Jury Duty vs. Comic Con

Sitting on the bench or walking the cavernous Convention Center?

Please please please please I hope I don't get called for jury duty on Thursday!!! We plan to go to the Comic Con - the first official day, not including Wednesday's Preview night which is reserved for those die-hards who get the 4-day pass. That's the night they get to snag all the good stuff first! But anyhoo, I hope I don't get called in! Otherwise, if I do, Bert gets the day off anyways and may go without his wife...me! :(

Not to worry, we will go on Sunday for sure with TC in tow, wearing her Supergirl costume. Last year that was her Halloween costume. None of that girly ass Disney Princess shit like all of the other girls in her class. She chose Supergirl. A noble, strong role model. I was happy to see that she was a noncomformist as well. In REAL LIFE girls should learn that they don't have to be weak, flirty/coquettish, and dependent on men to rescue/save them. I hate the fact that Ariel had to give up her underwater life just to be with that pussy Eric. Yeah, yeah, true love, schmoo love. Yeah, yeah, it was HER choice in the movie...Eric should have joined HER watery world and gave up his life.

There are a few redeeming qualities in Belle from Beauty and the Beast (although I don't like the underlying shades of interspecies bestiality). She was smart, independent (and of course, motherless like all of the so called Disney "heroines") and was not afraid to stand up to the boorish Gaston. Sleeping Beauty? I think playing catatonic and waiting for any old dude to kiss you and wake you from your deathlike slumber ISN'T the way to go. What if the guy ended up being a fat, ugly plumber and not a prince? What about Cinderella? So what if she had a SMALL FOOT that fit the glass slipper? Another Disney princess that had one good quality was Mulan simply because she knew martial arts and could definitely a guy's KICK ASS. That's it.

The hyperfeminization of these female Disney characters is despicable to me and all the marketing that goes with the Disney princess is of course, geared to make loads of $$$ from over supplicating parents who want to please their increasingly demanding offspring, in turn, grooming them to become horrid, greedy consumers who must have all things Disney like the Princess phone, make up kit, clothing, costumes gowns, and toilet paper with said likenesses.

The hypersexualition of other "girl-geared" toys of a crappy nature include the Aryan/anorexic Barbie and her brood of wanna-be multi-ethnic friends, who by the way, lack distinct ethnic features and look exactly like Barbie in everyway, except for the color of their skin and hair. I think Mattel believes that American girls don't want to play with kinky haired, flat nosed, chocolate/tan Barbies, with eyes other than blue; that's why you see those dolls in the toy outlets because no one wants them, along with the awful Bratz, the Baby Bratz (baby dolls that look like miniature sluts? hell to the NO!) and their mortal enemies, the My Scene dolls....Aaaargh!!!

By the way, I hope you recognize some of my sarcasm...But seriously, I HATE the Disney princesses to the nth degree.

Huh, all this because of a Supergirl costume...let me get off my diatribe now.