Breast Examination at my Video Game Job. Wait, what?

Hello. I hope this doesn’t get misconstrued as a personal attack, but I’m angry with the recent article, “Breast Examination at my Hooters Job.” Here’s why:

I am an attractive female working at Gamestop. I realize I can’t claim to receive the same amount of unwanted attention from males as a Hooters waitress, but I am still in a business where women are objectified. I am frequently asked if I “actually play video games,” or if I’m strictly ornamental. I understood that I’d face a certain amount of sexism when I took this job, and I’ve come to terms with it–so, as far as I’m concerned, a woman who knowingly places herself in such a sexual environment has absolutely no right to complain about it.

Whether or not I’m wearing orange shorts and a tank top, I’m no stranger to sexual harassment. My boss actually suggested I flirt with customers to make my sales goals. I am widely known as “the hot Asian chick;” no one even knows my name. Men call my store asking for my schedule and make advances on me when I’m on the sales floor.

But don’t get me wrong: I’m not the one complaining about this. I’m aware that I can quit at any time. I know that some moral, feministic part of me should be horribly offended, but this is an imperfect world, and I’m willing to chalk up these harmless flirtatious as an unavoidable part of working with a male-dominated clientele. It was always part of the job. I knew that when I signed up.

Fact: Hooters is renown for scantily-clad women. Also a fact: Gamestop is known for electronics. Constant sexual objectification wasn’t listed on my job application, but I knew what I was getting into. To not realize the hugely obvious expectations of being a Hooters waitress is stupidity in its purest form.

If someone were to make these types of careers a feminist issue, the Hooters argument would be an insult to our cause.

No sympathy on my front.

House Prices

I get so angry when I read about house prices going up and up and up. WHO CAN AFFORD THEM?? I know I can’t! What about my daughter who’s 21?? DO you think SHE will be able to afford to live ANYWHERE in the United States with the way the prices are skyrocketing?? SO now we have a “downturn”…with foreclosures hitting a record high! HELLO, MCFLY - IS ANYONE HOME THERE? I don’t consider this a downturn - I consider it a RIGHT turn. How much longer are people going to be complacent about this? IT’S CRAZY the way the house prices are. PERIOD!! There is NO argument about it!

Angry @ Sheeple.

Why people continue to follow the example of a one-track minded ’superior’ is completely beyond me. I was sitting in the food court at the mall recently, watching people exit through the main doors, and I noticed a pattern. Everyone uses the same two doors. They see the person before them go through that door, so they proceed to follow and exit through that door too. Now.. I wouldn’t mind much, had there not been 6 other unused, line-free doors. And before you ask, yes, those doors were unlocked, and fully usable. However nobody felt the need to get out of the time consuming line for the two overused doors and exit conveniently through the other six… This lack of separation from the herd, caused a line from the doors mid-way through the food court.

God (or whatever super-natural being you believe in) bless the mentally advanced man who pushed through the line and used one of the other doors, for it was at this time, it would seem, everybody noticed that there were six other doors! At this new discovery, the line started to dissipate and I was finally at peace… for now.