Models Don't...

Being a model means being part of the media and this means being accepted and respected by society. They are the ultimate in dolly birds and they perpetuate stereotype role playing and sexism. They are not real women. They don't fart or burp, have underarm hair or vaginal odour, have babies or breasts with milk in them, and they don't feel or think very much about the negro children in the USA who are dying from malnutrition and lead poisoning, or the young Maori girls in homes with nowhere to go and no one to father their babies, and the solo mothers in Glen Innes struggling on $30 a week because their husbands could not face the responsibility of children and breadwinner neurosis. Or the middle-aged women in Oakley suffering from suburban neurosis and the young girls who gaze at glossy pictures of them and get inferiority complex, s because their legs aren't the same shape, and the boys who see these pictures and think that is how women are supposed to look.

For prostituting myself to the capitalist system I got a write up in the local paper "Local girl makes good" style. For protesting against the war in Vietnam when I was 15 I got a write up in the paper "Schoolgirls shame school in scuffle with police at demonstration" style.