Refrigerators Belong In The Kitchen

We lived in California during the last big housing boom.  Everyone was buying bigger homes and building custom everything.  One of the crazes at the time was making everything in the kitchen blend in, so the designers would cover up the dishwasher, stove, refrigerator with panels that matched the cupboards.  That's fine.  Nothing wrong with that except when I went to a friend's house and she would say help yourself to whatever is in the fridge, I couldn't. I would spend an hour wondering around trying to find the blasted thing.  I like pretty, but when the function loses out to aesthetics, I kind of don't get it.  I could see if for some reason you had to put your stove or icebox in your bathroom; perhaps you might want to hide them.  Those things do not belong in a bathroom, but one does expect to find things for keeping and cooking food in a kitchen, so I say lets just let them all hang out right there in the open.

What does that little rant have to do with guns you might ask...

There's nothing wrong with being both feminine *and* competent. There's a lot wrong with deciding to be feminine *instead* of competent- The Cornered Cat

I don't have anything against pink guns or bra holsters or stilettos with daggers in the heels(ok, I do actually have a problem with that one), but I do have a problem with people making excuses to put their safety second or third or forth behind being girly or attractive or sexy.  I do have a problem with not learning to shot or fight or change a tire or speak up and say NO because it isn't considered dainty or womanly.  I fell into this jacked up way of thinking myself, but it really is about time we move passed this archaic way of being. It is time we stop using these convenient excuses to justify our own  lack of responsibility.  

The principal form follows function isn't just for architecture.  Have a pretty kitchen, show off your assets, care for your man(or woman), but for the love of God, leave the refrigerator in a condition where it can be found, learn to depend one your own abilities and please, please, please don't sacrifice your security for a pair of shoes that make your legs look slimmer.