The Candies Foundation was set up by Candies shoes to educate teenagers about the consequences of getting pregnant. A noble cause, for sure. But keeping Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) as one of the celebrity spokesmodels? Considering he heads up a band that teenagers idolize and he knocked up his girlfriend. Yeah, that’ll deter the teens from having sex and getting pregnant.
And not to whitewash the other hypocritical move in the past few days, but the whole thing makes me puke. Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey and their ass kissing each other about never being “mistresses” but both had affairs with married men. Newsflash you two whores: Mistress, as defined by Webster’s -
a woman who has a continuing, extramarital sexual relationship with one man, esp. a man who, in return for an exclusive and continuing liaison, provides her with financial support.
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1 Janet // May 28, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Barbara Walter’s life was influenced greatly by her older sister and she’s written a beautiful memoir about her life. I read another memoir of a life influence by a sibling that I recommend highly - I actually liked it even more. The memoir is “”My Stroke of Insight”" by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Dr Taylor became a Harvard brain scientist to find the cause and cure for schizophrenia because her older brother was a sufferer. Then, crazy as life can be, Dr. Taylor had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can!
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