Oh ho ho..
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transomwhiplassI got into UT - Austin.
They wouldn't let me into architecture but all is well. My dad is happy. I don't want to go there but I do feel some *honor* in that I was not cast aside with the scores and scores of rejects. I'm not top 10% even despite the "challenging" college-prep curriculum at SAA, a shocking number of girls were rejected last year. So that is all fun and happiness. This is good news: I'm 3/3. I'm just waiting for Rice. I still might apply to UH to *appease* the parentals.
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Today was rather fun and full of weirdness.
It was "Solidarity Day" so we had special classes devoted to a multitude of sessions ranging from different sorts of ethnic dance & music, to prayer, healing racism/homophobia, & feminism. I was supposed to help out for two of the 3 sessions.
My first session was absolutely beyond stupid. I wanted to smack the stupid girls in my room upside the head and especially the woman speaker. The session was about feminism and, oddly enough, the speaker was a male. There were multiples of this one session but in one of the classes, their speaker was late so they joined our room (the woman speaker came later). (*Note, both these people were from the Houston Area Women's Shelter. The man, totally minded his manners and would ask people to explain their opinion. This woman just attacked them.) First of all, the guy asked a challenging question: "who is a feminist and why?" Well for one thing, obviously a decent number had to be.. at an all girls school? Come on.. the total absence that raised their hands was a phenomenon. I *would* have raised my hand but I'm a chicken shit and I didn't want to be put on the spot for "why?" The man lightly skimmed the surface issues and he didn't get through to anyone. First he talked about misconceptions of feminists and what feminism really is - believing in making equal opprotunity for both sexes. After that, girls total disregarded this definition and would refer back to the stereotypes that he just referenced. At one point, Samantha said that she thought things were getting better "because of the new trend of some men staying at home." The dumb woman speaker, who was standing off to the side and hadn't said a word except "sorry I'm late", haughtily remarked "oh really?! I expect a trend to be more along the lines of 50-55% Do you really see that many men staying at home??" I could NOT believe her. Here Samantha is, presenting her opinion and this woman challenges it on shallow grounds without even reading into what she meant - that its becoming more socially acceptable for men to be stay-at-home dads. It's true, its happening. I don't know why she had to insult the line of reasoning, very few people were speaking up - why knock down those with courage to do so? Later, they were talking about woman moving out of the home into the workplace. Here, she just topped herself. "You see.. I think that is such a HUGE misconception. I am of a poor Latino heritage. That statement references white women. My mother and female relatives were already in the workplace. Housekeeping, sewing, and doing so many other tasks. I do not like the whole idea that this was such a revolution for all women. I do not appreciate people celebrating such things as the woman's right to vote because when it was granted, it was only for white women." BRAVO! WELL PLAYED! The race card!! PAT ON THE BACK!! Geez lady. I do feel bad and sorry that minorities were not granted equal rights. But to attack the value and "victory status" of the very fundamental and basic building block successes of the woman's sufferage movement is just insanity. I'm sorry that all women could not win the metaphorical "whole pie" all at one time. It's clear that we are still fighting for those last few pieces. This woman, years later.. will not be appeased that at that point in now UNCHANGABLE history, all women weren't granted all rights. Maybe I'm overreacting but I was entirely offended by her. In all honesty, the tasks that her mothers & aunts performed were DOMESTIC tasks. To say in a sense that "white" women weren't really disenfranchised because hispanic women were working while "white" woman sought the opprotunity to work is stupid. It's either apples and oranges or she is missing the whole point (which I could hardly believe as she was supposed to be a SPEAKER on feminism). Women did housework - that was their seen role in the household, but like she described, her relatives did other people's. Ohhhh.. well excuse me. I do not see how they advanced the gender role of women in any way. I understand that they were firsts out in the "workplace" but that workplace was just another home. All women were fighting for the opprotunity to work in professional workplaces alongside men. Women doing domestic tasks is as old as history - they were pushing for something new; to be seen as able. I acknowledge that it is entirely terrible to see it as ok for minorities to be working such tasks while for white women, it was "improper." But really, poor white women did housekeeping too. She was really categorizing all white woman being rich and snobby. To say that all white women didn't work and were too good for the tasks her relatives performed was offensive. Ok.. I'm soo sorry if that sounds discriminatory or biased in any way. But she just seemed kind of prejudiced herself and it just really really bothered me. I'm always really bothered when in one hand, people are trying to establish this environment of equality and unity i.e. within the success and furtherment of today's woman but then one person goes out and destroys the bond by declaring his/her difference. We are all discussing how woman have suffered but she elevates herself becuase lo-and-behold, she suffered more than all of us. I was irritated but of course, to scared to say anything.
My second session was better. I had to introduce this Jewish Rabbi for the Jewish prayer session. He was really nice and really impressed at everyone's knowledge of scripture. I actually enjoyed myself.
The third session was great. We got to fold Origami paper cranes and then I helped string them onto a long thread so we could hang them up.
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After the sessions we were supposed to have a huge cultural feast. They closed the cafeteria so you had to particiapte. They had dishes from all over - Nicaragua, Jamaica, Germany, Italy, Sweden, China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Cajun, Creole, Mexican, Venezualan, etc. etc. They probably had about 50? dishes I'm guessing. The problem was, they released about 700 hungry pushy teenage girls in all at once. The food was totally devoured. The pushiest had plate piled high, the timid (like myself) got stuck with about 10 grains of fried rice, an itty bitty sliver of pork bun, and a meager heap of iceberg lettuce salad. I was so pissed off. It was funny though, Becca brought a little keg of Root Beer.. Steph tapped it and we were offering some to people. lol. After lunch we had these cultural dance sessions but all in all, we got out at 1:30.
I was hungry so Steph and I got in Niki's car and got Lai Lai's General Tso's to-go (ho ho). We ate it while Niki drove Popinjay through the car wash. We went back to SAA. Talked about prom until the guys got out of school. We talked to them for awhile but then Niki & I went to go get ice cream which was super cool.
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I've been joking about this whole mariachi band thing but I think a band in general would be so cool. Niki was talking about how we should start a band. Lol.. buy a Winnebago and paint it funky colors. It sounds so exciting and omg.. it would be so much fun. The only thing that is stopping us is the excess lack of talent. Bummer. But for some reason, my head was absolutely swimming this afternoon with all the possibility. haha.
Oh my god that would be so cool though.
They wouldn't let me into architecture but all is well. My dad is happy. I don't want to go there but I do feel some *honor* in that I was not cast aside with the scores and scores of rejects. I'm not top 10% even despite the "challenging" college-prep curriculum at SAA, a shocking number of girls were rejected last year. So that is all fun and happiness. This is good news: I'm 3/3. I'm just waiting for Rice. I still might apply to UH to *appease* the parentals.
---
Today was rather fun and full of weirdness.
It was "Solidarity Day" so we had special classes devoted to a multitude of sessions ranging from different sorts of ethnic dance & music, to prayer, healing racism/homophobia, & feminism. I was supposed to help out for two of the 3 sessions.
My first session was absolutely beyond stupid. I wanted to smack the stupid girls in my room upside the head and especially the woman speaker. The session was about feminism and, oddly enough, the speaker was a male. There were multiples of this one session but in one of the classes, their speaker was late so they joined our room (the woman speaker came later). (*Note, both these people were from the Houston Area Women's Shelter. The man, totally minded his manners and would ask people to explain their opinion. This woman just attacked them.) First of all, the guy asked a challenging question: "who is a feminist and why?" Well for one thing, obviously a decent number had to be.. at an all girls school? Come on.. the total absence that raised their hands was a phenomenon. I *would* have raised my hand but I'm a chicken shit and I didn't want to be put on the spot for "why?" The man lightly skimmed the surface issues and he didn't get through to anyone. First he talked about misconceptions of feminists and what feminism really is - believing in making equal opprotunity for both sexes. After that, girls total disregarded this definition and would refer back to the stereotypes that he just referenced. At one point, Samantha said that she thought things were getting better "because of the new trend of some men staying at home." The dumb woman speaker, who was standing off to the side and hadn't said a word except "sorry I'm late", haughtily remarked "oh really?! I expect a trend to be more along the lines of 50-55% Do you really see that many men staying at home??" I could NOT believe her. Here Samantha is, presenting her opinion and this woman challenges it on shallow grounds without even reading into what she meant - that its becoming more socially acceptable for men to be stay-at-home dads. It's true, its happening. I don't know why she had to insult the line of reasoning, very few people were speaking up - why knock down those with courage to do so? Later, they were talking about woman moving out of the home into the workplace. Here, she just topped herself. "You see.. I think that is such a HUGE misconception. I am of a poor Latino heritage. That statement references white women. My mother and female relatives were already in the workplace. Housekeeping, sewing, and doing so many other tasks. I do not like the whole idea that this was such a revolution for all women. I do not appreciate people celebrating such things as the woman's right to vote because when it was granted, it was only for white women." BRAVO! WELL PLAYED! The race card!! PAT ON THE BACK!! Geez lady. I do feel bad and sorry that minorities were not granted equal rights. But to attack the value and "victory status" of the very fundamental and basic building block successes of the woman's sufferage movement is just insanity. I'm sorry that all women could not win the metaphorical "whole pie" all at one time. It's clear that we are still fighting for those last few pieces. This woman, years later.. will not be appeased that at that point in now UNCHANGABLE history, all women weren't granted all rights. Maybe I'm overreacting but I was entirely offended by her. In all honesty, the tasks that her mothers & aunts performed were DOMESTIC tasks. To say in a sense that "white" women weren't really disenfranchised because hispanic women were working while "white" woman sought the opprotunity to work is stupid. It's either apples and oranges or she is missing the whole point (which I could hardly believe as she was supposed to be a SPEAKER on feminism). Women did housework - that was their seen role in the household, but like she described, her relatives did other people's. Ohhhh.. well excuse me. I do not see how they advanced the gender role of women in any way. I understand that they were firsts out in the "workplace" but that workplace was just another home. All women were fighting for the opprotunity to work in professional workplaces alongside men. Women doing domestic tasks is as old as history - they were pushing for something new; to be seen as able. I acknowledge that it is entirely terrible to see it as ok for minorities to be working such tasks while for white women, it was "improper." But really, poor white women did housekeeping too. She was really categorizing all white woman being rich and snobby. To say that all white women didn't work and were too good for the tasks her relatives performed was offensive. Ok.. I'm soo sorry if that sounds discriminatory or biased in any way. But she just seemed kind of prejudiced herself and it just really really bothered me. I'm always really bothered when in one hand, people are trying to establish this environment of equality and unity i.e. within the success and furtherment of today's woman but then one person goes out and destroys the bond by declaring his/her difference. We are all discussing how woman have suffered but she elevates herself becuase lo-and-behold, she suffered more than all of us. I was irritated but of course, to scared to say anything.
My second session was better. I had to introduce this Jewish Rabbi for the Jewish prayer session. He was really nice and really impressed at everyone's knowledge of scripture. I actually enjoyed myself.
The third session was great. We got to fold Origami paper cranes and then I helped string them onto a long thread so we could hang them up.
---
After the sessions we were supposed to have a huge cultural feast. They closed the cafeteria so you had to particiapte. They had dishes from all over - Nicaragua, Jamaica, Germany, Italy, Sweden, China, Japan, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Cajun, Creole, Mexican, Venezualan, etc. etc. They probably had about 50? dishes I'm guessing. The problem was, they released about 700 hungry pushy teenage girls in all at once. The food was totally devoured. The pushiest had plate piled high, the timid (like myself) got stuck with about 10 grains of fried rice, an itty bitty sliver of pork bun, and a meager heap of iceberg lettuce salad. I was so pissed off. It was funny though, Becca brought a little keg of Root Beer.. Steph tapped it and we were offering some to people. lol. After lunch we had these cultural dance sessions but all in all, we got out at 1:30.
I was hungry so Steph and I got in Niki's car and got Lai Lai's General Tso's to-go (ho ho). We ate it while Niki drove Popinjay through the car wash. We went back to SAA. Talked about prom until the guys got out of school. We talked to them for awhile but then Niki & I went to go get ice cream which was super cool.
---
I've been joking about this whole mariachi band thing but I think a band in general would be so cool. Niki was talking about how we should start a band. Lol.. buy a Winnebago and paint it funky colors. It sounds so exciting and omg.. it would be so much fun. The only thing that is stopping us is the excess lack of talent. Bummer. But for some reason, my head was absolutely swimming this afternoon with all the possibility. haha.
Oh my god that would be so cool though.
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Date: 2004-03-26 10:19 pm (UTC)The Band
Date: 2004-03-27 10:07 am (UTC)More band
Date: 2004-03-29 07:29 am (UTC)I have been thinking of some names for the band:
The Johnny Depps
The entertainy uklele (sp?)
The Maraichi Funk
Boi H8terz (with or without the Avril Lavigne spelling)
General Tso's Bitches
popinjay strickes back