There Are High Heels For Four Year Olds (But Should There Be?)
Remember being in kindergarten and romping around in your mom’s high heels? Possibly while playing vampire dinosaur hunter? Happy times! And good training for when you reached junior high and started wearing high heels for real. Unless, I guess, you’re Suri Cruise and your parents just said “let’s trot over to the Scientologist boutique and pick you up some appropriately sized heels, because the only problem with you wearing these around is that they’re too big. And then lets go visit the spaceship.” No, no, this would be fine if it was a phenomenon confined to couch-jumping Scientologists, but it’s seemingly a pretty big business now. Nordstroms and Zappos have started designing high heels for 4 year olds, as does Nina Kids who produces a style called “Hotsy.” Again, for 4 year olds. The head of Nina Kids explains ” Heels are getting higher because little girls simply want to look like big girls.” I suppose that’s always been true – after all, that’s the impetus to walk around in your mom’s heels to begin with. But they’re not big girls. They’re four, they don’t need to be “hot.” Shouldn’t there be a little separation between what you wear as a kid and what you wear as an adult? Moreover, as a kid isn’t it nice to have certain style statements to look forward to? At least for me, getting my first pair of heels when I was thirteen was a sign that I was turning into a grown-up, and that was one of the things that made them seem really cool. If Suri – or any of the kids wearing the Hotsy brand – have been trotting around in stilettos since they were four what clothing are they going to get excited about to signify their passage into adulthood? Post from: TheGloss
Radical Islamic Website Join Scientologists In Hating South Park
Ah, South Park. Always the unifier. Seems some Islamic extremists over at RevolutionMuslim.com (a site my computer won’t even let me access, which is of separate but growing concern….Dick Cheney?!? Are you watching me?!?!) are upset about the show’s 200th episode, in which the prophet Muhammed was depicted wearing a bear costume. The whole episode, btw, was about how they couldn’t show an image of Muhammed, so I mean, it’s kinda like RevolutionMuslim.com just totally took the bait, but I’m not sure it’s prudent to go into great detail about that line of thought since, according to Fox News : “The Web posting also included a grap hic photo of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was murdered in 2004 after making a documentary on violence against Muslim women. ‘We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show,’ the posting reads. ‘This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.’” Post from: TheGloss
Scientologists Hate People, Love Unnecessary Quotation ‘Marks’
News flash! Turns out The Church of Scientology “doesn’t treat their members” very well. According to the New York Times “ article on the Scientologist Sea Org group ” they force members to work for $17 a week and to have abortions, and members can’t complain because they signed “a billion year contract” . Obviously, it’s very sad to hear that any religious “organization takes advantage” of their members. However, judging from the use of “entirely unnecessary quotation marks” on their personality test form , all of which makes it appear that they are talking “entirely in code” well, the Sea Org members should have smelt something fishy to begin with. Here are some of our favorites: 46: Are you “always getting into trouble?” 56: Does “external noise” rarely interfere with your concentration? 71: Do you often “sit and think” about death, sickness, pain and sorrow? 73: Are you always collecting things which “might be useful”? 127. Can you get quite enthusiastic over “some simple little thing”? 159: Could you allow someone to finish those “final two words” in a crossword puzzle without interfering? 162: Would you like to “start a new activity” in the area in which you live? 170: Are you opposed to the “probation system” for criminals? 194: If you lose an article do you get the idea that “someone must have stolen or mislaid it?” All of which is great, and merits inclusion in The “Blog” of “Unecessary” Quotation Marks . But our favorite question was number 27 : Do you often sing or whistle just for the fun of it? Because that will keep morale up on those $17 a week. Just the way it did in the Old South. Post from: The Gloss