I can never experience the festive season as a child again, but seeing it through my baby’s eyes is the next best thing
Set herself up with the next 50 years of copy.
How wondrously feminist this career is going to be, writing about wanting a baby, having a baby, baby growing up, grandchildren (quite possibly with the interregnum complaints of when are they going to arrive) and on and on. Such a blow against the patriarchy it’s all going to be.
Didn’t Private Eye do this 30-ish years ago?
’I can never experience the festive season as a child again…’
Oh, bless! It thinks it’s a grown up!
If you find this tiresome, you won’t enjoy the menopause years.
“How wondrously feminist this career is going to be, writing about wanting a baby, having a baby, baby growing up, grandchildren (quite possibly with the interregnum complaints of when are they going to arrive) and on and on. Such a blow against the patriarchy it’s all going to be.”
Sure, why not?
Providing she writes about all this utterly boring everyday stuff with a resentful undercurrent of how life is harder for women (did she mention that she used to care for her disabled sibling?) yet somehow jolly special in a way men can’t understand (that warm melty feeling of letting a baby have a go at your tit) she can still count as feminist enough to get published by the usual outlets.
I still reckon she, her Biba frock & Mary Quant hairstyle have been time machined to us from ’68. So you’re due to get the entire reprise of late C20th feminism served on a weekly basis.
She’s right, of course.
You only get to hold their little hands for a time, but in that time you do get to revisit your own childhood, from the perspective your own parents had. It’s a blessing without price, though it’s equally true that children are little bastards a lot of the time.
I wonder if she’ll ever realise this is why fertility is the greatest gift, and abortion is so monstrous.
In a sense this is a Positive…
As long as she is preoccupied with her self-indulgent whinning about this kind of stuff, she’s not Getting Ideas and push her Opinion on stuff she doesn’t know anything about and gets wrong completely.
A Bit like P³ just writing about model trains. He’s not doing damage elsewhere…
But can’t we get rid of all these obnoxious religious trappings that have colonised Christmas?
Its going to be …er.. interesting in that household during the teenage angst years.
It’s a bit of an odd statement. I think the sprog is only a few months old, so it doesn’t know Christmas from any other day. So what do that baby’s eyes see that is special? We had a Christmas do yesterday which included our granddaughter, nearly two, and it takes until that age before it’s possible to see Christmas through baby’s eyes, as we did.
So, as has been pointed out, her screeds are just boilerplate rather than lived experience.
She’s just hoping to copy the career path of that sour faced old hag Michele Hanson, another tedious ratbag who used to scribble for the grauniad https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/mar/05/michele-hanson-obituary
“her screeds are just boilerplate rather than lived experience”: but, but, but It’s Her Truth.