Linkspam and stuff
Feeling inordinately tired today, which may be a combination of a fairly hectic week + working yesterday. Still: off to Grayshott tomorrow!
Latest news on the computer monitor thing is that it seems to starting up okay first time once more, but thanks for the suggestions.
I was going to do a reading post (which I haven't done for months), but my aide-memoire, in the form of my Visual Bookshelf booklog in Facebook appears to have vanished, or rather, to be a perfect and absolute blank. Grrrr.
So, have a few nibbles of linkspam:
I really rather liked this column by Eva Wiseman:
Here, too, there are well-meant words about bellies and breasts, but again, despite the positive message that one doesn't have to be bony to be beautiful, it's still a show about looking at women, a pastime of which it seems we'll never tire.
Do we really need physical role models to look up to, in order to shape our bodies in their image? Must skinny and fat be constantly pitted against each other, debated on telly, judged, used as signifiers of recession, of beauty, achievement, carefully divided into spheres and lengths for closer inspection? We replace one archetype of beauty with another, a trade-off that somehow seems less progressive the louder it's shouted.
I also liked her bit about Lisa Robinson and the drunken mob on the train:
Many of us, whether single women at night or boys in indie tops, know the sinking feeling, that haggis of dread that settles in your tummy upon entering a train full of men who alone might be gentle and good, but in a crowd become aggressive and lawless.
Yes.
So I was entirely doing the Beauty Boggle Bop to find her also responsible for this:
The beauty bible: An A to Z of cosmetic products, treatments and trends coming your way this season. Though, honestly, those have to be an utter put-on and sendup, don't they? Fish therapy? Red eyeshadow? Drip & Chill, a specially formulated saline drip of super nutrients and powerful anti-oxidants? but among things which do sound within the boundary of the plausible. And those things do, really, seem to be out there, unless those are spoof websites.
Aaaaaaaaaargh.
Second one down in this column, about manliness:
The "feeling manly" comment.... bizarrely implies that women are somehow responsible for conferring manliness. That where manliness is concerned, women giveth and women taketh away. Really? I'd have thought that "being manly" was entirely up to the man himself.
So true.
This man is well-intentioned, but so not an archivist:
Keeping digital data is neither difficult, nor costly. (third letter down).
Hollow larf.
Woman art collector who only collects works by women artists (go her). But honestly, this?
Gallery owner Maureen Paley, who represents conceptual artist Gillian Wearing and has an equal slate of female and male artists, believes a new generation of female artists is making sexual politics less relevant. "There are a tremendous number of women who are making some of the strongest art around," she says. "It is in the longer history of art that women had a struggle. We are in a period which promises to redress that."
Coming around again, coming around again, same old same old, tell me the old old story, etc etc etc.
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