News about people no one gives a damn about anymore...

Joni Mitchell said in an interview that she doesn't get much press these days because depth and emotion have been bred out of the straight white males that control the press. Speaking as a straight white male, I can tell you for sure that I still have all three of my dimensions, specifically including depth. And I had tears coming down my cheeks while watch Field of Dreams. And the series final of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Emotion I got. Of course I don't control the press. Maybe her point is that, of the people who control the press, a certain percentage are white straight males, and they are the type with no depth or emotion, but the general population of straight, white males has depth and emotion. It's just those press-controlling bastards!

To her credit, Ms. Mitchell goes on to say that many feminists are Amazons and not really her cup of tea. I think what she means is a woman can be empowered and still be feminine and enjoy the company of men. Which makes a lot more sense than the man-hating (woman-hating is misogyny, what's the opposite?) attitude of many modern feminists. Wouldn't that lead to the end of humanity, if taken all the way? I guess not, they could always take over and enslave all the men to be used as breeding tools.

Actually if you take a look around the US, you see women beating the men in a lot of areas these days, college enrollment the most salient example. The always befuddled father with the wife who always gets him out of the bad situations he gets himself into kind of character that a lot of sitcoms have had in recent years is a subtle sign. Men can't do anything right, right? I'm absolutely not the first person to point this out, of course. There are other strange views on TV. You have all the diamond commercials, where they basically give the idea that men had better cough it up for a big ring if they wanna get some action. This represents two things: that all women are materialistic whores, and that men serve only one purpose, to make money so he can afford his whore.

Enough of my sociology for the day. Back to figuring out where to have lunch....