Well I decided to go without the little joke in the cover letter. Thought maybe it better to play it safe.
So I started reading a book about the sexualisation of young girls. There is a story in the book about how when one of the Hi-5 women posed for Ralph in an effort to regain her womanhood, the author of the book made some comment that the Wiggles weren’t expected to prove their manhood by stripping off to their jocks and posing for a magazine shoot, yet woman were expected to take off most of their clothes to prove their womanhood. Anyway, people responded to her by calling her “sad, old and dog ugly,” and another person said she had “saagy breasts and droopy arse.”
This frustrates me a lot but I can’t quite articulate why. It’s got to do with the author is making a comment against the very discourse that tells women that to be a woman they have to be very beautiful and eye candy to men, and then a bunch of people comment on her breasts and arse. Aahh – I can’t believe it.
