December 13, 2007...8:08 am
Girl Power
I have a little joke ready when people ask me about The Spice Girls. It goes like this:
Q: So, Beej, what do you think of The Spice Girls? Do you think they were good for women?
A: The Spice Girls only gave one thing to women. David Beckham.
But I’m re-evaluating Girl Power right now - ever since I started staring slack jawed at the pic above - it suddenly seems a lot less, well, pointless.
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Disclaimer: I know what you’re thinking. Oh, BJ, why oh why are you not complaining about the awful light fetishwear the spicicles are wearing. And to that I say, what? Sorry, I had forgotted the Spice Girls were in this picture.
I’m so cheap. You want to get round me. You want make me ignore stuff I usually rage about. Hot bloke crawling on a dog lead works every time. Multiply by four and I’m like a sedated kitten.
Purr
And I am really fucking grateful for Beckham. Fuck.
And the inner thighs are my *favourite*
Meow
28 Comments
December 13, 2007 at 8:49 am
Wow. I’m jealous. You don’t post a lot of it, but when you post teh pr0n pics, you’ve got the best.
Superb.
And I do so love inner thighs.
December 13, 2007 at 9:07 am
http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/boards/ukds/171697/
bitchy, i found sane Dommes!, look!
they like being fucked and they admit it!
yay
December 13, 2007 at 9:56 am
I loved the Spice Girls. You know why? Because they had individual personalities. Pop was full of girls like All Saints, who had sacrificed their personalities to the great god Cool, not to mention their sense of humour - those girls were so self-important that if they’d tried to smile their perfectly made-up faces would have cracked - they’d lip-glossed and hair-straightened themselves into identical empty shells, cos, you know, actual personality or individuality might scare the boys off. But the Spice Girls didn’t give a rats arse about that stuff. They didn’t much care if they were cool, and they didn’t much care if they were glossy-sexy, because it wasn’t the boys they were talking to. They camped it up, they sang badly, they talked loudly and laughed louder. They went on chat shows and ran good-natured riot, not sitting quietly and waiting for the interviewer’s questions like good little girls, but pissing about and talking over each other and creating cheerful chaos. They lived for themselves, not for the boys, and so I loved them.
December 13, 2007 at 10:48 am
I thought you didn’t rag on the Girls in the pic because the one in the foreground is wearing flat heels.
Like the boys on all fours with leashes, love seeing Beckham like that, who wouldn’t? I read that he got quite a bashing in the press for posing for Armani, can’t really understand why anyone would object, he’s gorgeous.
December 13, 2007 at 12:44 pm
There’s that bulging muscle on the back of his thigh that I just really want to sink my teeth into. Damn, that man is tasty. There were a whole bunch of articles about why Posh sleeps naked in the paper last week, all discussing “If you had that to sleep with wouldn’t you?” To which I say DUH!!!
( I feel compelled to state that I do not read articles about Posh spice for my own pleasure. I do a naked news blog for one of my jobs, and they came in on an alert)
December 13, 2007 at 1:56 pm
But I’m re-evaluating Girl Power right now - ever since I started staring slack jawed at the pic above - it suddenly seems a lot less, well, pointless.
You know I can’t let this pass without mentioning teh fetishwearz leather domme girl look.
Fortunately, you already mentioned it, yourself.
December 13, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Had you forgotten the tied-down, struggling men in the Say You’ll Be There vid? (one at about 1.40, the other in the last ten seconds, if you want to skip the camp and cut to the porn). It’s not even that the men are that attractive, but - god, when I first saw that on TOTP when I was a tweenager I fell for it, hard, out of sheer queerness, kink bedamned. The weaponry, the aggression, the focus on the strength of the female physiques rather than just having women be stick-thin passive ornaments… There was a lot of symbolic power to it, however camply presented.
And yes, the campness and roleplaying. I disagree with Em; their roles aren’t ‘personalities’, they are direct representations of pornographic stereotypes of women - the ‘cute’ blonde girl, the ‘foxy’ redhead, the ‘wild’ black woman, the ‘rich bitch’, the fantasy of laying a ‘dyke’. (And in the SYBT vid they’re all in black and red, which are the colours it’s safe to drape a woman in if she’s the object of a male sexual fantasy.) Cringeworthy now, but they made it funny. I wasn’t yet 13 then and it felt good and you could dance to it and you could know it was okay for girls to swing sharp objects, be behind the wheel, have tough bodies and let men suffer for no real reason. What other lame pop act gave you that?
Oh, and I totally fancied both Melanies but never really understood that til I was 17.
December 13, 2007 at 8:19 pm
Okay, I get it. Men on leashes. Hot, indeed. But, um, in that picture, who’s walking who?
And why is David Beckham not in metal shackles?
December 14, 2007 at 5:47 am
I came here to ask whatever happened with the Channel 4 documentary (even though they cut out all of us NYC bloggers, I still want to see it) but I am too distracted by the David Beckham picture to see straight.
Oh, the things I would do…
December 14, 2007 at 8:06 am
You were meant to be in doco too? If you had then maybe I wouldn’t be getting slapped on Informed Consent for being ‘unrepresentative’ for not being a pro!
December 14, 2007 at 8:10 am
Oh, and, god, I *had* forgotten about the guy in Say You’ll Be There. Which is weird, because I watched that vid over and over on a tatty VHS I had bought just for that purpose back in the day.
I am old. My memory is held together with bits of string. Thank you for the nudge. I’m going to relive old glories now. The days when I just liked looking at men tied up and had no idea what was in store for me because of it.
Actually that’s not really true is it? It wasn’t that long ago. I was probably already with Pan and going to munches by then. Urgh.
December 14, 2007 at 12:42 pm
1996. Autumn. I’d just started secondary school.
December 14, 2007 at 1:18 pm
It’s even better than I remember! That is some nice struggling.
I’d have been 24. Aww, I had it all still ahead of me. Little did I know one day I’d be a phenomenon.
December 14, 2007 at 5:16 pm
That picture of Spice Girls is awesomely hilarious!
December 14, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Delicious picture. Thank you. Do you have more of these? By the way, there are some typos in your blog sidebar. Can I point them out? Please don’t mind. It’s just that am kind of typollergical and no-bitchy-blog-reading-allergical.
“I find her “My way is the twue right way” attitude rather annoying.”
This is my blog is about the misery of being an ordinary women with a sexuality that demands extraordinariness.
December 15, 2007 at 4:29 am
Since I know you’re a Pratchett fan…
http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html
Tho you may already have heard..
December 15, 2007 at 7:21 am
And why is David Beckham not in metal shackles?
Because, MayMay, I don’t run the world.
Yet.
December 15, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Beej is a pterry fan?
Wow. I mean, like, wow. Never suspected.
We’re all sorry to hear about his stroke and what it might mean for him.
December 15, 2007 at 11:04 pm
You are crazy famous.
December 16, 2007 at 2:53 am
You are truely a ledgend.
I love your Beckham picture. i have it know,
I agree with you so much.
Read my blogs if you wouldn’t mind.
Comment them or something.
Thanks <3
x
December 17, 2007 at 7:28 am
Well she’s read his books at least, because she refers to characters, etc. (Sorry BJ, pre-empting you here a bit maybe? And cross-posting I guess)
But who can’t be a fan, really? He and his books are wonderfulness
I hope everything goes well for him.
December 17, 2007 at 8:06 pm
So, BJ - care to comment on Rihanna’s getup here?
Thought for the day: would Nina Simone, who could really sing, have taken to the stage in that?
December 17, 2007 at 8:29 pm
That is very horrid. If I was going to sum it up in a single word: desperate
December 19, 2007 at 12:36 am
Hmmmm. Well, I’m waffling on whether the men on leashes make up for the tacky things the ‘Girls’ are wearing. Debatable.
Yes, Beckham is certainly pretty. Too pretty, in my opinion.
December 19, 2007 at 11:24 am
So, so… how do we know? So, so, how do we know that all these intelligent ideas that belong to Bitchy Jones are her own and no other’s? How, how, how, do we know? How, how do we know that them ideas, are not stolen from somewhere? From something she read, heard or listened somewhere? Some inspiration, eh?
December 19, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Hmmm, footsie, aren’t all ideas that people have evolved from things they have “read, heard or listened somewhere?” (sic)
December 25, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Nice video. I would like to have this clip.
If it is possible to exchange link with my site ?
http://www.femdomart.net
December 26, 2007 at 3:28 am
I must say, that even thought the spices annoy the living fuck out of me. I would walk over hot coals for Victoria’s boots.
And the man she’s reigning in.
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