Posts by Jackie Clark
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It's fine Stephen - really. And sorry for name confusion. It's a weird thing, you know? I was just with my dogpack, and had an argument about why it's okay for women not to like their bodies. WTF?
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I just want to point out, as a semi-regular gym rat, that when I see a person of more than usual corpulence, I think "good for you" and try to send positive vibrations.
I'm sure I speak on behalf of all fatties when I say how kind, Andrew, of you to bestow your slender blessings.
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it was that building on the intersection of Crummer Rd and Ponsonby. The ASB trust building is on the other corner. It'll bug me now till I know.
Ah, it would be this one, which one of my Flickr pals thinks was called the Pink Palace.
That's the one, Robyn. Thanks!
The weird thing for me is that I can only ever think of that place as one of the only Greek restaurants to ever grace Auckland. I went there a number of times in the 90s and it didn't have any kind of spa pool. But I heard it became a (really bad, apparently) brothel.
It was there way before that, Ben. We went in the early 80's.
And I'm off to Les Mills in town on Saturday morn to look around and see if I like it enough to join. Do I need to take some protection? Nah, I have the best weapon available to women. A fat 44 year old body that naked, could scatter a very large room of tough bodybuilder types. -
And Bette Midler - whom I idolise - started out in San Francisco bathhouses. Apropos of nothing, I guess.
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not on K rd - it was that building on the intersection of Crummer Rd and Ponsonby. The ASB trust building is on the other corner. It'll bug me now till I know.
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Anybody remember the Pink Pussycat (is that what is was called? It was Pink something, I'm sure) on Ponsonby Rd? The spa pools there were truly disgusting.
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Re Oscars - it had better be being repeated at some stage.
Re Jade Goody - vey vey sad, and good on her for milking it for money for her boys. I think it shows a fantastic degree of pragmatism considering the soap opera that has been presented as her life.
Re trade unions - I agree with Jan that pkiwi's comment is a good jumping off point for a discussion re TU. A small club, pkiwi? My union, the NZEI, is reasonably large. They are also highly effective, and quite frankly, I'm not sure where public kindergarten teachers would be without them. And one thing is for sure - we're going to need them for the next few years. Anne Tolley is a scary human being, and she's ignoring us at the mo, but goddess help us when she turns her cold gaze on early childhood, and public kindergartens in particular. I mean, who is she? Why did she get education? HELP! -
We are both also people who are very secure in and happy with our own bodies. At least with me this is an attitude which has been largely untouched over a range of twenty-five kilos, several dress sizes, and twenty years. It's about what's inside your head, not what's on the outside of your body.
Oh, absolutely. It's such a rare thing in women, I find. This sense of self and knowledge that the essence of you is unchanged while the rest of the world churns themselves into angst about the way they look. That's what others find attractive.
We do both have fabulous tits, though.
Me too, me too. Unfettered and free. Actually, the unholstered and brazen state of my breasts is very much a metaphor for my sexuality in my 20's. Others feel discomfited by how freely my breasts move through the world, and refuse to see how they don't get in their own way. I, on the other hand, don't comprehend how other women can have bought so easily into the myth of the brassiere. Support? Pah. That's what friends are for, not bras.
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Interestingly, the word "slut" appears at PAS all of 45 times (now 46). I have no idea how many of those occurences are the inspiration or efforts of Emma. :)
I've been trying to work out how to feel about that. I've also been trying unsuccessfully to find the fabulous discussion my friend Sinead and I had about the word 'slut'. In that slut-shaming is something absolutely guaranteed to make me rabidly angry, but I will happily refer to both myself and her as looking slutty or behaving sluttily. It's 'nigger' territory, basically.
Interesting indeed. When younger - from the ages of 20 to 28 - I had a very, very active sex life. My exploits were many and varied, and took place in a large variety of settings with a very large number of people, over a couple of continents, and sometimes there was more than two of us, but I don't ever remember being called a slut, and certainly never did I feel my behaviour was "sluttish". I had a lot of fun, I met a lot of people, and all of the experiences, bar one, were consenting. I liked sex, alot. And I just happened to like it with lots of people. It's such a sexually repressive word, "slut". Meant to keep women in their place. I find it incredible that we're in 2009, and people still are so quick to judge, and be so condemnatory. Shame on them. I still call myself the Queen of the One Night Stands, and I'm old enough to say that I have pride in my once ferocious sexuality. Live while you can, I say, and enjoy it.
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And thanks for the warm comments. I sometimes feel shy about posting family stuff - Soft News, as it were - but y'all make it so worthwhile.
I love this website, Jolisa, bur sometimes the news is a bit hard. As has been said by Giovanni, you write beautifully and it is a pleasure to read. And really? I prefer reading about the busy boys to what the proliticians are doing.