Comments on: How to love thy neighbour's stretchmarks http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/ "We're all naked underneath" Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: warrior http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4943 warrior Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:55:35 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4943 go vomit over their's instead :-) go vomit over their’s instead :-)

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4942 K8 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:38:22 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4942 Oh hey now don't get me wrong here, this isn't a feminist rant about bastard men... jeebus no. It's more of a rant about women! I suppose when a group has been oppressed for such a long time, they tend to turn and oppress their weaker counterparts... classic bully syndrome. This is a shout out to womankind that seeing as we're no longer oppressed, maybe it's time to stop the resentment. I love men. I love the man in me (so to speak), and the feminine aspects of men in turn. An ideal world for me would be an exact balance of each, pretty much as Nick says, like it was in the 60's. I'm with you 100% on the princess thing. If I see one more 'Princess on board' placard in someone's rear window I may vomit all over my dashboard. Oh hey now don’t get me wrong here, this isn’t a feminist rant about bastard men… jeebus no. It’s more of a rant about women!

I suppose when a group has been oppressed for such a long time, they tend to turn and oppress their weaker counterparts… classic bully syndrome.

This is a shout out to womankind that seeing as we’re no longer oppressed, maybe it’s time to stop the resentment.

I love men. I love the man in me (so to speak), and the feminine aspects of men in turn. An ideal world for me would be an exact balance of each, pretty much as Nick says, like it was in the 60′s.

I’m with you 100% on the princess thing. If I see one more ‘Princess on board’ placard in someone’s rear window I may vomit all over my dashboard.

]]> By: warrior http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4941 warrior Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:45:52 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4941 If you are going to Hide Sile na gig in the privacy of your home, you could that with about 90% of the other heroines you listed. Hate to be anti catholic but the Mary Chick doesn't cut the mosthered,( mother and mustard) , she is a combination of all that is safe and benign in the others. You know what they say about too much goodness. As a bloke I would put a lot of blame squarely at the feet of whinging women, whose mothers and sisters fought for equality, and then who refuse to get the finger out and characterise all men as potential raping bastards, the misery of the world is of course the fault of all men every where, especially that bloke who just looked at your cleavage. If you don't want him looking don't show it for crying out loud. The probablem is of course caused by a bloke, Walt disney, and inforced by....mothers and fathers who want their little princesses growing up marrying princes, and at the same time they give two fingers to the queen of wherever. Give me a world where babies are not classed as blue or pink and when the first question is not is it a boy or girl? What freakin difference does it make if you are still going to say, 'your baby is lovely' smile at me sickenly and then toddle off into history unintroduced. One more thing, would you lot please just once turn around to your men and make them feel like they can have some credit for existing please! Right rant over... sorry.......sort of! If you are going to Hide Sile na gig in the privacy of your home, you could that with about 90% of the other heroines you listed. Hate to be anti catholic but the Mary Chick doesn’t cut the mosthered,( mother and mustard) , she is a combination of all that is safe and benign in the others. You know what they say about too much goodness.
As a bloke I would put a lot of blame squarely at the feet of whinging women, whose mothers and sisters fought for equality, and then who refuse to get the finger out and characterise all men as potential raping bastards, the misery of the world is of course the fault of all men every where, especially that bloke who just looked at your cleavage. If you don’t want him looking don’t show it for crying out loud. The probablem is of course caused by a bloke, Walt disney, and inforced by….mothers and fathers who want their little princesses growing up marrying princes, and at the same time they give two fingers to the queen of wherever.
Give me a world where babies are not classed as blue or pink and when the first question is not is it a boy or girl? What freakin difference does it make if you are still going to say, ‘your baby is lovely’ smile at me sickenly and then toddle off into history unintroduced.
One more thing, would you lot please just once turn around to your men and make them feel like they can have some credit for existing please!
Right rant over… sorry…….sort of!

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4940 K8 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:02:48 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4940 Ah not really but thanks anyway :) Ah not really but thanks anyway :)

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4939 K8 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 01:01:58 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4939 THAT'S AN UNREAL COINCIDENCE!! I was watching Hellboy II with TAT this evening which featured this very statue on auction and I stated that it was my very favourite statue of all time. TAT didn't see the appeal. If somebody plonked this thing in my front garden, all 10ft of it, I would be the happiest person alive. It's beautiful. THAT’S AN UNREAL COINCIDENCE!!

I was watching Hellboy II with TAT this evening which featured this very statue on auction and I stated that it was my very favourite statue of all time.

TAT didn’t see the appeal.

If somebody plonked this thing in my front garden, all 10ft of it, I would be the happiest person alive. It’s beautiful.

]]> By: unstranger http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4938 unstranger Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:16:47 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4938 Excellent post as ever K8 Excellent post as ever K8

]]> By: GrowUp http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4937 GrowUp Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:58:48 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4937 Globally is a fair point. Wouldn't get in the taxi? Gobshites! And it's not solidarity making me say that, that's just plain stupid. That said, I won't get in my mother in law's car, she never did a test, perhaps that's age-ist of me? Sod gender, animal based deities are much more interesting if you ask me. Oh and I'm pretty sure some of my aunts have no soul, but that's just because they are selfish waggons, nothing to do with gender. Globally is a fair point.

Wouldn’t get in the taxi? Gobshites! And it’s not solidarity making me say that, that’s just plain stupid. That said, I won’t get in my mother in law’s car, she never did a test, perhaps that’s age-ist of me?

Sod gender, animal based deities are much more interesting if you ask me. Oh and I’m pretty sure some of my aunts have no soul, but that’s just because they are selfish waggons, nothing to do with gender.

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4936 K8 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:26:25 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4936 It's probably the media's fault again. We're spoon-fed stories about cat fights between celebrities, told what we must look like in order to be perfect. So, when we see these 'perfect' qualities in other women, we resent them for it. Why do women want to look plastic these days, is it for the benefit of male admiration, or female? Are we just going to turn into a world full of wankers? Die, celeb media, die. It’s probably the media’s fault again. We’re spoon-fed stories about cat fights between celebrities, told what we must look like in order to be perfect. So, when we see these ‘perfect’ qualities in other women, we resent them for it.

Why do women want to look plastic these days, is it for the benefit of male admiration, or female? Are we just going to turn into a world full of wankers?

Die, celeb media, die.

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4935 K8 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:16:13 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4935 Yeah the old school of male dominated thought is dwindling, but there are still signs of it... there's still the pay discrepancy, and around here, a woman's worth is judged from her husband's job and status symbols, not what skills she has to offer. Also I was surprised at how difficult it was to integrate myself into the taxi driving profession - at least 6 blokes refused to get into my cab on the basis that I was a female and would most likely kill them with my scatty driving. I was quite happy to leave them in the rain at 2am, I didn't fight it. Then there's female mutilation and the belief in a lot of cultures that women don't have souls... most deities are male etc etc, globally speaking it's still a patriarchal society I think. Yeah the old school of male dominated thought is dwindling, but there are still signs of it… there’s still the pay discrepancy, and around here, a woman’s worth is judged from her husband’s job and status symbols, not what skills she has to offer. Also I was surprised at how difficult it was to integrate myself into the taxi driving profession – at least 6 blokes refused to get into my cab on the basis that I was a female and would most likely kill them with my scatty driving. I was quite happy to leave them in the rain at 2am, I didn’t fight it.

Then there’s female mutilation and the belief in a lot of cultures that women don’t have souls… most deities are male etc etc, globally speaking it’s still a patriarchal society I think.

]]> By: K8 http://www.cackaloo.com/2009/04/05/how-to-love-thy-neighbours-stretchmarks/#comment-4934 K8 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:06:01 +0000 http://www.cackaloo.com/?p=1219#comment-4934 Great idea for a book!! I wonder if they'd endorse it in primary schools around here? So tempted to buy a copy. Great idea for a book!! I wonder if they’d endorse it in primary schools around here? So tempted to buy a copy.

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