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pallas_athenaI went to see The Passenger at ENO the other night and left feeling flayed. It's a good new opera, but horribly depressing. ENO seems to be on a Nazis Everywhere kick at the moment.
In other news, I was on a bus today with a posse of schoolgirls who were (predictably) playing music out loud on their tinny phone speakers. In these cases, I fight down my own swiftly-redlining annoyance by watching everyone else's blood pressure skyrocket. Oh, and it was rush hour. Joyful.
Then one of them started singing along to her favourite song. She had a strong voice, and the song was filthy. "Oh baby, fuck me right," she sang, while no passenger reacted at all.
Seriously. The entire top deck was as still as the grave till the 4 or 5 schoolgirls (14 years old? 15?) got off. And despite all the annoyance and the strain of resisting the urge to whip round at them and snarl "Fuck me rightly, goddammit!" there is one cool thing to be salvaged from this:
It is something to live in a culture where a young girl can sing ooh-baby-fuck-me songs on a crowded bus and be given no shit by anyone. No sexist catcalling, no slut-shaming, nothing. Maybe there is hope for this country yet.
In other news, I was on a bus today with a posse of schoolgirls who were (predictably) playing music out loud on their tinny phone speakers. In these cases, I fight down my own swiftly-redlining annoyance by watching everyone else's blood pressure skyrocket. Oh, and it was rush hour. Joyful.
Then one of them started singing along to her favourite song. She had a strong voice, and the song was filthy. "Oh baby, fuck me right," she sang, while no passenger reacted at all.
Seriously. The entire top deck was as still as the grave till the 4 or 5 schoolgirls (14 years old? 15?) got off. And despite all the annoyance and the strain of resisting the urge to whip round at them and snarl "Fuck me rightly, goddammit!" there is one cool thing to be salvaged from this:
It is something to live in a culture where a young girl can sing ooh-baby-fuck-me songs on a crowded bus and be given no shit by anyone. No sexist catcalling, no slut-shaming, nothing. Maybe there is hope for this country yet.