The Count

The Count 2010

by VIDA

“Numbers don’t lie.” “What counts is the bottom line.”

Such sayings sound definitive, like the dead-end of a boring story. But as these facts come to light–no longer imagined or guessed at–so does the truth of publishing disparities, the unfortunate footing from which we can begin to change the face of publishing. We are no longer guessing if the world is flat or round; we are wondering how to get from point A to B now that the rules of navigation are public and much clearer. Questions long denied will lead us to new awareness, to challenge current publishing practices, and to query the merits of selection on the level of individual publications and review journals alike.

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The Big Sexy Problem with Superheroines...

Most of all, what I keep coming back to is that superhero comics are nothing if not aspirational. They are full of heroes that inspire us to be better, to think more things are possible, to imagine a world where we can become something amazing. But this is what comics like this tell me about myself, as a lady: They tell me that I can be beautiful and powerful, but only if I wear as few clothes as possible. They tell me that I can have exciting adventures, as long as I have enormous breasts that I constantly contort to display to the people around me. They tell me I can be sexually adventurous and pursue my physical desires, as long as I do it in ways that feel inauthentic and contrived to appeal to men and kind of creep me out. When I look at these images, that is what I hear, and I don't think I even realized how much until this week.

In many ways, the constant barrage of this type of imagery (and characterization) is not unlike the sh*tty neighborhood I used to live in where every time I walked down the street, random people I didn't know shouted obscene comments about my body and told me they wanted to have sex with me. And you know, maybe a lot of those guys thought they were complimenting me. Maybe they thought I had tried to look pretty that day and they were telling me I had succeeded in that goal. Maybe they thought we were having a frank and sexually liberated exchange of ideas. I'm willing to be really, really generous and believe that's where they were coming from. But in the end, it doesn't matter that they didn't know it was creepy; it doesn't matter that they "didn't get it," because every single day I lived there they made me feel like less of a person.

That is how I feel when I read these comics.

And I'm tired. I'm so, so tired of hearing those messages from comics because they aren't the dreams or the escapist fantasies or the aspirations that I want to have. They don't make me feel joyful or powerful or excited. They make me feel so goddamn sad that I want to cry, because I have devoted my entire life to comics, and when I read superhero books like these I realize that most of the time, they don't give a sh*t about me.

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Each Others’ Worst Enemies: Female Rivalry at the Heart of Disempowerment

There are big ways and little ways to this treachery. The little ways I hardly need to enumerate, because the best examples of these are empirical ones, and you know them in your own life. The big ways tend to be a matter of collusion: for instance, it may have been men who created archaic and repressive social codes, but is it not women who pass them on, who ensure that their families function within and continue to carry forward the same logic? To choose to not break a chain is to choose to propagate it.

We can begin by taking a look at the very fact of us all being in this room today. How did we get here? Each of us have overcome difficulties in our own lives, each of us has dared to dream, and fortunately, has been born in a time where we were able to pursue some if not all of these dreams. We have had access to resources and options which were denied to women of just a few generations ago – resources and options which are even denied to other women today, in this country and elsewhere. Some of us have endured bad luck, made bad decisions, or failed at things we tried our hands at – but we haven’t been ruined by these misfortunes. We have alternatives. We have second, third and ninety-third chances. We have more autonomy than our foremothers may have been able to imagine.

In short, we are all so lucky. And this is only because of the brave women and men who fought for certain rights and equality, who went against the tide of what was acceptable, who challenged the status quo, who refused to take as an answer that “that’s just how things are”. We are here because they did not think of themselves alone. They did not relegate their abilities to simply securing a better life for themselves, but put the vision of a better world above their own personal journeys, and in doing so secured a better life for millions.

I am asking you today if we too can demand a better explanation than “that’s just how things are”. I believe that as women, we are conditioned on a deeply embedded level to be wary of or threatened by, and consequently cruel toward, one another. Perhaps there are biological or evolutionary reasons for this. But I refuse to accept that we cannot evolve female rivalry out of our systems. Larger systems of power, yes, but more importantly, smaller microcosms of the same.

In our own lives, can we get over our mistrust of other women? Can we leave cliques and factions behind in our school years and embrace a greater loyalty? Can we see that another woman’s success need not necessarily mean our own failure? Can we cease to be judgmental or jealous? Can we cease to be threatened by other women, for reasons of our own insecurities, and can we stop acting out of that sense of fear?

Just as our palette of big life choices continues to expand the more society develops, I would like to think that in our day to day interactions, we should also become more mindful of how we choose to treat one another. Can we make choices that deprogramme the way we have learnt to feel about other women – learnt from all the ways we ourselves have been hurt – and choose to say, “This stops with me. What has been done to me by girls I went to school with, women in my extended family, superiors I worked under or any other situation, incident or environment that fostered in me a sense of female rivalry or mistrust will no longer control the way in which I respond to individuals now.” Will we choose to undermine other women, in ways big and small, or will we choose to embrace a less cynical view? Can we work together to create new environments in which all of us can feel free to meet our highest potential without being hindered by unhealthy competition?

You may be wondering why I have taken a less festive approach to International Women’s Day and am asking these potentially uncomfortable questions. I promise you I didn’t start out this cynical. In fact, I started out quite the opposite – if I could have had feminist slogans on my diapers, I would have! Throughout my teenage years I volunteered with women’s NGOs, and continue to do so in some capacity today. I was one of those girls who would rather have a tee-shirt that said “the revolution is my boyfriend” than have an actual human one. I think I limited my own literary forays for some years by refusing to read anything by authors I derogatorily labeled “dead white men”. I was proudly, radically, obviously and – I must admit, perhaps a little obnoxiously – feminist. And then the disillusionment set in.

At some point in my life as a young activist, I began to see that polemics and politics only go so far. How far does philosophy translate accurately into one’s practical realities? One’s fundamental humanity and compassion are all that really matter – it is of no consequence if this can be backed up by proselytizing or theory. You know how this works. I am almost certain that there is no one here today who would not name her grandmother, mother, aunt or sister as her personal inspiration – a woman who did not necessarily know of or say that she subscribed to theoretical ideals but nonetheless manifested the best of them in her life and across the lives of all she touched.

Today my feminism is nuanced by the understanding that as with all great adversaries, the most significant challenge to female empowerment comes from within. From within our ranks, from within our own hearts, from within our own inability to look beyond a reactionary and defensive stance.

But there is something else that also comes from within. And that is strength. Women have always regarded as being strong, and we are, but in modern times we are also powerful. I think of power as originating from an external source, from the validation of being in a certain position of influence. But strength has a far more esoteric source. It manipulates less, and moves more. There is a difference between strength and power – which do you operate from?

And I ask these uncomfortable questions not because I am above reproach but because I also deal with them in my day to day life and work. Sometimes, I frown on the actions of teenage girls because they do not seem as empowered as I was at their age. Or I might secretly judge someone of my generation for having had an arranged marriage, letting her in-laws dictate her career choices, or not realizing how beautiful she is because TV commercials tell her otherwise. But who am I, really, to judge? How would I know what those girls or women have been through and what has shaped their decisions? Why can’t I just respect that they are different, but no less equal? Concurrently, I struggle to undo and unlearn traumas imprinted on me because I am a certain kind of woman, born into a certain kind of culture, in a certain era. I struggle to not be manipulated into being pitted against other women in social and professional situations by those who know just how to push those buttons. I struggle to deal graciously with female associates who have backstabbed, cheated and even plagiarized me without having to descend to petty conflict that would only satisfy those who believe that women cannot evolve out of our habituated enmity. Because I believe we can.


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SlutWalk To Femicide: Making The Connection

September 2, 2011
SlutWalk To Femicide: Making The Connection
Rita Banerji

by Rita Banerji
-India-


In January, a Toronto police constable told a group of students at a school safety forum that to prevent being sexually assaulted they should “avoid dressing like sluts.” This victim-blaming message sparked a global grassroots protest movement called ‘SlutWalks.’ –Ed.

India wrote off the SlutWalk organized in Delhi as a terribly insignificant event. According to a police report, there were about 700 attendees in all, including 400 police personnel and 200 media people. That means the actual number of participants was probably not more than a 100 – a ridiculously miniscule number in a country with a population of a billion plus.

• Poster for SlutWalk Delhi posted to one of several SlutWalk communities on Facebook. •
However, this was no big surprise. Even as the event was being planned, the organizers came under fire from all sides: from women’s groups, feminists, media people, liberals, and conservatives. They were unanimous in that this was a highly inappropriate event to be held on Indian soils. As one female journalist in an opinion column in a major, left-leaning newspaper in India put it, “[By] taking off [their] clothes and adopting the 'slut' word as signifying their right to dress as they please…[these women] have ironically proved the veracity of the Canadian cop's statement.” In an attempt to ease tensions and woo more supporters, the SlutWalk Delhi organizers announced that they had decided to drop the term ‘slut’ and don regular clothes. Instead they would carry placards emphasizing the original message of the global SlutWalks, i.e. that all women have the right to safety, to not be harassed or sexually attacked regardless of how they are dressed.

But the fact of the matter is that millions of women, as they go about their mundane tasks of living and working, face sexual persecution on the streets and public spaces in India, on a daily basis. And they do so fully clothed. It matters little if they are low-income or middle class, educated or illiterate, housewives or professionals. Most girls and women step out onto the streets warily, always with their defenses up, always anticipating some form of sexual aggression: a rough groping of the breast, a pinch on the bottom, a lewd remark, or a sexual expletive.

The Pink Panties (Chaddi) Campaign

April 1, 2009
The Pink Chaddi Campaign: Landing a Pink Slap on the Face of Moral Policing in India
Charukesi Ramadurai

by Charukesi Ramadurai
- India -


India is now the land of The Consortium of Pubgoing, Loose and Forward Women. Who would have thought?


• In another protest against Pramod Muthalik, people took the streets on Valentine's Day offering free hugs in Bangalore. Photograph by Charukesi Ramadurai. •
Over the last two months, a group of activists calling itself the Sri Ram Sene (Lord Ram's Army) led by Pramod Muthalik attacked women in a pub in the South Indian city of Mangalore. They followed this up by bullying and slapping a college girl who was sitting on a bus with a boy her age "to teach her a lesson” for speaking with a Muslim boy. More recently, several copy-cat instances of violence have also taken place in Bangalore, where groups of men have attacked women for wearing jeans. Politicians have issued banal statements about how "such behavior will not be tolerated." A few have gone further calling it the beginning of "Talibanization in India" while taking no concrete steps to punish the guilty or prevent such incidents in future.

In quick response to the Mangalore incident, the Bangalore-based Alternative Law Forum (ALF) started the Pink Chaddi campaign (chaddi is Hindi for underwear), urging people to send pink panties as a symbol of love to the Sene office, which had also threatened to attack couples celebrating Valentine's Day (another threat to "Indian culture"). In just over two weeks since the campaign was first announced, it evoked unexpected interest and support across the world through blog links and networking sites. At last count, there are nearly 59,000 supporters - men and women - on just the campaign’s Facebook group.

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Great Books of the Western World
First Edition, 1952
Ten Year Reading Plan

Following is a ten year reading plan provided in the Great Books of the Western World first edition library of 1952. The works are organized by the year that they appear in the reading plan. Works shown with hypertext links are available online. Another such list is maintained by Ken Roberts.

The great books index is a personal interest project and is not sponsored by the Encyclopedia Britannica corporation. I urge you to purchase this excellent set of books and patronize this company.
Year One

* Aristophanes - The Clouds
* Aristophanes - The Lysistrata
* Plato - Apology
* Plato - Crito
* Plato - The Republic
* Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics
* Aristotle - Politics
* Plutarch - The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
o Lycurgus
o Numa Pompilius
o Lycurgus and Numa Compared
o Alexander
o Caesar
* Saint Augustine - The Confessions
* Nicolo Machiavelli - The Prince
* Francois Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
* Michel Eyquem de Montaigne - Essays
* William Shakespeare - Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
* John Locke - Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay
* Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right
* Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
* Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
* American State Papers - The Declaration of Independence
* American State Papers - Articles of Confederation
* American State Papers - The Constitution of the United States of America
* Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - The Federalist
* Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels - Manifesto of the Communist Party

Year Two

* The New Testament - Matthew, Acts
* Homer - The Iliad
* Aeschylus - Agamemnon
* Aeschylus - Eumenides
* Aeschylus - Choephoroe
* Sophocles - Oedipus the King
* Sophocles - Antigone
* Herodotus - The History
* Plato - Meno
* Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics

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Over Drugging of Youth.
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clipped from www.cchrint.org by Dr. Mary Ann Block Author, No More ADHD:Ten Steps to Help Your Child’s Attention and Behavior without Drugs The drugs used on children diagnosed ADHD come with a host of potential side effects. According to the manufacturers of the drugs, the following side effects can and do occur: insomnia, anorexia, nervousness, seizures, headaches, heart palpitations, cardiac arrhythmia, psychosis, angina, abdominal pain, hepatic coma, anemia, depressed mood, hair loss, weight loss, tachycardia (too fast a heartbeat), increased blood pressure, cardiomyopathy (weakening or change in heart muscle), dizziness and tremor to name a few. The U.S. FDA has warned ADHD drugs such as Ritalin, Adderall and Concerta can cause heart attack, stroke and sudden death. These drugs are classified as schedule II controlled substances with high abuse potential. According to reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the drug Ritalin has been found to be very similar to and more potent than cocaine.

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clipped from www.cchrint.org Federal Health Bill Calls For Billions in Orwellian Psych Programs and Treatments Information: As the entire country is aware, there is currently an effort in Congress to pass a massive “Health Care Reform” bill. In fact, Congressional leadership is doing everything in its power to pass this $1 trillion plus bill. There are two versions of the bill — one in the House (H.R. 3200) and one in the Senate (there is no number for the Senate bill at this point, but it is titled the Affordable Health Choices Act). Both bills forward massive increases in government funding of mental health programs that turn America into a full blown therapeutic state. The Senate bill (the Affordable Health Choices Act) includes:

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clipped from www.cchrint.org The CIA Mind Control Doctors: From Harvard to Guantanamo by Colin A. Ross Psychiatrist, Author, The CIA Doctors, Military Mind Control and Project Bluebird My book, The CIA Doctors,[i] is based on 15,000 pages of documents I received from the CIA through the Freedom of Information Act and dozens of papers published in medical journals.  These papers report the results of research funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Department of the Army, the Office of Naval Research and the CIA.  From 1950 to 1972, the CIA funded TOP SECRET research at many leading universities including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Stanford.  There was a series of CIA mind control programs including BLUEBIRD, ARTICHOKE, MKULTRA, MKSEARCH and MKNAOMI.

How To Watch A YouTube Booty-Shake Dance Video?

Like wild flowers of spring or rare flowers blooming every fourteen to sixteen years, they arrive: Remontant (rising again) perpetual roses booty-shake dance videos. Known for their summer blooming, these shaking-my-booty videos might bloom in dead winter, amidst snowcapped lawns and long-starry nights, when we need them most. When we guys and girls are bored! In ancient days, people went out into their garden or someone else garden to stroll amidst the shaking flowers in all their splendor and glory. In modern times, we logon to YouTube for a change of pace, a snippet of fantasy or female-vertical-gymnastics (FVG) video. But you're saying." I already know how to watch a booty-shaking dance video?" Read on...

Why Are These FVG Videos Made?
Boredom. A chance for three to seven minutes of fame. To gain more subscribers. FVG is easier to make than a Vlog. A request by someone desiring to relive their school-dance memories of some girl they saw--forever. A chance to prove to someone else she VG dance moves. An attempt to get a boyfriend. Copying dance moves of their favorite singers or stars. Advertisement for another website the girl owns, works at for entertainment (these tend to be more professional and more posey than dancey). A lark, just being silly (JBS) playtime in their rooms--someone's hand accidentally taps the record button! A FVG competition between girls.

Which reasons is the legitimate reason? All of them.

Which one is the best reason to make one? Boredom. Just Being Silly (JBS). Don't Take This Too Seriously FVG. These reasons seem to produce the number quality FVG videos. The girl/s are relaxed. They're having fun. They don't care if anyone watches or indulges in all three or seven minutes of their fame. Easily these videos can grab 50,000+ views over time.

The Life Cycle of FVG Dance Video
1. Bored hottie looking girl decides to burn off some excessive energy.

2. She uploads this to YouTube. She trembles knowing it may be taken down in 48 hours for some off handed situation, like her dirty underwear is showing the background. Or her panties are too see-through. Or she seems too young for the age she listed. Or no white girl can dance that way stylistic reason. Or her FVG moves were too FHG video (H meaning horizontal). Whatever the reasons, she knows and the male viewers watching for rare blooming FVG flower knows it's mysterious why a FVG dance videos disappears to the off-sites of banned FVG dance videos sites. Despite all these hurtle and challenges and mysterious, the bored girl uploads the video. Another site is this one where a nude girl apparently outplays several guys in soccer and scores.

3. Males begin to see the video, watch, rate, comment and subscribe (WRCS). This is the very best the FVG girl can achieve.

4. Girls become competitive and watch and learn or try to out-FVG the girl's FVG video with a response video.

5. The competition between the girls cools down.

6. Males continue to watch and save and share or tell others about the girl's FVG video.

7. Her FVG video grabs about 70,000 viewers before the artist whose song is the background music, complains about all the missed sales. This may be solved by the Tune clickable download of the background sound. Only time will tell.

8. The girl is told to change the music on her video or it will be removed.

9. Weeks pass by before anything is done. This is a confusing process after all for three to seven minutes of fame.

10. The video is removed (RV) or banned (BV).

11. All the males continue to upload the now-even-hotter banned FVG video, so it's all over YouTube giving the girl fifteen to thirty-five minutes of fame, albeit under male names.

12. She wonders why there isn't a FVG contest. But she assumes, probably, it would end up as a get-all-your-friends-to-click winner contest. In other words, the best FVG video would not be selected but the most popular FVG girl's video would win. The girl shrugs after wondering about all these things and decides to make another FVG video, because she's bored after all. Her next FVG video moves through the same cycle.

13. The FVG girl is honestly curious: Why so many males want to view her as oppose to the other girls out there just as pretty? The answer is obvious to the males. No girl is as uniquely pretty as you are-- FVG girl! See for the male, a woman's beauty is a singular thing. If you've seen Katrina Witt nude, it doesn't matter; you still want to see the next uniquely pretty girl nude, too. In the case of FVG video, the males still want to see the next uniquely pretty girl's FVG Video.

14. Back to the FGV video cycle. If FVG girl is lucky, steps 7-10 will never happen. But this doesn't prevent step 11 from occurring. After all males bond by sharing females around between themselves.

15. If she's super lucky, other girls who want a popular FVG Video will asks the girl "How To FVG dance?"

An Alternative Life Cycle follows the same Steps 1 through 7.
8. The girl is tired of her dance video. After all, she much better now.

8a. The girl is tired of people thinking she's a FVG girl, so she takes it down.

8b. The girl is graduating from college and wonders if her employer will see her FVG video. She takes it down.

8c. The girl's parents accidentally see the video. The girl is told to take it down.

8d. The girl can't conceive of how to turn her popular FVG video into money, but sees ads running on her page. She takes the video down. eHow - How to do just about everything

8e. The girl wants to put all her FVG Video on a CD and sell it. After all, there are plenty of places to sell such videos.

Many reasons can kill an FVG Video. Many a males will be sad, but not so distraught to see her FVG Video go.


Watching the FVG Video--The Process
Listen carefully. Watching the FVG video is no small feat. The FVG Video is unrecognized an art form.

1. A new FVG video is announced in your subscriptions. You don't receive your YouTube subscription by email? You lost out big time (YLOBT). Remember FVG Videos can have a life cycle as short as 48 hours! By the time Friday or Saturday rolls around, her FVG video is floating in digital space somewhere between YouTube.com and the banned FVG video websites. There are many such websites. So ASAP watch any FVG Videos that come your way. If the FVG video is a dud, don't worry. If her FVG Video is a hot one, download it right away! Do this even if the girl has ten FVG Videos with 80,000 views! You never know when your lucky/cautious FVG girl will make a banned video (BV).

2. Watch the entire FVG Video -- unless it's so boring and uninspiring you cannot wait because other FVG Videos are fresh in the cue of subscriptions to be watched.

3. Ask questions. Is the music good? Poor music makes a poor FGV video. Even if a girl uses an old hot song like "Low" she'll probably gather more hits. "Low" was and is a hot dance song. Some good FVG Video dance songs:
Low
My Humps
I kissed A Girl
Gasolina
I Love The Way


4. Does the FVG moves work in sync with the music's rhythm? That is a huge plus.

5. Also an extra plus is if the girl's FVG moves can work counter sync to the music rhythm. This is much harder to describe. You have to watch an FVG video demonstrating this.

6. One girl is perfect for a FVG video. She can dominate the screen and music and space with her dancing.

6a. Two or three girls FVG Videos are harder to make. One or two girls can mess up the whole thing. But if two or three girls, even five girls do hot FVG moves, the FVG Video is definitely a five rate (5R) and a keeper (5RK). I've seen FVG (5RK) videos on YouTube.com. If more than five girls make a FVG Video, say seven or ten, at least three-quarters have to perform FVG hot moves. So that'd be five out of seven girls or seven out of ten girls.

7. Does the FGV moves show the girls entire body? If you see only her front, something's missing. You should see 360 degrees of the girl's hottie body.

8. Does the girl smile? Plus is she does. Negative if she doesn't smile. Negative if the smile is forced. Positive if she doesn't smile but her facial features show a smoldering desire, a seriousness of her FVG dance concentrating.

9. How is she dressed? This one is tricky. It seems a girl dressed skimpy will produce a hotter FVG video. Not really. What makes a FVG video hot is the girl's dancing--period. She could be wearing a sack on her body. If the FVG are hot, the girl will be hot. If she's got on jeans, top and shoes, she can be as smoking as a girl in short-shorts and small-cropped T and bare feet can. Just because a girl makes a FVG video in her swimsuit doesn't automatically make it a hot video. Just because a girl makes a FVG video in her swimsuit doesn't make it automatically a dud either.

10. Did the time disappear when you watched her FVG Video? If so you have to rate if five!

11. Did her FVG Video remind you of sex or romance or petting or smooching? If so, rate it a five!

12. What percentage of time did she spend in the vertical position? FVG are all about the vertical as opposes to the horizontal. Any girl can make the horizontal position hot. The FVG allows for some horizontal positioning here and there, but it's basically a standing dance video at the core.

13. Does the girl move a lot or a little? Tricky. Moving a lot could be hot. Moving a little could be hotter. It's all a matter of FVG style.

14. Style? Is it something your mother did on prom night? Or is it something your younger sister will do at a private party. Another way to view this is Control body movements vs. wilder body movements. Both can be hot. Both can be classy, although the controlled body movements tend to have a classier style. Classier meaning you could probably dance like that in public and no one would mind. Are the moves choreographed? Unless they are silly moves, you have to give at least four for choreographed moves.

15. End. How does the video end? With a smile? With a taunt? With a leering challenge? With a hope-you're-satisfied expression? All the before are good. The best is the hope-you're-satisfied-because-I'm-satisfied-with-my-FVG-dancing expression (smile or half smile).


Comments
1. Be honest. First rate the video. Why? Because you might forget to rate the video, you're so busy wanting to comment.
2. Make the comment short but meaningful. Complement her FVG moves. If you compliment the music, her clothes, her dance space (unless she did a great job in a small dance space), you're ignoring the girl. After all she made this video for herself and for you the viewer.
3. If you have something negative to say, soften it.
"You're FVG video didn't start hot, but you lit a fire by the middle and end."
"This was pretty good. I'd watch another video by you anytime."
"Not the most original. But I'll remember your moves night and day."
"You can dance, but the music didn't do you justice."


Expectations
Regardless of how hot a girl's FVG video; don't expect another one too soon. FVG videos are rare flowers. These perpetual roses will occur again, but only the Goddesses and Gods know when this will be. The FVG girl is in high demand and part of being in demand is the waiting for her next FVG video. :)

If you rush this process, she'll make one because you want one. It may not be as good as an FVG video made when she was bored (BV) or just being silly (JBS).

FVG girls do this for free! You do get to download her FVG video.

Expect another FVG video when she's bored or wants to burn off energy. This tends to happen a lot and is not restricted to the four seasons of the year. These perpetual roses FVG videos provide a splendor and glamour to the Internet world, stroll among them and enjoy.

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Truth About Prozac/Sarafem

From a chemist who worked in their labs.
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clipped from www.cchrint.org The Prozac Calamity by award winning Scientist Shane Ellison The FDA continues to ignore the Prozac body count (they approved Prozac’s use for children in 2003). To make matters worse, the FDA granted its manufacturer, Eli Lilly, extended patent protection. In order to procure thirty additional months of earning power, Eli Lilly changed the name of Prozac to Sarafem, while at the same time labeling common personality and biological shifts as a disease among women; this “disease” being premenstrual irritability. As a result, thousands of unsuspecting women were given Prozac for premenstrual irritability while at the same time increasing their chances of suffering from the aforementioned negative side effects such as aggression, and suicide.

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