i hit someone once. a lady. well, ok, i sort of slapped her a bit. just a bit. my hand sort of slid off her face and it wasn't hard. but it still made a really good noise. i was in a shopping centre in a very affluent area some distance from my own home at the time. i usually would avoid such a place, but i was collecting my wedding gown. i was wandering down one of those big, wide aisles those places have. to be fair, i was meandering down the middle. but slowly. i should add that i can be s...

this is not a litany of praise for my righteousness but a damning tirade of curses for my stupidity, for which i ... ... DO NOT open like a flower in grateful thanks. i instead wither but do. not. die. of love no sense of comfort is provided by my morality ... ... (but an unsatiated and infuriated love is, and it wakes me nightly to demand an audience for its’ torture) the reward for my virtue is not exultation, fuck it i. find. no. solace. but where solace sh...

sensitive new age guys have their place, bless ‘em. i’m sure there are LOTS of women who adore their male partners’ capacity to “understand” their “feelings” and suffer “sympathetic” labour-pains ... ... i just don’t happen to be one of them. it’s all good to be "into" what makes your woman tick, but frankly, men who know more about my menstrual cycle than i do scare me. i like to think of it this way: need-to-know basis. i laugh out loud when my hubby misinterprets my moods. he’s ...

the war is over and we won. hooray. there are rules now. men have to treat women as equals. uh-huh. i get that. but has the fact that men and women are NOT equals, and are not supposed to be equals, escaped everyone else ?. this planet is populated primarily with dual-gendered species, and gender-typical standard behaviour is observable in all animals excepting the human one ... ... who knows better. so i am supposed to be a new woman. i have won the right to leave the home in the mo...

the world is full of divorced parents who ruin their “first” family and then threaten the world record on disastrous attempts at making another one. and whilst i have never been overly fond of the familial gathering, i like them even less now i don’t KNOW who i’m related to. i have step-siblings. adopted siblings. half-siblings. i have some twice my age and some who are still at school. the only thing we have in common is that we have a shitty father. as i grew up and each of their m...

people who blame others for their emotional baggage annoy me. if i had a dollar for every person i've heard blame their vile behaviour some long-since-dead love, i'd be much more of a bitch than i am now. haha. but i digress ... i don't deny that it is possible, even desirable, to ponder "what went wrong" and adjust your behaviour or expectations accordingly. but is that possible when you're too close to have any objectivity ?. using bad past experiences as an excuse to love a new person co...

there is no longer such thing as a perfect world. the road to peace now unfortunately runs through a bloody and barren wilderness named humanity. i know, i'm sermonising. so sorry. please, may i leave the world now ? ... ( i have had more than enough) may I be excused from the eternal optimists who deduce my crime to be conscious thought ? because, if i stopped thinking so much, i’d be fine, right ? i shouldn’t worry about things i can’t do anything about, should i ? ... 'cause...

strong voices draw criticism regardless of the subject matter. that is the nature of the human animal. we like proof . we like to know stuff. we argue points and exchange views. in this way, we hope to learn. through our challenging of thoughts and ideas, change is born. healthy change. progress is made. new worlds unfold. but when does "challenging" become "attacking" ?. does an "opponent" nullify his/her own argument by presenting it in a less than polite way ?. even though ...

the laughing assassin is the person who says whatever they like to anyone, then blames their victims’ lack of humour or “oversensitivity” for the offence they cause. the laughing assassins’ take on life is this: "i will continue to pour forth my “jokes” with no apparent thought to the fact that nobody ever laughs. if i upset you, that’s your problem. remember ... i was just joking. i really can’t be blamed for it. your lack of good humour or intelligence means you “take me the wrong way” ...

i try not to be self-involved i succeed, albeit only for the most part being self-involved makes nobody happy but yourself (which is fine with you if you just said “ so what ” ?) self-involvement appears to be a very rewarding pastime one is filled with a sense of self-worth and personal pride without seemingly having to do very much at all ! although it bears mentioning that nobody really likes you (but even this does not matter if you are too self-involved ...

i don't like "scowlers". maybe i have a bit too much to say for myself, but at least i have the nerve to actually SAY it. don't you hate it when you say or do something and somebody makes THAT face ?. that face that says "i completely disapprove of what you just said/did, but i lack the conviction/courage to give voice to that. i will instead sit here with this disapproving look welded onto my countenence and make certain that you notice it". so you try. you really do. you say: "what does ...

sex is much, much too straightforward for we humans reproductive organs are unique as far as organs go, in that they contribute nothing to our survival. they are purpose built for reproduction and do not depend on pleasurable sensations, although they do afford some. there is no actual thing as "sexuality", and there are no "sex organs": no part of the body is designed solely for pleasurable purposes. you could cite the clitoris, and say its' purpose is only pleasure. and whilst ...

my mother recently left behind after a visit a 'women’s' magazine containing an article entitled "15 good reasons why YOU are a modern woman". ok, i thought. this is a women’s' magazine. i am a woman. how bad can it be ?. (how did i forget how ceaselessly patronising and awful these publications are ?. they have the pro-women titles like 'your world' and 'womens' way', yet they are jam packed with 'advice' that basically all amounts to the same thing: look good, catch man, trap man,...