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reasons why i hate mary kay

1. i spent over $2000 on it and never had any customers
2. my sales director didn't help me get customers at all
3. i felt like shit asking my family to buy stuff
4. now that i want to sell it back, i've got $600 coming to me
5. it took me forty minutes to find the number to call to sell it all back
6. the skin care line made my face greasy
7. it's mlm at its finest
8. the prizes suck!
9. i hated my senior sales director since she was a biggity-bitch
10. i miss my $2000
11. i had this huge convoluted idea about how i was going to save the world
12. i could have spent that money on christmas presents

check it, yo. mary kay may have some nice make up, and some people may like their skin care, but that business is like the economy of antigua.  1% of the company live in mansions with marble sidewalks and shopping malls on every corner.  the leftover 99% is filled with dirt roads, unkempt villages, starving children, and people dying of curable infections and viruses.

P.S. on a totally different note, thanks for nominating me top blog! wheee! although i guess i have to thank nomad, since without her, that blog would never have existed...

This is a test of the emergency Top Blog system. Step away from the VOTE button.

 

I see you........ You can control your urge to click. You can do it.

 

But what the hell, you only live once, so go for it! :) It's down there to your bottom left.

 

Free yourself!

 

 

 

 Click the pic too :)

Remember the days when clicking on “Top Blogs” would yield a wealth of entertaining and thought-provoking posts?  What happened to those days?

 

Lately, the Top Blogs have been filled with angry, insulting rants; defensive posturing; and, most recently, baby announcements and assorted commentary about them. 

 

Now, I’m happy for the new parents, of course.  Congrats, and all that.  But c’mon… out of the 20 “Top Blogs” as I write this, 11 of them are on the arrival of two new children.  Seriously?  Eleven of them???

 

As for the rants, goodness knows I’ve engaged in my share of pointed discourse on a variety of subjects.  (And yeah, you could include this post as one of them.)  But hasn’t this latest spat run its course, yet?  You know the one I’m talking about.

 

I swear I don’t understand what criteria people must be using when voting for a Top Blog.  I swear, I think there are some people out there who vote for all their friends’ blogs, no matter what they have to say, quite possibly at the request of the blog owner.

 

“Top Blog” certainly doesn’t equate to “Good Blog.”  I realize that.  And I realize that it’s all subjective, anyway.  But crap on a cupcake, folks…  this trend is pathetic.

 

Here's an interesting thought for you. To get on Top Blogs, you really only need 1 or 2 votes on a normal-blogging day, and 3-4 on a heavy one. Back before they had the number of votes attached to the sites, I imagined that the winners had over 20 votes. How wrong I was. 

Ignorance is bliss. Bliss is ignorance. And Racism is blissful ignorance.-- Sarcamsvoice

Thank you to all who voted my "Why I hate being white" blog as top blog.

I never thought to achieve such a thing as being 2nd on the list of top blogs. And that blog was not exactly one I considered important, which made me all the more shocked to see it nominated over and over again.

More shocking still were the responses and blogs that were spawned due to that same blog. I did not intend the hullabaloo that occurred. I am however happy that so many people felt encouraged to air their opinions due to it.

I think that in today's society one's opinion is becoming more and more important. And yet that same society is making one's opinion more and more secret due to the social taboos and the need to keep from stepping on toes.

My point was not to point fingers at mindsayers but to show that you cannot truly be intellectually honest if you allow race to come into the argument. Given, everyone's opinion is based in part on their background; but the point of education and adult maturity is to allow you to get beyond that and see the reality for the stark face it bears. Reality not clothed in the rags and tatters of opinion or angst but rather as it is for all those living it.

How can we as a society hope to remain relevant if we allow the eddy and flow of societal currents to move us from what we know to be true? If we must live our lives by a moral system that both shifts and returns to past stances, then we are truly doomed to repeat history.

Americans as a whole love to feel guilty, as I've pointed out before. And yesterday's sussurus of racial  tirades  has convinced me of that same fact. We  choose to feel guilty over history that we cannot change. We feel guilty over a word that we do not use. We choose to feel guilty over conversations we are judged, convicted, and sentenced in simply for not agreeing. We choose guilt over conviction. We choose envy over work ethic. We choose victimhood over righteousness.

We have devolved into a country of feelers. We feel...therefore ____. We are no longer governed by law. We are governed by mob mentality. And the mob is ignorant through choice. So we are governed thru self-chosen ignorance.

How then are we surprised when we find ourselves divided by race, status, and wealth? We made it that way. We chose to leave it that way. And we perpetuate it simply by allowing those same variances to guide our future.

Well not I. I choose to speak my mind and to call a thing as it is. And racism today is nothing more than an excuse to slack off. No matter what race you are, buck up. The Irish [my heritage] were used worse than slaves were and by their own. But I am called an ignorant, egocentric idiot.

The spanish still subdivide themselves by racially based epithet: chicanos, mestizo, Boricua, etc.

It is not hard to see that racism does not rest solely between whitey and minorities. And my point was and will continue to be that America needs to get over this need to be a victim. Everyone is a victim to something. But if you choose to see yourself as a victim, then a victim you will remain.

Far be it from me to say that some don't get a really raw deal. But you don't have to choose to dwell. And if you do, then you are the one who is dwelling. Not everyone else. So once again. Suck it up.