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ten reasons to be happy

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Today is a really happy day, because... 1. I had an amaaaaaaaaazing Philosophy class . Carpe diem! 2.  Day 2 of UBE Week was a great success. I played Just Dance on the Wii with Cheryl and Jules. Jules still won. u_u 3. I got a sugar rush from the free food at UBE Week hehe 4. N o more responsibilities for tonight! YES!!!!!!! 5. BREAKING BAD!  6. I discovered that Ang Nawawala is showing at UP for Cinemalaya! Oh my goodness. I've been wanting to watch this movie ever since I saw its trailer. Plus, I've always wanted to see a Cinemalaya film (at Cinemalaya)! Now is the perfect time to because it's at UP, only a jeep ride away. :) Also, MARIE JAMORA IS MY IDOL!!!   Freshman Rap and freshman me with Marie Jamora! Thank you, LFC, for making this possible ;_; (On another note, I can't believe how much we've changed over a span of two years! And I can't believe it's been two years since this was taken!!!)  7.  Rap found this really weird caterpill

women superheroes

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A lot of my close friends are boys. Boys who like comic books. I hang around them a lot, and usually we talk about random things like physics and foreigners and lobsters having no pain receptors. We went to watch The Amazing Spiderman on a whim just recently. It was fun. Sometimes it's not so fun. I used to get a lot of sandwich jokes until those stopped being funny. Now I get "d'oh you're a girl so of course you hate comic books" jokes. I don't hate comic books. I love Neil Gaiman's Sandman . And Walking Dead, too. And Scott Pilgrim!!! But I don't read superhero comics. It's hard to be interested in them when most, if not all, of the superhero women 1.) have gigantic breasts, 2.) wear sexy clothing, and 3.) are always in stereotypically feminine poses. What if the male characters posed like the female ones? (c) Kevin Bolk And look at that. Why can't the men wear clothes as revealing as the women, or women wear clothes as concealing