This week on #thepete #podcast: it's the #RNC2016 edition! + #Ghostbusters!

#thepetepodcast this week covers the mess that is the #GOP's #RepublicanNationalConvention day 1! #MelaniaTrump vs #MichelleObama, Congressman #SteveKing vs #history. #PLUS: poor #LeslieJones gets seriously harassed on #Twitter. So, so, #wrong. #politics, #sexism #racism and more! All on this week's #podcast! Recorded July 19, 2016

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Very puzzling video—can anyone please explain to me how 12 year-old girl can be the solution the world needs right now? According to this video, I mean. Because I don’t get it.Found via poptech:The clock is ticking… See how a 12-year-old girl could be the solution the world needs right now.(via Girl Effect)And even poptech’s explanation doesn’t help.I’m all for helping kids in poverty but there doesn’t seem to be anything logical in this video that explains why girls are victimized anymore than one would expect them to be. Usually videos like this bring to light a problem people don’t really think about. I don’t think anyone would say they weren’t aware that teen-pregnancy hampers the careers of girls. And, tell me what the problem is that the 12 year-old girl in the video solves?And, on a side note, exactly *how* does she go from *maybe* surviving childbirth to maybe being forced into prostitution? I’m sure it happens, but does it always happen? And I love how the worst thing that comes of her after she is forced into prostitution is that she might get and spread HIV. Jesus Christ, this is supposed to help us care for little girls in poverty? I can avoid HIV by being monogamous with someone else who is monogamous. Luckily, I have a soul and understand child prostitution has psychological effects on the girls. BUT IT’S OK: We can go back in time to when she’s 12 again! We can inexplicably make sure she goes to the doctor! And that she stays in school! Where nothing bad can happen to her! And at 18, she uses her education to smash down all the walls and glass ceilings that have held woman back for centuries!! Oh. I mean, she earns a living (because really, that’s all a girl from poverty should expect to do—aim high, little poverty girl!)Now she’s calling the shots! AndItLooksSomethingLikeThis:She can avoid HIV (unless she is raped by someone with HIV). She can marry (like all good women should want to do).And have children (again, like all good women should want to do).And her children are healthy, like she is (because nothing ever goes wrong once you’re earning a living!).Now imagine this continuing generation after generation. Um, I can’t. Well, I can, but I’d have to use my imagination since that’s just not reality.Nah, I don’t get the picture.50 millions 12 year-old girls in poverty equals 50 million solutions.REALLY? So, we should keep them in poverty?50 million girls in poverty is the power of the girl effect?Maybe I don’t get this video because an adult male?Also, do 12 year-olds have boobs at all? I don’t know these things, but it seems like the pig tails would have been enough of tip to know she was a girl.Also, also: WHAT’S WITH THE YELLING? IS YOUR CAPS LOCK BROKEN, MR. CAPTIONING VON YELLYPANTS?Also, also, also: this whole thing reminds me of this pro-Obama video that Demi and Ashton did where they and a stack of other pro-Obama celebs pledged their allegiance to Barack Obama. Much like many Republicans did for Bush, which was much like what many Hitler Youth kids did for Hitler.Sigh…

Rejection letter from Disney discourages girls from applying for jobs in the animation department. Funny, it doesn’t say anything about women applying, though.

Found this via piratekitten:

damn.

Mary should be lucky she wasn’t Jewish!

KIDDING. (Well, kinda.)

But “seriously,” isn’t it easier to take this kind of bad news since it comes from another “girl”?

OK, SERIOUSLY, check out how ironic the layout of that Disney stationary is—Miss Mary V. Ford is backed up by Snow White. Meanwhile, Mary Chase (sp?) has the witch and her poison apple in her corner.  Of course, the Seven Dwarfs stand idly by, letting the rampant sexism continue—clearly they’re distracted by what they are imagining Snow White to be wearing under that sexy princess outfit.

What’s ironic about this kind of sexism, and any kind of discrimination really, is that it would eventually end due to fact that women can be just as good at animation (or almost anything else) as men.  In fact, even today, companies get away with paying women less than men for the same work, so Disney could have saved a bunch of money—stupid Disney! 

And by the time I started working in animation back in the 90s, there were loads of women around. I even knew some that worked at Disney—they did everything from storyboards, to models, to BGs and colors.  In fact, at one company I worked at, their overseas cell-painting division in the Philippines was staffed with almost all women (at least that’s what the pictures made it look like).  So, if Miss Mary V. Ford had really wanted to get into animation, all she had to do was move to Asia and wait a few years. :(

Sexism in 2008: We've Got a Long Way to Go Baby!

Saw this in Hollywood last night. Sorry it's a little blurry, but I didn't feel like it was really worth a clearer shot :)

First Yorkie bars that aren't for girls, then a study that tries to blame women for breast cancer and, now, we've got guys like this who still think it's appropriate to connect a woman's ability to perform in bed to a woman's ability to perform in the White House.

I don't hear anyone accusing Bush of shooting blanks in the War Against Terror, despite the fact that he's doing exactly that. I mean, TALK about impotent against the terrorists! He has just flaccidly flopped around in the Middle East while the only things *rising* are inflation and the cost of oil. Instead of $145 billion, perhaps he should try some Viagra for the economy.

Just imagine what sex must be like with Laura.

"The time for diplomacy has past. You're either with me, or against my orgasm."
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Just a Tip for Anyone Who Likes the Ladies...

I suppose this is also good for providing inspiration for any women who want to be more fit, too...

Go to flickr.com and check out the "booth babes" tag.

E3 just wrapped and there was a LOT of eye-candy...

Weeee...!

I mean, uh... Wiiiiiiiii!

Oh yeah and my scooter's running again thanks to my good friend Britt. Another reason to be happy. :D