And who sez Womyn can't have it all? Or, Somewhere in Italy, Vox Day Smiles...


Having been raised by a loving single-mother myself, it's always an a posteori journey to follow Vox's thought-process on the role of women in the work place and positions of power. I don't dispute them, per se. It's just the presumptions he rails against have been a norm my whole life. Still, to see it borne out on reality-tele is perhaps the most damning indictment of all.

As The Missus was reading over-my-shoulder, while I labored upon the prior post of this timely and important blog (instead of cleaning up my shit like she nicely asked), she reminded me of something ("up the duff", as she put it) that had gotten lost in the fog of insomnia my current vocation shrouds my brain in.

During the seasonseries finale of "The Apprentice" over here, Sir Alan Sugar (whose gruffness grows on you faster than kudzu in Kentucky) was on the "horns" of a delimma involving two shining examples of political penis envy feminism's promise. His choices for an apprentice had been eliminated down to either the diesel-dyke with a 14" cervix hanging out, Ruth, or the more marketable variety of cock-pieced empowered woman, self-starter Mz. Dewberry.

The butch one, when she wasn't shilling herself off for a clam dinner, basically pitched herself to Sir Alan with, "Gimme the job or I'll castrate you!" Dewberry, taking the more diplomatic approach, basically just gave the Stuart Smalley self-affirmation angle of,

"I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!"

Surprisingly, Sir Sugar took the path of least contempt and hired Dewberry. Now, here's the fucking gas, and I quote the Daily Mail,

The Apprentice winner Michelle Dewberry is pregnant by rival contestant Syed Ahmed. The pair had a fling while filming the BBC2 show last year then split. But they had a recent reunion and Dewberry is now up to three months pregnant. The 26-year-old only began her £100,000-a-year job with Apprentice boss Sir Alan Sugar in May. A source revealed: "She is stunned, this was definitely not in her plan for the future. She has worked so hard to get this job.

That 100K per annum package include maternity leave, per chance? Looks like scissors cut paper, as nature-taking-its-course trumps deconstruction theory. In all fairness, I don't specifically recall either one beating viewers over the head with the "you've come a long way, baby!" pitch. Still, you couldn't help but getting the notion it was implied.

On the bright side, she ain't giving the little squirt the proverbial factory-recall from God. So at least she's showing character there...