Just watched a woman dancing down a cathedral wall (contemporary dance fused with abseiling.) Strong, athletic, difficult, graceful and original. No need for fancy words.
We need to playfully and subversively invert the reality. The critical discourse too needs to be subverted. This is the core and essence of the essentially female desire to contemplate the circle and by the desire to mould into the absorbable the male images of ubiquitous symbols of an imagined Bratworst or the labia-like chili.
Jess M I suspect wishes to reveal and simultaneously undermine sexual stereotypes with the outspoken directness of the sexual innuendo. To express deep scepticism of social norms and the gender specific attribution of roles albeit with an enigmatic sense if humour.
After such an erudite exposition of the philosophical, metaphysical and biological issues surrounding knitting (and did red lipstick come into it earlier?) I find myself pondering the local "Knit and Natter" group and wondering what they would make of all the ramifications..
Never did quite understand the wonder of inspecting one's nether regions either, but, like Nellie I couldn't anyway these days!
These days the problem is not that I wouldn't recognise my nether regions. I just can no longer contort my body down that far to ever get near enough to see anything.
merlot This week's mums net chat letter or whatever its called gives an honourable mention to someone who once received a metal speculum from her BIL for xmas. But I did have a plastic one. They were all the rage in the early 70s. Learn to recognise own your nether regions (Haven't i seen you somewhere before?). Never did the group version though where you learned to recognise each others. That was a truly radical idea though.