Wednesday, September 10, 2008

She is NOT like a pitbull with lip-stick. She's like a homosapien with feelings.


I don't want people getting the wrong impression of Sarah. When she brought up the difference between Hockey Moms and pitbulls being the fact that one wears lipstick, and the other poses for Vogue Magazine and has trouble not smiling--

A lot of people took the comparison as a sly way of saying "pregnant female dog," or, more commonly known as, in today's society, when describing a certain behavior, that sometimes is or is not a fair assessment, depending on its propensity to be the by-product of a double standard, where if a man were to act in the same way he would be considered assertive, while a woman with children, a full time job and the ability to make it to every one of her daughter's soccer games might receive a different noun with a different connotation simply because her chromosomes are XX as opposed to XY and are therefore considered less rational chromosomes, and therefore, are called certain word that some people might take offense to, while others might not, while others might only take offense to it when it's said in front of someone who would take offense to it on any given day.

But she wasn't. She was just appealing to our cultural stereo-type of pitbulls, which is they're aggressive and have strong necks because their owners make them walk around with tires around their heads.

Whatever she meant though, is not what I'm addressing. I just feel like this is a horrible analogy because the last time we were walking across a frozen lake with her daughters and husband, she paused, looked down at the 18 inch thick ice, stabbed her hand through it like her left arm suddenly became the spawn of Hulk, and she snatched a fresh-water trout out so fast, that the heat from the friction against the ice walls brought it out sizzling, cooked, and with a hint of lime.

Pitbulls don't have opposable thumbs. Clearly they couldn't pull a fish out with their bare-hands.

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