Fanny Blood

I came across this story the other day.  Here is the actual link:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a95415/merna-i-struggle-to-control-my-boobs.html

Gemma Merna has admitted that she struggles to control her breasts while filming Hollyoaks. 

The actress, who plays Carmel Mcqueen in the Channel 4 soap, said that she often suffers wardrobe malfunctions due to her large chest and revelaed that she uses ‘tit tape’ to keep herself covered up.

She told Nuts:  “There have been quite a few wardrobe errors, yes!  It’s hard to control these two (points at boobs).  They sometimes have a mind of their own so thank goodness for tit tape!”

Talking about her bosom, she added “I do like my boobs but it does get a bit annoying with blokes talking to your boobs”.  The first thing people always say to me on shoots is “your tits look great!”  And I think “well, thank you, but there’s more to me than that!”

Merna also admitted to being “naughty behind closed doors”, claiming that she was only “sweet and innocent in public”.

So on one hand she doesn’t want to be known as just a pair of breasts but on the other hand she is appearing in these magazines which perpetuate the idea that that’s all women are:- tits and arse.

Look, Gemma.  Women are barely seen as more than that in society anwyay.  If you’re going to pose in these magazines you are most definitely going to be just that - a pair of tits.  The men who read thse magazines don’t care who you are, they care if you ‘put out’ or not.  You are just wank fodder to them.  THAT’S ALL.

These soft-porn magazines and newspapers are the reason that even women who go out in their gym wear for a run get harassed, abused, hollered at, leered at (i’ve just got back from a run so I’m angry and alluding to my own experience today but I appreciate that women get abused anyway, especially when showing any kind of flesh) because these publications encourage the idea that if women are showing flesh then they are ‘up for it’ and ‘fair game’.

Think about it, Gemma.  You can’t have it both ways I’m afraid but unfortunately, while these publications - and thus the inevitable attitudes which follow them around - continue to be mainstream it’s the average woman on the street who suffers at the end of the day.  The woman who doesn’t court it but hasn’t choice but to reap the repurcussions of the porn culture in which we are forced to live.

Staying on the beach theme (as I have just got back from Mexico, he he!) I thought I would share this quote from Christina Ricci that I recently came across which I thought was rather inspiring.  Whether she truly believes it herself is irrelevant.  It’s great.

“I do not want to waste one more minute of my life feeling bad about the way I look.  If you’re obsessed with how you look in your bikini, you’re not going to have fun at the beach”.

Very very true.   

I avoid reading or buying newspapers and women’s magazine’s generally, however, when you have a 10 hr flight ahead of you (did I mention I went to Mexico?!) then sometimes I give in.  On this occasion I bought May’s edition of Glamour magazine.  Why do I bother, I ask myself?! I really do despair at the content of these magazines but I guess on a positive note, it gives us fems’ topics to talk about or blog about.

This one got me really fired up:

22 nosy questions answered by ‘real’ men (as oppose to men made of plastic or paper, that is?) as Glamour magazine know long women spend wondering what goes on in men’s minds, apparently.

What’s the most overrated porn cliche?

20%    Hot schoolgirl

19%    Hot nurse

10%    Hot librarian

10%    Hot psychiatrist

6%      Hot female boss

35%    None, they are ALL hot! 

Now, this schoolgirl fantasy thing really fucking bothers me.  Correct me if I’m wrong but aren’t the majority of schoolgirls under 16 years of age?  Doesn’t this mean then, according to British law that they are under the age of consent?

Doesn’t this then make you a fucking a paedophile?  Or at the very, very least you have paedophilic tendencies?!  THINK ABOUT IT you sick, twisted PERVERTS.

I have just returned from a glorious week in Mexico. 

Now, although I was happy and rather relieved not to experience any sort of sexism within the group I was over there with, whether it be in the form of sexist ‘banter’, sexist language, comments or behaviour, (and there was around forty of us mainly around the age of 30) the ‘no topless bathing’ signs scattered about on our resort was a stark reminder that you can’t escape sexism wherever you go.

Why is this, exactly?  Why am I not allowed to be free like men are?  What is so shameful about my breasts, I was asking myself? 

It’s either because they are something so sexualised that they are considered something taboo, something naughty, something dirty, something ‘adult’ that belongs only within the confines of some sort of sexual scenario?  Or, they are thought of as disgusting as their real purpose is to breastfeed?  Or they are just seen as disgusting?

Can someone enlighten me why society still thinks it necessary that women have to cover their breasts on a hot day when men can roam free?

Answers on a postcard please!

If you have seen the news this morning you will have seen this report.  Vitamins now, apparently, shorten your life.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article3754205.ece

Carole Malone has just stated on The Wright Stuff however, that she is ’suspicious’ of this report.  She said she wondered whether it is because we, the public, are seeking out vitamins to heal ailments etc. rather than going to the docs and getting a prescription for your ailments which, coincidently are going to set you back nearly a tenner. 

My goodness, good point, Carole.  What she said made me think because as soon as I heard this report I thought “oh here we go, another contradiction, what are we meant to believe” but I did also come away thinking vitamins were something to be wary of, which lead me to thinking that we could be being fed anything by the media and we believe it.  We believe what we read and see around us and generally do take it as gospel however, of course, this could be the government’s brainwashing propaganda to make sure we keep the pharmaceutical industry in BIG business.

It would be so easy to brainwash us, wouldn’t it?  Always be ’suspicious’ of what you see, is what I say.   

In the words of Noel Gallagher … “don’t believe the truth”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aldo Zilli was discussing on The Wright Stuff last week how poor Italian television is and mentioned that at half past 7 it is common to see lots of programmes of women with their breasts out.  Basically soft-porn will be the norm at dinner time.  (So, no different from British TV then:  see below!!!).

I also often hear about how Italian men are quite happy to let their mothers, sisters, lovers, wives and daughters slave away in the kitchen and the home for them too without them ever being expected to lift a finger.

I think its fair then to make a judgement as to how Italian men view women and their place in society and once again, the medium that is television is working to reinforce women’s status in society;  that women exist to serve men.

Remind me never to go to this neanderthalic country.

When are you going to roll over and die?

I’m already planning a street party.

Why does Sky channel E! allow ‘Girls of the Playboy Mansion’ to broadcast at half past 7 in the evening? What ever happened to the watershed?

Last night’s episode had one of the ‘girls’ displaying all of her topless posters she had appeared in and was oh so proud of. Her breasts were blurred out (yeah, well done E!) but of course, the sentiment is there for all to see.

Then the old perv Hef walks in on one of the ‘girls’ on a cross-trainer. She flashes her cunt to him in her tiny mini-skirt while he stands there looking on. Of course E! have blurred this out again! Genius, E! Pure genius.

Porn has become so normal that this imagery is ok for your kids to watch just before bed-time.

Sweet dreams, children.

I can’t help but get angry about the symbolism behind the juxtaposition of Amir “the face of modern multi-cultural Britain” Khan and the ring side girls dressed in stripper heels and breasts bursting out of their tops holding up ‘Spearmint Rhino, Gentlemen’s (gentlemen … how ironic?!) Club’ behind him at the big fight held in his home town of Bolton on Saturday night.

Now, I don’t proclaim to know much about Muslim faith or Islam however, I’m pretty sure that Britain’s celebrated porn culture (lead by The Scum and the Scum of the World; the major sponsors of boxing in this country) and its degrading views of women as sex objects and pieces of meat is the antithesis of how Islam views women.

Shouldn’t we be thinking about these things? It is a joke that in ‘modern’ Britain, in the 21st century, in a supposedly multi-cultured and integrated society we still have porn and its influences wherever we go, whatever we choose to do? Isn’t this maybe one fundamental flaw when integrating Britain & Islamic faith?! Amir & his family have no choice but to just get on with the archaic traditions of ‘modern day’ boxing whenever he steps into the ring.

Just a thought but maybe a good place to start would be by having women (or men?!) holding up banners dressed in typical Islamic clothing? If you are thinking that is radical, doesn’t that prove how far we have to go? If the status quo within boxing never changes as Amir Khan’s success grows isn’t this then truly symbolic of multi-cultured Britain? Multi-cultured as long as the white man stays in power, I guess? Think about it, Frank.

On another note, as a female spectator though once again, I am reminded, as is every woman ringside, of my status in society. I am reminded once again that this is a man’s world.  A white man’s world.  A white man’s playground.

I wonder whether Amir & his family think that too.

Did anyone see GMTV this morning? The 11 year old done up like a Barbie doll. The 11 year old who wants to be Jordan. The parents who are sitting there saying “well, all young girls want to be like this. It’s only normal. She’s only acting like her school friends”.

What is wrong with these people? How STUPID can someone be? You only have to turn on the TV or read a newspaper to realise that paedophilia is out of control in our society and you have parents pandering to it?!?!?

They want locking up or have their children taken away from them. This is CHILD ABUSE.