Thursday 27 December 2012

The failure of American princesses

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Maybe this spam guy's message about the alleged desire of all girls to become princesses is becoming commonly accepted.

He says:

American women are living in their own pathetic little fantasy world, where they think they are a perfect little princess. Sorry, but you are NOT a perfect little princess.
Give American women the husband they deserve- NONE!
BOYCOTT AMERICAN WOMEN!

Now, the thing is I’ve written a great deal about transgression on my blog and I have demonstrated in other ways — for instance when I did my Bataille videos, I was not in the mood to apply lipstick elegantly because I thought it had to be “in excess” — that I am by no means “a princess”. I’m a monster of some proportions, but there’s nothing resembling a princess about me.

The normal way out for people who push a dogmatic line is to insist that I still want to be a princess but I’m failing miserably. That’s because everyone wants to be a princess. Some can be, and some can’t be princesses. But being a princess is the ideal.

Actually the thing I’d like to be, if the opportunity ever arose, would be a war journalist. I probably wouldn’t like it, but it would be good for me. I’d probably be a moderate success.

In the mean time, I have to combat the American male’s propensity to view all women as failed or inadequate princesses.

2 comments:

Hattie said...

As a friend of mine puts it, the world is full of little men.

Jennifer Armstrong said...

1. I am quite happy for American men to "boycott" me -- whatever that means.

2. Reading problems abound. I'm not trying to persuade men that women are decent people. If "men" want to believe women are "not even princesses", they should certainly go ahead and believe it. I'm sure that will be satisfactory to whatever parties are involved.

Cultural barriers to objectivity