Dropping the Bombshell

Although I enjoyed your article, I thought it was interesting that you ended your discussion by bringing up the whole “sexual female=death” thing after labeling Meredith as “McSlutty”. With all due respect, I love the fact that a television show is brave enough to show a woman having several sexual partners and not being punished for it by getting pregnant, getting AIDS or getting killed by a mask-wearing serial killer. When I broke up with the love of my love (he was cheating on me and treated me like crap in the hopes that I’d break up with him and let him off the hook, which I unfortunately did), I went through a period where I slept with anything that breathed. I’m not proud of it or ashamed of it. I just wanted to fill this huge damn hole inside of me, and while I knew sex wasn’t going to save me, it did numb the pain considerably. So to see a woman in prime time television go through the same thing and not be punished for it gives me hope that maybe the bad guys haven’t won after all. I can see where you might view things differently, but for me, Meredith made me realize that I’m not the only one who can screw themselves up royally. Thanks!

Comment by Tommy Marx from Portland OR — October 23, 2006 @ 8:04 pm

In case my comment didn’t make sense, what I meant was, it’s nice to see a character—especially a female character—be able to have meaningless sex with several different men and the only punishment she has to endure is the same one that all of us endure: sex isn’t evil or immoral or anything like that, but it also doesn’t make a broken heart feel any less broken once it’s over.

Comment by Tommy Marx from Portland OR — October 23, 2006 @ 10:58 pm

Bleached Brunettes assume the image and name Blonde for power and profit. There is a lot of money in degrading Blondes. Degrading Brunettes won’t get you bus-fare.

As the grotesquely wealthy Bleached Brunette, Dolly Parton, says (at every opportunity) “Dumb Blonde jokes don’t bother me because I know I’m not dumb, and I know I’m not Blonde.”

These Brunettes need to be bothered in a name that is their own. Nobody can be blamed or shamed in someone elses name.

Bleached Brunette behaviors, attitudes and actions cannot be censured by calling them stupid BLONDE ho. They just laugh and say, “I’m not really Blonde!”

They need to be called stupid BLEACHED BRUNETTE ho. Pamela Anderson is a stupid Bleached Brunette ho and so are all the rest of the Bleached Brunettes.

All Bleached Brunettes smell like pee, look like shit and act like blow-up dolls but amongst the worst Bleached Brunettes are Hefner’s Bleached Brunette PAYMATES, the “kinderwhores” Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, the hooker Anna Nicole Smith, the desperately stripping Madonna, the fame-parisite Paris Hilton and the drugged and recently molested little-blonde-girl persona of Courtney Love.

Once they’re bleached they get immediate attention because a giant spot-light on your head does that, but to keep the attention they have to pull their pants down for the camera.

Let’s get them off the Blonde-Gravy-Train and put them on the Bleached-Brunettes-are-a-dime-a-dozen-Train.

Comment by Carol E. Cox from Canada — November 13, 2006 @ 7:39 pm

Wow. Bitter much?

Comment by Tommy Marx from Portland OR — November 13, 2006 @ 8:03 pm