Women Beware Women

[poliphilo]

I'm at the doctors- and what have they got in the waiting room? Women's magazines- the cheap ones- with articles entitled "I married my abuser" and "my new vagina" and picture features that gloat over the weight gain and fashion disasters of female celebs. My heart sinks.

Porn degrades women? Maybe (I'd be prepared to debate that one) but not half as much as these women's magazines do. Here every unsuccessful woman is a dozy cow who has let herself be exploited by men and every successful woman is a stuck up bitch just asking to be pulled back down into the ditch where she belongs. "God, but she looks fat in that!"

Misogyny sells. And the most avid consumers of it are women.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right. Here in Britain we have a guy called Patrick Moore who has been presenting astronomy programmes for the BBC since the 1950s. He's a national treasure. He's very fat, has a mop of wild white hair, talks at machine-gun speed and wears a monocle.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

To continue careering off in the conversation: I love astronomy, and I wish I could see your Patrick Moore's television program here.

Years ago, I heard a scientist say that astronomy was the most interesting field, because almost every day we're discovering something new.

I was out shopping for random books at Barnes & Noble the other day and came across a deeply discounted photograph book of the moon. Because it had no captions, I set it aside, and later I thought how Copernicus would have given all he had for that book of photographs.

I wish there were reincarnation, because I want to come back and see what things are like thousands, millions of years from now. So far, I do this mostly through Stephen Baxter, whose science fiction is so mind-bogglingly far-reaching. I just finished re-reading Titan, about astronauts living on that lonely moon. Baxter can take me right to the surface. I love that man. He makes me yearn.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like the idea of reincarnation- and for much the same reasons as you. I used to care passionately about personal survival but now that doesn't matter to me so much. Now I just like the idea of being around in some form or other to find out "what happens next".

Here's the website for Patrick Moore's programme The Sky At Night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/patrickmoore.shtml