that place looks seedy!

Apologies. I know. Sometimes it all goes a bit weird. But as the newshounds on here found the other day:

http://community.livejournal.com/blood_art

And I just want to get on with it. Got my Amy Winehouse moon cup ready but my fucking hormones just won't let me express myself. Well, obviously they are in quite a ranty way, but hell, I could be the next... Pete Docherty if I could only get my hands on my blood.

Normal?

Stella, you're a legend!
Completely agree with everything you've said (sometimes not 100% coherently but hey!)
The problem in all this is that when women are lauded for being whores (sorry Kaytee Price, but that's basically your entire "career") then inevitably it becomes OK for their daughters to become the same thing.
It's not even considered seedy or unacceptable anymore to be a porn actor.
You're now a porn star.
For being paid to be fucked 3 ways to Sundays on film.
It's OK to chuck in your university education to become a lap dancer as you earn more than a doctor.
And fine for clothing retailers to subtly reinforce this by sexualizing underage children.
That's not really right, in any way.
In my book your body is for your own enjoyment and not a commodity.
That applies to your looks as well (hopelessly naive of me I realise).
Sexual liberation is great, and I've benefitted directly from it.
But the pendulum can swing too far.
And then it swings back.
And then the people like me (gay) are the first to suffer the backlash.
I'm sorry to say that I have a healthy mistrust of our current society and my "secure" place within it.
This is still a society which is more comfortable objectifying the opposite sex and would have no problem shipping anyone who deviates from the "norm" onto an island somewhere....
That might sound a touch paranoid.
But I still remember the bad old days and have seen the injuries inflicted on people who were different, different sexuality, different race, different ideology.....
Anyway, it's Friday and my hubby is 50 tomorrow (large party).
I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend, especially Stella!

didn't expect this place to turn into a pre menstrual sound board.

i agree pop culture icons have gone to the dogs (pun intended) but seriously...and i'm a woman.

Talking of Citizen lessons, may I take this opportunity to praise the work of Professor Bailey who at a class at NorthWestern University this week illustrated a lesson on human sexuality by having a woman go for it with a vibrator on stage during class. The spoilsports in charge fired him.

Student reponse to the lesson however was said to be uniformly positive.

stella ah trois! Oh my god you are wonderful! As an (also pre-menstrual) 40 yr old woman with a 7 year old girl obsessed with Katy fucking Perry/Rihanna I fully agree with everything you've said here. Your posts are scathing and hilarious...keep 'em coming.

Ta, Stell.

Actually, though, the other day a woman (who gets paid more than twice my pay despite the fact she is thick, does fuck all and never waxes her 'tache) asked me to do a task that basically hinged around telling the time. She then looked at me, very concerned, and said "can you manage that...will it be too much for you?" to which I calmly responded "do you truly think I am too thick to tell the time?" It was a defining moment for me, and I applied for two new jobs later that day.

I think this whole "role model" thing harks back to a time which didn't exist. When the older generation talk of role models what they mean is adults who would smack the kids for being so bloody stupid. So it's not a case of role models, its discipline. I agree fully with you Stells, popular culture breeding clueless people believing that being photographed in a g-string empowers them, somehow. Anyway, you may call me Jangles, Bo J, whatever. Tesco, your job is not ridiculous. You are a pivotal cog in your employment machine, directing people to the right place in a most efficient and effective manner. Don't do yourself down when there are such examples of the irrelevance of humanity broadcast here on a daily basis. And Stellas, get your rabbit up you, that should break the seal!

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It's OK, Mr(s) Jangles. I am fully aware that my job is ridiculous. It's nice though that everyone thinks receptionists are thick, because at least nobody asks me to do anything for them.

And the rest.

But that's the problem Bo J, if I may call you this. Yes, they are young. But where did it all go wrong? Where were the female role models (yukky expression but the best I can do right now) when they were forming their ideas about stuff? All they got was some kind of Rhianna/porn/gaga thing. And retailers selling padded bras to 3 year olds and pole dancing kits for 9 year olds and beds called 'lolita'. I'm sorry guys. But I don't see the differnece between these girls now a few years down the line doing this now on stage in the name of 'cos they want to and it's all about what they want to do' (so tapping into the teen rebel brain thing) and them actually having been groomed in some seedy back room into thinking that's what you should do - and it's so not for their delight. It's for the disgusting cunts in the audience. This is not freedom or liberation. It's shit.

Looks like you might be mowing the lawn this weekend Slug. At Lords

It was actually as disturbing as Katie Price's lack of personal awareness that Jackquie Smith had seemingly no awareness of what was going on out there since she had actually been home secretary or something. from my recollection of Citizen Lessons or PSHE or history, being in the home office is actually is all about what is happening in the country. Fucking hell. I bet she's never even seen a bus let alone travelled on the tube and been felt up for fucks sake. Fuck. Will someone please make my period happen. Please. Or it's gonna be a Libya weekend and I am Gadafi.

Oh christ. And can I just say for the record that having a miscarriage is shit whether you are famous or not and if she does some documentary about it in the future I will actually ... give her a right telling off. It's like that Samantha Janus creature. Do a story line in some rancid soap about cot death and you get to do documentaries about dead babies. I actually want to crap my brains out now cos I can't stand any of the cunts. And .... sigh.... deap, deap breath.... and

Hey! It's Friday! yay! Let's hope I get my period before MOnday (see above) and if not god help the world. I say.

I wasn't having a pop-Tesco Tescopop, what with the sacked-very-regulary caveat, or cravat, however you roll. I think what i was trying to say was Smith would have been more use to society if she'd been forced down a tin mine as a child.

But she might be on X-Factor, and you know what that means.....A whole NEW people's princess.....

I'm a receptionist. Bet I could do Jacqui Smith's job. What does she do? Fuck all.

Being with Jacqui Smith would drive me to porn too. Just to purge my eyes of the sight of her. Fuck it, bleach will do. In the real world Smith would have been a receptionist, a sacked-very-regularly receptionist. Who can't fill in a spreadsheet. Or make budgets balance. Or do anything of any use for society. In-fact the only thing she would be any use for would be an immensely obnoxious, incompetent book end, with Harridan Harlot on the other end. Momsen's at least got the excuse of being young

PS sorry again. Just really pre menstrual. Back to normal soon.

AND the much vaunted documentary by ex home thingy minister Jacqui smith last night... hell a) you've never watched a porn movie and b) you were surprised that boys watched porn. Fucking hell.

And if anyone proposes Lily Allen as a role model I will actually kill them.

Sorry folks. Just ... the look on those blokes faces and the thought that these women think they are being liberated in doing what they do. And I wear a bra and everything and am a complete whorebag tart. But I can't stand this sense that this kind of thing is just a game. It's so fucking not. But that is not the message that is being sent to girls today. It's a fucking shame. Where's Bjork when you need her? At least she was mad but also had a brain on her. And Blondie and Chrissy Hinde and so forth.

Pretty Reckless fan - hahaha. She wouldn't be on stage getting close to the gritty feckless one if she wasn't on the payroll. She's probably one of the guitarists' girlfriends - she looks old enough!

Of course. It's tradition.

And another thing. I've got boys right. And they will be looking at porn soon if they aren't already. Then the girls around them will be dressing like this cos it's what people do isn't it? And then they will want to have sex and these girls, cos they have hormones and so forth. Although dressed like the porn people, they won't actually want to because it's cultural, right? But by then... and then my boys get put on the sex offenders register for thinking that it's okay? It's not. But there's only so much I can do by talking to them about this stuff over a homebaked lasagne.

Will you go naked underneath it like your Uncle George?