2014 has got to be a better year.  It just has to be.  Happy New Year xx

Just watching Carry on Cabbie.  I am always struck by Hattie Jaques in these films, that whichever character she played, she never believed she was anything less than 100% sexy.  I know that this was not the case in real life, so in a way, credit to the writers for writing her characters in this way, especially at a time when sexism was so rife but really, does that have anything to do with it?  I guess I'm really thinking about body image.  As women we have come so far, but we are so shackled by perceptions of how we should look and how little we should weigh.  It is all so sad. 

I will live another 50 years and will still not get any nearer to understanding what in heavens name gets into the majority of us at this time of year.  Merry Christmas all xx

It's that time of year again.  We spend the entire year being made to feel thoroughly inadequate by womens magazines, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know there are the odd empowering articles, but there are still the countless adverts playing on insecurities and maybe we shouldn't even start with the ones at the back for affordable ie. cheap, plastic surgery, then along come the bright and shiny Christmas editions where they decide that hey, they are really going to go to town on us babies.  And randomly and completely unrelated, why do I feel the need to vomit whenever I come across the phrase 'date night'?

Shopped at Morrisons today.  Not wishing to advertise but it was quite refreshing to shop in a supermarket that wasn't masquerading as some sort of life-changing experience.

And while we're on the subject of bodies, pubic hair, or lack of it. I am so done with this trend.  Apparently, Gwyneth Paltrow is now 'rockin' a 70s vibe', roughly translated as, sporting a fuller bush.  Oh ta Gwyn, considering that after the porn industry, you were one of the women that made ripping everything off, oh so trendy.  Of all the things that anger me the most about this fashion, it's when people say, it's more hygienic.  Since when was soap and water not enough?  As women, we clearly didn't have quite enough body parts to hate without being made to feel not feminine enough, not sexy enough and not fucking clean enough.  Men making us feel abnormal about having hair, so need that, thank you guys.  Wax everything off yourselves.  Every month.  Then come talk.  And please don't be so damned lazy.  Just part it.  It aint freakin' rocket science.

Something's been puzzling me for a while now, but became particularly obvious whilst watching the magnificent Game of Thrones.  There's a fair amount of female nudity in it but all the actresses are very small breasted.  Nothing against small breasts, I've always wanted a pair myself but it begged the question.  When does female nudity cross over from art to porn?  Surely it isn't a matter of breast size.  I've noticed it on a lot of film and TV.  Are our breasts less offensive if they are less 'in your face'?  Can they get away with more naked breasts because they wrongly assume the smaller they are, the less we notice them?