Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Pinot Noir Feminism

"Wait, he did WHAT, Becky?"
"He came up to me and said 'you look beautiful this morning.'"
"No!"
"Yes!"
"That's so chauvanistic"
"Its beyond offensive"
"Like, male privilege is a really real thing."
"Amen sister, amen. "
Sarah and Becky took a moment to sip their pinot noir, adjusted their blond hair and sighed.
"Did you see Kate's new Facebook picture? "
"Hummel?"
"No, Michaels."
"Kate Michaels...from like high school right? I haven't heard that name in like forever."
"I know, I know.  She totally friended me last week out of nowhere"
"Wow, see that's why I got off Facebook. There's no reason why people who I haven't seen in like a million years need to be linking up with me."
"Yea, Becky, you're right, you're right."
The young women coughed academically.
"Anyway," Sarah began slowly, after her intellectual phlegm had been cleared,"Kate's Facebook picture is so...domestic."
"Oh my God. "
"Yea, she actually  married Ryan Taggart."
"Wasn't he dealing like meth back in the day?"
"It looks like he's sorta cleaned up. He works at Walmart or something "
"Oh," Becky said, objectively pointing up her nose.
"But yea, the picture ...is...she's pregnant! "
"Ugh. I hate Facebook," Becky said vaguely, taking another swig of wine.
"Yea, totally showing and everything "
"Well wow ...its too bad, she totally could have been a writer."
"I dunno....I felt like she was always moaning about being black in her poems. "
"Yea, well...that's what they do, right?"
Sarah nodded and sighed. She had been president of the high school semanteme club, and had overseen the publication of Kate's poetry.
"Its always sad when they get so pinned down by a man," she said nonchalantly.
"They're more prone to it."
"They are."
They felt good about their analysis.  They swished their hair and embraced their branded feminism.

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