I guess I’m in a bit of a funk right now. Blame it on me being out of the city, but you know, shit is just wearing me down. Maybe it’s my softer side coming out, or maybe it’s just that I’ve hit my breaking point.

As I mentioned in a Facebook status earlier today, I am so sick of seeing bell hooks’ and Sookie Stambler’s comments regarding limelight seeking activists play out.* I’m really just over it. I am sick to death of seeing people get manipulated by this power hungry bullshit. (Oh, how I feel like I should be drawing some sort of parallel to government.) I am sick to death of seeing women’s choices, especially ones that impact no one but her and her alone, getting nitpicked. I am sick to death of seeing backbiting, stereotypical bullshit play out between other women. I am sick to death of seeing a woman’s choice to go vegan automatically related to her looks. I am sick to death of mainstream political bullshit, of deliberate deceptions, and of just keeping my mouth shut about all this fucking shit. I am sick to death of people attempting to rule with fear and expecting others around them to kiss the fuckin’ ring, man.

Basically, I am just sick of all this negative bullshit.

I guess I should be happy that it’s spring and I’ve got the beginnings of an herb garden on my balcony. And awesome hair, of course. And a quiet apartment in the suburbs. And still unused gift cards from Christmas. And my birthday! And Libertarian Boyfriend. He’s pretty cool.

Okay, okay, so I guess I’ve got things to not rile me up (or the vodka is starting to kick in right about now), but it’s still infuriating. I mean, I get it, some people just suck. Unfortunately, they are the ones who go into politics.

* Movement women have always been turned off by the media’s necessity to create celebrities and superstars. This goes against our basic philosophy. We cannot relate to women in our ranks towering over us with prestige and fame. – Stambler, quoted by hooks; Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, pg. 7
As more and more women acquired prestige, fame, or money from feminist writings or from gains from feminist movement for equality in the work force, individual opportunism undermined appeals for collective struggle. Women who were not opposed to patriarchy, capitalism, classism, or racism labeled themselves “feminist.” hooks; ibid

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