beautiful

Geoffrey Gurrumul  Yunupingu – Wiyathul

(english)

Two scrub fowl crying out, looking for Guwalilŋa

the calls like women crying, looking for Murrurrŋawu

the cries returning his mind to the jungles at Mutjmutjŋa

oh place Guwalilŋa, Warraḏika, Yumayŋa, m..m

Oh the old man cries, from this drink

oh dad Kampa-Djuŋadjuŋa, home Mayaŋ-ŋaraka bright in his mind

oh my two mums, beloved mums, hold Ruypu Milinditj

oh my two mums, beloved mums, cry for the sacred spring Burarrapu

oh the place Guwalilŋa. Warraḏika, Yumayŋa, m..m

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Shirley Temple’s first movies were parodies of successful burlesque movies. In this clip, a three year old Shirley vamps it up – wearing an off-the shoulder creation and a garter – as a send up of Delores Del Rio. 


Women are so shallow; they'll do anything for a lollipop.

Cute or just plain creepy?

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A week ago, a U.S. style beauty pageant came to Northcote, a Melbourne suburb. The pageant had lots of publicity because of the protests before hand, and a magazine and one ‘current affairs’ program paid megabucks for exclusive coverage. Another current affairs program from a rival station tried to do the dirty on the first mob, not by trying to invade the pageant itself, but by trying to buy access to six year old American Pageant Queen Eden Wood. 


While mothers and their young contestants were traumatised by the media circus, conscientious objectors held a peaceful protest away from the venue, in the Fitzroy Gardens. The only thing that bothered me about this was seeing kids holding up protest posters. Usually when kids are protesting say, outside abortion clinics, or that homosexuals are an abomination to god, it makes my blood boil, and I think it's a bit rich in this case too.

I notice one mother in this news clip calmed a young contestant who didn't want her eyebrows waxed by pulling out a bag of lollipops. Women are so shallow, in this case both the mother and the daughter.

Does the toddler’s pageant business seek to sexualise young children?

I suspect that any adult who finds young children especially attractive will get their jollies whether there is a pageant or not. But there is something rather sick about what these kids go through, whether they want to be princesses or not.

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I beg to differ with the mum in one current affairs promo: It was never my dream to be a princess. Far from wanting to dress up, I never wanted to get out of my pyjamas at all. This might have had something to do with never wanting to get out of bed at all. 
To this day I still associate getting dressed with the sound of my mother screaming at me.


I do remember being given a doll for Christmas when I was quite young, and throwing both the doll and a tantrum.
The doll was neglected for a few years, but did eventually get some use when my brother took it up onto the shed roof. He wanted to see if the parachute he had made would float the dolly gently to the ground. 


It didn't.
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