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When I started high school, I lost count of the number of curse words I heard on a daily basis. I didn’t expect to hear “bitch” a lot, but I was surprised by the number of times that word casually came up in conversation. At Westridge, we focus on empowering young women, so I didn’t expect to hear the word as often as I did.
Through the years, the word “bitch” has evolved from a demeaning word that discredits women to a feminist term of endearment that unifies them. There are also different ways to use it. For example, bitchin’, as in doing amazing things, and to bitch, as in to complain. Feminists started to reappropriate “bitch” around the 1990s. Elizabeth Wurtzel wrote the book Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Womenin 1998. Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler founded Bitch magazine in 1996, and when asked why they chose that name, they explained how “it would be great to reclaim the word ‘bitch’ for strong, outspoken women, much the same way that ‘queer’ has been reclaimed by the gay community.”
I noticed yesterday that a Trump with an injured ear bobblehead doll was being offered for sale. They didn't show how the actual doll would look so two cheezy mockups were published.
As I was planning to write about the injured ear bobblehead this story came up:
It was reported back in 2017 here:
I went to the website (here) and it looked like you couldn't order a new one of these. Clicking on the "shop now" link didn't go anywhere.
I tried to see if any were made and whether they might be available of ebay. Looking deeper into the situation it appears that the dolls were never made (read why):
Considering that the bobblehead looks like a cardboard Trump face pasted on a body that doesn't look like it belongs to Trump I have my doubts whether many of these will sell if any are ever made.
The Trump doll will be offered by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame which actually exists (see Wikipedia) so it actually may come onto the market, as may competing versions from other companies.
Thus, hoping to be able to write a "Battle of the Dolls" blog about this, I have ended up with a non-story.
Oh well....
As regular readers know one of the first websites in look at in the morning is RawStory. Articles there often give me the idea for my blog.
By the time you look at it the top articles will have changed as RawStory updates in real time as news breaks. Here are some from right now. (Clicking will enlarge image.)
"STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT 'LEADERS' IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!"
This is about a following Truth Social post:
"VOTERS HAVE A CHOICE — TRUMP PROSPERITY, OR THE KAMALA CRASH & GREAT DEPRESSION OF 2024, NOT TO MENTION THE PROBABILITY OF WORLD WAR lll IF THESE VERY STUPID PEOPLE REMAIN IN OFFICE"
"REMEMBER, TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!!!"
In the first post Trump starts with warning about a stock market crash and terrible job numbers and seques without missing a beat into saying we are heading into World War III. In the next post about a world war he's gone from saying that we are heading to World War III to saying World War III is probable if Kamala Harris is elected.
Oddly, or I should say "weirdly" since this is the word we use now, he concludes with "this is not good" followed by three exclamation marks. If the end of civilization is just "not good" what is something most people would call the ultimate horror?
I can smell the pungent stink of Trump's flop sweat in this message. Here's a definition of what this is from this website:
You auditioned for -- and landed -- the lead role in a musical. You've practiced, rehearsed, learned your lines as if you'd written them, and the staging now seems like second nature. It's opening night, and in a minute, you'll walk across the stage and deliver your first lines. But as you think about it, you realize just how many lines there are. Now, rivers of sweat are now pouring off your face, and your clothes are soaked. What's going on here? And what on Earth is your cue?
The term "flop sweat" has its origins in the theater and refers to the sudden, heavy perspiration experienced when confronted with anxiety and fear of embarrassment. Though identified with the stage, flop sweat is a very real phenomenon that we'll all experience at some point in our lives.
I can see him standing in a puddle of his own sweat and with the aid of AI so can you.
There are updates to this on Substack. I made the SS illustration above by adding a U and an A to an SS. The motto of the SS was telling i...
