Cultural relevance and CityNews? (also bottoms)

“Oh dear. Please don’t lump all 35+ first time mothers into that particular basket.”
Fair call – all generalisations are bad

gold, lulu, straight to the pool room with that one..!

Desperate for stories much, JB? Not sure how this is relevant to Canberra anyway except that it’s a recycled City News story.

rosebud said :

Does this website make my butt look big?

Bwahahahahaha!

I simply loooooove real size women who’ve lived a little and are comfortable with themselves. This is much more attractive to me than photoshopped or synthetic women.

Hi S.S.A.
“Oh dear. Please don’t lump all 35+ first time mothers into that particular basket.”
Fair call – all generalisations are bad – we all do our best, whatever age. And all ages have their advantages too I think.

Hi Chewy 14
“i bet you and your daughters get mistaken for sisters all the time don’t you?”
Yeah we do sometimes but what’s always happened more is that my mum (who was 53 when the child was born) is mistaken for my daughter’s mother. I think it’s interesting that that’s the more common mistake.

FC said :

How about women keep trying to convince themselves that the whole purpose of their existance isn’t to be attractive for men.
Get a clue about how much pressure there is in this society for women to be slim, Addison, for women to try and fit into some unrealised mould of what they ‘should’ look like.
And then comment that we are just trying to convince ourselves that fat is attractive.

this has nothing to do with how women think they should look to be attractive to men this is about women putting pressure on themselves. most men don’t really care that much about body shape they are more interested in women who are fun and they can laugh with. most men read magazines with cars and trucks and boats and the occasional skinny woman, women read magazines with heaps of skinny women and clothes and makeup. any women who is trying to fit themself into a mould of what they should like should look to other women not men for fault.

Danman said :

Chronicle can not be that bad, They printed a Feldons band profile this week accompanied by one of my live pictures. Touché

The trouble is, I put the Chronicle in the bin without even unwrapping it… every bweek.

Her column about turning 40 ticked me off (I think it was last year) – yes I suppose you would feel old and tired if you were parenting a 2 year-old when that particular birthday came around. I, on the other hand felt great at 40 because, having whelped in my 20’s, I was experiencing a new sense of freedom from kids who no longer needed moment-to-moment supervision.

I guess that column was well after I stopped reading her drivel. I suspect she and I are in the same age demographic, and perhaps even have children of a similar age but the similarities end there.

A column she once wrote about outsourced birthday parties made me want to vomit, as did most of the crap columns she’s written that I ever bothered to read. I guess her columns do come in handy for parking my cuppa without any worry about spilling it on something I might later want to read LOL.

I guess to me, Sonya represents a generation of women who waited till they were well passed primary breeding age to have children in order to feather their nests and live a comfortable, vacuous middle-class existence.

Oh dear. Please don’t lump all 35+ first time mothers into that particular basket.

Ah Lulu,
i bet you and your daughters get mistaken for sisters all the time don’t you?
And yes i hope your daughter goes against this recent geriatric breeding “trend” and has her children early, God knows we need more young mothers in this town.

I’m a mum in this City and I find Sonya’s column really offensive. I’m not sure why it pushes my buttons so much. I guess I feel it gives the impression that mums are fat, boring, old and REALLY middle class! Her column about turning 40 ticked me off (I think it was last year) – yes I suppose you would feel old and tired if you were parenting a 2 year-old when that particular birthday came around. I, on the other hand felt great at 40 because, having whelped in my 20’s, I was experiencing a new sense of freedom from kids who no longer needed moment-to-moment supervision. I guess to me, Sonya represents a generation of women who waited till they were well passed primary breeding age to have children in order to feather their nests and live a comfortable, vacuous middle-class existence. Good on her and all the others like her but we’re not all like that. I’m slim, fit and fun, my children are my friends and they’d certainly be embarrassed if I described an early nineties song as a current hit. I think my daughter’s generation will be the beginning of a backlash against the alarming trend toward geriatric breeding – I hope so anyway.
Mind you, I think the column is well-placed in the City News and probably suits their demographic.

Chronicle can not be that bad, They printed a Feldons band profile this week accompanied by one of my live pictures. Touché