The images we feed to our daughters

The news today included a piece about Princess Beatrice and how certain parts of the media think that being 19 and size 10 is fat. You can read the BBC online take on it here.

OH MY GODDESS. If people are saying that a perfectly healthy young woman is overweight then how are any of us going to raise confident, beautiful daughters. I am pear shaped, not wholly happy with my butt and thighs, but generally body confident. It has taken me nearly 20 years to get to this point. I am already worried about how my daughter will see herself.

Media coverage like this just does not help.

When Goths grow up

I came accross this little gem online from the Augusta, Georgia Metro Spirit.

Professor Edgar Johnson says “As more punk and goth people come of age and have kids and so forth, I think they project their own tastes onto their children, but we’ve also seen a mainstreaming of goth and punk culture to the extent that you can even go to Target and find punky boots. It’s like Hot Topic for kid’s stuff.”

It's nice to know that we're not the only ones who have grown up and got a bit sensible.

OMG the best baby goth music EVER

If I thought Black Sabbath done in gregorian chant was cool then this has just blow my head off. Rockabye Babies have many many albums of lullaby music from rock songs. They have Metallica, Pink Floyd, Led Zeplin, Green Day and loads more. I love them so much. I will be purchasing so next time anyone comes over the cool ambient music in teh background will sound strangely familiar *giggle*

Huge thanks to Kitty Cat Black for the link in her LJ Blog.


BTW I'm really exhausted and on my way to bed so sorry for the badly written post. I will update properly tomorrow, honest.