Sorry, Theresa. Jen is what a feminist looks like
The ragingng mums condemning Victoria Beckham giving her little girl a kiss on the lips revealed more about their own hang-ups than anything else. It’s “icky” said some, “pervy” said others. My five-year-old daughter loves to pucker up and plant a smacker on my lips. She won’t be doing it when she’s 15. She probably won’t even do it when she’s six. Self-awareness and maturity intervene. They grow up quickly enough.. Terrible stushie at EuroMillions. Increasing the cost of a ticket to £2.50 while reducing the chance of winning has outraged many punters. Apparently it was worth a shot at 117million to one but now the odds have lengthened to 140million to one, there’s absolutely no point. Gamblers should stake their cash on something else instead. Suggest a punt on the next Labour leader. And if you can call that onee correctly, you deserve a hefty windfall. There was a 47 percent rise in the number of food bank inquiries to Citizens Advice Scotland last year. A third of the people who got in touch had children to care for. Some 71 percent of those in the study said they cut back on food when short of cash. Can this really be Scotland 2016? The Scottish Government will get control of some welfare payments in a few weeks’ time. Show us that we really can do things better. stern school marm Theresa May. Anyway, the new PM has just recruited Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary so I know whose judgment I trust more.
The two women do have something in common, however (who knew?). Neither of them have children which somehow renders them incomplete in the eyes of many deluded, small-minded souls.
Both have been subjected to sneering commentary on their lack of offspring and speculation over their fertility over recent weeks, with all the smug judgment that goes along with it.
But Jennifer took a stand, laying out her views in a lengthy public essay, demanding the right of women to choose the shape of both their bodies and their futures.
She wrote: “This past month in particular has illuminated for me how much we define a woman’s value based on her marital and maternal status.
“That women are somehow incomplete, unsuccessful or unhappy if they’re not married with children.”
She’d been photographed on the beach with a tummy that was a little more rounded than washboard, prompting (for the “baji l l ionth” time) frenzied speculation that – at the age of 47 – she had finally achieved every girl ’s l ifetime goal of becoming pregnant. Good grief.
The poor woman is teeny- tiny, probably a size six. If she gorged on a fish supper, she’d look five months gone. So the snide implication is, if she’s not pregnant, she’s fat. She went on: “We are complete with or without a mate, with or without a child. We get to decide for ourselves what is beautiful when it comes to our bodies.
“Let’s make that decision for ourselves and for the young women in this world who look to us as examples.”
Jen n i fer, that ’ s almost a manifesto. I’d vote for you, certainly before I voted for Theresa May.