life (an ipis ranks higher in the hierarchy of things on the basis that it’s actually alive).   I mean, sure, we could live without another ipis.  But would you rather be an inanimate object , delicious but inanimate, than a living organism who doesn’t seem to have any purpose for being except to harass everyone in sight (but at least less annoying than bums in squatters; less of a parasite too).  Given the choice would you rather have a bum in the slums who does nothing but drink and make babies or an ipis?  At least an ipis you could kill with your ever-handy tsinelas, the bum you can’t.

            But I digress.  Too much in fact.

lessons from pre-school:

it's so much easier with kids, a hug and a kiss on the hurt is all it takes to make the pain go away.

my kids used to be so fixated with snow white's "poisoned apple".  they'd get this plastic red apple from the dramatics area, and offer it to me:

teacher, teacher, take a bite from the poisoned apple!

and naturally, i would refuse.

no, i don't like!  i'll be poisoned and die.

don't worry, teacher.  prince charming will come to give you a kiss, and then you'll get better!

how i wish that were true. 

real life abounds with "poisoned apples".  and there around you are seven dwarves who adore and revere you (too much? probably) who should be able to do something to help.  but for some reason, are too afraid to do anything more than look behind the glass coffins; leaving you to be preyed on by necrophiliac womanizers* pretending to be prince charming. 

so what's a girl to do? 

1. stay away from witches bearing apples

2. stay away from "prince charmings" who prey on your helplessness.

3.  be independent.

4.  and hope to God, that those stupid dwarves grow up to be real men.

*if your familiar with zafra's work, she was able to point out in an article entitled, Tales from the Grimm Sisters (i think), how prince charming was used to refer to the knight in shining armor of all fairy tales princesses.  and that may not be a coincidence.

"mandatory sex education could result in more teenage pregnancies which may eventually lead to abortion."

dr. victoria monzon (in the letter to the editor of a university paper, dec. 16, 2005)

why don't we assume that the above statement is true, and so are the following:

1.  sex education classes is all about how to do it, and the fun we all have with the sex.

--sex education is all about telling people the pros and cons about doing it.  it gives you a better perspective on the downside of sex.  and what you can do to prevent it from happening.

2.  people, especially teenagers, are selectively stupid.  things just end with sex.  any other part of the lecture is on mute.

--please, in spite of the glaring evidence of how stupid people in our country seem, grant them the benefit of a doubt that they actually listen and understand things.

3.  people can't find information about sex just about anywhere --tv, movies, sappy romance novels, net.  nowhere!

--the fact that info about sex is so accessible to anyone who knows how to read (of course, the pictures are way better), should make us want mandatory sex education. with sex education as part of the curriculum, we can be assured that they know what their getting themselves into.

4.  people below poverty line, who does not have access to sex education (as they do not go to school), does not have gazillions of babies in their lifetime.

--hahaha!

5.  since, we taught these "teenagers" the do's and don'ts in sex, for sure, the next thing they'll do is to try out all the don'ts.

--yup.  teenagers are stupid that way.

* i know that it's a terribly late reaction.  but i just had to say it.