Dr. Terence Kealey: a fine fellow. Just look at the man. That winning smile. That hint of the rogue. The linguistic teasing, the ability to spin a good yarn. Admirable qualities in a chap, and I do like to see a 72 year-old as-yet uncrushed by the life-experience. Gives me hope.
A mature student contemplates what's good for her.

Rosie Winterton deals with a heckler on Question Time.As discussed previously, I'm something of a
critical enthusiast for the 51%. The best examples happen to be some of my very favourite people but even then perhaps, in some areas I'm just buying into an acceptable face of The Power. That power which has risen, from noble beginnings, to take on the face of its old adversary. Animal Farm an' all that.
Cyclical, innit. So let me say here and now that I'm piggedy-fuckedy
sick of the Age of the Wimminses. How can one describe a wimmins...
any wimmins... without using the very words we're always bloody hearing from them?
"You're very controlling". No, I'm fucking
not,
dearie!
I am honest
[+/-],
I say what I like and what I don't like, I am not afraid to express a fucking preference. "Controlling", to my reduced little manbrain, means putting yourself on a fucking pedestal just out of reach whilst waving your tits around, talking of "soulmates" and making a quiet but ever-expanding list of sacrifice-hurdles for the victim to jump.
That's your fucking "controlling",
popsickle.
It should be noted at this point that I've just managed to give a former love-interest the heave-ho, despite qualms. Might not last, better make the most of it. Transferred a bit of her into the
Baroness Scotland piece.
Thusly, the predictable femidominist-
outrage in response to Dr. Terence Kealey's
short humorous article for the Times Higher Education Supplement has cheered me up no end. Seven writers discuss the Seven Deadly Sins as pertaining to academia and Dr. Kealey's entry is "Lust". His theme is that, for a grizzled old academic, lithe young totty-acolytes are a perk of the job. Scenery to be enjoyed and stored for later in the evening, when reality bites.
".... She doesn't yet know that you are only Casaubon to her Dorothea, Howard Kirk to her Felicity Phee, and she will flaunt you her curves. Which you should admire daily to spice up your sex, nightly, with the wife.
Yup, I'm afraid so. As in Stringfellows, you should look but not touch. Be warned by the fates of too many of the protagonists in Middlemarch, The History Man and I Am Charlotte Simmons. And in any case, you should have learnt by now that all cats are grey in the dark. ..."
And how the earnest little Student Union apprentice wimmins-effort is filled with indignance at that! "Inappropriate". "Unacceptable". These most insidious words used by those claiming the mantle Divine Arbiter of Everything. The arrogant little trollop. By her femidominatrix standards, the whole premise of simple feelgood-fayre like "Educating Rita" would be "more than suspect" [adopt thin reedy voice], for even though Rita was knocking on a bit, she was still younger and considerably less wise than her teacher. "Ooh, abuse of power. Reinforcing stereotypes, yak yak yakkety blah." No wonder Caine ended up getting pissed... Rita got right fucking irritating once she'd "grown". Spoiled the film. And matron, take them away! Carry On Films would, I am sure, be airbrushed out of history should the Harperson Fringe ever fully get their tits on the levers.
Best of all though, is Dr. Kealey's clarification; perfectly-pitched to sail elegantly over the FeMail audience's collective noodle whilst aiming a chocolate coin down its bra:
"This is a moral piece that says that middle aged male academics and young female undergraduates should not sleep together. Rather, people should exercise self-restraint. Because transgressional sex is inappropriate, the piece uses inappropriate and transgressional language to underscore the point - a conventional literary device. At a couple of places, the piece confounds expectations, another conventional literary device, designed to maintain the reader's interest. Sex between academics and students is not funny, and should not be a source of humour. But employing humour to highlight the ways by which people try to resolve the dissonance between what is publicly expected of them and how they actually feel - not just in this context - reaches back to origins of humour itself."Labels: denormalising nulabor, femidominism, proper chaps, Rosie Winterton, Terence Kealey, the unwanted poodle, unacceptable, wimmins, wimminses, wimminses for even in the singular they be plural