from muggy!
have spend all day online. spend the morning reading 'beauty and misogyny' by sheila jeffreys, and last night reading 'the whole woman' by germaine greer.
i am filled with Rightous Anger at the moment.
feeling a little. lonely? isolated? not that i don't have friends i could call, it's not that. something more. i don't know. some age old confusion about who i am or something. yes. probably. just alone. i am spending too much time on the pink couch. wandering around, random browsing people and such. nothing interesting.
i talked to a woman who was a seperatist in the 1980's. one of the most amazing conversations i have had with a stranger. what a facinating woman. right now, two mums and their little boy are sitting next to me in the cafe. their little boy is beautifully behaved, articulate, and both parents are engaging with him on a level that everyone is equal. it is the most beautiful family dynamic i have witnessed. it makes me sick that gay marriage is illegal. it makes me SICK that people call beautiful people like these perverted, or sinful, or innapropriate parents.
i don't wear heals. i only have boots. flat shoes. i like my feet functional and in tact. i won't destroy them in order to become lengthened or taut, or appropriate. i won't shave my legs or remove my rightful armpit hair. i had a stranger take a photograph of it once. he'd never seen a girl with armpit hair before.
today i was reminded why i stopped wearing makeup.
3 comments:
It takes all kinds to make a world. It would be a sad world if we were all the same.
Oooh, those are great boots!
I read Dali's autobiography. He's different and stuck up, as might be expected, but your armpit hair reminded me of something he wrote: he was utterly fascinated by this woman because she shaved her armpits. It wasn't a common thing, and he'd never seen hairless armpits before. Nowadays, it's pretty much the other way around.
Good for you for having the courage to be you! Do you have the Hothead Paisan lesbian comics in Australia? Great one of Hothead Paisan looking at "ladies' shoes" in a shop window and trying to figure out how a real foot is supposed to squeeze into those heels.
Anticlimax by Sheila Jeffreys:
http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/book-sum/climax.html
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