tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post7062368134354670427..comments2023-06-16T16:08:23.446+01:00Comments on Edinburgh Housewife: FacesMrs McLeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-72545132163440260072015-06-02T15:05:10.479+01:002015-06-02T15:05:10.479+01:00No such thing as racism free anywhere.No such thing as racism free anywhere.Dymphnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01469622835449220113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-23387050270342885892015-06-01T18:32:21.106+01:002015-06-01T18:32:21.106+01:00This NYDaily News piece on Bar Rafaeli encouraged ...This NYDaily News piece on Bar Rafaeli encouraged me at the time I read it:<br /><br />Blue-eyed, blond beauty Bar Refaeli said she’s stumped by her inability to land a steady boyfriend, future husband and potential father to her children.<br /><br />The entire male population of planet Earth shares her mystification.<br /><br />“I don't understand it,” the 35-24-35 stunner said in a tell-all interview running Friday in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth.<br /><br />“I’m okay,” the 28-year-old former flame of Leonardo DiCaprio continued. “I look great. I’m cool. I like going out. I like being at home, I like movies, I like eating. So what’s wrong with me? Why am I alone?”<br /><br />http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/super-model-rafaeli-laments-single-status-article-1.1489317<br /><br />-Kate Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-36399499143085056872015-05-31T00:07:46.730+01:002015-05-31T00:07:46.730+01:00Not sure there is a racism-free haven. That said, ...Not sure there is a racism-free haven. That said, the events I described were all before 1985. <br /><br />Good point about moms grousing. Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-9085232890472020532015-05-30T19:50:35.480+01:002015-05-30T19:50:35.480+01:00The strange thing about being taunted about one...The strange thing about being taunted about one's appearance is that it may have nothing to do with one's actual appearance, and everything to do with some unexpressed resentment, or with some quality of social awkwardness that your peers sense in you. They pursue you because they know you're vulnerable. Since almost everyone is hurt by being told that she's ugly, it's a handy way to torment someone who makes you uncomfortable, without having to think too much about it. <br /><br />One more thing: I think women have more admiration for beauty in our sex than we're given credit for, an admiration that can feel like a terrible longing, as you say, to be that person. I don't think it's created by popular culture, though popular culture certainly exploits it. Worse, though, is the fact that fairy tales and old-fashioned romances and almost every kind of novel emphasize the beauty of the heroine as part of her appeal. In other words, we have an unconscious tendency to equate <br />beauty with lovability. I think it's that, far more than fashion magazines and their bizarre standards, that affect our attitude to our own beauty, or lack of it. <br /><br />Alias ClioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-44929042056447745632015-05-30T19:42:18.792+01:002015-05-30T19:42:18.792+01:00Re: family resemblances - My best friend of almost...Re: family resemblances - My best friend of almost 20 years lost her father, who was like a second father to me, to colon cancer about seven months ago. She says that before she was always very self-conscious about what she perceived as a prominent nose and deep-set brown eyes and other stereotypically Jewish features. Now she is so grateful that he passed those traits down to her because she and everyone else who knew and loved him are reminded of him every day. Adding a whole other layer of family meaning into this is that she is the only grandchild of two long-gone Holocaust survivors, so in a way she might resemble the great-aunts and uncles and great-grandparents who were lost in the ghettoes and camps. <br /><br />I'm re-reading this and it's kind of a downer. I don't mean it to be! But I'm sharing because it's given me a lot of perspective on looks and why you shouldn't give a flying flip what magazines tell you you "should" look like, and it's made me grateful for my own inherited idiosyncratic features. Clairenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-6995368014863593862015-05-30T19:12:38.976+01:002015-05-30T19:12:38.976+01:00I loved this post, but it certainly burst my bubbl...I loved this post, but it certainly burst my bubble that Toronto is a racism-free haven. :( <br /><br />I was quite happy with my looks as a little girl (if I ever thought about them), but was alienated by drastic changes to my face when I started getting older. It took a long time to grow into and then get used to my adult features! <br /><br />I think it is quite important for moms and dads to say nice things about their own and each other's appearance, because their biological kids will grow up to look like them. No amount of "But you're so beautiful!" is going to cheer up a teen who looks like her mom and has heard her mom complain about her (the mom's) looks for years.sciencegirlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-12890272404806819132015-05-30T18:26:26.497+01:002015-05-30T18:26:26.497+01:00Truth.
My mother said the same thing your mother ...Truth.<br /><br />My mother said the same thing your mother did when I said I wished I looked like Brooke Shields or whoever the Beautiful-Woman-of-the-Moment was (Princess Di and Christie Brinkley among them). Looks like she was right.Domestic Divanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-37078029905994887202015-05-30T13:23:02.475+01:002015-05-30T13:23:02.475+01:00It's a mystery. Possibly the men fill up on dr...It's a mystery. Possibly the men fill up on drink, and the women fill up on sugar. <br /><br />My primary school was hell for the final four years. The day I went to high school was the happiest of my life. Mrs McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18095035617334068201noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-670426779858438488.post-22244921347295311952015-05-30T13:19:44.933+01:002015-05-30T13:19:44.933+01:00Your primary school sounds like it was hell.
Why ...Your primary school sounds like it was hell.<br /><br />Why are the young Edinburgh women fat but the young men skinny? They eat the same stuff, right?Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03992516879346846271noreply@blogger.com