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		<title>Sons of Anarchy vs. Lady Gaga</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[W-O-R-Dz by Femmebot
The other night I was watching TV with the B-O-Y rather than retreating to the BRAIN to do what Femmebots like to do (read, write, draw, listen to music). I watched so much TV growing up, that I don&#8217;t care much for it at this time in my life (34 years old), as [...]]]></description>
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<p>The other night I was watching TV with the B-O-Y rather than retreating to the BRAIN to do what Femmebots like to do (read, write, draw, listen to music). I watched so much TV growing up, that I don&#8217;t care much for it at this time in my life (34 years old), as my energy seems to have become more sensitive to its attempts at brainwashing.</p>
<p>He likes to watch two-to-three programs at a time, often alternating between the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_4jrMwvZ2A" target="_blank">&#8220;Ouch! My Balls!&#8221; Idiocracy</a> type of footage on TruTV,  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIZvn8gTE5w" target="_blank">House Hunters International</a> on HGTV and last night, &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNZSbtmtsMU" target="_blank">Sons of Anarchy</a>,&#8221; a new series on FX. You can guess that the only one I can tolerate is the HGTV show (which does a great job of making viewers feel like &#8220;I want that!&#8221;), and the others are pure crap. I wouldn&#8217;t write a single W-O-R-D about any of them, but I need to vent about a scene that made me start protesting like a dyke on Market Street in San Francisco.</p>
<p>First, let me build up to it&#8230;I found it odd that a show on cable (not HBO or Showtime) featured strippers with pasties dancing on poles&#8230;then I squealed when I saw a guy get shot in the face, and the camera didn&#8217;t just let me &#8220;infer&#8221; what had happened&#8230;and then &#8211; trumpets blowing and drums rolling &#8211; &#8220;Gemma,&#8221; played by Katey Sagal (the mom from Married&#8230;With Children), finds herself kidnapped, tied up to a fence and gang-raped by white supremacists. This one literally made me yelp, &#8220;Oh my God, this is so graphic and unnecessary and I can&#8217;t believe this is on regular TV!&#8221; to which Sharky B replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s part of the story. As a creative person, you should be able to appreciate it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Am I just getting my period? Or is he desensitized? Or are TV producers trying to get me to write about this shitty show modeled after Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet on my blog, to increase their Internet media coverage?</p>
<p>Controversy. Sensationalism. Violence. These are the competitive tools of capitalism in the 21st century. &#8220;If it bleeds, it leads,&#8221; has always been the mantra of the newsroom, which is one of the reasons I left it. I left the business world because offices have become competitions in &#8220;who&#8217;s got the most sex appeal?&#8221; I stopped working for people because I kept hitting glass ceilings.</p>
<p>Hmmm. Welcome to reality. Welcome to the real world, little Girl Scout! No matter where I run, I find the same backasswards, sexist, stupid shit. I am wondering if I am too uptight? Expecting too much? Absorbing too much and not letting it roll off my back with ease and nonchalance?</p>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;m just getting my period.</p>
<p>So I take a few yoga breaths. I look out at the ocean. Are these just temporary escapes before returning to TheMultiD? Which one is reality? Which one is fiction? I check my Facebook for positive newz from friends and family and then I see all the posts about Lady Gaga&#8217;s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. OMG. Yes, it is literally true: If it bleeds, it leads! Lady Gaga is hanging from a rope all bloody and I&#8217;m all, &#8220;That&#8217;s a Femmebot!&#8221; Femmebots either have no heads or have bloody ones from hitting so many glass ceilings.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s probably worse  than Sons of Anarchy &#8211; she&#8217;s a total sex object, she&#8217;s got blood covering her body, her porn lyrics are hypnotizing yet another female generation to use their sexual prowess to get what they want &#8211; and I am totally into it. It&#8217;s freaking performance art! Did she think of this herself like Madonna thought of the &#8220;Like A Virgin?&#8221; number 20 years ago? And is the pop music world where a Femmebot can make commentary about the hypocrises and complications of being a woman in a man&#8217;s world?</p>
<p>Who knows. At the end of the day, I give him a massage and he washes the dishes. We take care of each other, and apparently THIS is reality, and not the expressions of other BRAINz in TheMultiD.</p>
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