Comme ci, comme ca

[la_marquise]

So, in the Good column:
I am up-to-date with the laundry.
Lovely afternoon yesterday with tamaranth
New dress! (Black and white and short.)
Cats are happy
The marquis, who was feeling unwell yesterday, is much better today.
I'm in the middle of reading a series of fascinating recent feminist books.

In the Bad column:
I am not up-to-date with the ironing,
Or with my writing,
Because my shoulders are cr*p plus I seem to have some kind of sleeping virus
Fascinating feminist books are fascinating, but they also make me sad, at how much ground we have still to go and how much the gains of the 70s and early 80s have already been eroded


Skirt of the day: cream patchwork.

Comments

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

makes much sense. Hope you have a better one tomorrow!

[aberwyn.livejournal.com]

Ironing with sore shoulders is Not Good Idea. I'm behind on mine, too, so you're not alone, and I don't have an excuse. :-)

Perhaps our concern with ironing shows that feminist gains have been eroded? Nah, I'm just compulsive about it, and I get some great story ideas when doing it, too.

[anef.livejournal.com]

Having bad shoulders is force majeure - try not to feel bad about it.

Short skirts seem to be the in thing at the moment, either with or without black leggings, but there are some fashions where I cannot go.

[dorispossum.livejournal.com]

interesting to learn i'm not unique in thinking that sexual politics are regressing (and not just in the boys club cabinet). In many, many class discussions, I hear my female students tell me that women are completely liberated, that women can do anything men can do, that feminism has 'gone to far' and nowadays it's men who are the disadvantaged sex. These are the 'truths' they hear and read ubiquitously.

They tell me these things whilst looking at me with perfect maquillage, of a kind that the middle class/well educated section of my generation only wore for 'going out'. They believe these things whilst shuddering at the horror of even the tinest flicker of female body hair (takes them a while to get the joke about Alison's 'beard' in the Miller's Tale!). They believe they are the dominant sex whilst happily assigning their female acquaintances into 'bitch' 'slag' 'butch' 'minger' etc categories. And laughing supportively when the boys do the same.

Not all of them, thankfully. But still - depressing.