This is my first post on the newly created Aussie Mum's Cafe. Thanks Bec for getting it up and running. I think this whole process shows in harsh light that I am all talk and no action! Thank God there are some practical people around here ;)
So I thought my first post would involve that most important of mummy-making equipment - the penis.
This article in the Sydney Morning Herald had me thinking about the different ways men and women look at their bodies (their own bodies, smutty!)
Even though Mr New Dick's transplanted penis worked perfectly well, looked good, and stuck with him through a course of anti-rejection drugs he developed "severe psychological problem" with his new penis. Ok, fine, it would be sort of odd to have something that was not strictly you hanging off your body, but ummmm, women apparantly sign up for that by their millions every day.
Women can't wait to have something artificial on or in their bodies because their real bodies aren't good enough. Men on the other hand, seem to prefer what nature gave them. So saline sacks for boobs, foreign hair for extensions, and bum fat for lips doesn't seem to deter woman one bit from their quest for the perfect body.
I suppose this story also speaks to the way a lot of men personalise their penises. This Chinese man must have felt like he lost his best friend when it was cut off in an accident, and an imposter could not replace him no matter how good looking or hard it worked.
I just wish women had a better friendship with their bodies.
So I thought my first post would involve that most important of mummy-making equipment - the penis.
This article in the Sydney Morning Herald had me thinking about the different ways men and women look at their bodies (their own bodies, smutty!)
Even though Mr New Dick's transplanted penis worked perfectly well, looked good, and stuck with him through a course of anti-rejection drugs he developed "severe psychological problem" with his new penis. Ok, fine, it would be sort of odd to have something that was not strictly you hanging off your body, but ummmm, women apparantly sign up for that by their millions every day.
Women can't wait to have something artificial on or in their bodies because their real bodies aren't good enough. Men on the other hand, seem to prefer what nature gave them. So saline sacks for boobs, foreign hair for extensions, and bum fat for lips doesn't seem to deter woman one bit from their quest for the perfect body.
I suppose this story also speaks to the way a lot of men personalise their penises. This Chinese man must have felt like he lost his best friend when it was cut off in an accident, and an imposter could not replace him no matter how good looking or hard it worked.
I just wish women had a better friendship with their bodies.
posted by Lynne@Oberon | 5:18 PM
6 Comments:
Ohmygod you opened a cafe!
(I'll have an English Breakfast thanks.)
Ahhhh, I've arrived. I'll have a nice sit down, chai latte, stimulating dicussion of interesting topics with some laughs for good measure! This place looks just right....
As to today's post; some days I wish someone would just arrive at my house to suck all the fat from my thighs. But ultimately I know I wouldn't do it - if I want it off bad enough I have to do the work. There really should be no easy answers in a way; you tend not to appreciate things otherwise. But ultimately you gotta be comfortable in your own skin....still working on that one though ;-)
Thanks for coming to visit and enjoy your children every chance you get when they move away the house is just not the same.
Love Jeanne ^j^
A tall, thin girlfriend recently said that she hated her 'flubbadubs' under her arms and was going to get them surgically removed. She has zero body fat (just one of those naturally skinny women). I was so cross I just said there had to be a time in our lives where we just ACCEPTED these things. Where does it all end? Even Madonna, with all her workouts isn't perfect looking.
Nice work on the cafe from a SAH Mum in Southern California. Twigs are one thing but don't even get me started on the berries below them. With men, I think their dick and balls are wrapped up in their head. Take vasectomies for example. It's a simple procedure, even outpatient most of the time. It took a guy I know six months to decide if he wanted to put two teeny tubes in his balls on the chopping block. The idea of not producing sperm seems to irk men more than appearance of the tube between their legs that sends sperm forth to overpopulate the world!
Oh, I forgot to recommend Adios Barbie for helping to squash rampant girl body image self-bashing and theshapeofwoman.blogspot.com for exposing our bodies as they really are ... beautiful in all their varied, flawed or not, forms.
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