moonwise | (no subject)

Our cable went out last night. I don't know whether the two events are related, but when it came back up, we had a new channel.

Was it a cool station like SpeedVision? No.

Was it a fun station like Cartoon Network? No.

It was yet another of these dumb for-women-only stations like Lifetime or that ridiculous Oprah channel. "We," I think it was called.

What is it with these fool channels? Granted, I do not watch a lot of television, but why do we need yet another channel devoted to touchy-feely melodramas wherein everything is solved with Love and Understanding? Furthermore, why do the Powers that Be assume that just because I have two X chromosomes and the equipment that goes with it, that I'm going to like that crap?

How about a novel concept: fun and/or thought-provoking shows that aren't targeted at a particular sex. Just because one is female does not mean that she doesn't like football and shoot-'em-ups; and just because one is male doesn't mean he doesn't like to watch ER. (My husband used to watch it with me before it jumped the shark.)

So I'm female. That won't ever change - I could go out, get a sex change, and call myself Bob for the rest of my life, and they'd still dig my moldering bones up in a hundred years and find that XX signature. (don't get me wrong; I enjoy being a girl.) But until we as a culture and as a world can get over the gender assignments and concentrate on the human rather than the division of sexes, I'm doomed to get channels like "We" on the television. (note: that's a metaphor.)

Concentrate on the real problems, like that sickening story that