Election Day FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions about the Granada Hills Neighborhood Council Elections:

1. There's an election today?


2.  Why should I care?


3.  Who are these people?  How do I know who to vote for?


4.  Where do I go to vote?


5.  How do I know if I'm in Granada Hills North or Granada Hills South?

Mud Flap At Sunshine Canyon

The Daily News reported that Sunshine Canyon Landfill is receiving 40 additional truckloads per day of waste and debris Los Angeles County cleared from catch basins in the wake of recent storms.

The landfill's manager says the stuff is simply mud, but Sunshine Canyon watchdogs the North Valley Coalition and Councilman Greig Smith are raising question about the potential health risks, if any, from the debris, which they fear may contain contaminants.


Read the full article at Daily News.com

Granada Hills Charter High School Brings Home The Silver

GHCHS's Science Bowl team took second place in the 18th annual Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Science Bowl, coming in after perpetual winner North Hollywood High.
Full story here.

Granada Hills South Candidate Forums: Video

If you couldn't make it to the Granada Hills South Neighborhood Council's candidate forums, or skipped the event because the proceedings lacked a fast-forward button, take heart: GHSNC has made video of the forums available online. Most candidates kept their remarks fairly general: "I love Granada Hills and I want to help make it better" was a common theme, but the best line of the evening came from Member-At-Large Director candidate Eric Mansker, who introduced himself by saying, "I'm Eric Mansker, I'm running for emperor of Granada Hills, and I'm looking for subjects."

Don't forget to vote on March 2.

Tonight in Granada Hills: The L.A. Pizza Comedy Experience

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Meet The Candidates Tonight!

Mommas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Sexists

This week, UC San Diego officials condemned an off-campus, Facebook-promoted party called "The Compton Cookout," which was organized as a joke on Black History Month.

Ahh, Facebook—always a wealth of educational materials. This week, I've learned a lot about how far some of the milennials haven't come. Gay marriage seems to be faring well, overt racism is still largely verboten—at least linguistically speaking—but unfortunately, open sexism is in some circles still a-okay. Celebrated, even.

If campus officials at UCSB saw in the "Compton Cookout" a teachable moment, then I hope that Granada Hills Charter High School officials will stumble across the Facebook group created by a group of GHCHS students called "i just found out women spelled backwards is kitchen" (sic) and seize another such moment. If UC San Diego can host a "teach-in 'to discuss the importance of mutual respect and civility'" over an exhibition of racist thought, then wouldn't it be fiting if these boys' mommies were made aware of lines like, "What's strong enough for a man, but made for a woman? The back of my hand."

I'm reminded of another joke from my youth: Q: How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: That's not funny. Yet at the risk of being called a humorless feminist, I still feel compelled to raise the question: why is it acceptable in some circles to make sexist jokes, but not racist ones? Perhaps it's because the chasm between men and women is, and always will be, far vaster than the one between men of different races. The assumption that there are inherent differences between humans of different races is the foundation of racism, yet the assumption that there are inherent differences between the sexes is, to a certain extent, just common sense. Biologically, evolutionarily, and culturally, men and women are truly different, and there's just no getting around that.


Yet in an age when uttering, or even typing, the word "nigger" immediately brands one a racist, regardless of context, there is no taboo word with a parallel power that would brand one a sexist, nor is being called a sexist, at least for the members of this group, in any way a mark of shame. Yet I'm actually glad that this gross oversimplification of what racism is—use the n-word, go to jail—has no counterpart in gender politics, or anywhere else. A single word does not a racist make. There are no silver bullets, and context is everything.

you know they invented the microwave for retarded women that can't cook, and for the even dumber women they invented drive thru.

if a tree falls and crushes and killsa woman....why the fuck is there a forrest in the kitchen?

Why don't women need drivers licenses?There is no road between the bedroom and the kitchen.

You don't have to be a Santa Cruz grad to notice the oppressive tone, but you'd also have to be pretty dense not to notice that the balls-out offensiveness is central to the humor. One could generously interpret these jokes as social pressure-relief mechanisms, but again, I'm forced to ask: why is it that these jokes be plainly, immediately, and roundly condemned if they were retold with the w-word subsituted with the n-word?

I put this theory to the test, and it was confirmed. Shortly after being invited to join the group—a move its organizers are certain to regret—I took the bait, and began posting jokes of my own. Taking material from a KKK-affiliated website whose motto was, "It's not illegal to be white...yet," I reposted racist jokes, but substituted the word "woman" for the racial epithet, and pointed out that I had done so. No one laughed, my post was quickly deleted, and I was, as predicted, roundly criticized for comparing the two isms. Being accused of racism in a group frankly devoted to sexism: the irony is so thick you could cut it into strips and sew it into a burka.

Upon joining, I noticed that the group has several female members, who even joined in the ribbing with "LMFAO." That could be the case because these girls genuinely think the jokes are funny, in a way that I just don't get, but it might also be the case because it's often safer to side with a bully than it is to stand in his way.

In response to my post, the group's organizer said, "this muthafucker really said nigger..wow u raciest white bitch."

This response may have contained an unintentional spelling error, but I chose to assume that it didn't, and instead accepted it as compliment, pointing him to the definition of "raciest" in TheFreeDictionary.com, which reads,

racy [ˈreɪsɪ]

adj racier, raciest

1. (of a person's manner, literary style, etc.) having a distinctively lively and spirited quality; fresh

2. having a characteristic or distinctive flavour a racy wine

3. suggestive; slightly indecent; risqué a racy comedy

So to the members of "i just found out women spelled backwards is kitchen," I say, gee, thanks! Flattery will get you everywhere, boys.