I loved you once, I think
Well, the Village Voice has replaced Rachel Kramer Bussel’s “Lusty Lady” column with one called “Married, Not Dead.” Hooooo boy, that sounds thrilling! I don’t know about the rest of you, but when I pick up (or click on, more accurately) the Village Voice, what I want to read about the most is the status quo! Hey, I wonder, is it difficult being a married upper-middle-class woman with kids and trying to find time for sex with your husband? I wonder! I ponder the question all the time, in fact! And you know, I would really love to read about it every fucking week!
To sum up this absurdly stupid move on the part of the Voice, I defer to Blackamazon:
The Village Voice has strapped on the skis and leather jacket and is sailing over the shark with an EH! in it’s heart.Lusty Lady the sex column was replaced with …………………
A column featuring over priviliged women complaining how the can’t fuck with the nanny in the house. And life is so hard with the housekeeper… and blah blah OH FOR FUCKS SAKE.
On a tangentially related note, BA wins the prize for today’s Awesome Quote of the Day (this would be the opposite of the having-a-category-of-its-own Bullshit Quote of the Day):
[W]e constantly regress into trying define acceptable sexuality rather than create safety for creation of consensual sexuality.
Right the fuck on.
Having been married once, I felt her pain… for about 3 full seconds before the snorting began. (Married sex IS a good jumping-off place for building hell on earth though.)
That mommy-track shit sells though. That’s why they do it. I once had to e-slap down a dear friend when she honestly wanted me to partner on some mommy blog. I had to remind her that I’d rather blow Bill O’Reilly than give mommy-blog. Bless her heart.
Still, I’ll check back with you when/if you decide to reproduce. Now there’s the mommy blog/podcast I’d contribute to!
It’s just so fucking pathetic. It’s like, hmm, we had a columnist who routinely produced original, insightful thoughts and we replace her with the same old bullshit about “I got married and now I never get laid! Soccer, low-fat diets, and body image issues! Stereotype reinforcement, yay!!” Vomit.
typical, ain’t it?
Yep. You know, I really should get a “Typical” file of my own. I need to organize some of this clutter.
maybe they shoulda married someone they LIKED instead of someone they thought was hot at the time.
But then, what do I know… :o)
RT: You’ve got it backwards… next time, marry someone you find hot. Really hot! Multi-’gasms only hot. “Like” becomes “stupid annoying duplicitous lyin’ mediocre plebian asshole” fastern’ a fly to my neighbor’s kitchen. At least when the societal expectations-bloom fades, maybe the hot sex will stick around for a while longer.