Women and Geography

Mar 25, 2011

Okay so I had planned to write a #fridayflash short short today, but I woke up blank and with a headache. It’s not that I have no ideas… you guys know me, I have my next three novels outlined. It’s that all my ideas are 75,000 words long.

So instead today you get something I saw on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books today. (By the way, if you aren’t familiar with SBTB, you really should be. Even if you don’t like romance novels or otherwise trashy books. All you gotta be is a smart bitch to find that site unrelentingly hilarious. It’s one of three sites I would give my left tit to have Ordinary Angels reviewed by, even if they hated the book. Well, obviously I don’t want them to hate my books, but I do want them to read my books. I’m such a fangirl. I’ll stop now. Ahem.)

For today’s hilarity, I present: the Jane Austin Drinking Game:

And here are the rules.

Now, why would I, someone who doesn’t drink alcohol at all, provide a link to such silliness? Besides being hellyeah funny (I love the expression on the new guy’s face when he finds out what movie they’re watching), is the definition of womanly skills as playing pianoforte, singing, dancing, knowledge of languages, geography, literature, etc.

I’m not going to rant about this being sexist or anything boring like that. I mean, dude, it’s not like they included vacuuming in the list. But geography? Really?

So, the knowledge of where one place is in comparison to other places, knowing where one is going and how to get there, where one has been and how one got here… those are womanly skills?

Okay. Fair point. *runs and hides before a Certain Highlander reads this and calls her sexist*

Enjoy your weekend, and if you do play the Jane Austin Drinking Game, have a designated driver… and make sure it’s a woman, or you might never find your way home.