Nov 16, 2019

WTF!!?? ... Why help promoting virginity

A WTF moment of the day. You can buy 'virginity' pills online. Wait ... pills ... how does that work? A couple of hours before you want to fake virginity you put the pill in your vagina. It releases fake blood during the act. Totally 'innocent' of course.

It seems to me a cute sex toy if you're in to it. But for real! C'mon!


Read more about it over here.

If you don't feel like reading Dante's 'Inferno' ... Watch this!

Watch Dante's L’Inferno (1911), Italy’s first feature film.





You can read about it over here.

Nov 10, 2019

Just Thinking Out Loud - Man Repeller

Yesterday I was thinking about the Chinese Black Friday named 'Singles Day'. I was confused, what do I do? Buy myself a present? Or do I get presents? It seems to be an alternative for Valentines Day. Another 'shopping' day.

Today I'm thinking about the word 'man repeller' because of this article on Bored Panda: Woman Posts Outfit Pics Her Boyfriend Hates, Captions Each One With A Quote From Him. I checked her Instagram account, which is entertaining and noticed the #manrepeller.

I checked Urban Dictionary:
manrepeller
–noun
outfitting oneself in a sartorially offensive way that will result in repelling members of the opposite sex. This includes but is not limited to harem pants, boyfriend jeans, overalls (see: human repelling), shoulder pads, full length jumpsuits, jewelry that resembles violent weaponry and clogs.

–verb (used without object),-pell·ing, -pell·ed.
to commit the act of repelling men

Huh?

Googled and first hit is manrepeller.com, a popular fashion blog.
I put the filter on images and *shock* found an article on The Guardian about the Milan fashion show The 'Man Repeller' look.


All of a sudden I remembered that years ago I bought these red checkered golf trousers (I know ... I'm such a fashionista 😏). A male friend made the remark: I'm definitely not getting aroused by this. I replied: You're not the target audience.

Doesn't 'man repeller' gives to much credit to men?
Isn't 'men repeller' now another 'shopping' invention?

Have to think about this.

Women in the Gaming Industry

Before we had sustainability and now the 'Diversity and Inclusion' as a topic within almost all big corporates.



I'm from Holland, Amsterdam. Single mother, half Indonesian, 'old' and doesn't fit the mediocre. I had to smile when all this started. "Probably needed in the US" I thought, but not here in Europe. I have to admit, I was mistaken.

I was reading this article in the Mary Sue just now: Where Are the Women in the Gaming Industry?. I hope my audience will think that it's an 'open door', but as said in the article:

"Well, perhaps you should look into the larger reasons that women aren’t applying, rather than assuming it is because women just don’t want to be part of the fun. Have you considered that for a lot of women gaming has not always been fun, even if they love it?"


My daughter is a gamer, she's rather plays solo and if she's playing in an online team she never says something. She once did and all the guys made smart remarks. Good luck with trying to educate the male population worldwide.