Our thanks to Warren for this. An extract:
“Gwyneth Paltrow teamed up with Heretic Parfum founder Douglas Little to create her Goop brand’s controversial “This Smells Like My Vagina” candle in 2020. The product had notes of geranium, citrusy bergamot, cedar absolutes, Damask rose, and ambrette seed.”
Paltrow would appear to have a most unusual-smelling vagina, possibly unique. Another extract:
“Paltrow noted Little launched the product on her website after she jokingly gave him her approval and they broke the internet with “This Smells Like My Vagina.” Despite the candle starting as a joke, the TV personality refused to take it down for a unique reason.
“I kept it on the site because there is an aspect to women’s sexuality that I think we’re socialized to feel a lot of shame. And I sort of loved this kind of punk rock idea.We are beautiful, and we are awesome, and go f-ck yourself,” Paltrow explained, earning more cheers from the crowd.
She received more praise in the comment section of the Instagram post, with fans hailing her for standing her ground and launching an unconventional product.
“There’s a quiet power in a woman who speaks her truth like that. It resonates deeply, like a reminder of something we’ve always known,” someone wrote.”
And these people have had the same votes as men in the UK for almost a century? That can’t be right, to put it mildly. Maybe we should reduce them to half a vote and see how that goes for a few years, before making a decision on the longer term? Please send me your thoughts on the matter. Thanks.
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Good grief, how typical! The perfect mix of phony, entitled and stupid female celebrity, feminism, wasteful consumerism and insanity!
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The post-WW2 West, in a nutshell (other oval receptacles are available).
Stoic, it ain’t.
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Possibly a rarity, I have actually read Mary Wollstonecraft. Her belief was that once women had been liberated they would leave the air headed obsession with appearance and decoration and seek “the virtues of men”. Yet here we have the evidence that liberated women remain, or perhaps have increased their obsession with “vanities”. Just recently picking up an old “Pride and Prejudice” I read the line that the sisters headed into the local town where the only thing that would distract them from being mesmerised by “bonnets and bows” was if some young officers in uniform appeared. Perhaps all that feminism has achieved 200 years later is that its now impossible for them, young women, to be distracted from the “bonnets and bows” in our many forms of “shop windows”. Somehow I suspect Wollstonecraft would find her modern sisters more “vapid” and “without seriousness” than her bonneted and be-ribboned contemporaries.
It is after all a male “superpower” that generally men are not so vain as to be constantly in a state of anxiety about how they look, what they wear and what other people think of them. If nothing else it must be exhausting to have such fragile egos and have to spend such time and treasure on pretending to be “fabulous”. Curiously women often comment how they “have to” do this, recognising the huge time etc. spent on it. Yet still they can’t get enough! And it certainly doesn’t seem occur to them just to stop.
Yet another grab the popcorn and laugh.
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