Breakfast Cupcakes

I worked with a lady once who didn’t know what a muffin was. Another coworker asked her to pick up a muffin for her, and this person had to call her teenage daughter to ask what a muffin was. Teenage daughter replied, “You know mama, a breakfast cupcake.” A breakfast cupcake, indeed.

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Anyway, please excuse me as I get up on my soap box . . .
Ok, all situated. Yesterday I was talking to my mom and she told me about the new Hot Mormon Mom Muffin (not sure of the actual title) calendar. We don’t get a lot of Mormon news out here, so it was the first I heard of it. Its done by the same guy who put out the sexy missionary calendar and features real LDS housewives in various states of undress holding muffins and each month as a muffin recipe. The cover model said she did the calendar to dispel LDS housewife stereotypes.
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First, exactly what stereotype is she talking about? Ok, I know what she means, but any woman who has spent any time with LDS women knows that while we share values like, I don’t know, virtue, modesty, righteousness, kindness, service, (or at least try to) LDS women are all very different. We are educated and talented. Some work, some don’t, some run businesses, go to school, have 2 kids or 10. Some have dinner on table when their husband gets home, and some have their husband do the cooking after a long day (or is that just me?). The fact the she, as an LDS woman, is even perpetuating the idea that there is a “typical” Mormon woman is annoying. You, Mrs. September or whatever month you are, obviously know or care very little about the fabulous women this Church produces, as you are obviously not one of them. And how are you “dispelling” this “stereotype”? By contributing to the world’s objectification of women, that’s how. Because I hate to be the one to inform you of this, but people aren’t buying this calendar to better understand your stance on LDS women. They aren’t even buying it for the muffin recipes. They are buying it to look at the “muffin tops” spilling out of your shirt.
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Well, now that I'm up here and we're talking about women objectifying themselves, how about one more topic on conversation. Skanky Halloween costumes. There are few things I despise more than skanky Halloween costumes. I can't stand how girls dress up as a skany referee or skany police officer or skanky devil or whatever. Its really just a bra and a police hat and there you have your costume! Its like an excuse to dress extra skank-errific. If you want to dress like that, just go as a stripper for Halloween instead. And Chris just told me someone he knows at school is going as a "sexy deer" while her man goes as a hunter. I mean, I know the world has to sexualize pretty much everything, but deer? Really? Halloween was once fun and childish. Now Facebook gets x-rated as it fills up with pictures of everybody's horrible costumes.

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Ok, stepping off the soap box now.