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So recently David Letterman, who I usually LOVE, got into some hot water for making a joke about  the daughter of former Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin, who I usually can't stand. He deserves all of it and more.

The other night, Letterman made a crack about the Palins' visit to New York City saying, "during the seventh inning [of a Yankees game], her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez." 

Letterman claims that the joke was about the 18-year-old Bristol, who recently appeared on the cover with her newborn baby boy. The problem was, the only Palin daughter at the game was Willow, 14.

The Palins were pissed, rightfully, at first thinking it was aimed at Willow, Letterman later claimed the joke was about Bristol, but the Palins said it didn't matter-- the joke was sick, inappropriate and wrong to tell about any of their daughters. And they're right. You NEVER make fun of the kids, no matter how old they are. It's meesed up and wrong.And this got me thinking.

When Al Gore's son got busted for drugs, the media backed off. You never hear any jokes about Ted Kennedy's nephew being an alleged rapist. But you hear this joke about Palin's daughter. A few years ago people made fun of the Bush twins for partying.

You could say that it's because the media is biased toward the Democrats, so a comedian can get away with making jokes about Republican kids and people can

get away with  pulling Republican kids into the spotlight, but not Democrat ones and I realize that that isn't totally true either.

Beanie Baby made Dolls out of the Obama girls. And yeara and years ago when the Clintons were in the White House, people targetted Chelsea Clinton, criticizing and making fun of her for not being pretty enough (seriously). And I notice, there seems to be more acceptance of focussing inappropriate attention on daughters than there is of boys. When it's a young man, the media backs off. When it's a girl, well, one toe out of line and it's ridiculous. And it crosses party lines!

In fact, it's always okay to pull daughters into the spotlight, to call them skanks and trainwrecks when they party or write tabloid stories about them. It doesn't matter how old they are.

Let's face it, how many tabloid stories have you seen chronicling the life of Suri Cruise? She's THREE. Or Shiloh-Jolie Pitt. There are more stories focussing directly on Shiloh than any of her other siblings. We're hearing more and more stories about Madonna's daughter,Lourdes, every day. WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO LEAVING THE KIDS ALONE. AND WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE GIRLS?

It's messed up. We need to leave the kids alone, no matter how old, no matter what sex.

WHat is it that makes girls so vulnerable to this?

I'm pretty excited. One of my favorite shows is going back on the air. Futurama was one of the funniest, most brilliant cartoons ever and was cancelled before its time. But apparently, DVD sales and viewings in syndication were enough for Comedy Central to commision 26 new episodes! And the old cast ( comprised almost entirely of Billy West) and the core writing staff will be back!

Yahoo!

I'm walking on sunshine WAH-OH! I'm walking on sunshine WAH-OH!

*Goes to watch *The Wild Green Yonder* again. It's gonna be fun on a bun!

Hey guys, I'm doing an interview with our very own Bree (breesays) for Buzznet's Get To Know Feature. I thought it would be fun to have you guys submit uestions for me to ask her. So if you're interested, submit questions via comments, messages, bulletins, etc. Happy questioning.

(Satire)

It seems that Twilight hottie Robert Pattinson has really grabbed Hollywood's attention. Over the last few weeks, Pattinson has grabbed more tabloid attention than Jon and Kate Gosselin of Jon & Kate Plus 8 over his alleged trysts with Twilight co-stars Nikki Reed and Kristen Stewart and LA resident Erika Dutra.

Over the last few weeks, Rob has repeatedly graced the covers of Life & Style, Ok!, Us Weekly and In Touch Weekly with tales of his encounters with various women on and off-set. But while this will no doubt generate press for the next film installment of the Twilight saga, not everyone is pleased about the attention the star is recieving. Among the disgruntled is Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, who penned this letter to Pattinson recently.

My Dearest Robert,

I am truly concerned about the reports I am hearing about your Casanova-like ways concerning the ladies on the Twilight set via Us and In Touch Weekly. It pains me to hear that you were fornicating with Rosalie, I mean Nikki. You are not supposed to pay that sort of attention to her. After all, she is your sister! As for that blonde girl who isn’t even one of my characters, what are you thinking? Does Bella know about her? While I am pleased to hear you are back on the right track in pursuing Bella, I do hope that you are pursuing a relationship that is monogamous and confined to the sacred bond that is holy matrimony. After all, Bella is already nineteen and it won’t be long until she has reached her “old maid” years. I truly wish that you will be more like your character Edward and do right by your beloved Bella and, if you please, stop doing nasty, horrid films where you engage in disgusting acts with other men. People might start thinking my characters are gay. And they're not gay. Not gay at all. Especially not Edward. He definitely isn't gay. I love my characters. And you. My Edward.

Love, Stephenie*

Could it be that Pattinson has incurred the wrath of the woman who helped give him his fame? It seems possible that Meyer might also resent his former characterization of Meyer as "Mad". Do you think Pattinson should follow Meyer's advice and cease his Lothario ways?

(Satire)

*Just to be perfectly clear, the letter isn't real. It's a JOKE.

For the first time in several days, I signed onto buzznet to discover that along with two new messages and and two new comments, one of the forums I have posted on has been updated. To my surprise it was  a Question of the Day thread titled "Is Feminism Still Relevant?"

I think you can guess what my answer to this question is.

The thread in question has been updated 33 times since I was last on buzznet, so it is a logical conclusion that discussion must hhave been sparked within this topic. It can also be concluded that a good deal of discussion has taken place. Therefore we may also conclude that it is a topic that gets people talking and therefore is one that is important or at least interesting to people. Therefore, I think it is safe to say that it is relevant.

It is safe to say that feminism has had a profound affect on society. Women can work now, support themselves, they can be seen as full citizens, pursue justice for themselves within the legal system. Sure, we have not achieved equality since society still tends o cling to the old social ideals, views and custons that comes from a pre-feminist era that still allows instances of unfair pay, sexual double standards, fear and derision towards powerful women, and the blaming of rape victims for what is done with them. But the fact that people are even able to point out the fucked-uppedness of all this, that fact that women can publish books like The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti and Manifesta by Jennifer Baum gardner and Amy Richards, or that rape in the court of law is now recognized as a crime against the rape victi, not the rape victim's father or husband (like it was in 1980, no shit), is just a testamet to the progress made.

But it is it still relevant?

Why is this a question when we still have the sexual bigotry and outdated notions stated above alive and well in our society? When we still have idiots claiming that if a women wears a short skirt, she is at least partially responsible for her own rape (because, you know, men are all the sort of creatures that have no self control, and have to rape someone wearing a short skirt becausxe you know. they can't be expected not to know that rape is bad because they're rape machines). Why is it that feminism can be considered irrelevant or dead when we still have people debating these issues. If feminism is dead, why do we need articles coming out every years or so announcing it to be so? How can some thing dead need repeated obituaries?

Are wee going to use Andrea Dworkin as an excuse forever to disregard feminism? Are we going to talk about a dead and irrelevant thing forever? How can something that generates so much debate and discussion be considered irrelevant because it seems to me that is something is truly irrelevant, than it should not require so much effort to announce it to be irrelevant in the first place.

Think about it.