Who’s She?

After reading my previous post, my friend Schumey stated that hearing of the word "Bitch" reminds him of one woman of authority.

But I only agree with him 80%. When I think of a woman who fits the description of a harpy (na lang, wag bitch) the best, I think Kris Aquino. She's someone who has so much propensity to creating scandals that you have to wonder if she's doing them deliberately to whore up camera time (and to have Filipinos obsess over her private life instead of having them actually caring of what's happening AROUND them).

As she has announced lately, though, (set to generic-techno-with-lifeless-singing background music) she likes to do a million things every day, although her hair might be a different story. Baka ma-damaged daw.

But after using Pantene with all its awesome 7 formulas (it has to be 7. Not 6, 8 or 9. 7 has more zazz.) of being age-defying, ngayon she has time for all the things that matter, like talking her baby James to sleep.

I guess her hair is more important than her son then.

The B-Word and the BB Blues

Hey, do you recall a time when Friendster's bulletin boards were filled to the brim with funny, sensible and insightful people? Feels like an era past, doesn't it? Nowadays all I ever see are people selling bags, surveys from people with the IQ of Paris Hilton (not you, Chester. Hahaha), ANNOYING RED-HERRING CHAIN MAILS ABOUT GETTING MARRIED, dalagas complaining about how awful their yearbooks are, or whiners who post multiple messages whining about people spamming the bulletin board (see the irony there?).

But a particularly retch-worthy one, sadly, came from one of my closer real-life friends. Her bulletin post's title read "My Personalized Licensed Plate Number Says 'BITCH'". 

Why are so many girls tagging themselves with that word lately? I suspect that they don't know what bitch means and that they're just using it because Tata Young (with her song "Sexy Naughty Bitchy Me") and her contemporaries - i.e. pop icons with no brains or sensibilities whatsoever - made it trendy. It just reminds me of Sean Krapston trivializing the word "suicide" (don't get me started on this!). Upon reading my friend's bulletin post, my reaction was, "Great, just another in the long line of girls who think bitch is a word of female-empowerment."

If she actually bothered to read the dictionary (and try etymology) before using that word indiscriminately, this is what she'll find:

Bitch

–noun

1.	a female dog.

2.	a female of canines generally.

3.	Slang. a. a malicious, unpleasant, selfish person, esp. a woman. b. a lewd woman.

4.	Slang. a. a complaint. b. anything difficult or unpleasant: The test was a bitch. c. anything memorable, esp. something exceptionally good: That last big party he threw was a real bitch.

–verb (used without object)

5.	Slang. to complain; gripe: They bitched about the service, then about the bill.

–verb (used with object)

6.	Slang. to spoil; bungle (sometimes fol. by up): He bitched the job completely. You really bitched up this math problem.

I know that bitch has recently become a slang denoting a woman who, according to Urban Dictionary, don't give a flying f*ck anymore and that can and will be cruel to man. And hey, it's cool if a woman wants to verbally slam the male sex - even if males are conceived and parented by females (see the irony again?) - and instead of bad parenting she blames males' shortcomings to hiphop videos and Sly Stallone movies. What do I know, right? That still does not justify using of the b-word. She can use "dominator" or "dominatrix" or "menefreghista" or "misandrist" or "bad girl" for all I care. Why does she have call herself bitch - a word so thoroughly reviled, that people may interpret it as whores? Would she also want to be called puta? Or should we, like always, favor the anglicized (harrrrr)?

Girls, if you advocate equal rights, you owe your gender more dignity than to call yourselves bitches. Otherwise, please do not react when you hear Isiah Thomas's moronic remarks.

In case you didn't know, he said "It's acceptable for a black man to call a black woman a bitch."

Life's a bitch, innit? 

Bore-vey

(If time allows, I'll post a couple of new entries this week. So stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, I'm doing a survey as a kind of intermission.) 

If I looked in your purse/wallet, what would I find?
- Cash, receipts, cards and ID's.

Do you go to the bathroom with the door open or closed?
~ Why would I want to have my door opened anyway? What kind of idiot does that?

Sleep on your back or stomach?
~ Back, so I can have a good view of the ceiling.

What would I find if I looked under your bed?
~ Haha sorry you won't find any naughty magazines. In fact, don't bother as you won't find anything.

Something that happened today that has made you mad?
~ Well, it's still early.

What were you doing before this survey?
~ Checking my emails and today's work, I guess.

What will you do after this survey?
~ Go back to work.

First thing you do when you wake up?
~ I usually wake up pretty grumpy, particularly if it's on weekdays and most especially if I feel like I haven't slept enough. So no looking at the cellphone unlike that chatty friend where I got this survey from (and boy is that guy chatty. Hahaha!)

Why do you like the person you like?
~ Because she has no idea how much she rocks my world. Err, yeah, I don't know. I just do, okay? Do I have to justify my preferences all the time?

When you shut off your alarm clock, do you tend to fall back asleep?
~ I put it on snooze a couple of time before I finally wake up (or, like, resign for the rest of the night)

If you were given the chance to take care of a monkey for a weekend, would
you?
~ No freakin' way! My bedroom's already "teenager-like" with me in it!

What is the current annoyance?
~ You'll read about this in my next entry, but in a nutshell, it's about a girl.

When will you turn 50?
~ When pigs fly.

Where do you wish you were right now?
~ Inside my secret base in volcano plotting world conquest.

What song are you currently listening to?
~ I ain't listening to any song at the moment.

Have you ever passed out from drinking?
~ Nope

What time did you wake up this morning?
~ 7

What makes you laugh?
~ Your face. Hahaha. Kidding.

Who was the last person you talked to on the phone?
~ I don't remember. I don't do phone sex.

What is the WORST subject they teach in school?
~ Electromagnetics Theory, bar none. I mean, it's bad enough that this subject is about things YOU CAN'T FRIGGIN SEE, but the teacher's even worse, often digressing for 30-plus minutes (out of 90) talking about his LOVE LIFE WITH A LADY HE MET IN THE INTERNET AND HAS NEVER MET IN REAL LIFE and SINGING "When I Fall In Love" WITH THIS FINGER-IN-HIS-ASS EXPRESSION. Arrgh!

How many times have you seen your favorite movie?
~ 7

How was your past weekend?
~ Ehh, average.

Is someone on your mind right now?
~ Yep

Can you say the alphabet backwards?
~ It's a corny stuff to do. Sorry.

What color is your toothbrush?
~ Green

Do you like the beach?
~ I like it but I'm not sure I like seeing half-naked fat bum dudes with hairy legs and chest accompanied by his mail-order wives.

Can you whistle?
~Nope.