watching Are We There Yet? for no other reason besides that it is on tv. and well...

for a "family movie", it is incredibly racist, against blacks and asians.

old-fashioned "cooning" where black people act like black stereotypes for the entertainment of... well, white people? i cannot even imagine the most racist of white people enjoying this movie.

and the children... wow. i know we are supposed to sympathize with the mom for being a divorced career woman with two children. and we are supposed to like ice cube for being the player who morphs into a man. and we are supposed to get a kick out of the shenanigans of little kids going through a divorce.

but come on. i think a happy ending for this movie would be for someone to call family services on them. what kind of mother could raise such selfish, irresponsible, and slow children? sure, genetics plays into it and the father obviously has some bad traits, to have completely abandoned his children from his previous marriage, in order to have more downtime with new wife and newborn. but still...

she comes off as so sweet and so passive. and obviously she is going through a tough time with her deadbeat ex. but her children are just so awful. if they were mine, i would slap them every 5 minutes. and yes, maybe the children are acting out bc of the divorce, obviously since they do a complete 180 once they realize how awful their father are.

of course, ice cube does not get off easy. the movie does nothing but massage his ego. massive bling and a "look" that can make everyone do his bidding.

took about halfway through the movie, before the writers/actors became relaxed enough to be even slightly relatable.

sigh. watching this movie makes me think of almost every other judge judy episode, where she starts yelling at the female plaintiff for letting a man she has only known for a short while babysit her kids, or bought him plane tickets, or let him do her favors that end up costing her a couple thousand dollars and the loss of her children.

learned a new concept today:

davian behavior.

look it up.

happy halloween, everyone!

lol

this year, parents actually took their children trick or treating around the neighborhood. instead of at the mall (or other well-lit commercialized area) in fear of their children's safety.

needless to say, we were handing out handfuls of candy and bags of dorritos to any child who came to the door. they deserved it. especially the parents who remembered that halloween was for supervised nighttime adventures.

...become so trendy?

i am watching a show and then someone makes a joke. and then i just stop whatever the hell i am doing and say, "did he just say what i thought he said?!"

watching judge mathis. a woman is being sued by a man who says the sex was so great he did everything for her. she controlled him with sex. and now that the sex has stopped, he wants his money back. she said that he was spineless, had no opinion of his own, and that she wanted a man who did not follow her around like a puppy. judge mathis starts talking about how women never want men who are willing to do everything for them, how they always want guys who will treat them badly, and how he should send some of "roughneck prison buddies" over to her to show her how grateful she should have been to have this spineless puppy following her around. yes, he did say that. spent about five to ten minutes talking about sending her some "roughnecks" to show her what a real man is.

he was laughing. so i imagine it was a joke. but if someone had said that to me, i would have kneed him in the groin and walked away. fuck the court case.

family guy, which is so wrong it is funny. and i cannot really get mad at the show bc that is what they do. and it is nothing personal bc, at one time or another, they find a way to offend everyone. but if it were not for stewie, i would not watch it at all. anyway. 50s diner. peter trades sex with his "daughter" (some random girl at the counter) to the waiter in order to get a record from the jukebox.and the waiter asks if the girl is willing to scream, cry and fight him. and peter says yes. (bc obviously the random girl would be raped by a man who thought he had permission.)

(which was actually an episode on law & order: special victims unit. except it was her ex-boyfriend who set her up with a bdsm guy on the internet.)

oh, and a new term i learned: "rape by fraud". it is when someone (usually a guy) pretends to be some girl's boyfriend in order to have "consensual" sex with her. however, that is only a criminal act in certain states.