I realised last week that I am a hypocrite. There was I making comment on a 53 year old woman showing off her tits on Celebrity Big Brother, tsk tsk, woman of her age, disgraceful, yak, yak, yak. But hello.....mosey through this blog and my tits appear to the masses on dozens of occasions! Perhaps it could be argued that this is different, that there are not millions of people looking at my lady lumps on peak time television, that I am not well known and don't have to face the general public and their probable cat calling on a daily basis, that I am not giving my husband any nasty surprises.
But it's not different really. I am not that much younger than the woman in question, and if her behaviour is off-putting solely because of her age, then mine surely must be too and I should eradicate this blog!
But what age is that cut-off point? The point where breasticles and the likes should be kept under wraps unless they are surgically enhanced and therefore not in keeping with actual years on the planet? Are we pre-programmed to think women of a certain age should wrap up and keep warm, that flesh over the age of (insert relevant number here) is something to keep hidden, and if so by whom or what? Is it something to do with motherhood, the horrid thought of our own nurturers behaving in this way? Or deep seated feelings that menopausal females should not show they are sexual beings?
There would not have been such a hoo-haa if the televised exposure had been one of the younger female housemates, nobody would have batted an eyelid, including me.
I am feeling incredibly uncomfortable with myself, for falling into a trap, for having such nasty double standards, for thoughts that betrayed a woman not unlike me in many ways. And just maybe what I show on this blog is a hundred times worse than what was done on TV, after all I am showing myself in a sexually objectified state, whereas the Big Brother contestant was, I believe, trying to empower herself.
I hang my head in shame.
Saturday, 28 January 2012
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6 comments:
Y'know what,I was guilty too and was aghast at the antics of Denise on the drink. But you are right, ashamed we should be for subconciously pandering to the myth that older women shoudl act chaste and behave themselves. Bad :(
You're being way too hard on yourself. Most of us have moments like this where we look back and think "whoops!" The important thing, if we are to make anything of this at all, is that you had that 'hold on a moment' moment, lol. Too few people take stock these days but that is never an accusation that could be leveled at you.
And on a less noble note, I enjoy you getting your bumpy bits out and age has nothing to do with it as far as I'm concerned! Bring on the breasts!! :D
How do you feel about women that age posing for bondage or fetish photographs?
@Vic1966 - glad I'm not the only one, doesn't make it any better though lol!
@Jay_E - Thanks for that, I know you are right in respect of those whoops moments :) Lol at "bring on the breasts"!
@Mark - Not an eyelid is batted nor a bad though processed. I either like a pic or I don't and it is not hinged on the age of the subject. Which of course makes my whole thinking last week pretty dim lol!
Bah. Ridiculous.
Hang your head in shame?
I know that you like to be objectified, but you are human like the rest of us (and we're glad to have you).
@John - thanks :)
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