Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Stores, Disney, and Princess Segregation.

I'm sure you have been out holiday shopping by now, and cruised past the disney barbie doll aisles, but did you happen to glance at the ethnic diversity. How about the lack there-of? Barbie at least has South Street Kimber and Puerto Rico Pride Tiffany. I mean, those types of dolls are awesome. Strangely stereotyped, maybe, but different nevertheless.

But seriously, I've seen every shape size and form of Snow White, Cinderella, Belle, and Sleeping Beauty. But where are my ethnic princesses at?

The only Mulan, Jasmine, Pocahontas's's's, I have seen for sale are the miniature "princess collection set" at kaybee toys (i didnt even know they((kaybee toys)) still existed) which contains the whole boat load of the princesses in a fun 1" plastic size.

Even down to the clothing lines at target, jcpenny, macy's, kohls, kmart, Ross, random stores throughout the mall, and of course wal-mart (i'd expect at least the hunchback of notre dame to be there).

I'm scared to go into the Disney store and see the Segregation going on in there too. But I would seriously doubt that they would do such a thing. They love all ethnic groups, especially pirates. Not so much ninjas, but at least they have pirates.

I might as well mention that I don't see princess Ariel getting any publicity either. Its not like i'm a Disney nut, but what do people have against red-heads? I do see little mermaid toys... mainly... flounder. But who the hell wants that? I'm talking about main characters here, not comic relief side kicks. Sheesh.

I mean, am I the only one to notice this?

I'd encourage you to go out and start asking questions. Seems to me that big chains are appealing to strictly a "white" crowd. Not cool the man, not cool.

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Things that the internet has taught me about india.

Well first off I realize that they are culturally equal in some ways, and culturally crazy in others compared to standard American ideals. In a previous post, I had commented about how they decided to fix a broken jet liner. They sacrificed a goat in front of the plane to the god of the sky and, oddly enough, the plane was fixed.



In a recent story, of the wire from UPI.com, "A holy man in India, who claimed his right leg held magical powers, has lost the limb to thieves who reportedly severed it to gain control of its powers."

So what have we learned? Well for one, if you sacrifice a goat to anything, it will be fixed. I have a final next week, so I'll have to line up a sacrifice for that one. Secondly, if you claim something to be magical, and it is one of you most needed extremities, people will want to mount it on a wall and worship it, minus you, plus your leg.

Keep it simple in your absurd claims to earn an extra buck, make a claim for example that your kisses can heal the ill. Wait, that actually sounds like a terrible idea. Something more that your farts have magical tendincies, when people gag, you say its the demons trying to get out. That could work.