Dear Sir or Madam

TLC is advertising pretty heavily for their new show, Police Women of Broward County, here in the city. Every day on the way to work I walk past a poster ad on the side of a phone booth that says, Feel free to call them “Sir” above the show’s logo. It drives me insane. It’s just the worst ad campaign ever. What it basically intimates that only people you would call “sir” wield any real power.

In other words, women only have power in this scheme because they are “like” men. Only men have real power, right? Come on.

Diva in Diapers

This whole trend has always horrified me, but this particular video spurred me to write about it. The video at the top of this page is the focus of my ire. This little girl’s family spent over $70,000 just last year on her pageant costumes,  makeup, photos, and wigs. I don’t understand how a family can justify spending that kind of money when they could be saving it for college. How dare they put a premium on her pretty face over the workings of her little mind.

Worst of all is her mother. A former beauty pageant queen herself (of course) she insists upon calling her daughter’s fussing, whining, and general desire to get the hell OUT of the makeup chair “diva moments.” DIVA MOMENTS. No, no, no.