The wonderful ladies up there are The Pussycat Dolls, America's answer to the Spice Girls. If you don't know about them, they are a dance group that masquerade as a band because the lead singer (Nicole) does all the work. They sang Nick's favourite lyric (Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me?), they also won an award last year for best female dance group or something like that even though what they do in my eyes amounts to stripping without a pole and without taking off their clothes. They have a reality show running Search For The Next Pussycat Doll, so lots of rauncy dancing on display.
Anyway onto what I wanted to ask. One of the girls on the show said she was inspired by them as they have done alot for feminism, another one said they have done alot for music today (huh?)
One of the celeb judges on the show, Lil Kim gave us this jewel; “Everything the Pussycat Dolls are is everything that I’ve developed myself into being.” Remember this is Lil Kim who now looks like a cheap imitation of Micheal Jackson, only with breast implants and prison record to boot.
Empowering women all over the world after each booty shake!
Anyway The Pussycat Dolls is press releases talk about the group representing "empowerment" of women and girls. They encourage women to be openly expressive of sexual desire, and to "take control" in their relationships. All fine and dandy in principle. But where does the line end from being figures of female emancipation to being icons of America's next generation of trashy sluts? Yes women's sexuality has been often repressed ie women made to wear constricting burqa's in Iran, Afghanistan etc. But does that mean that when you have the freedom to do something that you should run amok with that freedom? Because yes the Pussycat Dolls say that their risque costumes and burlesque performances are all for the cause of female empowerment but at times I think their actions cause more glee for their randy male fans then for budding feminists. Come to think about it, the Pussycat Dolls represent more of a male definition of sexiness and desirability than what some feminists have in mind, it's also interesting that you have to have fake boobies and a hot body to act in this position of female empowerment; the rest of you women out their simply aren't good enough for the cause! Oh lest I forget, the Pussycat Dolls were supposed to release a line of dolls via the makers of Barbie but several family values groups lobbied against it due to the overtly sexual nature of their performances, videos and dressing.
Anyway let me ask my question again, do you ladies out there feel "empowered" by the actions of the Pussycat Dolls?
Moving on, I was reading an account of someone who had relocated back home that was pasted on bankelele's blog but has since disappeared. There is this dude who relocated back to Kenya from the States and it seemed that he had complaints about everything from the dust, how long it took to get a job, salaries, Kenyans' love for bars, the roads, bureaucracy etc. Yes some of his complaints were merited and I wont invalidate them but I will say a few things in return. Why don't people ever do any research when they are relocating? If you have been listening to propaganda about about how Kenya is a new nation then you are going to be sorely disappointed, we have not yet reached perfection but on the other hand you also can't believe the reports in Western media that have us close to civil war, anarchy and with terrorists running free on the beaches of the coast. You have to do good research, get in touch with someone who is in the Kenya and have them tell you how everyday life goes plus some people need to know that they are setting themselves up if they compare Kenya to the Western country they were living in. Kenya is a great country but you can't expect the living standards to be the same so forget about KFC and get used to Kenchic. As long as anyone has sober expectations and know things wont be super easy when they relocate, I am sure things will go well. But that's just my $0.02, I'm sure there are some people out there who can write a far better guide about relocation to Kenya. Feel free to do so, I will read and book mark it!
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