A woman taking a week’s holiday abroad is weighed down by the expectation that it must be a voyage of emotional exploration and self-discovery.Joanna Kramer, aged 40, feels herself pressured into activities focused on empowerment, spiritual awakening and embracing her independent womanhood when she would rather get drunk and shag hot Faliraki barmen.
She said: “I blame 'Eat Pray Love'. I can’t open Instagram - which by christ catches on quick - without a deluge of posts about women whose solo breaks helped them ‘achieve self-acceptance’ or were ‘a quest for meaning’.
“Sounds shit. I’d rather get my tanning hours in, then lick salt off a waiter’s nipple before a tequila shot, but instead I’m being told to walk up a mountain at 4am so I can see sunrise from its summit. Fuck off.
“Can’t I just do all the stuff you usually do on holiday, but with no-one else there? Do I have to be on a journey to being a better person? Is it really courageous to be off work and lying in the sun?
“One comment on my socials said ‘It seems like you’re running away from something.’ Yes! Britain.”
Counsellor Sophie Rodriguez said: “Unattached women can enjoy vacationing alone only if they gaze dreamily out of windows while it rains, then sigh to let viewers know they’re going to be okay after all.”
Of course.
Meanwhile...
Among the numerous Diva birthdays in this season (Dame Joan Collins was 92 on 23rd May; Cher was 79 on 20th May; also born this month were Dame Joanna Lumley, Sir Ian "Serena" McKellen, Bea Arthur, Katharine Hepburn, Peggy Lee, Grace Jones, Christine Baranski, Audrey Hepburn, Liberace, Adele, Lily Allen, Rosemary Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Gladys Knight, Tammy Wynette and Stevie Nicks) - it's Our Princess Kylie's today!!
She knows how to enjoy herself on holiday:
Many happy returns, Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28th May 1968)!
Trying to be a better person is too exhausting, I find. Take me as I am or feck off. (said with love, of course.)
ReplyDeleteI somehow imagine you enjoying "licking salt off a waiter’s nipple before a tequila shot" loads more than a "wellness retreat", Mistress - and fucking amen to that!! Jx
DeleteKylie obviously knows how to enjoy a vacation.
ReplyDeleteSurrounded by hunky men in "budgie-smugglers" in the sunshine? All holidays should be like that. Jx
DeleteYep, I think every activity is supposed to lead to enlightenment, even the washing up, when all I want to do is get stuff done so that I can have a kip.
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After several gin and tonics, I get a certain feeling of enlightenment. Or something like that 😎 Jx
DeleteDo you know, I've just realised that as well as Princess Kylie, there are other ladies of the female persuasion lolling about on towels in that video. Ever since I first saw it, I thought they were all Safety Gays!
ReplyDeleteTokenism, dear. She knows who her audience is! Jx
DeleteMash is spot on as always and that is one hell of a Diva Birthday list but let's be honest it's all about Kylie
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Princess.
It's always all about Kylie! Jx
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