So you’re lousy in bed. What do you do? You write a book about it. Better still, you write a book about it and humiliate your husband. Way to go Carrie (not her real name but obviously fancies herself as Sarah JP character in Sex and the city) Somewhere along this line this shining beacon of confident, modern womanhood managed to persuade some poor sod to marry her and now, because she has absolutely no understanding of how her body works, cannot understand her inability to orgasm. And now all their friends can know the sordid details too.
Here is part of an egregiously written excerpt, that gives you some idea of the self-pity involved:
“Twenty-three men . . . none of them gave me an orgasm, except one – possibly. I wanted it to happen so badly, I think I believed my own faking.”
Carrie, a Cambridge graduate, (you gotta hope she got a First since she obviously didn’t get properly laid) then goes on to talk about the various issues with each man. It seems that she attracted the psychos which says a great deal about her.
Aparently she hasn't done the deed with husband Hal a City banker, for the past four years. 'Sex is something she can no longer summon the effort to endure - with the man she married, at least.'
She is planning to remain celibate until the day her kids grow up (what day?) and she feels able to leave. Then she's off to shag herself stupid, and have lots and lots of orgasms. Just like that.
Hal, whose huge bonuses have probably given her the freedom to write her pathetic tome (and now fund a lot of whores), gets kicked in the teeth. In truth, what whinging Carrie hasn’t figured out is that sexuality is something you carry with you. It’s part of you. You don't suddenly develop the ability to be orgasmic (ok, some of us are born with it). She might try working at it because good sex is often like that, but Ms R senses that Carrie likes to lie back and have it happen. Consequently she's more likely to see god before she gets laid, and even then she’ll have her eyes shut tightly going, “Ooh, god, I can’t look.” If she were of an older generation, you could understand the attitude to sex being something that men do for you. But she's not.
With this kind of shit being published, no wonder men want to stay home and play computer games (and Ms R has only had two dates in January and one of those wasn't a real date.)
Who of The Lady Dictator Robinson's administration is in charge of dealing with stupid, self-pitying, selfish women who've set feminism back a thousand years? And get rid of the husband while you're at it: he's obviously gone along with it (yeah ok I know the promise of all the whores you want is a big draw but he's just sad and Ms R does not do sad).
Truly, this dictator gig is bigger and more work than I thought. I may have to exile myself for a rest.
"For I am done with dictatoring now..Essence of winter sleep is on the night"(apologies to Robert Frost for butchering his beautiful poem, After Apple Picking)
Monday, 28 January 2008
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Rope, tree, Carrie Jones; some assembly required...
DK
I'm always up for a challenge....
Give me a Bic lighter, some zircon encrusted tweezers and she'd be mine...
God you're all up early..or late.
DK: Well that might be a bit drastic. I would send her to a correction facility.
Freddy: One minute you tell me how cute you are and the next you offer to take on a task that really is only for the very desperate. Ok it's January and times are lean for all of us but really?
Dirkstar: It sounds like some method of hair removal, more painful than waxing.
I hadn't seen the picture when I posted that! Although I find it hard to believe that this woman actually exists at all, let alone exists and is prepared to have her picture published whilst claiming that her husband is unaware of the book.
My comment was, flippant and mildly self-promotional. I'd hate for it to have left you seeing me as desperate. What should I do to return to my former position?
Freddy: Ah now you're backpeddling. Unfair of me not to point out her umm looks isn't it. I was worried that if I did the sisterhood might brand me an Enemy and hunt me down. So I let you find it.
Sounds to me that she's a failed writer of fiction and has sat down and thought, "What angle can I take on this whole lucrative sex genre to make me some dosh".
Maybe we should investigate this. What angles are left that we can exploit? Under a pen-name of course.
She's best left to her own devices and if they don't work than neither Mssrs Right or Wrong are going to do the trick either.
Misssy: I've so far resisted the quick buck of mass fiction because I believe time is precious but WTF. Well let's see we've had prostitution as a viable career, girls who do it for feminism, grandmas who do it with young men (icky), whingey married women who can't do it and girls who only do it 'cos they want to get married. I will get back to you.
Conan: I suspect she has no knowledge of such devices nor the ability to hold a decent conversation for that matter. Shoot her.
a woman from holyhead had left a comment there that sex wasn't all it's cracked up to be.
unfortunately, holyhead is.
Yes, I saw this reviewed in The Sunday Times and though 'Christ...' and guessed that you would probably beat me to giving it the scorn I am sure it deserves - not that I'll be reading it to find out.
It sounded like the dullest book imaginable - why would anyone want to read about someone else's crap sex? Or is it meant to be opening the floodgates for thousands of other women to go 'Oh look at me, I have crap sex too?' No, sorry, still don't understand...
Although I did like they way they referred to it as 'Frigid Jones Diary'...that made me laugh!
Simply Wondered: You know people who say things like 'sex isn't all its cracked up to be' have usually put a lot of importance on it and found it wanting. As for Holyhead, I know nothing but as you seem well informed I'll take your word.
Melissaria: Well it would be rude of me to simply mention the confessionals where Girls are doin it and lovin it. This blog is about balance - we are equally rude about everybody.
Your point that good sex has as much to do with brain as it does with brawn is spot on. Obviously, "Carrie" has problems beyond that of the normal realities of marriage and child-rearing.
But, really, it would do our next generation of women a world of good IMHO if we quit perpetuating the myth that marriage and motherhood is the end all/be all of female existence. I'm not talking about love, I'm talking about domesticity. Because no matter how vibrant and creative you are, a lifetime with the same person can be boring. And no one tells us that! It's work to be with one person beyond the initial rush of lust. By all means, go for it and work at it. But please, let's be honest with our young women and give them some viable options to the script.
As for this gal, how convenient to just stay stuck. Instead of changing her situation, she decides to make money off it. No doubt to be kept in reserve for her future life as liberated sex bomb.
Moi: How weird, I just visited your apple infested blog this minute!
Your point deserves an article in itself really when I am feeling sane and sensible. There are other stories for women in their late thirties and early forties - I'm one of them I guess, ok I've lived with a man and married one but I'm not spending my time looking for my next live in lover. It's just another option.
Is it that so many women can't develop a life on their own that is full and interesting. I know quite a few who can't get it together without seeing marriage and domesticity as the ultimate prize in life even though they're high flying professionals.
Yes, although I'm not suggesting that the alternative is career over love/marriage. To me, it's not an either/or proposition, but one, simply, of reality perception. And we haven't even touched on the whole having-kids-with-someone-who-leaves-you-lukewarm aspect of this story. How responsible is that? Yet the whole point for women seems to be to have babies, not necessarily to choose wisely the partner with whom you do so.
I'm with you on this one. Why would any publisher want to publish this kind of drivel? So you have a lousy sex life, love. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. I wonder if Carrie Jones has ever heard about masturbation. This woman gives every indication of not knowing about self-pleasure, never mind giving pleasure to others. Mrs. Robinson will be happy to know that I emailed Jenni Murray last night asking her to consider setting up a debate between myself and Carrie Jones and they now seem to be considering it.
i will leave you to your ignorance of holyhead.
(but it certainly ain't as good as sex...)
Moi: There are far more components to life than career and/or blissful domesticity. But the thing that worries me more than people not seeing all the ingredients is this idea of an end goal - so many women and not just twenty somethings - who seem to set their autopilot on marriage and babies, as you say, at any cost. And men who also do it half heartedly because they feel it's time. I reckon there's a long way to go before people accept that not following this pattern doesn't mean you're a loser.
Suzanne: Good of you to drop by. The more I know publishing the less I understand it. This book pisses me off because it portrays women as something from the 1950's, waiting for the man to bring it all home. Do you really want to debate someone you will so obviously demolish. Can I join in? I've had lots of good sex.
Richard: Good sex is its own reward. But then there's crap sex..
Maybe she just needs more foreplay . . .
And a Toblerone.
XO
Saint Helena might be good for a spot of exile.
Do you have a dungeon somewhere, Oh Great One? That would be more fun than a correction facility, if I may say so.
I was pondering devoting myself to raising children in lieu of thrilling sexual activity. Hahahahahahahaha!
What a life.
Cor, though. It has potential as a fun new approach to sex.
"Give me orgasms, lots of them, and be quick about it!
...
Well, that was rubbish, I didn't enjoy that at all. I don't think you were even trying."
I reckon there's a niche market for it, myself.
I have to confess that there have been evenings where I'm all "fuck me fuck me fuck me..." then five hours later when all's done and dealt with (as in workhousekids)I'm saying: "What the fuck???????" You're kidding, right?" I'm hoping that's not the Scary Carrie Approach. Now known as SCA Syndrome.
Jim: Nice - two posts in one comment. Class.
Greavsie: I was thinking more St. Barts. But I need a Papa Du Sucre for that.
Sulpicia: Thought I'd put you in charge of dungeons in my administration, while Luka 'interviews' them.
Luka: I think she just lifts up her dress and lies back (oh god that is too awful - I must get away from this post.)
Sulpicia: I doubt if Scary Carrie knows how to seductively tell a man she'd like him to push her up against a wall and fuck her brains out.
Shall we patent SCA? For the book with Misssy M (See comment above)
Mrs. Robinson. I think we can't deny the marriage/baby imperative that so many of us (inc. me) fall victim to. To a certain extent that's human biology but to deny that sex plays a vital part in this whole equation is the dumb part. To many women (inc. me) failed to see that if you don't have sex within marriage, the marriage is dead. Children eventually move away but the marriage remains. To say, 'I'm staying together for the children' seems to imply that somehow they'll be grateful later on for hanging during their early years with two miserable people. Unfortunately, Carrie Jones represents a great deal of unhappily married women I've met that just haven't evolved.
Sorry, just realised there are a load of typos in above! It's too early in the morning! (Can you fix, please...)
...and this is the point in this topic where I always want to bang my head against a wall, because I can't come up with a good enough solution!
Before feminism, women were kept unprepared and uneducated for independent life. Now, we learn all that along with the boys, but find ourselves woefully unprepared for the very real demands of marriage and family life...what to do?
Some 'feminists' often trot out the rising incidence of postnatal depression in educated middle-class women as evidence that traditional marriage and motherhood are intolerable impostitions that we must all seek to reject. I believe it's just evidence of said unpreparedness for the reality of what keeping our species going actually takes...call it culture shock, I suppose.
In the meantime, and until someone comes up with a decent solution, we can only hope that poor Carrie will spend her book deal money on some quality sex therapy, followed by some quality sex!
(Sorry for long post, pet hobby horse topic...can't help myself)
Ms R's ex husband who is a designer but useless with PC's is reading her mail to her while she has limited computer access today. He does not know how to work in anything other than Quark so even this is an effort. She will be with keyboard tomorrow.
It's just another example of this current phenomenon . . . the "Look at Me" generation. Blogs, MySpace, tell-all books, reality TV, etc.
XO
Ha, Ms R has managed to sneak to computer for one minute:
Ok: Melissaria and Suzanne you both make valid points. I think we all have to remember there was a time when marriage was THE only choice for women because they weren't permitted to be individuals and indeed were chattels for men. So they depended on men and therefore had to get married in order to have a chance in life. Of course there were some like Mary Wollostencraft who rebelled but they had a difficult time.
Now of course women can vote, do all sorts of jobs and have a say int their sexual satisfaction and whether or not they want children. All this has changed the design of marriage.
I think a lot of women like the Carries of this world, use marriage as it suits them - as a kind of refuge when they don't want to be a big girl and when it all gets too hard. Then they seek to blame the men in their lives, something that is all too prevalent. The fact is that women are calling a lot of the shots now...and when it doesn't work out they return to this hideous victim mentality. Oh dear I could go on for hours.
Jim, yes it is and Ms R detests kiss and tell in any form. A personal life is just that.
Must return to dinner.
I don't believe it is 'kiss and tell'. It's more likely to be 'make up and pretend'.
I am sure there are women who have given up sex, my own dear wife for one. But, even if they wanted to write about the issue they wouldn't be doing so in this manner. Anonymous, but here's my photo? I don't think so.
Mrs Robinson,
What you have written is undoubtedly true and it is to your credit that you were so restrained about the unfortunate woman.
I do wonder,though, whether the Mail might have tricked her into making such a complete fool of herself.
James: I'm not sure if one can be tricked that far. I mean if you consent to have your picture in (she didn't have to) then I would suggest that you are hungry for publicity.
You know James, she's part of a really worrying breed of women who laughingly call themselves writers (of sorts) who seem to blame men for all their woes whilst conveniently forgetting they are rational beings and free to make choices. (This is also why I don't read Guardian, Comment is Free anymore.)
My own view, anecdotally, is that these intolerable women are taking up too much bandwidth: just this morning in The Times there is another idiot bemoaning the fact that men won't commit. What she forgot to say was 'to her'.
I guess it comes down to women wanting responsibility but wanting to go all 18th century when it doesn't work for them. Not right.
regards
Ms R
As Mr. Michael Jackson is want to say: -
"My baby's always dancin' and it wouldn't be a bad thing
But I don't get no lovin' and that's no lie
We spent the night in Frisco at every kinda disco
From that night I kissed our love goodbye
Don't blame it on the sunshine
Don't blame it on the moonlight
Don't blame it on the good times
Blame it on the boogie "
How terrible for her husband, when he finds out. The poor, obviously long-suffering bloke has probably not been 'loyal', but this bitch doesn't appear to deserve it.
Oh, and, though this may be undermining the feminist cause, as a bisexual woman, I cannot understand why 23 men would willingly..be with her. Ick.
Sara: Even as a hetero woman I cannot understand why anyone would want to do her..unless you know it was a blok e bet
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