Funny, since I am a published author (ah, this feels good), suddenly everybody is giving me books. Not one book, two books – sometimes I am receiving eight books at the time. I put all the books I got in past three weeks on a pile – it is about 1.5m high. This is fantastic! But I wonder how this would be if I were an architect or a jewellery designer….“Here is a villa on
And this is how interesting my book reading was:
Just writing the article about sexism in advertising. Actually never thought about this topic until I was asked to do that. Here two ads which are so incredible, they need no comment…
Latest gossip from Croatia – someone wanted to harm a very handsome actor and published photos of him kissing a man. He was forced into outing, so to say. All the papers published the story and comments of his colleagues giving him public support. My first reaction was “Ugh, this can only be a scandal in Croatia.” But then I was thinking about the situation in other countries. And I realised, to my big surprise – there are no famous outed gay men! The only one I can think of is Elton John – no comment needed. Seems like the fashion industry was created as the gey men’s gettho, the only area they are supposed to occupy. Funnily enough, when thinking of outed lesbians, I remembered Jodie Foster, Ellen DeGeners, Melissa Etheridge and Cyntia Nixon – all great women. Are women braver when it comes to outing? Or do we accept gay women easier then gey men? Sadly, it turns out that the situation is same everywhere.
Someting I learned yesterday from an old wine-maker from Bordeaux:
A great son-in-law is not necessarily a great husband.
A great husband is not necessarily a great lover.
A great lover is almost never a great husband.
Frédéric on the poster ad for Les Galieries Lafayette reading Baudrillard’s “The Consumer Society”
OK, by now this seriously started feeling like a … wedding (!!!???). And it is scary. Yes, and the groom is missing. Ohmygod – maybe I’m getting marrying myself!
First, it was the invitations. Then, organising the weekend of great food and parties for my friends who are coming to my hometown for that special occasion. Then I was informed that there will be TV crews and someone filming the event so that I can have it on a DVD. So I got a bit nervous and called my “stylist” (yes, Ines – you) begging her to help me find the perfect dress. Now that this gorgeous dress is hanging in my living room, my gay neighbours had to decide on the perfect pair of shoes and the perfect shade of nail polish. And yesterday, I even told my dad to wear something nice…. Aaaarrghh!
Now I should be thinking about what to say. But right now, all I can say is this: I don’t understand people who have big weddings on their free will. Maybe one day, someone will have to remind me that I said this…. Please.
Like all people in
Why should I write clever stuff when other people already wrote it?
So for all interested in Alpha-Girls or Post-Feminism or 3rg Generation Feminism (in Germany and in German) – here an article with a lot of interesting information:
http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/28/28047/1.html
I believe that this women vs. men thing is – in our society – outdated and is bringing us nowhere. We are fighting a finished war. We should move beyond feminism and urgently move in direction of humanism. The moment humans become human again, for which they need to be given time, space and energy (read not be forced to scarify all of that to the system and in the same time be overwhelmed by media/entertainment industry), and thus become capable of again embracing all their natural drives and needs, dreams, flaws, differences – all discrimination (like lower salaries), conflicts and problems between women and men will disappear. Yes, they call it social feminism.
Oliver, thank you for the link.
Juno – and now: the reality
Monday, June 23rd, 200817 girls from a high-school Gloucester in the state of Massachusetts, all younger then 16, are pregnant. The girls arranged this “group activity” – they all decided to get pregnant together. So now this city of 30,000 is wondering what is going on and where this baby boom is coming from. Well, if anbody went to cinema once in past six months they would know - the Oscar winning movie “Juno” couldn’t be missed.
Are young people really so alienated from life that they simply copy everything they see on big screen, no matter how serious the consequences are? Do they really blindly believe the things they see on the big screen? Maybe I should finally put on those red shoes and hit the yellow road…..
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