It was very quiet on HKO today, no balloons or special events. Still I long on and spent some time with Kitty and Mimmy White. In addition this was a few day after the official release of the North American servers in 2009.
I also want to leave a shout out to former Sailor Scouts guild members.
Happy Birthday Mimmy and Kitty
I was originally going to blow 80 dollars on a Ruth’s Chris but as I thought about it I decide I just cannot justify spending $80.00 on a steak dinner; so I comprised, tonight I went to the Sanrio store at Washington Square and bought me a new 17 in hello kitty plush and 35,00 for a steak and lobster dinner at Stafford’s for a little more than the same price.
Birthday plans so come together
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children” (1952)
C.S Lewis
I think this applies to we who like Hello Kitty. In other word when we encounter those who confront us for being childish for liking Hello Kitty are the very ones who are acting immature.
While zipping through my friends I found and interesting post leading to an article My Little Feminist: Cartoons are Magic.
“My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has done more for the cause of feminism than any writer, artist, theorist, activist, or anything or anyone else in the Last Ten. Years”
“There’s one cause that feminists have never really managed to achieve, though. One victory that has ever eluded us.
And that is the cause of making girl stuff cool, too. In particular, the cause of making girl stuff cool without simply reinforcing particular gender roles for women. After all, it’s difficult to say, “Cooking can be really fun,” when there are people seemingly crouched by (in? under?) the eves ready to bellow, “…Because women belong in the kitchen!””
While the article applies to My Little Pony Friendship is Magic I wonder how the same can be applied to we male fans of Hello Kitty, are we helping the cause of hello Kitty. There is one huge caveat with the feminist argument as pointed by one poster: certain radical feminist rejection of expressions of femininity. Many other feminists would disagree. A good example is
“The absence of Hello Kitty’s mouth is a prime example of the oppressed, docile, and obedient female, a stigma that has been explored by many feminist scholars”
The view above is pure rubbish as Yuko Yamaguchi points out.
Why doesn’t Hello Kitty have a mouth?
Sandi Saksena, Dubai
It’s so that people who look at her can project their own feelings onto her face, because she has an expressionless face. Kitty looks happy when people are happy. She looks sad when they are sad. For this psychological reason, we thought she shouldn’t be tied to any emotion — and that’s why she doesn’t have a mouth.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1834451,00.html#ixzz1jVvoByMV