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Stranger than fiction...
Aug. 21st, 2007 08:15 pmI saw Liz Fish in H&M today! Small and a bit aggressive looking? Check. Dyed red hair with dark roots, in bunches? Check. Little skirt, thick tights and DMs? Checketty check. She was in Khaki instead of tartan and stripes, and spoke with a local accent instead of Scottish, but still. Weird. Weirder still, since I saw Post Breakdown, Ethnic Trousered Colin in Starbuck's the other day.
I really, really hope my fictional characters aren't coming to life. I'd have a lot of explaining to do to them, and they'd probably try to sue me for unnecessary emotional damage.
This Morning annoyed me today. I only saw 10 minutes of it, in which they had some walking, talking embodiment of the Telegraph say that Wills shouldn't marry Kate because 'she's just a pretty girl' but that he approved of Chelsae because 'she's sexier than Kate', and pap snaps of both gels in their bikinis, presumably so that we can 'make our own minds up', directly followed by an argument over whether The Big Glorious Book For Girls http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Big-Glorious-Book-Girls/dp/0670917109/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-0735914-8720624?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187724963&sr=8-1
is sexist. Now, Missy C and I had a paw over this book the other week, and in the 10 seconds or so we spent flicking through it, two things made themselves strikingly clear. 1 - it was a hark back to a bygone age and 2 - it's meant to be taken with a dash of salt. Clearly I missed the seminar in Post Feminism For Beginners where publishing recipes for treacle tarts and advice on how to crochet is repressive and degrading but judging a woman's worth purely on how she compares with other women in terms of conventional sexual attractiveness is just fine and dandy. And not just judging her worth, but judging whether she's good enough to marry! How arcanely Patriachal is that? Oooh, will Kate get her Prince Charming? Is she good enough to become the property of that useless clan of stuck-up fuck-ups, bear them a couple of heirs and doubtless be sent on her merry way in 20 odd years like her recent Sloaney predecessors? Sir Lord Prickington of Bollocksbury doesn't think so, because he doesn't particularly want to fuck her, but still, fingers crossed eh, Kate?
I really, really hope my fictional characters aren't coming to life. I'd have a lot of explaining to do to them, and they'd probably try to sue me for unnecessary emotional damage.
This Morning annoyed me today. I only saw 10 minutes of it, in which they had some walking, talking embodiment of the Telegraph say that Wills shouldn't marry Kate because 'she's just a pretty girl' but that he approved of Chelsae because 'she's sexier than Kate', and pap snaps of both gels in their bikinis, presumably so that we can 'make our own minds up', directly followed by an argument over whether The Big Glorious Book For Girls http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Big-Glorious-Book-Girls/dp/0670917109/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-0735914-8720624?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187724963&sr=8-1
is sexist. Now, Missy C and I had a paw over this book the other week, and in the 10 seconds or so we spent flicking through it, two things made themselves strikingly clear. 1 - it was a hark back to a bygone age and 2 - it's meant to be taken with a dash of salt. Clearly I missed the seminar in Post Feminism For Beginners where publishing recipes for treacle tarts and advice on how to crochet is repressive and degrading but judging a woman's worth purely on how she compares with other women in terms of conventional sexual attractiveness is just fine and dandy. And not just judging her worth, but judging whether she's good enough to marry! How arcanely Patriachal is that? Oooh, will Kate get her Prince Charming? Is she good enough to become the property of that useless clan of stuck-up fuck-ups, bear them a couple of heirs and doubtless be sent on her merry way in 20 odd years like her recent Sloaney predecessors? Sir Lord Prickington of Bollocksbury doesn't think so, because he doesn't particularly want to fuck her, but still, fingers crossed eh, Kate?
