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[footnotefetish]

This is how stupid I am: I'm around so many feminists all of the time that I had no idea how many people still use douche. I was just under the impression that it had gone away like the chastity belt. I knew it was probably still used in parts of the world where people like to practice that old-time patriarchy (perhaps in the South, for example

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[flw]

See the film How to Get a Head in Advertising for my views on the matter. There are a few converging cultures that lay claim to the Vegan/Vegetarian thing. I am in favor of all of them. There are the poor Hippies, the Buddhists, the old-Schoolers, the Lexus Left, the Health Nuts... everybody's got their fingers in the pot.

Wild Oats definitely caters to the Lexus Left. There's no upper limit to the amount you can spend there. There's a great Onion story that has the headline "Local Man Adds four minutes to Life by eating Certified Organic GM Free Peanuts." I mean, some people you are going to be able to con... but by conning people (people on a Vegan binge and purge cycle... I am Vegan this week and I ride my bike three times this week, and I won't watch any TV... but next week I drive my SUV, eat steak, and vote Republican in a national election) it opens things up.

Like the regular News had a story about "The Vegan Diet" last night. Now, people will think going Vegan is for weight loss purposes, but if "The Vegan Diet" gets popular, it will gradually become possible to get more choices at more restaurants. And you will be greeted with fewer blank stares when you say, "I'm vegan"

Of course, if you're vegan because you want to get the blank stare and the "Huh?" then you can always say, "Im VAY-GUN." But soon enough, people will know what that means.

[footnotefetish]

I'll definitely look for that film. I'm intrigued by the title!

[flw]

In the film, one of the characters... the "hero's" wife's best friend is constantly flitting back and forth between fads. And the fads aren't limited to diets (she goes from a vegan diet to an all meat diet at one point and this ages before Atkins) she flits around like a classic rich Lexus Lefty.

[footnotefetish]

Yeah, I'll definitely have to watch that. I swear, it was like the Diet of the Month Club at Wild Oats. One month it would be raw foods, and the next it would be a grain-free or alkaline diet.

[flw]

I so desperately want the inside scoop on those people for some reason. They are so manipulable. I despise them, and yet I want their money desperately. The whole candle thing... GOD! What people will pay for a fuckin' candle!