[Lady Thoughts] Knowing that the square root of 69 is 8 something is not going to keep me warm at night

Yesterday, I was having a chat with someone about gay clubs which turned into a conversation about how school, higher education in particular, is pointless. Now how we got from clubs in Soho to me wasting the last four years of my life I will never know but needless to say, I was dumbfounded, offended and determined to preach all the merits of a university education. With a four year degree I have access to an entire new calibre of jobs that I otherwise wouldn’t have; I have a deep and profound understanding of whatever subject I chose to study (in this case psychology); and it helps me understand so many different perspectives from the diverse array of people in that same university. I was just about to hit him with how university helps you to “find yourself”, when he interrupted and asked: “how does a university education prepare you for when one of those satellites up there fails and you’re left without a computer, television or a phone?”

I looked at him in silence for a minute and the first thought in my head was, “well, how long will it take them to fix the satellite?” Never mind who “them” is or why my university education didn’t teach me how to fix that satellite my gotdamn self.

[Lady Thoughts] “All the ugly girls, why the hell is y’all clapping?”

Ugly Duckling

Bad Chick?

Bad Chick

I’ve been thinking about this a lot: do ugly people know they’re ugly? While your automatic answer will likely be, “well of course they know, they have mirrors don’t they?” let’s just hold up and think about this for a second.

Do you have that one friend with a face that looks like it’s had a couple of love taps with a shovel but still thinks that they’re the baddest bitch in the room? Or that one chick whose confidence does not match their unfortunately asymmetrical face?  How about the chick who swears she’s a dime but is really a couple pennies shy of a nickel?

When I say ugly, I’m not talking about something that a different hair style, a little makeup and a change of bifocals is going to fix and turn Ugly Betty into America Ferrera, I’m talking about the kind of ugly that only paper bags and darkness can remedy. I realise that beauty is subjective and someone’s personality can in fact make them more attractive and so can that person standing next to their uglier friend but while beauty is in the eye of the beholder, ugly is still ugly.  Evolutionarily, there are standards of beauty that cross cultural, ethnic and racial lines and are in fact universal.

[Lady Thoughts] Who Runs The World? BOSS B—–S

I like to think of myself as belonging to that select group of intelligent, confident and non-apologetic women who are sometimes referred to as Alpha-biddies, Spartans or my personal favourite: Boss Bitches.  These women do not sit around and wait for things to come to them (or even worse, for men to get it for them) they get off their fat asses and get it themselves.  They use whatever resources they’ve been afforded to better themselves without having to compromise their integrity to do so.

Simply put, these women run shit.