Posts by Jackie Clark
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What a fantastic post, Anke. Thank you so much. I would just add that when I lived in Switzerland, there were many German inhabitants in my town, and quite a few German tourists. And I remember wondering where they were, in C1945. So I appreciate your explanation of your feelings.
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But I do resent mightily being shamed about my modesty. I'm am happy to enable someone else's "cast it all to the winds" attitude - in fact, it's an attractive quality to me - but I really hate being told to "get over it" myself. I'm over 40, I'm pretty well adjusted, and it just isn't that likely to happen now. If I need to retire to the loo to get changed, what on earth does it matter to someone else?
Point taken. I'm afraid that I need to be reminded sometimes that we are all different. I just like it when I'm happy and I want others to be too. So it comes from a place of love.
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If DB did headline at the BDO, I may just very well be tempted into going.
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How kind you all are. However, I have touted myself for far too long as the one who doesn't care too much for how she looks. And I genuinely don't, really. I do like my new muscles et al, but wearing a bra cos it looks good in photos? Smacks of shallow shit. Mind you, I am pretty fucking gorgeous, and I admit to looking enviously at Emma's book frontage. The encasing of the frontage, I should say.
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Wow, Keith. I know I nagged you to write a post, but really, this one is pretty good.
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I have one friend who says her breasts didn't so much grow out as down.
I'm there. I have to say, however, that having gone braless for the last 30 years, suddenly,to my horror and chagrin, I am wearing bras. I have never liked them. They just represent oppression and stiflement to me. Going to the gym as much as I now do, though, requires a good sports bra, which I have, and so, as somewhat of an organic move, my old bras are coming back into service. Because, as loath as I am to admit it, the gym is also giving me a bit of an unhealthy vanity thing. And bras, especially with a bosom that positively overflows with ample sufficiency, do make a better looking silhouette in photos. Isn't that appalling? I will now hide my head in shame.
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It hasn’t felt like a different country in the slightest, nor required any substantial adjustments that I can think of, except to slightly modify my phone voice at work, so people don’t call me Iain instead of Ben.
Lucky lucky you, Ben. When I went to the UK,almost 23 years ago, it did indeed feel like a very, very foreign land. I remember being very surprised at just how different. I spent much of the first three months between tears at people not understanding me, and laughter at just how ludicrously different everything was. As Simon says, not as different as Asia would have been, but still.
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The ones that change in the toilet cubicles must have some seriously ugly deformities to make getting changed over a toilet worth it.
I'm waiting for someone from the XV to come in and mention that it's social pressure, not ugly deformities that lead to women getting changed in private.
You called, Kyle?
I, like Dinah, wander round nekkid in the gym changing room for all those women who don't like their own bodies.I like to think of it like I do my always complimenting other women on shoes/hair/perfume etc, as a public service. It saddens me that women feel judged - especially since, many times, it really is all in their own heads. (Do you hear me, Danielle?) Some may say seeing me naked is a very good advertisement for why women should always wear bras. I say feel the fear, and do it anyway. Tell yourself you're beautiful enough, and you get to believe it. -
Yay, Emma. Opening up a discussion on nudity. I'm not from a family of actors - we're all just completely immodest. I'm always extolling the virtues of nakedness - more to women, and more as a political statement about loving your body, but still. The women at the gym exhibit some very interesting behaviours, and it's not unknown for women to change in the shower. Very uncomfortable, and it always makes me feel just a little sad for them, so I've threatened a Gok Wan day where it's compulsory to be naked at least when you're changing and we all have to affirm how beautiful each other is. Main reaction has been abject horror to be fair, but we'll get there. I always do.
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Re aforementioned book cover. Nice rack. Seriously.