daughter's trailing handmaiden, but that doesnt make me feel any younger.. she thinks i should go steampunk, perhaps as the redoubtable middle aged professorin, once thwarted in love and now spending a pragmatic middle age finding a cure for the creeping discontents.... - or a mad medium with a feathered hat. I could aspire to be miriam margolyes... in tartan tights. Lisa Jane January 23, 2008 11:24 PM And is a man wearing a singlet and stubbies being held down by the Matriarchy? Posted by: _Dave_ on January 23, 2008 2:08 PM For a moment there I read "Mariarchi" and had an amusing vision of a bunch of handlebar moustaches in fluffy shirts wrestling with a big, grumpy truck driver..... Ahem _Dave_, we prefer "MILFs". And yes, we will hold you down, and it won't hurt a bit, and it's only if we can't TALK you into taking it off. LJ yeah ok January 23, 2008 11:33 PM What do feminists have to gain by deriding something like attire as being created by men to oppress women, and subjugate them into domestic roles? Many feminists seem to abhor the idea that many women want to attract a male instead of being totally independent of men. So what if one way they do this is through their choice of clothing? Feminists have fought the good fight and, buy and large, won many battles. However, it seems as though, not unlike Afghani mujahadeen who battled the Soviets out of their nation only