Did you every write a totally clever intro full of wit and verve about how busy you are and how you get everything done by making time in your day to simultaneously run on your trampoline, respond to emails and texts and watch a DVR'd episode of Criminal Minds and/or to edit photos for posts at stoplights and then lose the whole damn thing because you were so tired you stupidly answered yes to the question about navigating off the page without saving your changes?
Me neither.
This has got me hot enought to be tweeting at Yahoo as the site sponsor for at least one site that sells this costume.
I'm not going to bother identifying the other brouhaha that's got me worked up.You'll figure it out. I snapped this picture after work because I don't have hair days this good very often and I wanted to memorialize it. Then I thought . . . this would look even better if I held a sign over my head that said, "I've got a graduate degree, a challenging career, a 25 + year marriage, I've raised four good people and I volunteer about 20 hours a month . . . What's YOUR (expletive deleted) excuse?"
Not that it will come to news as anyone that I'm over standing by silently while the damaging and unrealistic expectations of our society brainswashes women into trying to fulfill impossible stereotypes, but really, you could stick a fork in me.
I was originally joking about the sign over the head idea (which I must credit to Cassie via FB), but now I kind of like it. If I wanted to do something with it, could I get volunteers to do it with me? Maybe just pick one accomplishment that has nothing to do with looks, make a sign, have someone snap your photo and email it to me?
Thoughts?
Also on the feminism front . . . Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. Loving it.
I like it. I'm in. If you start this movement, I'll be right there taking a selfie with my "What's YOUR excuse" proclamation--"I've stayed married, had 3 kids, written novels, restored a native prairie, planted 1000+ trees and traveled to 3 continents. What's YOUR excuse?"
You look FAB in that photo.
I will nOT get started on my opinions of Halloween costumes marketed to those of us with vaginas.
Posted by: Green Girl in Wisconsin | October 22, 2013 at 12:15 PM
I'm in...not sure what my sign will say but start the movement and I'm there!
Love the photo!! There are not enough days in the year when my hair looks respectable!!
(not liking the costume one tho)
Posted by: Liz | October 22, 2013 at 01:53 PM
Wow. That costume makes such a scary statement about how socially acceptable it is for women to spend their lives restricting. And I mean restricting everything --their food, their voices, their potential. We (the world) need to do a better job with our daughters --such a lot of wasted potential in the world.
I'd be happy to participate in your project :-)
Posted by: Cassi | October 22, 2013 at 03:13 PM
Totally blown away by that costume. Gosh, aren't eating disorders a laugh riot?
Posted by: suburbancorrespondent | October 22, 2013 at 05:52 PM
I have no excuse for not having a degree other than I got side tracked by a cute boy and not really liking school all that much. Believe me, I wish I had stuck it out but I really have no desire to do it now.
I just read another blog with a stay at home mom of 6 kids saying all the reasons you should stay home with your kids. I agreed with most of them but not everyone has that option.
Really we all make time to do what we want to do with ourselves. Maybe it's watching some TV, gardening, working out. Whatever makes you happy in the long run is really what it's all about right?
PS that costume is HORRIBLE :(
Posted by: momtaxijulie | October 22, 2013 at 08:03 PM
I cannot believe that costume made it to production!
I like the idea of the signs.
Posted by: lanes | October 22, 2013 at 08:21 PM
I am thinking about my sign...
I am ever astonished by the tackiness and poor messages contained in the things marketed these days.
Posted by: Brightside-Susan | October 22, 2013 at 09:23 PM
That costume makes me so mad!!! My son's gf has struggled with ED.
I don't know what my sign would say. I came home FRIED from using my brain at work. We should probably all get together, help each other write our signs, and take turns taking one another's photographs. Sounds like a Derfwad Manor party!
Posted by: Karen (formerly kcinnova) | October 23, 2013 at 01:09 AM
That costume is repulsive and the people who came up with the idea should be ashamed of themselves.
Posted by: Jen on the Edge | October 23, 2013 at 08:57 AM
Sign me up for a sign. Also sign me up for one of your fabulous hair days. You look gorgeous and happy.
That costume. Good lord, people are just such morons. Was there not one person with a brain who saw that pre-production?
Posted by: Claudia from Idiot's Kitchen | October 23, 2013 at 09:19 AM
That costume? I have no words. None.
I love your sign idea...aside from the important stuff: Damn, you were having a fantastic hair day and I'm loving your outfit!!! XOXO
Posted by: Busy Bee Suz | October 23, 2013 at 11:36 AM
I'm a little confused by the "what's your excuse" thing.
The costume? vile! Truly!
Posted by: Aunt Snow | October 24, 2013 at 02:55 PM
From a photo that makes me splutter with rage to a photo that makes me splutter with admiration, this post had my attention.
That "what's your excuse" mom exhausts me. I just can't.
Posted by: Jocelyn | October 27, 2013 at 12:43 AM
Love the sign idea. I'm hoping my sign will soon read "I fought one of the biggest developers in Texas and won."
Posted by: shrink on the couch | November 08, 2013 at 01:15 AM