not in any particular order:

1 Angelina Jolie

2 Marilyn Manson

3 "taco flavored kisses from my Ben"

4 leopard covered house in Hollywood

5 Ralph Fiennes in a Nazi uniform

6 unconditional love

7 silver hair

8 pink laptop

9 Axl Rose

so one of the main reasons why i started this blog is to get more sales for my store www.gossiprag.webs.com

since that is not happening right now, there is no need to post all the time here.i have more important things to do with my time

plus i really don't have anything to say.

at all.

yeah i could talk about what happened at the party with Heather & New York

or why i haven't given Neil Strauss my new number

or what i think about Shelly O(our new First Lady)

or who i am in love with right now

but really, who cares? i will post eventually, but i would not hold my breath for it

check my store in the future for all "Charm School" auctions(or whatever). i could not care less at this point

The D

so thankful that i got that VIP ballot a month ago & already voted(thank you, California!!!!)

do your part, get out there early & vote

you cannot change the world with words alone(lord knows that i have tried). get off that @ss & make the world a better place

that is all

www.gossiprag.webs.com

If Men Could Menstruate

by Gloria Steinem

A white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking that a white skin makes people superior - even though the only thing it really does is make the more subject to ultraviolet rays and to wrinkles. Male human beings have built whole cultures around the idea that penis envy is "natural" to women - though having such an unprotected organ might be said to make men vulnerable, and the power to give birth makes womb envy at least as logical.

In short, the characteristics of the powerful, whatever they may be, are thought to be better than the characteristics of the powerless - and logic has nothing to do with it.

What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women could not?

The answer is clear - menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event:

Men would brag about how long and how much.

Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of manhood, with religious ritual and stag parties.

Congress would fund a National Institute of Dysmenorrhea to help stamp out monthly discomforts.

Sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free. (Of course, some men would still pay for the prestige of commercial brands such as John Wayne Tampons, Muhammad Ali's Rope-a-dope Pads, Joe Namath Jock Shields - "For Those Light Bachelor Days," and Robert "Baretta" Blake Maxi-Pads.)

Military men, right-wing politicians, and religious fundamentalists would cite menstruation ("men-struation") as proof that only men could serve in the Army ("you have to give blood to take blood"), occupy political office ("can women be aggressive without that steadfast cycle governed by the planet Mars?"), be priest and ministers ("how could a woman give her blood for our sins?") or rabbis ("without the monthly loss of impurities, women remain unclean").

Male radicals, left-wing politicians, mystics, however, would insist that women are equal, just different, and that any woman could enter their ranks if she were willing to self-inflict a major wound every month ("you MUST give blood for the revolution"), recognize the preeminence of menstrual issues, or subordinate her selfness to all men in their Cycle of Enlightenment. Street guys would brag ("I'm a three pad man") or answer praise from a buddy ("Man, you lookin' good!") by giving fives and saying, "Yeah, man, I'm on the rag!" TV shows would treat the subject at length. ("Happy Days": Richie and Potsie try to convince Fonzie that he is still "The Fonz," though he has missed two periods in a row.) So would newspapers. (SHARK SCARE THREATENS MENSTRUATING MEN. JUDGE CITES MONTHLY STRESS IN PARDONING RAPIST.) And movies. (Newman and Redford in "Blood Brothers"!)

Men would convince women that intercourse was more pleasurable at "that time of the month." Lesbians would be said to fear blood and therefore life itself - though probably only because they needed a good menstruating man.

Of course, male intellectuals would offer the most moral and logical arguments. How could a woman master any discipline that demanded a sense of time, space, mathematics, or measurement, for instance, without that in-built gift for measuring the cycles of the moon and planets - and thus for measuring anything at all? In the rarefied fields of philosophy and religion, could women compensate for missing the rhythm of the universe? Or for their lack of symbolic death-and-resurrection every month?

Liberal males in every field would try to be kind: the fact that "these people" have no gift for measuring life or connecting to the universe, the liberals would explain, should be punishment enough.

And how would women be trained to react? One can imagine traditional women agreeing to all arguments with a staunch and smiling masochism. ("The ERA would force housewives to wound themselves every month": Phyllis Schlafly. "Your husband's blood is as sacred as that of Jesus - and so sexy, too!": Marabel Morgan.) Reformers and Queen Bees would try to imitate men, and pretend to have a monthly cycle. All feminists would explain endlessly that men, too, needed to be liberated from the false idea of Martian aggressiveness, just as women needed to escape the bonds of menses envy. Radical feminist would add that the oppression of the nonmenstrual was the pattern for all other oppressions ("Vampires were our first freedom fighters!") Cultural feminists would develop a bloodless imagery in art and literature. Socialist feminists would insist that only under capitalism would men be able to monopolize menstrual blood . . . .

In fact, if men could menstruate, the power justifications could probably go on forever.

If we let them.

1. Paris Hilton headlined PETA's "worst-dressed" list for 2005 because she wore lots of fur coats.
2. In February 2006, anti-fur PETA activists pelted her with "flour bombs" (like a water balloon with a puff of smoke instead) after she appeared in Julien Macdonald's show at London's Fashion Week.
3. Sometime in the next three months, PETA got to her. By May, Paris had sat down with Heather Mills and watched the group's anti-fur videos, and started saying that she would no longer wear fur. Paris even told Pam Anderson that she might want to start being an anti-fur spokesperson.
   
4. In June 2006, Paris' spokesman Eliot Mintz told TMZ: "Paris does not wear fur, nor will she wear fur described as artificial fur knowing it came off the backs of animals."
5. More firm quotes followed. To World Entertainment News Network: "I am not going to be wearing fur anymore." To China's Xinhua news agency, about the meeting with Heather Mills: "From that point I've never worn fur and I never will."
6. Mills herself claimed last year that Paris was "an absolutely lovely girl and actually quite bright" (which should be the first sign that something is amiss, but I digress…) "After she had used a box of tissues she said, 'I will never, ever wear fur again and I will hand all my fur over tomorrow', and she did."

Which brings us up to the present day. Berglund of Copenhagen, a famous furrier in Denmark, announced proudly on its website last month that Paris Hilton ordered 3 jackets … at her recent visit." And unless I'm misunderstanding something, Paris was also wearing Berglund furs in a December 2007 issue of Star magazine.

Here's a lovely MSN StarLounge story with a slideshow of Paris Hilton's many Danish furs (that first one sells for over US $45,000). Now why on earth can't you find this anywhere in the English-speaking world? Does anyone out there read Danish? I know that their coins have holes in the middle, and their pastries don't. That's about it.

Everybody repeat after me: Celebrities who say they're too "moral" or "ethical" to wear fur coats or eat meat are not to be trusted. They all float back to earth eventually — as soon as they realize that they're not that special, or that PETA is a corrupt bunch of opportunistic leeches.

i wish that i  could say i was surprised. eh

if only Paris(,Heather Mills,Stella McCartney, & Pam Anderson) could find a charity REALLY worth going crazy about. maybe helping children or the homeless.....

i just don't understand why they are all such hypocrites .Paris eats at McDonalds all the time(yeah, seen it with my own 2 eyes. she's gotta get something for the munchies, i guess). would peta approve?