Deliberately controversial/provocative - and yet with a serious edge.
Ladette culture scares me so,
Feminism gone to seed,
Wild eggs like oats to sow,
Whorish appetites to feed.
What it means to be a girl,
Long forgotten, nay rejected,
No more, blushes, kisses, curls,
Only oafishness reflected.
Tubs of scummy, cold bathwater,
Never washed a baby clean,
Let us not cast out our daughters,
Throw them in the putrid stream!
Is there not a girl rebelling?
Give me back my flowers and dolls!
Maidenhood is not for selling!
Class me not with laddish trolls!
All I see are Sheela Na Gigs,
Female lust can be corrupting,
Super lager, condoms, cigs,
Naïve childhood interrupting.
Who would fain to be a parent,
Wild she-demons thus to spawn?
How long must our ways be errant,
Till we face harsh judgement’s dawn?
Vegetarianism, vagitarianism,
Abominations both to me,
A crack becomes a yawning schism,
Stranding us from what should be.
Experience junkies, PC culture,
Add moral decrepitude,
Wicked harpies, female vultures,
Hideous cries for sex and food.
Oli (21/10/06)
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Yer Tall Talkin' Man!
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
Wonderful Seanchai! Wear the Collar of Gold!
Feast in Tir na Nog! And never grow old!
Slan! |
Written by Phil (6730 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
Makes me glad I've no daughters. Very well put together and an idea I can relate to, though not wholly. SPart of the problem with all this is the pace of change and society's lack of maturity to deal with it.
Clever line: Wild eggs like oats to sow.
Checked out Sheela Na Rigs on the web. Educational as well as a cracking poem.
http://www.jharding.demon.co.uk/index.htm#http://www.jharding.demon.co.uk/SheelaNaGigIndex.htm - if anyone is interested.
I wonder what female readers will make of this?
All the best,
Phil.
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Hehe...
Written by ellipinnock (1753 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
I don't know what you mean....I'm all 'kisses, blushes and curls' me.... 
Really enjoyed this Oli, although as I feel like I'm zooming towards middle-age about 30 years faster than nature intended I'm probably not the best femal representative to comment! I also loved 'wild oats like eggs to sow'
The rhyming in this was quite subtle-it doesn't clout you round the face which is nice
Wonderful, I'm off to find myself a she-demon
Elli |
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3362 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
Jesus, where do you live?
I suggest you stop relying on the Sun for your view of women. The guardian has a regular female page. |
Thats more like it!
Written by Talisker (1326 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
More like I expected BBS, thanks.
How many ladettes read the Guardian??? Thats a bit of a snobbish attitutde. The sun easily outsells all the broadsheets put together. Personally, I don't read newspapers anymore - I used to read the Scotsman, but some tabloid nutter came in as editor.
In reality, a huge proportion of our young females dont read newspapers at all. I'm talking of the type so accurately lambasted by Matt Lucas's Vicky Pollard.
Thanks for the feistiness though!
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Oh and...
Written by Talisker (1326 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
I forgot, despite several similarities, I'm not Jesus.
And I live in Scotland, otherwise known as "God's own country".
Oli |
Yeah but, no but...
Written by LynB (435 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
I actually quite liked this! Is there any subject you can't write about? I don't think there is!
Now, you must excuse me while I go and change out of this pink tracksuit....  |
Sorry Oli...
Written by Phil (6730 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
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Sorry Oli.....
Written by Phil (6730 comments posted) 21st October 2006 |
....Yorkshire isn't just known as god's own country, it is. I'll allow Scotland a close second.
All the best,
Phil. |
Written by Witzl (1585 comments posted) 22nd October 2006 |
Now, I find myself, as I so often do, right in the middle here. On one hand, I agree with Oli. I hate to see girls and women who feel that the only way to gain equality is to behave exactly as men do. Women suffer more for their excesses than men do in many ways: STDs can take away their fertility, alcohol abuse is harder on women with their generally smaller livers, and both drinking and smoking can seriously damage our unborn babies. Plus there is good evidence that smoking and drinking (particularly to excess) are related to cancers in women.
But damned if I want to see men using those arguments to keep my daughters from choosing to live the way they want to, from fully enjoying their youth and health, while they still can. And flowers and dolls are fine (and I personally loved them as a kid), but a girl who wants to get muddy and play soldiers (as even I did on occasion) should never be stigmatized for this. Nor should a 'girly' girl be made to feel silly or inferior because she wants to wear skirts and play house.
Excellent poem, by the way. And me with a couple of potential she-demons. |
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