id just like to lie down a lot right now.





i spent a whole year doing work about the menstrul cycle, reading about it, taking pictures, looking at other peoples pictures and working my way through all the stereotypes of suffering that are built into the whole thing which seem to debilitate women for existing for five days. i could talk about mesntruation for hours, i could talk about old myths of it, old practices, hiding it, admitting to it, shirking embarrassment yet whenever mine rolls round i still manage to slide into the stereotype.

i dont know whether its because i skipped one, which i did so icould go out without worrying about bleeding everywhere, but this one feels like a doozy. but i also think its because i have done a few things i dont feel particuarly impressed with myself about this past month and a half.

i hate bad moods being written off as pms. i hate being sad being written off as the same.

i cant even be bothered to finish this post properly


sorry for being such a moaning mini today. literally.

thankyou television

for the ammo at least.

after being horrified once more by a tv show about altering your life because of your lack of interest in your appearance [where as i kind of like you are what you eat because its about being healthy rather than supposedly beautiful with your fucking ugly face lift , chemically bleached teeth and cellotape running from eye to eye through your hairline] anyway. gill covered the problems with ten years younger. i wish to pick my bone with anthea turner

yes, bad women of the world, worry not as anthea has come to turn your life around and teach you how to act like a lady and how to clean the house and cook for your husband and really get yourself back under the thumb. dont get me wrong, im not adverse to cleaning, in all my balshy feminism im not adverse to cleaning or embodying any normal housewife chores. im for choice not against it, i love having a clean house and i enjoy cooking occasionally but that anthea turner and the bbc can fuck off with their attempt to sort out britains worse housewifes.... oh wait apparantly theres the odd house husband too... oh great.. just to pretend theres a balance.

whats really great is that on the bbc website shes dressed like a whore, double wammy. mother in the kitchen whore in the bedroom!

maybe im not watching it properly, maybe, just maybe, its irony or something.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/perfect_toptips.shtml

i wish id written, ironing.

jeeze louise

well. what exciting times ive had.

i went away with the boys im to live with this weekend and got increasingly frustrated at their frustration at my feminist views. apparantly it was not needed for me to disagree with the dancing girls at the club night we went to, it wasnt called for me to mention that i dont like the magazines with ladies with the legs splayed and their tits barely cupped in their hands and apparantly im a moron.

im sure some of it was in jest but i find it so exhausting trying to describe why these things irritate me when they all think im being stupid, they dont seem to realise that their passiveness is amongst the problems im dealing with.

at one point my friend michael stepped in when i was being told to quieten down, he said that the 80 odd years of starting to get equality and heard wasnt much in comparrison to hundreds of years of men being in control so i was allowed much more room to speak. and i thought that was lovely.

i love it when boys are dicks about these things.

this is badly written as always. i have writers block and i cant concentrate.

testing testing

SO, i've started trying to throw some words together, this is like my 300th attempt and im finally sticking to one topic! the wonders of the modern world.

anyway, im hoping to get some feedback so i can structure it as best as possible.

oh, its about women and violent crime and the subsequant alteration of stereotypes.

While we are all constantly reassured that we are living in a new age, free from the stereotypes of the past I can’t help but think that those living with that belief are a little far from sane. There are obvious differences in society, which help reinforce the archaic perceptions of males and females, the creation of both in mainstream media and in the ideology of the home for starters, and this is what I want to address. In a time when we are told not to worry about inequalities because they don’t exist we must be even more wary of their creation and sustainability.

In a media that shapes our perception of the world and our lives stereotypes of both sexes must be continually upheld to protect the society that is being created for us. These stereotypes are in fact the old ones we feel we should have shaken off by now, men are portrayed as strong independent beings, sometimes violent and out of control but always in a dominant position. Women, surprisingly then, are still seen as the weaker sex, offering only caring and nurturing qualities. For these types to be upheld stories must be published, which reinforce these ideas, showing men as fighters, abusers, in control and women as being left by the side, abused and weak.

With the media in such control over what it publishes it is hard to think that they would let their guard drop or their stereotypes fall to pieces but sometimes news stories threaten to do this for them. In particular those stories of women committing violent crimes, how does one deal with female turning on her own characteristics, abandoning everything society has given to her?