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First of all, coramegan linked this video from The Daily Show, a collection of clips from the "Even StepVhen" feature with Steve Carrell and Stephen Colbert. Hilarious stuff. XD

Also check out this clip from the 9/12/06 episode - or, as Jon Stewart calls it, "the fifth anniversary of the misappropriation of the events of September 11th."

Next, Luke notified us about a documentary called "I Was a Teenage Feminist" that looks worthwhile. There's a trailer, as well as clips showing surveys asking women whether or not they call themselves feminists and men what they think feminists are. (Warning - that last clip made me want to curl up into the safe haven of my feministy friends-list. Or fulfill some stereotypes and go on a castratin' spree.)

It's discouraging, but definitely enlightening, to see what the general public thinks/thinks they know. It's also encouraging, too, to see normal people proclaiming their feminism. I loved how in the second clip, the first woman who says proudly that yes, she is a feminist, is Asian. :D Also, I loved this quote: "Saying I'm a feminist almost seems the same question as asking me whether or not I'm black. I don't really understand why I wouldn't be." XD XD XD

When I was growing up, I didn't wish I was white. I didn't look at my Barbie dolls and ask my parents why I didn't look like her. I didn't envy my white friends and think, "If I was their race, my life would be better." Of course not.

It was never that obvious.

Here's what I wished: I wished that my eyes were blue and not so narrow, because the ideals of beauty I saw and read and heard about had wide, sky-blue eyes. I wished that my nose, which is wide and flat like my father's, was more narrow and perky. Even though I loved my long hair, and I felt flattered when all the girls would ask to play with it, I wished it weren't so stick-straight, and that it would fall in waves or curls like theirs. I wished that my lips weren't so full, that my smile would be more of a thin, dimple-inducing curve (oh, and I felt left out because I didn't have dimples). I worried that my voice sounded like a boy's, and I wished it could be high and cute like other girls'.

I didn't wish I was a white girl. I just wished I was exactly like a white girl.

( breaking with beauty ideals )

x-posted to Shrub.com