frazzled & frumpy

Last night was the finale of Dancing with the Stars . I'll admit, I don't watch the show on a regular basis. But, this season, I had more of an interest because of one dancer-- Amber Riley . I 'know' Amber from her role on Glee. (The girl can sing!) I love her Glee character because she's very outgoing and confident. Riley said once, "I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls." I didn't know until DWTS that Amber is like that in real life. The thing about Amber is that she doesn't apologize for her size. She doesn't obsess about losing weight. She doesn't demean herself in any way. She is confident in who she is. “I don’t think it should be an anomaly for a person my size to be able to dance or have confidence,” Amber adds. “Everybody should have confidence. … We deserve it.” This is what we need. We need role models who do...

(Original here. ) I was driving home the other day from taking the Handy Man to work, listening to the radio. The DJ's said they were going to do 'girl talk', which I'm guessing is a regular feature. They then went on to talk about an article some idiot guy wrote about how women should never cut their hair short, because women with short hair are ugly. I waited for the DJ's (one man, one woman) to rebuff this guy's opinion. Imagine my shock when they began agreeing with him, even naming some celebrities who recently cut their hair. "So-and-so cut hers and she looks like a man." "Oh, and this person cut hers, it's awful!" I sat in stunned silence. They weren't actually doing this, were they? And, then, it got worse. "We'd like you to call in and tell us, 'what makes a woman ugly'." This is not happening. I am not listening to two adults, one of them a woman herself, asking people to call in and tr...