silly fox

Billy Bragg, ‘Sexuality’ (1991)

why haven’t we got this sorted already, world?

I mean. yes. sexuality is a thing.
but reality is also a thing.
and ‘laws’ of sexuality are just not a thing.

I don’t mean that it can’t be straightforward or clearly defined or whatever, only that this isn’t a question with a correct answer that you can be graded on. it’s comforting to know that Billy Bragg was singing about this in the early nineties. but also, like, terrifying that a lot of people still don’t get it.

4 November 2012 ➷1 #equality #sex #sexist #politics #other people #things that aren't right

Thanks to shows like Downton Abbey and even Mad Men, we have seen a return to chivalry and more gentlemanly ways … womanising, hard-partying men are [now] looking really tawdry.

Cleo editor Gemma Crisp, in a rubbish Telegraph article from January.

… seriously?

I am absolutely over shows like Mad Med being cited for male role models. because, sure, the sixties was hot. and, sure, we can be attracted to things that aren’t good for us. and, yeah, it’s a very entertaining and well-made show. but dressing smug, sexist, middle-aged dudes in suspenders doesn’t make them any less smug, sexist or middle aged.

… and isn’t that part of what Mad Men is about?

if, ‘the old-fashioned gentleman’ that the Telegraph imagined in January really has made a ‘comeback,’ then Tony ‘women-should-worry-about-the-carbon-tax-because-the-cost-of-ironing-will-go-up’ Abbott is in luck and All the Single Ladies are pretty much out of it.

3 July 2012 ➷6 [Source: dailytelegraph.com.au] #ugh #auditioning boyfriends #other people #gentleman #mad men #sexist #politics #australia