Ariela Haro von Mogel August 3rd, 2009
Christians (and the religious in general) do not tend to entertain any serious inquiries that might deem their Holy Book immoral. They seem to have exonerated themselves against the notion that their book is wicked. The entirety of the Christian Bible is over saturated with tales condoning and even promoting genocide (against the Canaanites), rampant misogyny, xenophobia (aka racism), incest, slavery, and all sorts of petty and terrible attributes that an individual, in this case Yahweh, could have.
Yet, this is a HOLY book? Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel July 9th, 2009
I have been talking about this topic with a lot of people lately, and it needs to be mentioned. I said a very unfortunate and un-PC comment to my husband the other day. I was griping about how I want to be environmental out of choice and not because I have to. In other words, I don’t like having to be resourceful because I’m a broke a**. No one likes to be reminded they are poor (student poor in my case), and feeling like you have to reuse items because otherwise you won’t have anything else is just no fun.
I realize this is a potentially classist thing for me to say. But this is how I feel. This is not necessarily rational. I want to be like Jennifer Aniston and just plop down a huge wad of cash to get skylights installed in my house. But no, I have to be some regular old Schmo and deal with the windows that I have. So unglamorous. Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel May 9th, 2009
I am a dyed-in-the-wool Mama’s girl and an adamant feminist. Yet, I still believe Mother’s Day, as a national holiday and institution, is a crock of bull plop. Bull plop! How about I be nicer about it…. Mother’s Day is a Sham Holiday. Sham Wow! (Hat tip to Why Women Hate Men). Anyways, I just realized that I have never really gotten my Mom anything special for Mother’s Day. I’m sure as a kid I did something lame like give her some burned-a** waffles in bed and skipped off back to my room. But other than that, I haven’t given her some stereotypically feminine gift that was pink and red and exclaimed “Happy Mother’s Day.” Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel April 24th, 2009
According to much of the mainstream media, you would think nothing good ever happens in this world. Apparently, horrible things are easy to report and receive a lot of attention. But yesterday, I finally heard something good on the news. As I was listening to the BBC, I learned that Egyptian women are finally fighting back against Egyptian men who sexually harass them in public. As with almost every single place that has ever existed on the planet, women have almost always been second class citizens compared with men and have been perpetual victims of sexual assault.
Personally, I have always been in favor of feminist vigilantism when the law and society does not come to your aid.
Feminism – Malcolm X style! Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel February 22nd, 2009
Homer Simpson once said that the world would be a better place if the Simpsons and the Flanders’ joined together and became one family. Well, I think the world would be a better place if female and male characters got equal representation on television. I know, you may be thinking, wow, this woman really has too much time on her hands to be analyzing the female to male ratio representation on The Simpsons. Well, that’s fine. I don’t have that much time on my hands. I just like to prioritize when I need to complain. And The Simpsons is one of my favorite shows and the quintessential American cartoon. Almost everyone you know has heard of The Simpsons.
I never really thought about this until a good friend of mine from high school pointed out the male-bias in The Simpsons. And he is right. More episodes center on Homer and Bart than on Marge and Lisa. Precious few are about Maggie (though she is a baby, so that might be kind of boring). But the part that really gets to me is the fact that the side characters are so heavily skewed towards male characters.
Let me illustrate. Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel August 19th, 2008
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Ariela Haro von Mogel June 25th, 2008
If there’s one phrase I can’t stand and find completely odious is “everything happens for a reason.” What exactly does this mean? I have thought about this long and hard, and have completely offended close friends and family members with my less than objective perspective on it.
Some pretty horrible things happened to me as a teenager and, in turn, I did some horrible things to myself. Whenever I would turn to my mother and ask her for help in understanding the world, she would say “everything happens for a reason.” Now, my mom is a devout Catholic who has attended church every single Sunday of her life, but she is still pretty liberal and open to reason and debate. When I asked her what that phrase means, she made a very nebulous comment that god doesn’t give us “tests” that we can’t handle and horrible things happen to make us better people. This made no sense to me at the time and makes no sense to me now. Why do some people get b.s. heaped on them like no other, and many other people go though life relatively unscathed? And the people who have had the most heaped onto them generally do not become fantastic people, but withdrawn, depressed and defeated individuals. There are a few great exceptions to this. Ayaan Hirsi Ali became a terrific social advocate because of nasty experiences with her religion and society. But Hirsi Ali is a truly exceptional case and most people are not like her.
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Ariela Haro von Mogel June 15th, 2008
It is often argued that interracial romantic relationships are considered taboo in a lot of sectors of society, and that it is better to go out with someone of your own race in order to keep it safe. I would highly disagree. Interracial dating is a lot more complicated than that. My fiance is an American of European heritage and I am an American of Mexican heritage. We are technically an interracial couple, except, I am white-looking, so we are considered acceptable as a couple pretty much anywhere we go. If I was an American of Mexican heritage that looked Mexican, we would be classified as an interracial couple and deemed unacceptable in most circles. I am of course, speaking for society in very general terms. Continue Reading »
Ariela Haro von Mogel June 12th, 2008
When I was in third grade, I thought the first man on the moon was Louis Armstrong, a rotund-cheeked black man. This didn’t seem odd to me in the least. It wasn’t only until later on in my youth that I saw a picture of Neil Armstrong and clearly saw that he was a white man. Oops. Inconsequential, I thought. When I shared this knowledge with my peers, they all laughed at me and stared in wild bemusement as to how, exactly, did I ever think the first American on the moon was a black man? Dunno. Innocence, I guess. Aaahh, I miss those days when possibilities seemed endless and the first person on the moon being black did not seem weird… I just wanted to share that thought!
Ariela Haro von Mogel May 29th, 2008
For about 20 percent of my life, I suffered from anorexia and binge eating. I went for days eating like a bird, and then I would eventually scarf down a voluminous amount of food in one sitting. This, of course, caused me an incredible amount of pain. I would usually crouch in a fetal position, holding my faux-pregnant belly, yowling in pain. This was my own private pain. Only once was I caught. My mother found me on the floor when she came home from work early one day, and it caught me off guard. She was very worried and asked what was wrong with me. I told her that I just had an extremely bad stomach pain. She told me that stomach pain that extreme is not normal, so she called a doctor and made an appointment. The next day, I went to the doctor with my mom. Continue Reading »