Yea, but on that Harley, you can ride to Sturgess once a year and watch the women shake their women things unabated. Take your Honda up there and see what happens.
Fergal.......women don't have make-up and wardrobe rights on anything!
Bad argument....see pre-1900's
Also see Boy George and every other Staged performer in modern history!
(and Jasper I never said that women did have make-up/wardrobe rights on anything. If you'd read my posts you would see I was saying that making anything gender specific can make things complicated for someone...i.e. your average Joe in the street who might fancy trying a bit of mascara, but thinks that would make him 'girly' or even 'gay', when all it was was that he wanted to try a bit of mascara. Showbiz *does not count* okay?)
Now, the reason I don't read the 'heavyweight' male writers is because they are too... well, not domestic but 'male mid-life crisis' - I think its a sweeping generalisation that benefits nobody.
Now, it might well be the case that the female entrants to that specific competition shared some common traits in their writing, but I haven't seen the entries. It might well be that the competition needs to look at how they worded their request for submissions.
And what's 'domestic' anyway? Anything set in the home? Well, I'd rather read a book about homes than the office. Offices are intrinsically boring places, unless you're a misguided person who thinks they are an Alpha Male Tiger, doing battle every time they knock two per cent off someone's budget or come up with a really swish 'presentation' ...
Kitchen sink is domestic, Ruth Rendell's murders are domestic, Nicholson Baker's Mezzanine is domestic, Updike's Rabbit series is domestic.
"I can build you an extension to your house, hang new doors, fit windows, make things out of wood, decorate, tile a roof. Anything."
Shouldn't be out of work for long with those sort of skills Feragl ;o)
It seems that in the Uk that most writing awards and even book complimation tables are fixed to a point.
A lot of back scratching going on, guffaw guffaw do you know henry i know cilla kind of thing. Did you go to this university or that university, wether this makes the whole of the modern uk poetry and literature scene invalid and its writers worthless in the bigger picture of the world remains to be discussed.
this was proved to be the case in Scotland recently and judging by things it's the same in England.
'Probably worth discussing that in the lit depts of 'st andrews and cambridge'.....
... psychologically, inwardly, are we aware of our responses? Are we aware when we are not telling the truth, when we are indulging in double talk, when we are saying one thing and doing something else, when we are quoting others? You follow, this whole phenomenon of being secondhand, which is to be traditional, which is to conform - conform to an example. That gentleman yesterday said, "There is a perfect example". And why do we need an example? Is that not conformity, in that is there not imitation, fear, and authority and following? All that is traditional. We have had thousands of examples - right? And we want to be that. And in that there is the acceptance, non-verbally, essentially, of authority. Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.
J. Krishnamurti Saanen 4th Public Dialogue 3rd August 1974.
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Jasper touches up his make-up, jumps side-saddle onto a pink Honda CT110, then runs over Mary Poppins and S. Freud strutting their sexuality in little French Maid outfits outside the local Harley Showroom on the corner of Social and Retard St.
I seem to remember that someone manufactured crash-helmets with earphones in them so that bikers could listen to heavy metal while 'doing a ton' down the motorway.
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