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Opinion Dominion asks:
What the hell is it about the women columnists at The Age and their habits with mirrors? First, it was Catherine Deveny making the oddest introduction to a column about International Women’s Day I had ever read; now it’s Tracee Hutchison confessing to her fair share of sub-navel gazing. Who will be next?
It could be anyone, especially given the Age’s opposition to sexism. The Full Disclosure column would seem an obvious bet, though.
Maybe the can conferences in the ladies rooms around the Age are getting a bit nostalgic?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 17 at 10:43 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
Why is it that the women who claim to be more than a vagina always seem fixated on it alone?
Posted by memomachine on 2008 03 17 at 10:51 AM • permalinkI remember a number of years ago, an erectile dysfunction group had as their spokesthing a woodpecker. I thought it was a riot, especially since the snoots in charge seemed oblivious.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 03 17 at 01:14 PM • permalinkI never associated Lincoln with repressed sexuality, Merlin.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2008 03 17 at 01:57 PM • permalinkI’m picturing, say, Phatty Adams writing a similar column. (He’d undoubtedly need a mirror and probably names his genitals.) Would it get published? Would there be any controversy and/or backlash?
I must admit that I, personally, have never named my genitals mostly because I’ve never been able to settle on a single name.
Terminator 2000?
The Bald-Headed Avenger?
Big Bob?
The Grim Reaper?
Pleasurtronix 5000?
Rockin’ Robin?
Big Gulp?
Roadmaster?Too many possibilities, too little time to contemplate a choice.
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2008 03 17 at 02:07 PM • permalinkIt has something to do with this.
It is all the rage among the women of the Australian left. From what I have heard on ABC radio, women are invited get on stage and deliver a monologue about their vagina. What Deveny and Traceeeeeee are doing taking that monologue to a wider audience than the 50 or so lefties who attend the theatres. The Age readership would be 10 times that.
It is as trendy as Prius.
So Deveney is whining about Deb balls and Traceee is whining about an ad on TV.
They should both be banned! They’re demeaning!
Meanwhile, hospitals in Melbourne employ female genital mutilation consellors to deal with just one of the many less attractive attributes of the Religion of Peace.
But fat chance that Deveney or Traceeee will ever write about that.
Posted by The Mongrel on 2008 03 17 at 06:44 PM • permalinkIf anything, the ad in question protects women’s dignity by using code.
In terms of the sexualisation of our culture, to goes in the other direction. The message is only available to those in the know, ie adults (and probably not all of them either!). To kids, it’s just a boring weird commercial with a large animal in it.
Posted by daddy dave on 2008 03 17 at 07:41 PM • permalinkNature Photography
Ever wanted to create
A portrait of your furry mate?
If you’re careful, if you’re thorough
You can rival David Attenborough.To start off your artistic mission
Assume an appropriate position.
Switch on your camera, get it set,
Aim it at your little pet.Extend the telephoto lens -
Hold it steady, don’t get tense.
When it’s done it makes a beep,
Retracts the lens and goes to sleep.Then take it off to Harvey Norm -
They can print in any form -
Six by fours or ten by eights,
Greetings cards or dinner plates.And if you get the urge to spread
Your work around the World Wide Web,
Just set up your account on Flickr,
So the world can see you, without knickers.“MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day, a day when middle-class women, like myself, squat over mirrors…”—Blimp Girl
Drop 50 pounds and you could probably locate your genitals without needing a mirror.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 03 17 at 08:55 PM • permalinkJust above the looking glass,
Cath positioned her ample ass,
And sighed “surely is a mess down there,
What with all the clumps of hair”.
“I know what, I need a fringe,
That’ll tidy up my minge”.
So off to the barber she did hop,
Hoping she could trip her mop;
The cutter looked, said “you must be funning,
To tame that jungle, go to Bunnings-
What you need to clear THAT clutter,
Is a petrol powered industrial brushcutter”.
This did not cause ol’ Cath to flip,
‘Stead she opened the site for adventure trips.#24, you’ve given me an idea…retractable vibrators…hmmm.
Probably someone came up with a pun in a meeting and they got all enthusiastic. As humour, it’s a groaner, a bit childish and a bit off-putting but the little creature in the ad itself is probably quite endearing, as little creatures generally are. (I haven’t seen the ad).
It’s probably in better taste - which isn’t saying much - than the old Big M ads which used to have milk running down the breasts of a bikini-wearing girl.
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 17 at 10:48 PM • permalink#29 Actually kae, as beavers go, it is on the smallish side.
Maybe one of the Canucks who post here can back me up on this, eh?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2008 03 18 at 09:44 PM • permalink
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