What I Find Most Upsetting About This

What I Find Most Upsetting About This New All-consuming Beauty Culture Is That The Obsession With Good Looks, And How You Can Supposedly Attain Them, Is Almost Entirely Female-driven.

As A Precocious Teen I Dreamed Of Being Graham Greene. Well, As It Turned Out, I Never Wrote A Great Novel, Sadly, And I Never Converted To Catholicism, Happily, But I Did Do One Thing He Did. That Is, In Middle Age I Moved To A Seaside Town And Got Into A Right Barney With The Local Powers-that-be.

I've Never Been Nostalgic, Personally Or Politically - If The Past Was So Great, How Come It's History?

Feminism Seeks To Turn The Biggest, Bloodiest Carnivore In The World - Passion - Into A Right-on Cud-chewing Vegan. It Can Never Work. Sex Was Never Meant To Be That Way. Sex, On The Whole, Was Meant To Be Short, Nasty And Brutish. If What You Want Is Cuddling, You Should Buy A Puppy.

Knowing That The 'sex And The City' Chicks Now Rack Up Almost Two Centuries Between Them, Why Do Some Of Us Fuss And Hiss About A Bit Of Retouching On Their Forthcoming Film Poster?