Bikinis

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To answer my own questions, I wear a bikini on holiday every year. I fret about the shape of my body until I actually get into my bikini for the first time, then I stop caring.

I have a 'sports' bikini for the swimming baths at home, it covers almost as much flesh as a one piece.

I like the versatility of a bikini, being able to mix-and-match tops and bottoms, and of course the tanability of a 'kini compared with a suit.

BATHING SUITS (and bikinis and butt floss and other swimwear)

Not that I remember only the threads which have a high quota of near nakkid ladies on or anything...

I used to feel uncomfortable even when wearing a bathing suit, until I put one on and compared myself with others. I felt that I had an average body so why care? Even if I would be "butt ugly" what does it really matter? It's been ages since I wore a bikini but I doubt I'd feel much different.

Bah, I searched bikini and never saw this. Damn it to hell.

This all (this thread and the one about the guys hollering at women) reminds me that I need to stick with Judith Butler. She was able to express my views on feminism so well. It got me thinking of that old thread a lot and why I felt like I felt (and what I said on said thread).

I just killed this thread, huh? :-(

Noooo, killing threads is my job.

Let this be the last word. RIP.

Revive!

A Man Writes.

xpost but Natalie you didn't say anything on that other thread? Unless it was under a different name...I'm confused. Judith who now? Femiwhat now?

Butler emphasizes the role of repetition in performativity, making use of Derrida's theory of iterability, a form of citationality, to work out a theory of performativity in terms of iterability

What she said.

Oh, I probably used my stevienixed login. :-)

No, you didn't - I wonder if we're talking about the same thread? i.e. this one?
BATHING SUITS (and bikinis and butt floss and other swimwear)

I only ask because I'm genuinely interested in what you (and Judith Butler) had to say because (as I intimated above) I find her work a little...er...complex for my small brain.

Gee...that "No, you didn't" wasn't supposed to sound so like a telling-off!

Oh no, I meant the hollering thread. I don't understand half of what she says either. But what I did get (because it was what I think about feminism, so maybe I interpreted it the wrong way) that it's not a "one way of thinking" which is why some women have a hard time admitting they are feminists. Also what struck me is how women are perceived and how we get the label woman but that it's a complex thing. What is woman exactly. What does it erase? How do we perceive men/women when being hollered at or wear a bikini. Do yuo immediately cross a line when wearing a "sexy" bikini (or high heels, as Greer would say)? I'm not sure.

God, I'm sounding like a rambling idiot. Do tell me off, Ned. I need it. ;-)