Are you my mummy?
1 July 2008 @ 9:36
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Sorry, I have been sparse in postage lately and when here quite grumpy. My teenage insomnia has been about these last couple of weeks, plus a cold, plus general life mulling-over occurring, all of which adds up to grumping. I shall try to be sunnier is disposition as of … now. The sun is out full force today, it was nice yesterday, but it has that sunburn feeling to it today. I slapped on the factor 30 High SPF before taking Ferris out at 9:00am and we had a lovely walk, featuring a tennis ball, in the unbroken blue of the day. Plus it is breezy, my favourite kid of day, blowy and beautiful. The weather-forecaster says it will rain tonight but never mind, we’ve still had more sun this summer than the whole of last summer - and it is ‘only’ July. Seven months of ‘08 already gone… Crumbs. Everyone seems to feel like this year is storming passed, not just me, so I shall take comfort it is not just the fact that I have now lived a quarter of a century and time passes quicker from now on… Mind, it would be no bad thing, I used to hate it when I was a little person and it seemed like forever between Christmases/Birthdays! Another interesting feminism piece here today. Particularly interested in the celebrity pregnancy angle, this forming of ‘career’ women in to ‘mother’ or even ‘earth mother’… No more is she Angelina Jolie ’sex pot’ or ‘weirdo’ or ‘home-wrecker’ she’s a ‘orphan collector’ or a home-maker. This whole Juno empowered female giving birth by choice thing is worrying, too. Seventeen teenagers are up-the-duff in Canada after making a ‘baby pact’ to bring up their children together. Christ when I was seventeen I thought I’d be living in Cardiff, a famous journalist who appeared regularly on list programmes and married to James Dean Bradfield - just goes to show how life changes in eight years. Women are still, essentially, supposed to be child making machines, we are meant to want to give birth and protect our off-spring above all else in life. Now, that seems like a very important and fulfilling thing to do, but it is not the only thing we can do and it is also the easiest way to hide Alan Sguar-esque sexism in the workplace; “she’s in her twenties, crack out the maternity policy before she sneezes and produces a baby!!!” And here is the major problem feminism faces now, we both need to fight for women’s right to reproduce, have that valued by society and get the provision of acceptable child-care in the workplace and fight for our right not to be mothers as well. And as for Mr Sugar, I am sure his choice of hiring a liar with added dinosaur impressions is a much, much better one than hiring a woman who just might want to have children one day… |
