The world is a strange place

Another edition of weird shit that winds up online.... I'm not even sure what to think or how to feel about most of it. There are cows. There's sex. There's dead folk. It's kinda crazy.

First, a cow fell out of the sky in Washington State and crushed a mini van. People lived. Cow, not so much.

In Spain, there's a 95-year-old granny blogger. She sounds awesome. We now link to her blog here. Her header is: "My friends in Internet, today I am 95 years old. My name is Amelia and I was born in Muxía (A Coruña - Spain) on December the 23rd of 1911. Today it's my birthday and my grandson, who is very stingy, gave me a blog." I love it.

Also, most of you have probably heard about this, but there's an 8-limbed little girl in India who's about to be 4-limbed. Her village thinks she's a goddess. The doctors say her body ate her twin in the womb. (I thought of My Big Fat Greek Wedding...I'm a horrible, horrible person). Who knows? Maybe they're both right.

This is a little weird, but more ponderous. Short story: kids switched at birth, one is Saudi, one is Turkish. After four years, hospital realizes mistake. The parents are now going to trade kids so they get their birth child back. Once you have a four-year-old, who is a real little person with opinions and values and who can form sentences, wouldn't you want to keep the one you got? Unless your kid sucks. Then you just got a new lease on life.

In much stranger paternity news, an Israeli corpse is going to inseminate a stranger because a dead soldier's parents want grand kids.

My DC Rape Crisis Center coordinator sent out the final two articles, which just kinda piss me off. First, the stupid one, then the outrageous one. So, clearly HON is a sex-positive blog (look at Monday's posts to see just how sex-positive some of your authors are). For the most part, we're also self-proclaimed, say it loud and proud, feminists. The gist of this article: men want to have sex, women don't, women now feel empowered to say no, it's their fault relationships are being ruined.

Now, parts of the article make sense to me. People should have healthy sex lives in relationships. If both parties aren't GGG - Savage Love's "good, giving, and game" - Dan Savage you should get to look elsewhere. Maybe, maybe not. But the point is that Dan Savage, unlike the article above, puts the responsibility on both people to make - and keep - things interesting. Dr. Pam Spurr blames the feminists. Remember, feminism is what got most folks out of the missionary position, so maybe it hasn't been all bad for sex.

That being said, this article pisses me the fuck off. The ENTIRE POINT of feminism (well, feminism-as-I-see-it) is that sex can be a fun, creative act of negotiation, rather than a submissive act of procreation. Some folks (both men and women) very much like the candlelight blah blah blah thing, all the time. Some folks (both men and women) very much like the rip my clothes off blah blah blah thing, all the time. Most folks (both men and women) like a little of both. The notion that every woman is secretly waiting to be raped, and will be unsatisfied until that's fulfilled, is idiotic, dangerous, and misleading.