2 Broke Girls Passes The Bechdel Test!!!!

The Bechdel test is a tool used to figure out with whether or not a movie has any female presence. In this case, I am going to use it to test a TV show.

According to this test, in order for a movie or television show to have female presence it must: have two or more women in it with names, they must talk to each other, and they must talk about something besides a man. Not surprisingly, many movies do no pass this test. In today's society, most shows and movies main goal for the female is to have them obtain a man. Refreshingly though, I have found a new television show that passes this test, CBS' 2 Broke Girls.

2 Broke Girls is the newest fall sitcom to debut on CBS. It is about two girls who are complete opposites that live and work together, and who also try to start up their own cupcake business. While in the beginning of the series, one character had a boyfriend (she later dumped him) the show depicts the life of literally, two girls that are broke living in the city. Unlike almost every other television show out there, they are not on a quest for a boyfriend or a husband, however, they are trying to build a life for themselves. While this show may not win any academy awards for acting or writing, I do believe it is society taking a step in the right direction realizing their is more to being a twenty something women than just finding a man.

Kim Kardashian, Helping the Economy?

With all the talk on the gossip websites being about Kim Kardashian's divorce to her husband, Kris Humphries, I figured I too would jump on the band wagon and give my two cents on the situation. While everyone is angered that she spent so much money on a marriage that only lasted 72 days, I decided to look at things in a more positive light. I work in food service and I know many people that work for catering companies. These catering companies provide bar tenders, servers, cooks, and bussers to different events such as parties and weddings. These people make their living based on how much people want to indulge in things like their weddings. Everyone from the people who baked and designed the cake to the people who shampooed the rug the day before the wedding all benefited from this wedding, and all other weddings. While people may go crazy and spend unbelievable amounts of money on things for “their big day," the silver lining is that the money they are throwing away is going to other people, other businesses, that helps put food in people's mouths and clothes on their backs.
I personally would never spend that much money on a wedding, even if I had crazy amounts of it. I understand why people are mad at her for spending so much money on a wedding that ended so soon, but what people fail to see is people like me (in food service and other types of service jobs) benefited from her mistake.