My "Fair" Lady

First, let me say that the sermon today was amazing. No joking. You can click the CMC link and somehow download it, but it was really, really good. That combined with the music really brought all of the emotions and things that I have been dealing with to the front of my heart and spilled over, both in thankfulness and in seeking comfort in Christ.

Second, I think it is time to revisit the My Fair Lady theme. Just for the record, my previous post was not about the movie, per se, but rather the movie served as an excellent example for some points I wanted to make. Now it would be fun to analyze the movie a little bit.

I do wholeheartedly agree with GM about Higgins. There is absolutely no reform whatsoever by the end of the movie. In my mind, it is only slightly more hopeful than the end of Gone With the Wind. (A book which I would not recommend, because you will most likely grow to hate both Scarlett and Rhett because of their utter stubborness and selfishness. Obviously we all struggle with that, but not to that extent, at least not in Christ.) Higgins still has the same anti-women attitude at the end of the movie as he does in the beginning. He still thinks that they should all bend over backwards to please him. He can't even admit that he likes Eliza, only he's "grown accoustemed to her face."

About Pickering, I must say that I like him much better. He treats Eliza with some sense of chivalry and kindness, but he still doesn't stop Higgins or rebuke him when he wonders why Eliza ran off, and consequently, why women are not more like men. (hmmmm....) Neither of them seem to truly grasp the fact that women are human and have a great amount of feeling and tenderness.

Any other thoughts??

L, I know this is one of your favorite movies, so I don't mean to bash it in any way. I actually do enjoy it and I love the music. It is all done really well. It's also quite funny. It's just that the closing scene leaves me with the wish to punch Higgins.

Found Poems

Found poems are so cool!! Basically you try to find a theme in any piece of literature and extract words or phrases from the literature to back the theme. Then you put all of the words and phrases together in any order to make a poem about the theme. The literature can include anything from a chapter in a book, a letter, a toothbrush package, etc. etc.... The list could get very long. The first found poem that I made was an assignment for my AP Lit class. I had to come up with a theme from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Never ever read that book. I did do one on my own, though.

FACE WASH

<>Patented!—

Soap-free

Thoroughly lifts

Measures up

No residue

<>Shine!—

Cleanser

Light-lathering

Velvety-smooth

Natural matte

<>Green!—

Rosemary

Flower

Sage

Chamomile

<>
…massage gently…

<>Comments?


That came from Biore (trademark) Pore Perfect (trademark) cream cleanser (no trademark...) The poems are so fun to create!! (When it's not for an assignment) Try it sometime.

Je m'exuse, s'il vous plait, mais il faut que je sois enervee...

I don't normally consider myself a feminist. No really, I don't. I fully understand that men and women have roles that have been given to us by God, and while He made men and women as equal, we are not made to act the same. Obviously women are the weaker sex, but we also have to bear children. Men are strong and should protect the weaker sex. Anyway, this is not a commentary on the nature of man. What I want to talk about is why women turned feministic and why I myself might actually be placed in that category. (Excuse me, now I am going to vent)

I watched My Fair Lady last night with a very good friend of mine. I love that movie and I love the music to it. Very catchy. However, if there is a man out there who can honestly watch that and say that he can see nothing wrong with the way Henry Higgins treats women, then let me know and I will give you a piece of my mind. Now, I wouldn't be so upset if that kind of behavior had stayed back in the time period it was prevelant in. You know, when men generally looked down on anything that wasn't the same gender as themselves...but it is necessary to point out that some men still live in that same mindset today. *Disclaimer: I said some, not all. This is not a sweeping generalization.* And in case you may think that I am making a random statement, I can name a few people I know who are very sexist and anti-women. I won't name them here, of course, but believe me. Any man who trods over a woman's feelings and thinks that all women will do exactly what he tells them to do is just wrong. There is nothing else to it.

I wish that I lived in the time when men would rise when a woman walked into the room. Or when a man would hold a door open for a woman. Or when a man would offer a seat to a seatless woman. I know that there are many men out there who act like that. I thank you. However, to the rest, please take note and start acting like men, not like stuck up people who want their way.

Thanks for allowing me to spill my thoughts, sorry if I offended anyone.

The Living Word

God's word is so good. I have seen that truth time and again whenever I open the Bible. I really like quotes, so I often copy down a quote and hang it on my wall or put it in my notebook - really anyplace where I will see it a lot. I wish that I could just copy the whole Bible down and hang it up!! No really, there are so many good passages and wonderful stories that blow my spiritual mind away, no matter how many times I've read it. My most favorite story is of Joseph, in Genesis. Maybe I'll post it sometime. My current most favorite passage in scripture, though, is in Habakkuk.

"For the revelation awaits an appointed time;
it speaks of the end
and will not prove false.
Though it linger, wait for it;
it will certainly come and will not delay."
Habakkuk 2:3

This is so encouraging to me. Habakkuk the prophet had been complaining to God because he wanted judgement brought down on his ruthless enemies. This verse is part of God's answer to him and He is basically telling Habakkuk to hope for what he cannot see and to have faith in God's perfect promises. While it is ultimately talking about the revelation and the end, it has affected my life in a more personal way. Because I am very impatient, I like to try and plan my future and what I want it to look like. God, however, has a perfect plan in store for me. (Surprise, surprise) He has been teaching me to lean on His promise that He would keep His promises, and that means that I don't have to worry about my life at all. It is in perfect hands, which I definately can't boast of. This is really confusing, I know. I don't really understand it all, except that I know that I can trust in God for everything. God is so good and so righteous and I pray that I might bring honor to His perfect name.

Wow

So I get up this morning, drag myself out of bed, and get ready to go in for day two of my exams. My sister and I are all ready and are out on the porch, waiting for the bus (it is too rainy to actually go to the bus stop) when my dad comes out and lets us know that school is delayed. Oh. Oh well. Not much to do about that. I went back to bed after pondering all of the things I could get done, and promptly went back to sleep. I had previously thought that I would never be able to do that. I proved myself wrong. Then, after getting up a second time, I learned that school was closed. I went back to bed again (pathetic, I know) and slept until about twelve-thirty p.m. I comfort myself with the fact that I probably needed sleep, my body isn't just weird. (Although that's a distinct possibiliy.) So here I am, quarter after one, and feel like sleeping again. Cool. I wish I could figure out how to post pictures, because I bet I look pretty funny right now.

Yea!!

O.K., it's beginning to become clear. Cool!! I'll try to restrain from posting anything else until I have something slightly more profound to say.

Here it goes!! I have no idea what I am doing; I'm not very computer-savvy.