don't worry

Well, it's the end of the semester, and after a little inspiration, I have this final thing to say. I estimate nobody will ever see this, though I'm not worried about that.


If, on the off chance you do see this, I have some words of wisdom for you.
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Mary Schmich Chicago Tribune

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '97... wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be IT. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded. But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are NOT as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm on some idle Tuesday. Do one thing every day that scares you. Sing. Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Floss. Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how. Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements. Stretch. Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't. Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone. Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself, either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever own. Dance. Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room. Read the directions, even if you don't follow them. Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly. Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings; they are your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future. Understand that friends come and go, but for the precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography in lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel. Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders. Respect your elders. Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund, maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one might run out. Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will look 85. Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth. But trust me on the sunscreen.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI

Shell

So, I was informed in person that people were curious about my comments about how I go about avoiding Shell. Well, it's simple. It's something I care about and something I pay attention to, and that's really all you have to do.

Since you were curious I'm going to assume that you care about this issue, next, you have to pay attention. I buy from Shell as little as possible, because to be honest, I just don't like them. mostly due to them price gouging.

So first, read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell
yeah, it's wiki, deal with it. it's good information on Shell as a whole.

reading this, you need to pay attention to every line
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Oil_Company#Subsidiaries
"Aera Energy LLC is a joint venture with Mobil Oil operating in California." is at the bottom of the page, Mobil, a part of the famous Exxon-Mobil, is partnered with Shell, well gee, there's two of the biggest oil companies working together. Still not a monopoly....Though the page even has a section about Shabazi, small world eh?

If you wanna know who owns what, a google search along the lines of "*station name* owned by" usually comes up with answers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajor
here, you'll find a listing of the "supermajor" oil corporations. Curiously enough, the number matches up to the number of media corporations.

Shell doesn't explicitly own Texaco, but has something like a 56% investment in it, which IMO, is close enough.

if you go through all the links, you'll probably be depressed in finding that most of the "supermajor" oil companies own half of each other and are all working together.

oh well, we've still got our anti-trust laws right?


....right?

accountability goes all around, or it doesn't go at all

So, this will be my last post here I suppose, because I'm tired of being held accountable by being flamed by assholes who could correct me? but no, they scream and shout and insult me instead of simply saying why and how I'm wrong. I'm OK with being told I'm wrong and being corrected, but I'm not OK with somebody being a jackass.

And since I can be held accountable for anything I post(by responding to my posts), and other people can't be held accountable(by me responding to them), there is no place for civil discussion, learning and growing in the blog world. There is apparently only room for flaming and rudeness, and quite frankly, I can get that elsewhere.

So, unless something changes, this is my last post, and in a short amount of time, this blog will no longer exist. Go hold somebody else to the wall with your double barrels of ass-hattery, I have neither the time nor the desire to entertain you.

to you who can only copy paste

Well, apparently I got a rebuttal from somebody regarding the fact that there is racism towards whites. Of course, they didn't address the subject, I suppose justifying "reverse racism" because there is still racism against minorities. Well, if racism justifies racism, then I suppose it should be a free-for-all on racism!

Wait...that doesn't sound like a good solution. In any case, apparently this person lacks their own opinions as their rebuttal to me was just a copy-paste from a news article from some other site. But hey, I can work with that.
http://www2.ohchr.org./english/bodies/ratification/2.htm#reservations
This website contains a list of every country that had a provision or problem with the treaty upon signing. The list is alphabetical, and it's easy to note that the US is not the only country, looking at the list, from first to third world nations took exception to clauses in the treaty. I saw a number of them mention Article 4 or Article 22.

The US in particular notes that much of the treaty runs counter to free speech and freedom of assembly, things that, even though I'm not a minority, I enjoy greatly. And I don't take lightly to any external organization, be them an evil dictatorship or a well meaning NGO, trying to stifle my speech.

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/d_icerd.htm
the above is a link to the full text of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Section 4 in particular seeks to make illegal and jail any and all persons who disseminate or make "propaganda" based on the racial superiority of any one race. Offenze as these things may be, this runs counter to freedom of speech. Freely expressed opinions prevent radicals like these from feeling vindicated, and quickly allow for people who do not agree and people who know better to shoot them down.

Now, before you blindly reply to this with another copy-paste, kindly do some research on what the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination actually wants, and look at why countries take issue with it.

Also, I'm glad you retracted your words, since the "white club" you call "law enforcement" is very much populated by non whites. So, before you call me out on what you perceive as "racism", perhaps you should take a look at your own bigotry.

Edward James Olmos

Likly due to stress, I've had a few breakouts of acne recently, and it reminded me of a comment I heard towards a person asking for help on what to do about their acne. The comment, went something along the lines of "you don't want to look like Edward James Olmos do you?" And, Edwards J Olmos being one of my favorite actors, I thought to myself: "huh, do I want to have smooth, baby-bottom skin...or look like a famous actor?"

Well, given the choice, I think I'd rather look like a famous actor. Personally, I think what's great about EJO the most is that he shows that you don't have to have pretty soft skin and look like you're 20 when you're 45. He shows that what counts is being a good actor, and he's played everything from an evil dictator to a space commander.

The interesting thing to note is, I never realized this guy was some kind of Spanish. You can't hear it in his voice, he never really looked it IMO, and his name doesn't particularly give away any sort of ancestry. He doesn't advertize it or flaunt it as far as I know. And he doesn't stick to particularly spanish/latin american films, so I dunno, thought that was kinda neat.

"politically correct"

Some things are bull and it's not worth calling them on it. Some things are bull and they are worth being called out. And today on Cesar Chavez day, I'd like to take this time to call out the bullshit that "multiculturalism" has become. So, we know what multiculturalism is, in general, it's respect for other people and their cultures, "other" being those that are different from YOU. Or at least...that's what multiculturalism is supposed to be about.

But here at CSUMB, that's not what it's about. Not even close. And it's sad really, for a school that is supposed to have multiculturalism as a founding principle of it's design. But then, it's not really CSUMB's fault, because what they're doing is really the same as dozens of other places have been doing for the last decade and a half or so. It's really just a problem that has been integrated into multiculturalism so much, that people barely realize it's a problem.

There are all kinds of different people in the world, asian, indian, middle eastern, black, brown, red, and yeah, that accounts for everyone. Oh...wait, there's still "white" people. It's kinda sad, saying "white people", like there's some kind of grand consesnsus between white people the world over on what they're like. Europe is banding together like never before, and there's still several dozen languages and cultures there.

But this is the problem with multiculturalism, the flaw that has become part of the system. White people are not seen as another group of people with a culture and a presense to be respected right along with the rest, it's seen as the color white is seen, boring, basic, bland, and empty. Descendants of native americans often complain about their "lost" or "destroyed" heritages that they're trying to get back. Blacks often try to create some kind of quasi-africanism and mexicans celebrate the fact that they're not from America.

But white people are constantly told they don't have a culture, and if they do, it's a "bad" one because it's about consumerisim, or capitalisim, or oppression, or racisim. I have met almost half a dozen people(read: PEOPLE, not all are white) who'd side with me to start a "white unity" club on campus, or something to that degree. And I know what you're first thought is: "ZOMG!!! WHITE POWER NAZI RACIST KKK!!!!11" And I know why you thought that too, because that's what multiculturalism has taught you to think. And I wonder, of you reading this, how many of you are white?

There are clubs for Mexicans and they're not racist clubs. There are clubs for blacks and those aren't racist clubs. Heck, I know whites can join at least one of the black clubs on campus. So why is a white club that would do essentially the same thing, respect others, talk about sterotypes and all that, be inherantly thought of as "racist"? Well, I believe the quote given to me by a friend, from the administration here on campus sums it up pretty well: "we don't celebrate white-people holidays."

This is of course, in reference to why we have Cesar Chavez day off but not President's Day. Great as Abe Lincoln or George Waashington may have been, famous as they still are today, they are white people. And celebrating anything white-related is against multiculturalism, and thus, bad, and since you are celebrating something of white people, you must be like white people, and therefore: racist.

This friend's girlfriend told me of how some students tried to start a club like I mentioned above, something just like the other cultural clubs do, the only difference: it was started by white people and about respecting cultures. There was over a month in hearings and trials alone. The school simply would not approve it and their arguments were the expected ones, that, in short, whites are bad.

The University of Delaware had a program that when you signed up for the school it read in short: "all whites are inherantly racist, if you wish to correct this problem, the school will provide services to help." lolwut? Yeah, this university actually said, right in it's cirriculum, what is now a founding priniciple of "multiculturalisim", that all whites are racist and bad. After several years, the school changed it(rather recently I might add), but the ideology remains. How can this be "multiculturalism", when a significant cultural and ethnic group is being racistly discriminated against?

In short, it's not, and it hasn't been for a long time. "Multiculturalism" has become "anti-whiteism", an ideology that all non-white cultures are to be celebrated, not for any particular reason, but simply because they're not white. Which is why I call upon you, whomever you are, if you're reading this, and I don't care what race, ethnicity or culture you are part of, to just stop for a moment and say to yourself: "when I'm respecting other people, am I really including everyone in that?"

I'm not asking for special treatment, I'm asking for you to take a look at the system and really look to see if when they say: "We respect all cultures." that any culture and it's people who desire respect in that system, are given it. Regardless of their skin color, and that people aren't inherantly seen as racist because of something they have no control over. It's not "fair play", it's not "revenge" and if it is, then really take a look at who the racist is. If you think it's fair for whites to be disrespected or treated pooly based on the actions of people with the same skin color in the past, then yeah, the only real racist is the one in your mirror.

And now....

So, it's been a while I suppose, not that enough people read this to really notice, but anyway, I have a good subject for my thoughts...

So, today I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about 'net neutrality. Which is short for Internet Neutrality. It's a bit of regulation that's trying to go through congress at the moment. I'm sure most of you don't know what it is, so here's the short story.

You pay somebody, be it a school, Verizon, AT&T or Earthlink or AOL to access the internet. You ave given a maximum amount of speed(bandwidth) to go to whatever website you want, read what you want, play games over the net like WoW, or whatever. You are paying, essentially, for a certain size pipe, the bigger the pipe, the more speed you have on the net.

However, several companies aren't happy making billions of dollars from this situation. They're apparently come to the conclusion that bloggers like you and me, need to pay for the pipe on our end. If we don't pay, then the service provider can limit or block access to our page. It would in short mean that we would have to pay every company that does this a fee, likly about the same amount the average person pays for the average internet connection.

Basically, what the change is, is that instead of the user who wants to surf the net paying for a certain amount of access, the pages they are trying to access would have to pay the company in order to get accessed. And as all of us bloggers are aware, there are a lot of people, if not most of the people with websites, who depend on people being able to freely access their page. Whether it be for reading a blog or fan-page of their fav baseball player.

This is a move that is completly unaceptable and should not be permitted, legally enforced if it must. Companies provided internet access for years without this kind of setup, and the only reason they are doing it now is TO MAKE MORE MONEY. Owners and presidents of these companies take home more in a year than most people do in a lifetime. Capitalisim is great and all, but capitalism comes second to freedom. The internet is a place of freedom.

As an artist....

It's kinda funny to listen to people speak and read posts. I am sort of a diversified artist, I write, I speak, and I create(in a variety of forms). As such, it is fun to read things, especially things where somebody has an agenda to promote. It's curious to watch for certain words, certain poetry and writing keys that show that what the person is writing is not simply to get their point across.

It is also to get their point across and have you agree with them, alliteration, rhyming words, sections that read fast, sections with incomprehensible words and sentence structures so confusing they make M.C. Escher's drawings look plausible. Oh, and comparisons, yes, comparisons will abound as they compare the massive complex systems of internal and external politics to something as simple as pouring water into a glass or fixing a taco.

And when you stop and just think about some of the comparisons, even for a moment, you realize how absurd they are. International politics is nothing like a taco! Yet, you remember, that just a moment ago, you were nodding in agreement with them. You were saying to yourself "you know, that's really true". What's true? They didn't even compare anything, they just said international politics are like tacos.

The argument capitalizes on two things, the first: that you won't be thinking. You will get so absorbed into their writing that you will stop thinking for yourself, and just start agreeing. And second, most importantly, that when you are thinking, you're only thinking with your imagination. if they say international realtions are like tacos, then you'll start thinking about how France is the onions, how Italy are the olives, and how the US is the meat, and the UN is the shell. Or something in that order. And then when you confront them on how you think the system works, they'll tell you "yes". So that you will think you understood this great and complicated topic that they put forth when really you just invented it all in you head.

And the final icing on the cake, the bait and switch. That is they will start talking about "international politics" and comparaing them to tacos, and then they will move on to "international relations" and blurr the two together. And while they are similar concepts, they are not excatly the same as each other. And then it's "foreign relations" and they just keep blurring words around until all of a sudden they're comparaing something that is completly unrealted to the original subject.

However, due to your lack of thinking and heavy use of your imagination instead of the logical parts of your brain that would have told you tacos and international politics have nothing in common, you just sit there and nod in agreement.

Now, kindy stop reading, re-read this post and see where I just did it. ^_^

99.99^nth%

You know, germs aren't the spawn of Satan. They're quite healthy in fact, people who get sick and recover are decidedly stronger and more resilient to later diseases, colds, infections and the like.

Yeah, I know why you did it, it's always done in the name of the children. But people, children have some of the best immune systems of all of us. They're designed TO get sick. So that they will become stronger, healthier, and more likly to pass on their genes. It's part of their setup. If you prevent them from getting sick, they will be MORE likly to get sick later in life, and they will be MORE likly to have serious symptons.

Your immune system is only good for about half your life, then it starts going downhill. That's why kids are supposed to get chicken pox, that's why it's deadly to adults. Because a child's immune system is fluid, it's flexible, it's new. And an adults immune system is slow, it is fixed, and the body had not adapted itsself to the threats presented by various diseases

So for the health and well being of your kids, don't be a clean freak, let them get sick, help them get healthy. Isolation from disease is NO defense.

So....Obama

So there's been a bit of chatter on the net about Obama's success in the primaries. Mathemtically speaking, if it took 43(or is it 44?) presidents to get a black man in office, then if we line that up with the civil rights timeline, it means we've probly got another 30 years to go before we get a woman.

You know, there's a saying that goes: "Never elect anyone who wants to be president." And ya know, sometimes I agree.

Now, I don't like Obama for a number of reasons. And none of them are the general media hype.

First and foremost, he doe not strike me as charismatic as all his followers seem to be. I find Hillary to have more spunk than Obama, and that's saying something. Edwards, now HE was charismatic, but oh no, we have a woman and a black man running, so the media pushes Obama off to the sides. I bet, that if either Hillary or Obama was just another white male running for office, Edwards would be the lead or the runner up right now.

I REALLY liked Edwards, and I absolutly hate the fact that he got pushed out of the race for bullshit reasons like race and gender. That's seriously screwed up.

Second: half the black population doesn't even seem to regard Obama as black. Yeah, he's got the right skintone, but culturally he's really white. So I hate people going "OMG, AMerica might elect a black man!" And the same goes for Hillary.

I seriously want the best candidate. I'm damn tempted to vote for Huckabee at this rate. mcCain has capitulated on his nice moderate ideas to tote party line. I mean, here I am, the atheist, saying I'd rather elect Huckabee, the bible-thumping fundie, over Hillary or Obama.

Man, this election sucks.

Now this is news!

Well no, not really it's not. lets get something straight here people: you're not going to find the story of the century here, if you want news you can go to CNN.com, MSNBC.com or even Yahoo, or, you could just turn on the TV. no...here you're going to find a blog. A blog about stuff I want to talk about. And when you're taking 4 politics/history related classes, you really don't care about reporting MORE news.

So, what am I going to talk about today you might ask? Well, the only thing that comes to mind is procrastination. because it's all I've really been doing today. Okay, technically...damn, I just realized that by doing this I'm not procrastinating anymore.

Hmmm, guess we need a new subject.

Well, I'm not really sure what to talk about honestly, nothing has really peeved me today, nothing real exciting has happened. So um, I dunno want to tell you folks. I've just been playing around on websites that let me design my own computers, and when they fail, I go to sites where I can buy the parts for said computers.

Not that I have the money for it, and on a certain level, there's the memory of the class I took last semester and some of the books I read, namely "Silicon Valley of Dreams" which I recommend as a great book for worker testimony to the terrible conditions and terrible practices used by the people who run the corporations in the Silicon Valley area. It doesn't paint a pretty picture by any means. Still, I feel the book does lack in examples, it provides one or two examples and much worker testimony from that company, and extrapolates it into the entirety of Silicon Valley.

I tend to dislike books that use examples like this. mainly because well, I like examples, I like excessive examples. I like so many examples that there's really very little need to even discuss your point as two or three lines about each example will clearly illustrate that what you are talking about is in fact well, a fact.

So anyway, if you're interested in never buying a computer again, I suggest you read Silicon Valley of Dreams, you'll be enlightened, disheathened, and your pocketbook will feel it next time you want to buy anything electronic. From a cheap Tomagatchi toy to a home computer.

The Baby Syndrome

Ever heard of the China Syndrome?

Well this has nothing to do with that.


This is the "Baby Syndrome" another product of my mind. It deals with: babies.

So what is this "Baby Syndrome" you ask? Well, I'm glad you asked, because I'm going to tell you whether you wanted me to or not.

The Baby Syndrome is, in short, the effect that pregnancy, generally unplanned pregnancy, or newborns, have on other women, in this case, generally those under the age of 18.

When a woman is pregnant, everybody says she had a glow, everybody says she's extra beautiful, and all her female friends are going: "oooo, how lucky for you!" and then, slowly, many of them come to the perspective that they want babies too. Now, when you are a mature adult in a stable relationship(I don't really care if you're married), that's great!

However, I tend to see this most in young girls, whose female friends generally are having an unplanned pregnancy, or just had a baby from a good old one-night-stand. All of a sudden, perfectly abstinant, or girls who always use protection, or girls with no desire to have children before, suddenly want kids. These are generally girls who are not ready for kids, who are not prepared to deal with them both mentally and financially. And who, until their friend's pregnancy, would likly have said they don't want kids for a LONG time.

This may be biologically programmed into women as a sort of passive-aggressive form of reproductive competition, ie: their friends are having kids, which means their genes are being passed on, while the non-mother female are not, and somewhere in their subconscious, their old animal instincts realize this, and trigger the "Baby Effect".

The effect that suspends rational thinking and causes girls and some women, who seem to be less susceptible to it, to suddenly desire children. Regardless of financial burden or what have you. Their reasons are generally "well she was so happy while she was pregnant" or "her baby was so cute!" Reasons that are very short term and give no concern to the pains of child-birth, the menagerie of mood-swings during pregnancy, and oh yeah, the years of little sleep, potty training, and having to care for a young child.

Like I said, "suspends rational thought." Guys, on the other hand, are generally unaffected, rarely does a guy get excited over another girl's baby, or another girl's pregnancy. Some who do are often gay, some may have a pregnancy fetish. But your average guy just doesn't get it.

Young girls, from ages very young to about 12, are raised to believe motherhood is the best thing since sliced bread. Don't believe me? watch one of the cartoon channels. For 13 and up, you've got Bratz(girls who would, ironically, lose all their prized social status if they became pregnant), and for 12 and down, you have an endless assortment of "baby" dolls. Ones that pee, ones that fake-poop, ones that make that class experiment with an egg look like an exercise in cooking.

So, that, in short, is the "Baby Syndrome" the strange effect that pregnancy and newborns seem to have on other, non-pregnant/non-mothers, generally under the age of 18, that causes them to suspend the rational thought of waiting till they are mature and financially setup enough, in exchange for the desire to get pregnant and have a baby.

You want a baby so bad? Go care for your friend's baby for a few months. I'm sure your friend would love it, and you might learn some REAL info about having a kid. Not all the hype of how cute babies and how wonderful pregnancy is made out to be.

So girls are arm rests now?

I didn't realize men's arms stopped working.

So, I was walking back from lunch and here's this group of guys and one of 'ems got a girlfriend and they're just walking all around, he's about a foot taller than her and leaning on her with his arm around her shoulders like she's some kind of wooden post.

Hey, dumbass, you can walk on your own two feet, you're not handicapped. And if you're too hammered this early in the morning to walk straight, you've got problems.

Seriously, I don't even weigh much but I'm not going to walk around with my girlfriend all day treating her like a lean-to.

Where do we turn?

CUT!

Okay, Blog 2, scene 1, take 2.

Yeah, I ranted a bit back there, but oooo, that always feels good. And it keeps me from doing it in person. Hey we all need to blow off steam sometime dont we? I really was going to post something with more thought in it than just some half-assed rant about the government.

anyway, my train of thought is still boarding at the station, I'll get back to this later.

The Supergirl Paradigm

FIRST POST FTW!
This blog isn't about me, you're not going to get to hear about the troubles in my life or how sad I am my cat died. Instead, you will get my opinions on the issues of the day, something like the soup of the day. So today, I think I'll start with one of the things I thought up not too long ago, it deals with current issues, and yes, it is known as the "Supergirl Paradigm". So, enjoy.

Figure I'll start you off with an interesting picture.
So what is the "Supergirl Paradigm"? Well, we've all got a good idea who Supergirl is, and if you don't, you can take a long walk off a short pier.

So lets address "paradigm" then. A paradigm is used much in the same manner as precedent, but a little higher. If you are a paradigm of justice, you are much the same as a paragon of justice(notice the use of the same letters in both words). In short, paradigm, is a high-point for a particular thing, while paragon is an absolute embodiment of something, paradigm is more a good reference point.

So, what is the "Supergirl Paradigm" you ask? Well, if you must know...

The "Supergirl Paradigm" is the standpoint from which female physical beauty and how scantly clad somebody can be.

....I think I just heard a lot of "lolwut?"....

What you see above is an image of the various incarnations of Supergirl throughout the literal ages of Superman.

Hear me out. Lets look at the various incarnations of Supergirl for a moment, we've got sweet and nice, we've got ones with attitude and big boobs, we've got leotards, skirts, and full-body suits, long hair, short hair, various powers and literally, different people. Each one was a representation of the tastes of the time and how far it was acceptable to push the limits.

And each one is a sort of paradigm for the limits of acceptable artistic sexuality. We all know that bad-girls wear a lot less(which currently is VERY difficult since the current Supergirl wears very little), but they're bad girls. We know that anyone wearing that little is going to be evil, and evil people can get away with that because they're breaking the rules. So we don't bother to apply the rules to them in the first place.

But Supergirl is a well-known female heroine who's not an advertisement for a rubber fetish(and I'm talking to you Batgirl). She has also gone through MANY incarnations over the years. Which is why she is the paradigm for what an artist can get away with on a girl and still be considered tasteful.

Lets face it, the current Supergirl, she doesn't wear much. But then, what many girls wear these days isn't a whole lot more. And most people are starting to be OK with that. Or sure there's backlash, and much as I love a girl in a mini-mini-skirt I'm not against covering more up. But more often than not, arguments against generally come from people who wish they looked like that, or wished they were getting some of that.

And lets take a look at art, comic book heroines have steadily worn less over the years, though Wonder Woman didn't wear too much to start with. They have become less womanly and more sexual in nature. If you take a quick look around the site here, you'll find that most babes aren't wearing much unless the theme is a classical one. From faeries to mermaids, my angels to other peoples, and fantasy warrior chicks, even modern-themes art, girls aren't wearing much.

But that's OK, because we're working with the "Supergirl Paradigm", that is, as long as they're wearing about as much as Supergirl, it's OK. Because Supergirl is a good-guy who follows the rules and doesn't do evil. Therefore girls who are dressed heavier than her(but not obviously evil), are good as well, because if what she wears is following the rules, then what other girls wear must be following the rules too.

And there you have the "Supergirl Paradigm", that as long as a female wears as much as, or more than the current supergirl, it's OK.