Thank you for not being perky

I woke up this morning in the middle a dream in which someone was give me grief that I was not giving my kid grief about what he was eating. In the dream, right before I woke up, I said, “I don’t give a shit if he eats his peas”.

And that’s totally true. I hate peas.

I’m clearly falling into the non stressing about food parenting camp. Our kitchen table is always a big old mess and we almost never eat together. Sometimes on weekends we do. If Jack doesn’t like what I make I make him something else and then just put it all out somewhere where he can reach it. When all else fails I hand him snack food. Carrots or crackers. I do not care if he eats his peas and I refuse to have conflicts about what he is eating.

Some things are bothering me right now. First one is that I TRIPLE booked my self today. I mean, wtf?

Second. Airport security scanners. What a load of shit. absurdly expensive, an invasion of privacy and they’re catching people with joints and shit. WOW. Congratz. you caught some total dumbasses. Hey dumbasses, next time roll that dope up into emptied cigarettes and you’re golden.

Third. The Fantastic Mr fox. I love Roald Dahl. A LOT. And I like this movie. It’s weird and witty and pretty and cute and fun.

HOWEVER.
From a feminist standbpoint it was terible, terrible, terrible.
There are two girl characters. This move fails the bechdel test with flying colors.
The wife spends the whole time cooking, cleaning, chastising mr fox, and massaging mr fox’s ego. The other girl character is a young girl fox who spends the few minutes she’s on screen in a zombie like crush state over the nephew fox. So no, look, go ahead and make as many movies as you want all about guys, for guys with all guys in them. But there is absolutely zero reason to have a few female characters there just to have no life but thinking about male characters.

Wes Anderson can go blow. If his specialty is stripping characters down to their essentials and that is supposed to include his female characters (and characters of color for that matter: see this guys other movies.) then apparently women are fuckbots, baby factories and cleaning machines.
The first 3 times we see Mrs Fox she is 1. disclosing that she is pregnant, 2. vacuuming, and 3. bustling about the kitchen.

Diablo Cody, Get in there and make the Fantastic Mrs Fox movie right now! kthnksbai

I want children (and clearly some adult children need this as well) to have strong interesting male and female characters f all colors and ages.

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