Professor Green, 2010
As it goes, having an obsessive personality can be quite educational. In the last few years, I seem to have developed obsessions (that usually last around 3-4 days) with powerful and/or iconic and/or stereotype defying women, ranging straight throught from Natalie Clifford Barney, to Mata Hari, to Grace Jones, to Anna Wintour. It usually goes something like this:
Day 1//
Discover said being and do ground work, this can include google images, wikipedia and your basic surface knowledge.
Day 1a, later//
Youtube. Of course.
Day 2//
Articles, searching out books, music, films etc - obsession at a deeper level.
Disclose specific obsession to others - sometimes works in favour, sometimes does quite the opposite.
Day 3//
More articles. This tends to be a day of repetition as most of the surface knowledge has been sought out and to dig deeper would equal time and effort.
Day 4//
Half hearted to say the least. All of the knowledge that I desire is usually gained by this day and I start to move on.
To keep me stimulated for 4 days, so to speak, is impressive. Says something about these women - hugely influential, fascinating and powerful people. Probably says something about me too but the less said about that the better.
With a general election going on in the UK, with these aforementioned figures in mind, as an entire race of their own, why do parties feel in order to appeal to female voters, they have to emphasise policies regarding maternity leave, parenting and community? Do female voters not care about the deficit, global warming or events in Iraq? Evidently not quite as much as having an extra week off when they don't want to leave their sprog round their mums for the first time.
It's a true insult that the only thing Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, Sarah Brown and Samantha Cameron are good for is the colour of their dresses. Perhaps this is the case in the latter (see what the blanket of tory cynicism has done? It's even turned me against his wife and encouraged me to spout ridiculous nonsense regarding her choice of dress colour, I've obviously been dragged down) - no. Surely, I hear you say, they should be yellow, red and blue, intentional choices born from support of their dear husbands. Well, I've got news for you Miriam, no matter how flattering that lovely cotton summer dress is, due to unfortunate psephological realities, it doesn't matter how darling you look.
I digress.
Back to the original. It's a little bit offensive of the parties to offer specific policies for women. Do men not care that their children are looked after properly and appropriately if and when the mothers of said spawn choose to return to work? Do men just care about money, immigration, education, curry, tits and football? What do you think David? (Again, David is to blame) Actually David. Whilst you're here, what do you say? I've got to stay married to that bloke that I don't get on with, have nothing in common with and don't even fancy anymore just to get my tax discount? Oh, you do? I see. Living.in.a.dreamworld.
To conclude, because I think I'd better. In the world that we live in today with such influential women as Angela Merkel, Michelle Bachelet, Anna Wintour (mentioned twice because I love her), Gail Berman, Margaret Chan, Gloria Arroyo, Ho Ching, Sonia Gandhi, Anne Lauvergeon, Deborah Harry, Kathryn Bigelow, Vivienne Westwood, Jane Campion, Laura Mulvey, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, JK Rowling, Lynn Elsenhans, Ning Ying, Bette Midler, Stella McCartney, Indra Nooyi, Cristina Fernandez, Nnegest Likké, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey** and even VB herself (she's quite influential don't you know), it proves that girls can think too you know, and not just about fucking nappies.
The end.
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**This list is exaggerated for a REASON.
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