RRGHHHh
I need to blow off some steam. I dind't sleep well so I'm grouchy.

I had a rant on the Olympics, because I don't care for the Olympics and I've not since I was little. I'm a total sentimental sap over everything, except the Olympics. I just have never gotten excited over 'em. However, that was a bit too politically charged for the subject of a pointless, need to vent, silly rant, so I've instead opted for:

The Name of the Female Ninja Turlte
I never saw the show with her in it, so I can't comment on whether she is an annoying blantant female tack on the makes me feel the only time my gender is wanted is when we are foced onto shows via political correctness, or if she was actually a decen addition to the team.

What I do know though is that her name (or nick name, as I think she had an actual name name) bugs the crap outta me.

WHY THE HELL was the now-removed-from-canon female Ninja Turtle's name VENUS?
Seriously? Venus? VENUS? After Venus de Milo? Saban, you seriously couldn't find an female artists name to use? It takes next to now time to find, even without the internet!

Here Saban, have some art history:
There are actually classical FEMALE painters. Too obscure you say? Only because art history remains pretty sexist, but at least one is a almost always mentioned in the college text books.

Let me introduce you to Artemisia Gentileschi.
She was an early, and very reknowned, Italian Baroque painter. She was the first female painter allowed to become a member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno. She was also esteemed by the Medici family, and even asked by Michelangelo Buonarroti the younger (not the famous artist but a relative of said artist) to help with a project.

But no, the female turtles gets the trite name of Venus because female artists don't even rate a pop culture refernece.

*head desk*

If they didn't like the name Gentileschi there were some other choices (list provide by Wiki, I so do not know these names off the top of my head).

Female Artists from the Renaissance era include: Caterina dei Vigri, Maria Ormani, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lucia Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Barbara Longhi, Fede Galizia, Diana Scultori Ghisi, Esther Inglis, Marietta Robusti (daughter of Tintoretto), Properzia de' Rossi, Mayken Verhulst, Levina Teerlinc, and Catarina van Hemessen

Female Artists from the Baroque era include:
Mary Beale, Rosalba Carriera, Élisabeth Sophie Chéron, Isabel de Cisneros, Josefa de Ayala better known as Josefa de Óbidos, Giovanna Garzoni, Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Maria Sibylla Merian, Louise Moillon, Maria van Oosterwijk, Clara Peeters, Luisa Roldán known as La Roldana, Rachel Ruysch and Elisabetta Sirani.


So seriously the fact that they named her Venus really annoys me as an extension of the annoyance of how little mention female artists get in art hisotry even though WE DID STUFF.


. . .

so there

That is my rant. ^__^

Feel better now.