Push The Button, Don’t Push The Button
Now this was posted on the facebook of someone trying to chat me up – yes I have a facebook chatter-upper. This week I have also been asked to audition via Skype – as in because we all have hectic schedules, maybe I could dance in my small Welsh bedroom for a part in a music video. Hmm. I don’t think so. I will rent a studio for an afternoon and continue to be a bit freaked out by the stuff people ask dancers to do regardless of privacy laws.
Anyway, yes back the photo that we have all seen before.
ARRRGGGGGHHHH!!
Bloody hell! It pisses me off and not even because it’s sexist and annoyingly smug. It annoys me because on some occasions (and that is some too many) it might be sexist, smug and right.
The fact that I feel fire rising up from so many places when I look at it, is a major indicator that yeah, I do have a ridiculous amount of buttons. Also, I have been on the receiving end of so many blank stares from our single knobbed wonders - awful pun, but you are wonders so yes, yes run with it – when I am ranting and raving about career choices, how to make time where there is none and how to be nice but still get what you want. All while trying to find my phone charger and lip balm and catch the bus while cursing the fact I’ll never be brave enough to cycle in London because I think my Dad is worried that as soon as I get on the bike I’ll die and… and…
On and on those buttons go.
Exhasuting stuff. And after the blank stare, there is the simple, ‘Why don’t you just do so and so?’ [note – the suggestion is said with the slightest trace of caution because by now, I might have found the phone charger and could lob it in the direction of the handsome suggestee]
Yes. Quite. I know. But all the buttons want different things. Forget Mars and Venus, the bottom picture is an awful representation of indecision. I wish I could answer certain things with ‘yes’ or ‘no’. I think I’m going to rid the entire image of it’s gender issues (lucky thing) and doctor the image to say ‘unobtainable aim’ instead of where there is one button and ‘complicated reality’ instead of where there are many.
Please note with a big grin – unobtainable aim is not synonymous with man and complicated reality is not synonymous with woman.
Discuss.
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