Muffin tops & misogyny
The last couple of days have seen the temperatures in London soar to over 30 degrees. This is good & bad. On the upside, the glorious sunshine has seen young ladies cast aside normally their normally dowdy clothing but inevitably comes at a price & that price is the incidence of the muffin tops being spotted on the streets of our nation’s capital
all of which causes me to recall Michael Buerk’s call for decorum of a couple of years ago when the veteran news presenter has ruffled a few feathers by having the temerity to suggest that society is becoming increasingly feminised which of course is these days a capital offence in our inclusive urbanite metrosexual touch feely society. Specifically Buerk didn't have much time for fat girls with bare midriffs aka the dreaded muffin top.
Now, I am as happy as the next normal bloke to leer drunkenly at the shapely female form but I simply cannot think what processes some women who would not look out of place on the flensing deck of a Japanese whaling vessel to expose themselves in such a way in public. There is a common decency aspect here. If I want to see lard, I will get half a pound out of the fridge - but chavette, Shania Storm, never learnt about decorum because she skipped school that day & was busy getting ripped on alcopops & glue in a multi storey car park behind the shopping centre.
However, it transpired that where Burek really incurred that wrath & venom of the femi-fascists was over his comments to relating to wimin in the workplace.
He's bonkers. He's a dear, old fashioned chauvinist of the first order,
tutted Anna Ford, one of the BBC's first women newsreaders. Yes dear & exactly what is the problem with that? Its not like he has been machine gunning disabled children in their wheelchairs, before stealing their pokemon cards, is it? But not to conform is now deemed to be anti-social.
Please don't get me wrong on this, I don't have any problem over women in the workplace, its just that they never ever miss an opportunity to tell you know that they are a professional person in a mans world...endlessly! If they are not carping on about that, then they are whining about glass ceilings or suing you for five million pounds because there isn't a mascara holder in the office loos.
But Buerk has got exactly to the heart of the matter, abet by default. By criticising the emasculation of our society, he graphically illustrated the vehemence with which any man that dares to speak out against feminist hegemony is publicly pilloried.
It is fine to make jokes about men being useless, but if you do not to prostrate yourself in the face of feminisation it is deemed to be a crime against humanity, carrying a mandatory sentence social ostracism.
I will admit that to an extent we men a culpable by virtue of allowing this to happen & continuing to put up with it. Personally, I rile against the whole touchy feely feminisation of our society. I don't have any moisturiser or other grooming products. Grooming is what you do to horses if you must have them. I have soap, shampoo, shaving soap & BO basher. My male accessories comprise power tools - large petrol driven ones. I don't have a problem with my secondary sexual characteristics & thus feel no need to wax anything other than applying some beeswax to some of my pairs of boots from time to time
Sadly, on the train as I type this, from where I am sitting I can see three girly men, reading reconstructed in touch with your feelings type magazines. I spurn you all as I would spurn a rabid dog.
Comments
There was a Newcastle (on Hunter not Tyne) journo who was totally pilloried over the muffin top business in 2005. Why doesnt bad fashion go out of fashion?
Posted by: Russell Furzer | July 2, 2009 8:46 AM
No comment. I think my views on radical feminism and pussified men are well known.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | July 2, 2009 2:38 PM
Hmmmm....so a megapussi bag o' crisps can lead directly to the medical condition yclept "muffintop".
FMFT never stops giving.
Posted by: Bomber Harris | July 2, 2009 3:27 PM
What caught my eye was the green poster next to chubby buns. What is the deal with that? Needs a paster put on it saying "So get your ass to work and earn it."
Posted by: walt | July 2, 2009 4:31 PM
Here ya go ... woman cleaning an escalator ....
Posted by: Kristopher | July 2, 2009 6:27 PM
Yes I was going to point you all to the brilliant essay by Kim called (I think ) the pussification of man, as well as being 100% correct it is a good read (I will plug it a Kim seems a bit shy??) one solution would be to give home owners (principle not spouse) and business owners an extra vote each!
Posted by: Chris Edwards | July 3, 2009 12:32 AM
Soar past 30 degrees? Are you Brits in an Ice Age again?
It's 60 degrees here in San Francisco and we're chilled to the bone. It was 80 degrees this past weekend down in Palo Alto.
Buy a sweater or, as you call it, a pully.
What's that?.....Celsius?
Oh....never mind.
Posted by: POWinCA | July 3, 2009 3:43 AM